>The above quotation is a brief example of the effects on subjects that >the experiments using cells in the USA have had. THE CELL IS A WORLD >ALL BY ITSELF" HOWEVER, HUMANS ARE SOCIAL CREATURES. The cell is a >world where no other sounds can be heard. Speaking to someone you know >is the most important means of social communication. The people of our >country are accustomed to living together and sharing, and have been >formed according to this culture. They have been brought up like this >all their lives. For people from our country to be condemned to live >alone is tantamount to a death sentence. > >CELLS ARE AN ATTACK ON THE SOCIAL EXISTENCE OF HUMANS. THE EFFECTS OF >THE CELLS ARE PROLONGED TORTURE, AND AMOUNT TO A VERY SLOW DEATH. > >In Germany the RAF prisoner Ulrike Meinhof told about the effects of >the special cell known as the "Dead Cell", and what she saw the cells >did to the health of human beings. "My head feels like it is bursting, >the back of my head feels like it is about to split, all my memories >are disappearing as though chopped off with an axe" my cell spins >round and round, you wake up, open your eyes and the cell spins around >you. In the afternoon it is as if the sun has suddenly stopped. >Everything is turning round and I cannot get rid of the feeling that I >am permanently moving, I am shivering but I do not know if it is >because of heat or because of cold" The reason is not obvious, but I >always feel cold, and it is an effort to talk in a normal tone of >voice" Words are losing their meaning and I can only guess what they >mean. I cannot pronounce the sounds "s", "z" and "sch". Everything >seems to be made of plastic, including the wardens, the visitors and >the air conditioning system" I cannot clearly remember visits half an >hour after they end, I wonder if they happened today or last >week. Even having a shower once a week has a very different feeling" >Even resting for a moment creates a feeling which lasts for >hours. Times and places seem to blend into one another "" > > >SOLITARY CONFINEMENT IN CELLS IS AN ATTACK ON THE HONOUR AND THE >THOUGHTS OF HUMAN BEINGS > >The aim of the cell-type prisons with regard to prisoners is, by means >of depersonalisation, to degrade them and treat their honour as human >beings as though it were nothing. They want honour and human virtue to >be hurled to the ground by means of offensive searches, arbitrary >regulations and pressure. PRISONERS ARE TO BE COMPELLED TO TURN >TRAITOR AND COOPERATE. > >Even today prisoners have to confront arbitrary attacks by wardens and >soldiers. They want to search them using violence and forcing them to >strip naked" > >"After your identity has been established, you are brought to an empty >room, you are stripped of all your clothes except underwear. Your >clothes are subjected to the most minute search, and then they want >you to remove your underwear. The pretext is SECURITY. They are >holding a detector in their hands, but never mind that! > >SECURITY harms the honour of the captive. Because for them a prisoner >who defends his or her honour is a threat to their security. If you >were to refuse to completely undress, they start to threaten that they >will use force, will cancel your remission or put you in >isolation. They undress you by force. Arguments, shouting" And then? >Then call to mind theatrical performances of "searches" by wardens >using surgical gloves." > >This story is not about prisons in our country. It is a short excerpt >from a story told by a human being who spent three years in a cell in >the cradle of democracy, England. If such practices take place in the >prisons of England, "the home of democracy and human rights", you >calculate what prisons in Turkey which is ruled by fascism will be >like. They want prisoners to abandon their beliefs. The fascist >authorities want everybody to think the way they do. For this reason >revolutionary thoughts are not tolerated. The idea of shutting up >prisoners in cells on their own is to get them to abandon their >beliefs. The cells are an attack on beliefs. It is a method of torture >applied to get people to abandon their beliefs. > >NOBODY CAN BE SUBJECTED TO TORTURE TO MAKE THEM RENOUNCE THEIR >BELIEFS. NOBODY CAN BE KEPT IN CELLS FOR YEARS TO MAKE THEM RENOUNCE >THEIR BELIEFS. > >While those who renounce their beliefs will live on, those who do not >will be killed in the cells as a form of torture lasting years. This >is an attack on universal human values created over thousands of >years. It