AN ISLAMIC takeover In Turkey is a real possibility. But the problem is that the government and organised fascism within the state do not present a genulne alternative to this threat. reached such dimensions that it is not easy to distinguish one from the other. tory purged islamic forces from its ranks. varying degrees. Islamle Influence in the state has Increased In recent years. But imaginary fears and fantasies serve only to make liberals bilnd to the "clear and present" reaction in front of their eyes. Instead the entry of reactionary Islam into the state structures has Despite the popular fallacy, the Turkish state has never in its hisA reactionary form of Sunni Islam has always governed Turkey to gency units operating mainly in Kurdistan alongside the army under the instructions of an autonomous and unofficial state organisation" known as the "counter-guerrilla".
These special forces are responsible for the most ruthless atrocities in Kurdistan, including the systematic torture of civilians and the assassination of over 2,000 Kurdish and pro-Kurdish intellectuals.
In order to turn Turkish Kurdistan into a large prison through their "dirty war", the Turkish state needed to create an unprecedented machinery of violence dispersed
SOCIALIST OUTLOOK No. 81, April 8 1995, Page 11.