Turkey report
[Lou Proyect writes to his list…]
My wife is instant messaging with her best friend right now who took
part in the 300,000 strong demonstration against the AKP, the Islamic
party in power that mixes neoliberalism, pro-imperialist foreign
policy and populist rhetoric. She demonstrated with her entire family
and states that most people marched under the slogans “No to the
military” and “No to Islamic government.” She is a lot like most of
the people I know in Istanbul: politically to the left and secular.