places no value on the rights won by the democratic struggle >of the peoples of the world. This aggressive policy is directed at all >of humanity. These are Nazi methods aimed at emptying minds by force. > >It is in the cells in our country that they want to compel prisoners >to give up their honour and abandon their thoughts. Everybody who >lays claim to defending freedom of thought and values created over >thousands of years must take a stand against this. > >ISOLATION IN THE CELLS IS A POLICY OF DESTRUCTION > >THEY WANT TO KILL PRISONERS "LIKE A FISH OUT OF WATER > >Fascism in Turkey is aiming to weaken the prisoners by isolating them >and abolishing their unity, calculating that their spirit and >consciousness will surrender by putting an end to the dynamism they >possessed before going into the cells. Fascism wants to build prisons >where prisoners will be alone against all sorts of attacks. "The >terrorists must not communicate with one another. Because when the >prisoner does not communicate he or she will die like a fish out of >water" when the sources which nurture the terrorist spirit and idea >are cut off and dried up, his or her revolutionary side, that is, the >destructive side, will be eradicated" (The Ministry of Justice of >Turkey's Handbook on Management of Prisons). It is this that is the >objective of the cells. Fascism in Turkey has only one solution to the >problem of the prisons, and that is to destroy the prisoners. The >quotation above on the "cells" openly states the aims. To destroy the >spirit and ideas of the revolutionary prisoners means to destroy their >revolutionary beliefs, political identity, honour, virtue and >convictions and kill their hopes. > >THE CELLS ARE TORTURE CHAMBERS FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL AND AT THE SAME >TIME A WAY OF SUBJECTING PEOPLE TO A LIFE OF INTENSE IDEOLOGICAL >ATTACKS. > >Who knows what will be done to prisoners isolated in cells by the >fascist state in Turkey when today, those living collectively in the >dormitory-type prisons are the target of organised massacres and are >collectively killed by torture. There will be no end to the repression >and torture". Until even a prisoner who denies his revolutionary >identity will be made to submit to every kind of dishonour. IN THE >CELLS PRISONERS WILL BE MADE TO EITHER "SURRENDER" OR BE >"DESTROYED". THE MEANING OF "SURRENDER" MUST BE THE RENUNCIATION OF >BELIEFS. > >DEMAGOGY AND THE CELLS > >The new name of the cells >"F Type", "Y Type", >"Turkish Type", >"Room System", >"Small Dormitory" > >It is known what has gone on in our country, and the world knows of >the experiments that have been conducted, and of the policy of >destruction, torture and attacks lived through in relation to the >cells. For this reason, while they try to deceive the peoples of our >country by changing the names of the isolation cells, they are trying >to deceive European public opinion and counteract any future reaction >by telling lies about "Turkey becoming democratic". They will talk >about "small dormitories", "room systems", "Turkish Type", "F Type" >and "Y Type." The defenders of human rights, democrats, progressives, >Marxists, those who are against fascism; > >All Europeans who say you are against torture; All these things are >lies. The name of isolation cannot be "Turkish type" in our country, >where our people are accustomed to living together and being abandoned >means death. All these names mean just one thing: WHITE DEATH, THAT >IS, ISOLATION. The democratisation of Turkey is just for show, in >actual fact there is no democracy for the people of Turkey. In this >Turkey which is said to be democratising itself, 10 prisoners in >Ankara/Ulucanlar were murdered towards the end of 1999 for demanding >an extra ward because there was no space to sleep. They were tortured >and injected with chemical substances. A country where such things can >be seen is not democratic. It has only one name: FASCISM. > >"THE SECURITY PROBLEM IN PRISONS" IS DEMAGOGY WHICH HAS BEEN >FABRICATED TO INTRODUCE CELLS > >In Turkey, every time a new government comes to power, the first thing >the new justice minister says is that "the state does not control the >prisons, but it will take control". Following these words, new attacks >and new massacres come about. The present government's first action >was to kill with torture 10 revolutionary prisoners in the Ulucanlar >jail. When Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit went to the USA, he brought >with him the