Ecevit escapes gunmen

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Mayor of Siverek, Turkey and a member of Bulent Ecevit's Republican People's Party was being assassinated by right wing thugs, Ecevit himself was under attack in the town of Nevesehiv.

The former Prime Minister was attending a funeral service of the local RPP chairman Mr Zeki Tekinel who had been shot on Tuesday evening.

Ecevit himself was not hurt but Mr Hayri Mumcuoghi, a Turkish Senator and a Deputy in the Grand National Assembly were amongst those wounded after fascists attacked the funeral procession.

Political killings are running at a steadily increasing rate in Turkey today and in particular it is clear that the fascists are aiming to wipe out the KrP which poses as the main voice of the working class.

. The killing of a leading fascist some weeks ago has intensified the political clashes, and what is increasingly clear is that Turkey's political future is more and more being fought out on the streets.

It is all the more criminal, thing do the Denied geek to for Ecevit to seek to ment through a parliamentary motion of censure which it was hoped would get the support of the religious right wing National Salvation Party:

While Ecevit plays parliamentary games it is only a matter of time before he himself falls victim to a fascist bullet.

As it turned out, the censure motion proved to be a complete damp squib when less than 226 of the 450 deputies in the Lower House needed for a quorum failed to turn up to debate the motion.

Break from Ecevit

The Turkish workers must break from the bourgeois parliamentary politics of Ecevit and form workers defence squads to fight the fascist menace.

At a point where reforrnist and Stalinist trade union leaders remain locked in a lethal alliance with Ecevit and the RIP, the tight for such a policy highlights the necessity for a revolutionary party to be built Ecevit

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