Co-ops in Bakur | Co-operative Economy in Rojava and Bakur

Economic Self-Governance in Democratic Autonomy: The Example of Bakur (Turkish Kurdistan)

Report by Azize Aslan. Translation from an article in Turkish first published by Birikim in May 2016

The “Apoist”1 thread of the Kurdish Movement, which today involves many actors and organizations in military and political capacities, has gravitated away from the idea of founding a state. With the…

New book: Struggles for Autonomy in Kurdistan

Co-operative Economy in Bakur

By Eliza Egret and Tom Anderson, First published on Corporate Watch, May 2016

This book, by Eliza Egret and Tom Anderson, gathers together first-hand accounts of the struggles for a new society taking place in Bakur and Rojava – the parts of Kurdistan within…

Workers’ Co-ops in the Wan Region of Bakur

Co-ops in Bakur

by Eliza Egret and Tom Anderson. Published in the Corporate Watch book, Struggles for Autonomy in Kurdistan, May 2016

In June 2015 we visited several co-operatives in the Wan region (Van in Turkish). They were set up with the support of people from the regional Economic Commission ofthe Democratic Society…

Wan Market

Co-ops in Bakur

Originally published in Turkish on 23 December 2015 on Meydan

Opposed to the economy controlled by the state and corporations, the number of cooperatives where relations of production and consumption are formed without intermediaries is on the rise. Recently, these cooperatives…

Building autonomy in Turkey and Kurdistan: an interview with Revolutionary Anarchist Action

Co-ops in Bakur

Originally published on 27 August 2015 on Corporate Watch

Below is the transcript of our interview with three members of the anarchist group Devrimci Anarşist Faaliyet (DAF, or Revolutionary Anarchist Action) in Istanbul during May 2015. DAF are involved in…