New arrests in Turkey

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As with El Salvador, Guatemala, Ireland and this linked them to the pro-Moscow World Peace

THE ARREST of 42 Turkish intellectuals and acad- emics last week marked the biggest crackdown so far Council. They are expected to be charged with the atrocities committed in defence of capitalist South Africa, the imperialists close eyes and ears to activist, Reha Isvan (wife of Ahimet Isvan, the writers and academics, as well as a women's rights mayor of Istanbul, jailed without trial since the coup Among those detained are prominent poets, for all its ostentatious pose of 'neutrality' in the culties in mouting a defence of the DISK leaders. struggles between the terrorists of the extreme right These latest arrests will cause further major diffi- They contirm once again that the Evren junta - new loans to the junta totalling $140 million. And in the European Assembly a resolution has been carried calling for a reconsideration of its decision to expel Instead the World Bank has just approved two defence lawyer in the current trial of 52 leaders of earlier, when the main right wing newspaper Tercuman published photocopies of membership Association, Orhan Apaydin, who is the chief Also arrested was the president of Istanbul's Bar The scene for the arrests was set a few weeks wing and the Turkish left and labour movement - is consistently aiming its heaviest repression against the cratic rights by a military junta deeply committed to the NATO alliance and the preservation of imperial- ist stability in the Middle East has escaped the hypo- critical and ritualistic condemnation meted out by Needless to say such brazen suppression of demo- respectable man and we should give him some time" general rather than fight for the independent politics MEP, Tom Urwin, who argued that "Evren is a collaboration at home - a willingness to 'see good' even in the most blood-stained and reactionary Such an attitude stems from the politics of class Vocal in supporting this resolution was a Labour forms of the dissolved Turkish Peace Association. Thatcher and Reagan to the Stalinists in Poland. bearing the names of the accused. It was alleged that by the Evren junta on the intelligentsia.

of September 12 1980).

the left trade union confederation DISK. left. membership of a subversive organisation.

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Turkey. of the working class.

Turkey. We urge readers to take it. and hierarchically as a weapon of the ruling as a weapon of class.

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