>Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: "DHKC-INFORMATION CENTER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>19th January 2000
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>AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL BUILDING OCCUPIED
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>WE PROTEST AGAINST THE GERMAN COURTS DENYING FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, AND IN
>ORDER TO BE IN SOLIDARITY WITH ILHAN YELKUVAN WE ARE ON HUNGER STRIKE SINCE
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>16TH JANUARY 2000.
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>TODAY IS THE 51ST DAY OF ILHAN YELKUVAN'S DEATH FAST.
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>We have appealed to Amnesty International to raise this issue. We have
>received their reply. They say that "your query appears to fall outside the
>mandate of Amnesty International." !!!
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>Ilhan Yelkuvan has been in solitary confinement because the German
>authorities fear that if he is allowed to communicate with other prisoners
>he might influence them. This means that he is not allowed freedom of
>expression.
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>Does freedom of expression fall outside the mandate of Amnesty
>International?
>
>We occupied Amnesty International's central office in London for 3 hours
>to impress on them the seriousness of Ilhan's situation.
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>Our actions will continue until all deaf ears can hear, blind eyes can see
>and the mute develop the power of speech.
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>FREEDOM OF THOUGHT FOR ILHAN YELKUVAN!
>END ILHAN YELKUVAN'S SOLITARY CONFINEMENT!
>LET'S NOT LEAVE ILHAN YELKUVAN TO DIE!
>
>
>THE ILHAN YELKUVAN SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE
>BRITAIN
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>FREEDOM OF THOUGHT FOR ILHAN YELKUVAN!
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>TODAY IS THE 51TH DAY OF HIS DEATH FASTIn order to support fascism in
>Turkey, German state is telling Ilhan Yelkuvan to change his thoughts.
>On the other hand, Ilhan says "I would rather die than change my thoughts"
>
>
>Ilhan Yelkuvan was sentenced to 3 years and 9 months in Turkey because he
>wants an independent, democratic and free Turkey. He came to Germany in
>1996 and sought political asylum. And he never promised the German state
>that he would renege on his political identity and change his thoughts.
>Germany wants us to forget our own identity, culture and motherland and
>turn us into imitation Germans. For the last 30 years they called us
>"black heads", they exploited and used us. Our children were pushed into
>drug addiction. They looked down on us and when they were finished with us,
>we were deported.
>Ilhan Yelkuvan, on the other hand, did not ignore the problems our people
>have in Germany and in Turkey. He did not forget his motherland, village,
>family, children and his entire people. He always stood by his people
>against starvation, poverty, injustice, contra-guerrillas, disappearances,
>massacres and fascism.
>He could have forgotten his people like others have and become merely a
>selfish immigrant who chooses to live only for his own sake.
>But he did not choose this.
>He did not turn his back on his people and country.
>He did not give up his thoughts.
>The German state wants to create citizens who are silent, do not struggle
>for their rights and are imitation Germans. Therefore it launches attacks
>to destroy revolutionaries like Ilhan as well as the ideas that they hold.
>It imprisons dozens of revolutionaries and sees them as potential
>criminals.
>Ilhan's only crime was to love his people and country so much that he was
>prepared to die.
>The German state supports fascism in Turkey by selling it chemical weapons
>and Leopard tanks. It is a lie that there is democracy in Germany and the
>German state is law abiding. In order to support fascism, Germany put
>Ilhan in solitary confinement.
>For the last 10 months, llhan Yelkuvan has been alone in a cell in Hamburg
>prison, unable to talk to other prisoners. He is only allowed to take his
>exercise period at 4.00 in the morning to prevent him seeing the other
>prisoners. When he was approaching the 40th day of his hunger strike, he
>was subjected to a brutal search on the way to exercise and all his pockets
>were ripped off. By using the excuse of searching his cell, all his CDs
>were broken and his own drawings and writing implements were confiscated.
>One of his legal representatives was arbitrarily dismissed by the court.
>For all these reasons, Ilhan Yelkuvan has been on an unlimited hunger
>strike since 30th November 1999 and on 13th January 2000 he turned this
>into a Death Fast.
>His demands are to have the same rights that the other prisoners have and
>be allowed out of solitary confinement.
>To support Ilhan Yelkuvan's Death Fast;
>
>IN GERMANY
>ALI EKTI: (Hamburg Prison, DHKP-C trial) On unlimited hunger strike since
>5th December 1999.
