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Can Koçak teaches media and journalism at the University of Sussex, and is the representative of the Workers' Party of Turkey (Türkiye İşçi Partisi – TİP) in Britain.
While Erdogan wages war on Turkey’s workers’ movement by jailing socialist MPs, the British police’s harassment of London’s Kurdish community reveals how much this authoritarianism has stretched to Britain.
For Britain’s Turkish and Kurdish immigrants, last month’s riots resembled the growing far-right movement in their home country, inspiring them to turn out in massive numbers on anti-fascist protests.