blood of 10 revolutionaries as a present. In order to >prepare legitimate grounds for the transfer to cells, using the >pretext of security in the prisons is demagogy. The prisoners in >Ulucanlar were savagely tortured and slaughtered simply for demanding >another ward. FOR YEARS IN THE PRISONS, THE STATE HAS NOT BEEN >CONCERNED WITH THE RIGHT TO LIFE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PRISONERS. THE >PRISONERS HAVE ENCOUNTERED MASSACRES AND BORNE WITNESS TO TORTURE. THE >THREAT TO THE LIVES OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PRISONERS, A THREAT OF DEATH >BY TORTURE, ARISES FROM NONE OTHER THAN THE FASCIST STATE IN TURKEY. > >TALK OF "REFORM" IS A LIE > >The fascist state in Turkey presents isolation cells before public >opinion as being a "reform". It is practising deceit. Bringing the >health of prisoners onto the agenda, the question of cells will be >raised and defended as being the only solution. They are trying to >make the cells seem legitimate with demagogy like "the aim is to >eradicate some drawbacks created by the overcrowded dormitories". It >is said there is a high risk of the spread of infectious diseases in >the crowded dormitories and going over to cells is a way of avoiding >this. In this way, the remark that "they are concerned about the >revolutionary prisoners" also shows what is happening. But the aim of >transferring to cells has nothing to do with the health of prisoners. > >Fascism in Turkey does not think about the health of the revolutionary >prisoners. Today, thousands of inmates in the prisons do not receive >medical treatment. Treatment is consciously prevented. The Justice >Ministry, the Interior Ministry and the Health Ministry have signed a >prison protocol which gives official status to such >obstruction. Thousands of prisoners live with illness and are being >left to die through the withholding of treatment. Up to the present, >dozens of prisoners have died as a result of having their treatment in >the prisons prevented. It is the fascist state which is responsible >for the deaths of inmates in prisons due to the withholding of >treatment. > >In the isolation cells, the number of those abandoned to death without >medical treatment can only increase, and nobody will know about >it. Behind four walls, by breaking the revolutionary prisoners' ties >with the world, they will be left to die more easily than >hitherto. They are lying when they claim to be thinking about >prisoners' health. Isolation cells are themselves a threat to the >spiritual and physical health of prisoners, the aim of them is to >launch a policy of aggression. The policy of aggression against the >minds of people and their beliefs cannot be a "reform". > >"EUROPEAN QUALITY" IS THE LABEL FOR TORTURE IN THE CELLS > >The defenders of human rights, democrats, progressives, Marxists, >those who are against fascism; All Europeans who are against torture; >The creator of the isolation cells is Europe. Fascism in Turkey wants >"modern prisons". "Modern prisons" taken over from Europe are >"cells". America and Germany are the architects and brains behind the >cells. In 1999 at an "anti-terror summit" in Turkey, a journalist >asked the German Federal Chief Prosecutor Kai Mehm, "how do you deal >with terrorism?" The Chief Prosecutor said, "Not the way you do it >(murders and massacres must be what was meant). We put terrorists in >jail for life and if they do get out they don't even think about doing >anything else." > >Germany, heir to the Nazis, has influenced the world in the use >of cell-type prisons for torture and massacres. In the 1970s the >so-called "Maximum Security Areas" and "Dead Cells" were >used to practise every kind of torture and massacre against RAF >prisoners. The findings derived from these cells were treated like >experiments and passed on to countries like ours. It is >Germany's practices with "isolation" cells that fascism in Turkey >is taking as a model. Look at what RAF prisoners who spent >years in these cells have to say about them: Karl-Heinz Dellwo, >who stayed in a Maximum Security Area, defined it like this. >"The cells are different from normal ones with two horizontal >doors and two windows. It is about 5.9 metres long and 1.8 >metres wide. It is about 3.5 metres high. The doors and >windows have armoured glass (which is especially thick so as to >stop bullets). The windows are important because they cannot >be opened by us. The only thing that can enter from outside is a >special ventilation tube. The windows