On the anniversary of the Sivas and Çorum massacres committed by Turkish fascism against Alevi workers, a new massacre and pogrom was staged. A new wave has been added to the never-ending series of aggression, bloodshed and massacres. Fascist attacks on the Kurdish people, Alevis, Armenians and Greeks continue with attacks on Arab refugees fleeing the war in Syria. The attacks that started in Kayseri and launched against poor and working refugees are the result of the hostile policies and propaganda of Turkish fascism against refugees, whom they have long targeted as the source of economic problems, but also used as cheap labor exploitation. The poor, toiling refugees who had to migrate at the end of the war in Syria with the joint efforts of imperialism and the Republic of Turkey were made the target of this policy of aggression, which aims to blunt the consciousness of the working people of Turkey and to deflect the class struggle of the working people.
Syrian immigrants and refugees are not the enemies of the working class and toilers. It is not at all responsible for the economic destruction experienced by the working people. The rulers, who wanted to sow enmity between the peoples, were targeting the Kurdish people, Alevis, Armenians and Greeks yesterday. Today, the target is Syrian refugees. We see that refugees, who have been attacked many times under various pretexts and justifications, have been subjected to intense exploitation as cheap labor, refugee women have been used as sexual objects, and especially fascist parties have shown them as enemies who are the cause and source of poverty, misery and various social problems. This policy of antagonism only harms the class struggle and our struggle for freedom. The united struggle of the workers, the fraternization of the peoples is the guarantee of our freedom and liberation. Policies based on turning the poor against the poor multiply the chains of slavery of Turkish workers and laborers, other than alienating them from their own interests.
Again, an important fact is that the claim of “responding to sexual assault“, which is presented as a pretext for the attacks, is not a policy that can be embraced by the fascist movement, which is one of the most intense perpetrators of rape and violence against women, which is heavily hostile to the struggle for women‘s liberation. Misogynistic policy is one of the main policies of the fascist movement. Fascists, who defend the male-dominated system, can at best be the cause and perpetrator of the abuse and victimization of women or children. Otherwise, it cannot be in a position to hold accountable.