Image via X Statement by the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) Central Committee following the AKP government's signing of the “Mecca Joint Defense Agreement” The AKP government has signed the so-called “Mecca Joint Defense Agreement” and thereby dragged our country into a new and extremely dangerous military adventure. The agreement’s most important declared clause treats an armed attack on any one of the three countries as an attack on all of them. The AKP has thus placed Tu

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