are 1.1 metres wide and >1.5 metres long. Fifty per cent of the surface is bulletproof glass, >fifty percent is framed. To give you an idea of them; they weigh >about 400 kilogrammes. Except the exercise area, there is no >contact with the outside. No solitary confinement or isolation is >as hi-tech as this window. It has been constructed in such a way >that no sound can come in or go out. To communicate with other >parts of the prison from this area, there are headphones >connected to loudspeakers by sockets in metal boxes." > > >Again, Ulrike Meinhof on June 16, 1972 made her feelings about the >"Dead Cell" known: "I have a sensation that my head is exploding (a >feeling that is partly one of the head being torn into thousands of >pieces, partly that it is exploding). My brain and spinal cord feel >like a vegetable in an oven, which is very slowly collapsing inward." > >OUR APPEAL IS TO EVERYONE WHO SAYS THEY "ARE OPPOSED TO MASSACRES AND >TORTURE" > >"You have a continuous feeling of being controlled by remote control >without noticing it, you feel like you are under an electrical >current; > >You feel that your perceptions are being broken and cut" you cannot >explain at all whether you shake because it is cold or hot; why does a >human being feel cold, why does he or she shake, this cannot be >explained. > >It requires a great effort to speak in a normal voice, you find >yourself speaking in a loud voice and almost shouting. You have a >feeling that your voice has been destroyed. Henceforth you do not >recognise what words mean, you can only guess... Henceforth you have >no control over sentence structure, grammar, word order, and your head >aches. When you write, after two or three lines you can no longer >remember the first line"You have a feeling of being burned up and turn >to ashes" The sense of time and place blend together." > >This is dying very slowly, while spread out over time. The defenders >of human rights, democrats, progressives, Marxists, those who are >against fascism; All Europeans who say you are against torture; >Fascism in Turkey is preparing to carry out a massacre in the >prisons. Behind four walls they will close the cells to make the >prisoners abandon their beliefs, those prisoners who resist will be >massacred. The cells are an attack on beliefs. To prevent the >massacres before they happen is possible by supporting those who >resist. Fascism will not be able calmly to commit massacres if all >European public opinion takes the side of the prisoners. Otherwise >they will find it easy to massacre at their leisure. > >Defenders of human rights; > >In our country the right to life of prisoners counts for nothing. We >are on the threshold of a massacre. The cells are the pretext. The >cells are an attack on the minds of human beings. They are an attack >on thoughts. They are an attack on freedom and the right to life. Now >is the time for solidarity. Today is not the time to be silent. We >want to see the defenders of human rights take the side of the >prisoners in our country. We want you to make their just demands your >own. > >Isolation is the greatest torture. It is a torture lasting a whole >life long. Under which law can punishment be changed into torture? In >Turkey this will be done. Isolation means death by torture. Torture >to last years. > >All those against torture; hear the cries of the prisoners in Turkey's >jails. Take the side of prisoners against torture and death by >torture. Come out against isolation cells; it is necessary for >democrats, revolutionaries, progressives, defenders of human rights to >do this. Oppose isolation cells; oppose fascism. All European >defenders of human rights who are against the torture of isolation >which will be applied to prisoners from Turkey and against WHITE >DEATH, revolutionaries and democrats, progressives, Marxists, all >human beings who are against fascism, we want to see you take our >side. > >THOSE WHO SAY TORTURE IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY, THOSE WHO SAY >TORTURE IS DISHONOUR, THOSE WHO SAY THAT NOT OPPOSING TORTURE IS TO BE >AN ACCOMPLICE IN IT, COME OUT AGAINST TORTURE AND AGAINST ISOLATION IN >THE CELL- TYPE PRISONS. > >LET US PREVENT THE MASSACRE OF THE PRISONERS. WE CALL ON YOU TO SHOW >SOLIDARITY WITH THE PRISONERS IN TURKEY AGAINST CELLS AND AGAINST >MASSACRES. > >-- >Press Agency Ozgurluk >In Support of the Peoples Liberation Struggle in Turkey and Kurdistan >http://www.ozgurluk.org > > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
