[ ICSS 20250112] Internal disintegration prevents Türkiye’s regional aspirations — Mehmet Bayram —

The Middle East is in another turmoil as borders, governments, and alliances change daily, sometimes even in hours. Unable to solve its crisis, imperialism attacks all previously drawn borders, gobbling up even the most benign or harmless enclaves, marching to its targets: Iran, Russia, and ultimately, China. While Turkey is trying to grapple with rising workers, women, and people’s resistance to its traditional fascism and unprecedented corruption, an unyielding Kurdish challenge creates insurmountable cracks in its structure. Changing policy and tactics daily, contradicting the position it held only a few hours ago, flip-flopping continuously, Turkey is trying to navigate uncharted waters in Syria and thus fails miserably as its fascist state with corruption and subservience to imperialism, finds the only way forward is with more blood, torture, war, and fascist aggression by curbing whatever fake freedom crumbs it may have had internally. Mehmet Bayram is a member of the ICSS program committee and is a journalist, author, and translator, and is currently working on a book project to document the memoirs of the leftists who lived through the open fascist September 12, 1980, military coup in Turkiye.