Turkey – AGEB: ESP is not alone!

We hereby share an unofficial translation of a statement issued by the Union of Migrant Workers in Europe (AGEB) shared by Avrupa Haber.

In this process, where the Turkish rulers aim to stifle revolutionary dynamics and liquidate the Kurdish national movement, the fascist Turkish state is intensifying its attacks on progressive-revolutionary institutions that are determined to organize the streets, point the way to liberation for the working masses, and persistently defend the revolutionary struggle.

This morning’s raids on homes and the detention of around 100 revolutionaries, primarily targeting ESP, but also SKM, SGDF, ETHA, DİSK/LİMTER-İŞ, Polen Ekoloji, BEKSAV, and many other revolutionary and democratic organizations, along with the abduction of revolutionaries and socialists and the police’s attempts to force them into espionage and collaboration, are a clear indication of the rulers’ fear of the growing anger and the revolutionary will that is channeling this anger into organized struggle against fascism.

Maintaining the line of resistance, not abandoning the areas, and expanding the struggle at all costs is the nightmare of fascism. Fascism wants to leave workers, laborers, women, students, and all resisting sections of society disorganized, alone, and powerless. The operations carried out today are also part of this dirty aim.

However, it must be known that repression, arrests, and detentions cannot stop the revolutionary struggle. Repelling and pushing back the aggression of fascism depends on strengthening revolutionary solidarity and resisting with determination. The revolutionaries who have been detained are not alone. Their struggle is our struggle.

We will expand the revolutionary struggle and continue the resistance against all attacks of fascism!

Down with Fascism! Long live our Revolutionary Struggle!

End the attacks, arrests and detentions!

Long live revolutionary solidarity!

AGEB – Union of Migrant Workers in Europe
February 3, 2026