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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Can anyone translate this? I think it's Ottoman Turkish, I could be wrong

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

There were Soviet Ottomans?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There were communist Turks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's true! Kaypakkaya!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but Kaypakkaya is the overrated one that only Westerners know.

(But what happened to him was horrible, no denying.)

But the communist movement in Turkey is powerful, historically, compared to other communist movements that didn't achieve full power. I'd say that places that have big communist movements but aren't AES is Nepal, India, and that kingdom in Africa that I forgot the name of...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Who else would you recommend in Turkey?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Look into the TKP's history.

Especially in the lead-up to the 1980 coup.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

oh yeah

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

If you ever feel depressed in the Western core...remember there were communists in the Ottoman empire that likely lived through the collapse.