What the Turkish Left does has nothing to do with what edgy Anglophone leftists post on Twitter or the Guardian's slant on the coverage of everything in Turkey.
Screw the edgy Anglophile leftists posts from the UK/USA.... As far as I am concerned, they are just a bunch of a**holes, that want to sit around and debate hypothetical scenarios in some coffee shop in some trendy district of the "city", while people are being murdered in the streets of Turkey.
I lived in Germany for a year in two very different cities, where I was also an "Auslander", and my best friends in Germany were immigrants from Turkey, Kurdistan, and Afghanistan (Political Asylum seekers).
I can't remember how many demonstrations I participated in during the Mid '90s where the Turkish Left were the organizers.....
Anyone who considers themselves a "Leftist" in North America or Europe that backs this thug, is not a "true Leftist" by any commonly understood definition.
Meanwhile, in Syrian Occupied Kurdistan, there is a true revolutionary social movement that has been occurring within the liberated areas, that has moved away from the Marxist-Leninist dogmatism of the PKK (Turkey), and the corrupt petroleum based and politically corrupt patronage based system of Iraqi Kurdistan (PUK and KDP)....
The Kurdish Revolutionary movement transcends national boundaries, for obvious reasons.
The current nexus of the true Kurdish Revolutionary movement is occurring in places like Rojava (Syrian Occupied Kurdistan).
https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Rojava-Democratic-Liberation-Kurdistan/dp/0745336590These movements are trickling across the porous borders of Kurdistan, and starting to influence the very concept of the Kurdish Revolutionary movement, in many ways...
So--- what does this mean for the Turkish Left?
We can debate all day about wankers and internet trolls of various political persuasions in the US/UK, but any true Leftist should be supportive of the current state of the Revolutionary Movement in Turkey...... It is impossible to discuss the Turkish Left, without talking about the Kurds, as well as various other ethnic and religious minorities that have suffered systematic persecution, including genocide, torture, assassination, and collective punishments at the hands of the State....
Any "True Leftist" needs to stand in solidarity with the activists from the Kurdish community, Labor activists, religious minorities, and many others suffering under the boot of Fascism in modern day Turkey.
So BRTD.... although I know you do "niche posting" and "classic Atlas" baits, but sorry I'm not that interested in some obscure posts from a few dudes on some other random Forum. When I hear "True Leftist", it actually means something, other than some random edgy article someone posted to try to obtain their Masters Degree, to go where "No Leftist has Ever Gone Before"....
It's total bunk, and deserves to be dumped into the dumpster fire of history, along with so many other bunk concepts....
IMHO....