>Press Agency Ozgurluk >In Support of the Peoples Liberation Struggle in Turkey and Kurdistan >http://www.ozgurluk.org >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1.____________________________________________________ >ANADOLU AGENCY NEWS > > 23 JULY 2000 Sunday > Turkey > >CUMHURIYET > >19 DETENTIONS IN PROTEST AGAINST F TYPE PRISONS >Police detained 19 protestors on Saturday when they attempted to hold >an illegal demonstration to protest the F type prisons in front of >Galatasaray High School in Istanbul. Police interfered when the >protestors chanted slogans and they tried to read out a press >statement. Police finally detained all the protestors when they >refused to disperse and took them to the Anti-Terrorism Department. > > >ANADOLU AGENCY NEWS > > 24 JULY 2000 Monday > Turkey > >ARSONISTS CAPTURED >Police detained six members of the outlawed DHKPC organisation, among >whom were also the two persons who had set a coach on fire in protest >of F-type prisons on July 18. All six were handed over to justice to >the Istanbul State Security Court, and while two arsonists were >arrested by the court, others were released to be tried without >detention. > > >-- >Press Agency Ozgurluk >In Support of the Peoples Liberation Struggle in Turkey and Kurdistan >http://www.ozgurluk.org > 2.___________________________________________________ >From: Press Agency Ozgurluk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >30.07.99 >Summary of the political and economic news in the Turkish press this morning >CONTENTS > > >MIT TO CARRY OUT NEW SECURITY OPERATIONS > >The Turkish National Intelligence Service (MIT) which has already captured the >head of the PKK terrorist organization, Abdullah Ocalan, and PKK members >Semdin >Sakik and Cevat Soysal, has finalized its preparations to crush PKK action in >Europe. MIT will carry out new security operations to capture Yasar Kaya and >his >28 friends, members of the so-called Kurdish Parliament-in-exile. /Aksam/ > >-- >Press Agency Ozgurluk >In Support of the Peoples Liberation Struggle in Turkey and Kurdistan >http://www.ozgurluk.org > > 3.______________________________________________________ >From: Press Agency Ozgurluk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Status: > >29-07-00 > >Yesterday evening we had a rather good manifestion on the Dam-square in >Amsterdam. Visits from internationalist comrades, not a single bad response, >gathered quite some signatures. > >Unfortuanatly we still have no news about the Standoff at the prison in >Bergama > >This is the statement that has been declared in English and Dutch > >Good evening everybody, > >We are here today to draw attention to the struggle of the political >prisoners, at this moment incarcerated in Turkish jails. > >At the moment, and hardly noticed by the public in Europe, a struggle on >life and death is waged in the Turkish prisons. The Turkish regime, known >for structural violations of the human rights, has launched the attack >against the more than 10.000 political prisoners, jailed in the country's >dungeons. > >At the background of this struggle are the plans of the Turkish state to >move all political prisoners to special prisons, equipped with soundproof >isolation cells. > >This struggle has a long history of brutal massacres against the political >prisoners, committed by members of the army and the police force. > >The most recent, and nauseating, example was the attack on July 5 against >the prisoners in Burdur. At 5 o'lock in the morning, the prison walls >were blown up and the remains were leveled by bulldozers. > >As a result of this criminal attack by the Turkish state, one prisoner >lost his life in the explosion and another lost his arm. In total, 34 >people had to be brought to hospital. There they were put under pressure >to accept transfer to the new isolation prisoners or the denial of medical >treatment. All wounded prisoners were forcibly moved. This struggle is a >matter of life and death for the political prisoners. If the fascist >Turkish regime has its way, and succeeds in moving all political prisoners >to isolation cells, the means of the prisoners to defend themselves against >the daily violence of the prison guards will be gone. Apart from this, >the isolation as planned by the Turkish state, has been condemned >internationally as "white torture". > >The democratic public opinion on Turkey itself knows this all too well. >No day passes without people being arrested just because they stand up >for their imprisoned friends, comrades, children of loved ones. We are her >this evening to support them as well. As might be known, the Turkish state >only knows one way to react to the democratic opposition, whether they >are union activists, human right activists, activists for the fights of >the Kurdish people, of just people who want more democracy: they all risk >the chance to be murdered by death squads, to be arrested and subjected to >the most gruesome kind of torture. They also risk to be condemned to long >prison sentences, charged with terrorism or separatism, proof or not. >That's the reason why there are now more than 10.000 political prisoners >in Turkish jails. > >Although the fact that Turkey is one of the countries with the worst >record concerning human rights, the Western countries act as if they are >deaf and constantly praise the Turkish state and its so-called "improving" >human rights situation. > >The Western countries continue to sell arms to Turkey, special Turkish army >units are trained by the West in country insurgency, and secret services >all over Europe systematically monitor human rights activists, Kurds, and >revolutionaries from Turkey. There is a joint effort to criminalise the >democratic opposition of Turks and Kurdish Turks. Dozens of Turks and Kurds >are at the moment in jail in Europe while Turkish government members and >hangmen, up to their neck in the drug trade, are received on the highest >level, with all regards. People who ask for political asylum are being >send back to Turkey where they, in many cases, await torture and death. > >We call upon the public opinion to put pressure on their trade unions and >political parties to act now. The legitimate struggle of the political >prisoners in Turkey will continue. The prisoners already announced that >theywill resist, if need be massively and armed. We call upon to use all >available means in order to prevent another bloody massacre. > >ISOLATION IS TORTURE! > > >-- >Press Agency Ozgurluk >In Support of the Peoples Liberation Struggle in Turkey and Kurdistan >http://www.ozgurluk.org > > _______________________________________________ Marxist-Leninist-List mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/marxist-leninist-list
