
The following is the text of a leaflet that the Revolutionary Workers’ Party (DIP) distributed at the Middle East Conference held on the weekend of 20-21 October 2012 in Istanbul, where a host of Arab and Kurdish left-wing organisations from the Middle East and North Africa were invited to speak. Among those present were Hezbollah and the Communist Party from Lebanon, the Tunisian Communist Workers’ Party, the People’s Democratic Front of Palestine, the Communist Party of Syria, the Democratic Unity Party (PYD) of the newly autonomous Western Kurdistan (Rojava) and representatives from countries such as Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Iraq, Iran etc. The conference was organised by the People’s Democratic Congress (HDK), an alliance of the Kurdish movement in Turkey and a host of socialist parties of Turkey, an alliance that is in the process of converting itself into a political party. The DIP has always been in solidarity with the Kurdish movement fighting for the rights of the oppressed Kurdish people. This is an English translation of the original Turkish text.
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