2013/2014: The end of a cycle
On the pact of PKK with Erdogan

The crisis of the fall in the oil prices, the hard competition in the world market of the imperialist gangs, the withdrawal of the capital from production opened a process of slowing and stagnation, with a fall in the growth rate to 2% in 2015.
The workers movement wanted to recover what the bourgeoisie took away in the expansion cycle with huge struggles, as in the auto workers, the state employees, the agricultural workers, metalworkers, electronic workers, etc. that shook Turkey. The agreement of the PKK (the Kurdish Stalinists) with Erdogan’s government prevented this workers uprising to merge with the national struggle of the Kurdish people, which is the most exploited sectors of the Turkish working class together with the millions of Syrian refugees. Supported in that agreement, the Party of the People’s Democracy (HDP) –a pro-Kurdish party- entered to the parliament with more than 80 representatives.

With the pact of PKK, with the betrayal of the trade union bureaucracy, with a brutal repression, Erdogan could defeat the uprising of 2013 that threatened to make Taksim Square in a new Tahrir Square (That of El Cairo).
Starting from there, the Bonaparteist government of Erdogan not only liquidates the factions of the different opposition bourgeois gangs, but also declares war to the workers movement and the Kurdish nation. It broke the pact with the Kurdish bourgeoisie, once it used it. Erdogan marks his opposition and the working class with bombs, as he did on August and October in 2015 in camps and demonstrations of the Kurdish workers and youth. And also, last May Day, it took place a huge mass demonstration of the working class that was repressed with bombs and there was one killed.
The more Erdogan won a social base in the new rich middle classes, the more he weakened the bourgeois gangs that dispute with him the business deals, the more he attacked on the working class and the Kurdish nation.