Crushing The state apparatus was and crumbling. was on we Onlik Of CIVH war. The police force had already divided into two factions, one left and one right wing shoot-outs were The only state institution which The only other alternative for the ruling class was to throw in their lot with the National Action rany, lic party in West Europe. The NAP, led by exarmy colonel Turkes, with 15 MPs and around one million votes, had Lilt strength and willingness to control the streets in many towns in the centre of the country.
This option, howhad Hore risks, not least the likelihood of prolonged working class resistance and civil war.
The generals who carried out the coup have placed the smashing of working class organisaflank.
per cent of the workforce in trade unions.
Republican Peoples class party; the the population is Muslim); the tion at the top of their DISK, the independent trade union reaeranon wnien organised just million WOKe the coup, has been the Some 25 per cent of the population, about ten Although dispersed except as been released without charge.
The high level of organisation militancy ana politicisation of the Turkish masses has been the single major obstacle Socialist Challenge Solidarity The media have turned a blind eye to the brutal repression and denial of democratic rights, which labour movement solidarity even more urgent.
The conspicuous silence of the parties of the •Socialist interna tional', which includes the British Labour Party. has to be broken and a fight waged to end all economic, political and especially military links with the Turkish junta 29 January 1981