>ERDOGAN CAKIR: (Aachen Prison, DHKP-C trial) On unlimited hunger strike
>since 7th December 1999. Since 6th January 2000 the prison authorities have
>denied him sugar. He suffered internal bleeding in the stomach because of
>only being able to take water. His body is starting to reject water. His
>condition of health is critical.
>MESUT DEMIREL: (Hamburg Prison, DHKP-C trial) He was on hunger strike
>between 8 and 18th December 1999. Since 3rd January 2000 he is on an
>unlimited hunger strike.
>INAN ALTUN: (Frankfurt Prison, DHKP-C trial) On unlimited hunger strike
>since 16th December 1999.
>AKIN AKSOY: (Frankfurt Prison, DHKP-C trial) On unlimited hunger strike
>since 16th December 1999.
>MEHMET ALI URLUDAG: (Dortmund Prison, DHKP-C trial) On unlimited hunger
>strike since 25th December 1999.
>NIHAT DURMUS: (Hamburg Prison, PKK trial) On unlimited hunger strike since
>19th December 1999.
>IHSAN ERSOY: (Berlin Prison, common law prisoner) On unlimited hunger
>strike since 27th December 1999.
>OSMAN KOCAKAFA: (Hamburg Prison, common law prisoner) He was on support
>hunger strike for 8 days since 3rd January 2000.
>IRFAN GUVEN: (Hamburg Prison, common law prisoner) He was on support hunger
>strike for 8 days since 3rd January 2000.
>IMAM HUR: (Hamburg Prison) On unlimited hunger strike since 5th January
>2000.
>ALI KAYA and another common law prisoner are on unlimited hunger strike in
>Hamburg Prison.
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>IN BELGIUM
>
>FEHRIYE ERDAL, KAYA SAZ and MUSA ASOGLU (DHKP-C trial) They are on a
>week-long support hunger strike starting 14th January 2000.
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>IN FRANCE
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>SEFIK SARIKAYA, DOGAN AYDIN, EMRAH DEMIR, ALI AYYILDIZ, ERDAL KOCAMER,
>ISMAIL SENER, EROL GUNES and VELI BAHSI ( DHKP-C trial) are on a week-long
>support hunger strike.
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>IN TURKEY
>
>1000 Political prisoners of DHKP-C are on a warning hunger strike of
>3-days' duration starting 11th January 2000.
>Political prisoners of TKP-ML and TKP(ML) are on a warning strike of
>2-days' duration starting 11th January 2000.
>Political prisoners of TKEP-L in Sagmalcilar (Istanbul) Prison are on a
>2-day support long hunger strike.
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>FREEDOM OF THOUGHT FOR ILHAN YELKUVAN!
>END ILHAN YELKUVAN'S SOLITARY CONFINEMENT!
>LET'S NOT LEAVE ILHAN YELKUVAN TO DIE!
>
>WE CALL UPON ALL THOSE WHO DEMAND FREEDOM OF THOUGHT TO SEND PROTEST
>MESSAGES TO THE GERMAN AUTHORITIES AND SOLIDARITY LETTERS TO ILHAN
>YELKUVAN.
>
>Court, Fax: +49 40 428 433555
>Ministry of Internal Affairs, Fax: +49 1888 6812926
>Ministry of Justice, Fax: +49 1888 5824525
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>
>Ilhan Yelkuvan
>UHA HamburgHolstenglacis 3-5
>20355 Hamburg
>Germany
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>WHAT IS SOLITARY CONFINEMENT?
>Ilhan Yelkuvan can describe it:
>
>"My cell is in the most remote corner of the prison where you can see no
>sunlight, nor can you hear any other voice. I am kept in a space just big
>enough for my bed. In the neighbouring cells are lodged psychopaths who
>spend the whole day screaming until by nightfall they are too tired to
>scream anymore. I was deliberately put in amongst them.
>Despite my cell being in the basement there are at least four curtains in
>the window like glass at least a century old, a sheet of perforated metal,
>an iron curtain,�etc.!
>Even my meals and other needs are provided by the same guards all the time.
>It is forbidden for me to see anyone else. On every second day my cell is
>searched so thoroughly that it is turned upside down. All my defence
>documents and personal items are plundered.
>Some nights at identical intervals a very loud gong is sounded. These
>sounds remind me of Chinese water torture.
>As it is mentioned in the medical report, because of the solitary
>confinement, I developed an infection of the inner ear. Sometimes I was
>completely unable to concentrate�"
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