Turkey must withdraw its troops from Syria!

A call from the Communist Party of Turkey endorsed at the annual 19th International Meeting of Communist and Workers’ Parties in November 2017

Under the leadership of Erdoğan, Turkey has provided political and material support to terrorist groups in Syria, and has been an accomplice to all massacres perpetrated and humanitarian/economic devastation inflicted upon this country since the very beginning of imperialist intervention. Yet today, in defiance of all international agreements and rules, Turkey is carrying out military operations in Syria under the pretext of "counterterrorism".
We, the undersigned communist and workers' parties, hereby protest Turkey's military presence in Syria, and call for the immediate termination
of these military operations.
Erdoğan's foreign policy maneuvers, which solely aim to maintain his personal status and to satisfy the emerging pursuits of Turkish capitalist class, do not serve to the interests of the toiling masses of Turkey or the region by any means. As the undersigned communist and workers' parties, just as we do not sympathize with the pressure and blackmailing exercised by the US and other NATO countries against Erdoğan and oppose to any "color revolution" attempt to be staged in Turkey, we neither accept to label the reactionary and anti-people policies pursued by Turkish government as something positive or even anti-imperialist.
The workers will have the final word in Turkey, in Syria and all around the world. As the communist and workers' parties, we stand by this word and
we will do everything in our power to strengthen it.

Signed by:

1. Algerian Party for Democracy and Socialism
2. Party of Labour of Austria
3. Communist Party of Bangladesh
4. Communist Party of Brasil (PCdoB)
5. Communist Party of Britain
6. New Communist Party of Britain
7. Communist Party of Canada
8. AKEL, Cyprus
9. Communist Party in Denmark
10. Communist Party of Denmark
11. Communist Party of Esthonia
12. Communist Party of Finland
13. Unified Communist Party of Georgia
14. German Communist Party
15. Communist Party of Greece
16. Hungarian Workers' Party
17. Communist Party of India
18. Communist Party of India (Marxist)
19. Workers' Party of Ireland
20. Communist Party (Italia)
21. TUDEH Party of Iran
22. Communist Party of Israel
23. Communist Party of Luxembourg
24. Communist Party of Mexico
25. Communist Party of Norway
26. Palestinian Communist Party
27. Philippine Communist Party [PKP 1930]
28. Communist Party of Poland
29. Portuguese Communist Party
30. Romanian Socialist Party
31. Communist Party of the Russian Federation
32. Russian Communist Workers Party
33. New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
34. Communists of Serbia
35. South African Communist Party
36. Communist Party of Sri Lanka
37. Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain
38. Communist Party of Sweden
39. Communist Party of Syria
40. Communist Party of Syria (Unified)
41. Communist Party of Turkey
42. Communist Party of Ukraine
43. Communist Party of Uruguay
44. Communist Party USA
45. Communist Party of Venezuela