By Communist and Workers Parties
July 8, 2026 SolidNet.org
We, the undersigned Communist and Workers’ Parties, strongly condemn the repression carried out by the Turkish authorities against the demonstration organized by the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) in Ankara in protest of the NATO Summit.
The violent police intervention, the injuries inflicted on demonstrators, and the detention of 145 communists including one member of the Central Committee of TKP and 8 members of the Party Council, constitute an unacceptable attack on the right to organize and protest. The sweeping bans imposed on demonstrations and public gatherings, which effectively turned the Turkish capital into a closed city ahead of the NATO Summit, reveal once again that NATO’s war agenda goes hand in hand with the restriction of political rights and freedoms.
The attempt to silence the communists cannot conceal the truth: NATO is an aggressive imperialist alliance that has brought war, occupation, destruction and suffering to peoples across the world. Those who raise their voices against militarization, imperialist interventions and wars cannot be intimidated by repression.
We express our full solidarity with the Communist Party of Turkey, with all detained TKP members, and with everyone who stood up against the NATO Summit. We demand the immediate release of all communists in custody, the dropping of all charges, and an end to every measure restricting all anti-NATO political activity.
Hands off TKP! Hands off all communist and anti-imperialist militants!
(The text is open for further signatures)
Undersigned communist and workers’ parties:
Parties of the SolidNet list:
- Communist Party of Albania
- Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism
- Party of Labour of Austria
- Communist Party of Brazil
- Brazilian Communist Party
- Communist Party of Canada
- Communist Party of Bohemia & Moravia
- German Communist Party
- Communist Party of Greece
- Hungarian Workers’ Party
- Iraqi Communist Party
- Tudeh Party of Iran
- Workers Party of Ireland
- Jordanian Communist Party
- Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan
- Communist Party of Luxembourg
- Communist Party of Mexico
- New Communist Party of Netherlands
- Communist Party of Norway
- Communist Party of Pakistan
- Palestinian Communist Party
- Communist Party of Poland
- Portuguese Communist Party
- Communist Party of Russian Federation
- Communists of Serbia
- Communists of Catalonia
- Communist Party of the Workers of Spain
- Communist Party of Sweden
- Swiss Communist Party
- Syrian Communist Party
- Communist Party of Ukraine
- Union of Communists of Ukraine
- Communist Party USA
Other parties:
- New Communist Party of Australia
- Revolutionary Brazilian Communist Party (PCBR)
- The Revolutionary Communist Party of France
- Communist Party (Germany)
- Communist Front (Italy)
- Galizan People’s Union-UPG
- Communist Workers’ Platform USA
- Party for Socialism and Liberation – USA
