Turkey
Turkey’s communist mayor promises “small steps to socialism”
April 29, 2019The Communist Party of Turkey’s Fatih Macoglu plans investment in agriculture and infrastructure to transform Dersim into "a new socialist city."
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Revenge of the Kurds: Turkey’s Erdogan dealt blow in local elections
April 25, 2019But the autocrat is neither down nor out.
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Turkey’s Communist Mayor blocked from taking office
April 5, 2019Mehmet Fatih Macoglu, as the mayor of a small town, Ovacik, was known for planting chickpeas, beans, and potatoes in municipal lands, distributing the income from the fields to low-income families and creating a scholarship for...
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Turkey condemned for deportation of journalist featured often in People’s World
April 2, 2019Morning Star's Steve Sweeney jailed by authorities and now barred from re-entering Turkey.
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Turkey’s Erdogan facing resistance to his dictatorial rule
February 14, 2019A ruler who sees democracy as nothing more than a temporary measure in his autocrat’s tool box has reason to fear coming local elections.
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