DHKC > APPEAL! > > > > Revolutionaries, democrats, progressives and oppressed and exploited > peoples of the world! > > > > A struggle has been taking place in Turkey between revolutionaries and > fascism for years. Despite defeats, treason and the loss of leading > cadres, losses were converted into gains, both friends and enemies > have witnessed new victories of ours during periods when it was said > "we can never stand up again" and "we are finished". No matter where > we are, in the mountains, in cities or in prisons... our struggle has > continued uninterrupted up to the present. It was the enemy who always > felt powerless and the revolutionaries whose morale was strong. > > Prisons have a special place in the history of Anatolian liberation. > > Prisons are a front in the centuries-long war between the oppressors > and the oppressed. On the one hand they were tools for silencing the > social opposition, on the other, they were centres of resistance. > > The revolutionary prisoners who inherited the tradition of resistance > from Mahir Cayan, Ulas Bardakci and Huseyin Cevahir, created the idea > of Free Captivity through hunger strikes and Death Fasts in 1984 under > the conditions of the military junta. > > The Free Captives advanced the struggle in prisons during the > resistances in Buca (1995) and Umraniye (1996) and went onto the > offensive, making the enemy retreat in panic. > > With the Death Fast resistance in 1996, the struggle in prisons grew > massively and the establishment of the central organisation of > prisoners (CMK) followed it. > > Free Captives did not limit themselves only to the struggle in > prisons: by showing the necessary sensitivity towards developments > both in our country and the world, they always lived outside the four > walls. These characteristics of the captives make them FREE in > prisons. They made it their own business wherever imperialism launched > an attack targeting the peoples of the world, and they also felt the > sorrow people felt as a result of tyranny. > > Therefore it is not a coincidence that the oligarchy targets the > revolutionary prisoners. They know that when the revolutionary > prisoners are silenced, the rest of the people can be silenced too. > This is why they try everything they can. By using their own media, or > using the journalists who sold their honour, or traitors, they target > the prisoners with demogogy of "they turned prisons into their bases", > "we have no control in prisons", "the illegal organisations are > directed from the prisons", etc. If this does not work, they make use > of provocations and plots. Again, if these tactics do not work, they > massacre prisoners one by one, in threes, in fours, in tens... > > By using the opportunity presented by the surrender of the Kurdish > nationalists in accordance with the imperialist plan, the oligarchy > tried to raise their morale and massacred 10 revolutionaries in Ankara > Ulucanlar prison on September 26th, 1999. But the response of the > prisoners was "we will die but we will not surrender" and they > welcomed death with dancing and singing marches. Once again the > oligarchy was in despair. > > The state is preparing to attack again. This time the name of the > offensive is 'cell-type prisons'. They want them not to have any > contact with the rest of the world, to forget their humanity, to > forget how to speak, to deprive them of hope, and so they want to > throw them into cells. > > In order to be able to put cell-type prisons into practice, the state > is trying to make them look like 'luxury accommodation', and those who > claim that they are democrats are also taking part in this by > supporting it. IT IS A LIE. Cells are tools for killing slowly, cells > are for inflicting torture on a massive scale. They are for torturing > thousands of prisoners for days and years. > > They mean to condemn the prisoners to death by torture. They are for > making death appear 'natural'. > > They are mainly used in the USA and the imperialist European countries > who are proud of their "democracies" and "their respect for human > rights" (!) They aim to convert prisoners into robots who do not think > and feel. > > To support cell-type prisons means to support torture. To oppose the > cells means to oppose torture. > > Everyone who calls him or herself revolutionary, democratic, > progressive, human and leading a dignified life, must oppose torture > and must oppose the cell-type prisons. > > WE ARE CALLING UPON OUR FRIENDS ALL OVER THE WORLD WHO BELIEVE IN > INTERNATIONALISM AND THE FRATERNITY OF THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD, TO BE > SENSITIVE TOWARDS FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS AND SHOW THEIR REVOLUTIONARY > SOLIDARITY BY MAKING PUBLIC THIS MATTER WHEREVER THEY ARE. > > THE REVOLUTIONARY CAPTIVES CANNOT BE MADE TO SURRENDER! > > THE REVOLUTIONARY CAPTIVES ARE OUR HONOUR! > > DHKC > > DEVRIMCI HALK KURTULUS CEPHESI > > BRUSSELS INFORMATION BUREAU
