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Because we use the Marxist definition of Imperialism.
This article goes through the theory and also specifically addresses the myths of Russian Imperialism and others (This section) .
I also recommend this very thorough exposition of the current global order. The world definitely is not divided into imperialist and socialist countries only.
Turkiye is not a Global South. It was a part of it but it's a biggest enemy of the workers revolution around the middle east and the Balkans. Biggest provider to Isn'treal to fund Palestinian genocide.
How can Turkiye is not aligned? It's a member state of NATO and killed and tortured many leftist/communist and committed genocide against its own people in the 70s with US of course?
You're of course right that Turkey is quite reactionary. But Global South really just means "Not-Global North". It's not a coherent block.
As you must be aware, Turkey while formally being a NATO member, did not really follow the NATO line of "Russia bad"; nor did it follow the "Guaido is the president of Venezuela" line like the EU. It often opportunistically aligns with the West, like by helping with the assault on Syria; but economically, it increasingly follows an independent line (compare that to all the EU vassal states).
Indonesia also did a genocide against its own people in the 70s with US help, yet it's one of the most important economies in BRICS now. India is similarly torn between East and West, like Turkey. There's a reason all 3 of those countries are classified as "non-aligned".
Again, Global South doesn't mean "good".
This was a good critique; I'll take it. Feel free to recommend me to sources to read.
No worries, Turkiye is definitely one of the more subtler cases.
Btw, you seem to be a Turkish comrade. How seriously is the whole Turkiye vs Turkey taken? I didn't mean to be inconsiderate, I just rolled with the name the article was using.
It's not problem at all. I support the change since Turkiye is more correct name for the country.