Turkey's Workers' Party leader Erkan Baş slams NATO summit, calls attendees 'thugs'

Erkan Baş, the leader of Turkey's Workers' Party (TİP), has issued a scathing condemnation of the upcoming NATO summit scheduled to be held in Ankara. In a social media statement, Baş labeled the alliance and its attendees as undesirable, stating, "We do not want thug Trump, Epstein perpetrator Barrack, arms dealer Merz, the Palace, in short, NATO and its domestic collaborators."

Baş articulated a strong anti-NATO stance, asserting that the alliance's existence signifies "seats, legitimacy, and unlimited exploitation" for some, while for the "working people of the whole world, it evokes nothing but blood, destruction, and tears." He vehemently rejected the prospect of Ankara being transformed into an "open-air prison" to host the summit, which is slated for July 7-8.

The TİP leader declared that if discussions at the summit were to include the "genocide against the people of Gaza" or "new attacks against Iran's sovereignty," his party would respond by raising their voices against such "barbarism" across Turkey. He reiterated his rejection of figures like Trump and Barrack, along with arms dealers and the Turkish government, whom he collectively referred to as "NATO and its domestic collaborators."