Garbis Altinoglu
CL Publications, PO Box 24,
Leeds, LS8 1UU
ISBN 0-9540410-0-3, £8.25, p/b
Online here: http://www.turkishmarxist.dds.nl/english/book/intro.html
Though there are some sections in which Turkey’s role vis-à-vis the US and NATO are considered, for the most part this is a detailed account of the Turkish state’s murder and torture of its left and Kurdish opponents. As most of this information never gets attention in the major British media, this is to be welcomed; but it is a grim read (with some grim photographs). The idea of this murderous gangster state being welcomed into the European Union is a joke. But you watch, all this will be tippexed out of the story and it will happen.