Stop the Repression Against TKP and Anti-NATO Protesters in Turkey

We, the undersigned Communist and Workers' Parties, strongly condemn the repression carried out by the Turkish authorities against the demonstration organized by the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) in Ankara in protest of the NATO Summit. 

The violent police intervention, the injuries inflicted on demonstrators, and the detention of 145 communists including one member of the Central Committee of  TKP and 8 members of the Party Council, constitute an unacceptable attack on the  right to organize and protest. The sweeping bans imposed on demonstrations and public gatherings, which effectively turned the Turkish capital into a closed city ahead of the NATO Summit, reveal once again that NATO's war agenda goes hand in hand with the restriction of political rights and freedoms. 

The attempt to silence the communists cannot conceal the truth: NATO is an aggressive imperialist alliance that has brought war, occupation, destruction and suffering to peoples across the world. Those who raise their voices against militarization, imperialist interventions and wars cannot be intimidated by repression. 

We express our full solidarity with the Communist Party of Turkey, with all detained TKP members, and with everyone who stood up against the NATO Summit. We demand the immediate release of all communists in custody, the dropping of all charges, and an end to every measure restricting all anti-NATO political activity. 

Hands off TKP! Hands off all communist and anti-imperialist militants!

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Undersigned communist and workers' parties:

Parties of the SolidNet list:  

1. Communist Party of Albania
2. Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism
3. Party of Labour of Austria
4. Communist Party of Brazil
5. Communist Party of Britain
6. Brazilian Communist Party
7. Communist Party of Canada
8. Communist Party of Bohemia & Moravia
9. German Communist Party
10. Communist Party of Greece
11. Hungarian Workers’ Party
12. Iraqi Communist Party
13. Tudeh Party of Iran
14. Workers Party of Ireland
15. Jordanian Communist Party
16. Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan
17. Communist Party of Luxembourg
18. Communist Party of Mexico
19. New Communist Party of Netherlands
20. Communist Party of Norway
21. Communist Party of Pakistan
22. Palestinian Communist Party
23. Communist Party of Poland
24. Portuguese Communist Party
25. Communist Party of Russian Federation
26. Communists of Serbia
27. Communists of Catalonia
28. Communist Party of the Workers of Spain
29. Communist Party of Sweden
30. Swiss Communist Party
31. Syrian Communist Party
32. Communist Party of Ukraine
33. Union of Communists of Ukraine
34. Communist Party USA

Other parties:

1. New Communist Party of Australia
2. Revolutionary Brazilian Communist Party (PCBR) 
3. The Revolutionary Communist Party of France
4. Communist Party (Germany)
5. Communist Front (Italy)
6. Galizan People's Union-UPG
7. Communist Workers’ Platform USA
8. Party for Socialism and Liberation – USA

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