>Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:59:50 +0100 >From: dhkc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: "[Ozgurluk.Org]" Announcement of hunger strike > > >(This is a re-issue on the hunger strike which has been begun by political >prisoners in the jails of Turkey. Please note that today, October 23, is the >FOURTH DAY of the hunger strike.) > >TO THE PRESS AND PUBLIC OPINION > >Our DEATH FAST resistance created an earthquake; it will destroy the >isolation cells and those who are behind their construction. > >WE ARE CONTINUING TO ADD NEW PAGES TO OUR HISTORY OF RESISTANCE WITH HONOUR > >Today the attack of the fascist state targeting the revolutionary prisoners >and aiming to put the "F" Type isolation prisons into operation has entered >a new stage. > >Since the beginning of the year 2000, the fascist state declared that it >would put the isolation cells into operation, and is speeding up its >preparations to this end. Since May 2000, because of the activities of those >close to the prisoners and various democratic and sensitive sections of our >people to support the revolutionary prisoners, and the stepping up of their >actions against the cells, they have not been put into operation. But this >postponement did not mean an abandonment of the attacks aimed at putting the >cells into operation. The collaborationist and servile authorities who could >not face up to the reaction of the people tried to appease them with >demagogy and lies about changing the Anti-Terror Law, forming Prison >Supervisory Associations, talking about "amnesty", all in order to >legitimise the cells. By saying that, as soon as parliament opened, these >regulations would be the first paragraphs of legislation on the agenda, they >aimed to break down the sensitivity that had been created and render the >opposition ineffective. These paragraphs had no clarity and contained >nothing definite, and they did nothing to change the essence of the attacks >to implement the isolation cells; on the contrary their aim was to be >nothing other than a cover to conceal the practice of repression and >torture. On every side this cover was pierced with holes and it did not >suffice to conceal the truth. The fascist state is not abandoning its >efforts with the "F" Type Prisons. Almost every day for months now, this >reality has been clear to everyone. Thousands of relatives of prisoners, >intellectuals, revolutionaries, democrats and progressives were detained and >subjected to torture. Our old mothers who went on the road to Ankara or out >into the city squares of Istanbul to protest against the cells were beaten >nearly to death. As a matter of routine those who took part in protests in >front of Galatasaray High School (in Istanbul city centre) were dragged >along the ground and arrested. Despite all these fascist practices, our >families and sensitive public opinion did not abandon us. Almost every day >there were actions in support of us and against the cells, and appeals were >made to the Justice Ministry and the government. These appeals said, "The >cells are death". The only reply they received was torture, beatings and >detention. > >The fascist state has continued its display of resolution. "The cells >absolutely will be introduced", "The 'F' Types are modern and conform to >human rights standards," they say. They openly stated that they would not >abandon the cell-type prisons. > >Everybody has spoken. Everybody has said something. Those who are against >the cells and those who are for them have spoken and will speak. Now the >time has come for we prisoners to utter a word. > >Since the beginning of this period, we have said that this attack by the >fascist state can only be repelled with a line of struggle, with resistance, >which can endure paying the price. This was the only language comprehensible >to the fascist state, which for decades has bowed down before the resistance >of the revolutionary prisoners in the prisons of our country. Today once >again, we declare that we will reply to imperialism and its collaborationist >servants in the language that they understand. > >Just as the September 12, 1980 junta's attempts to make prisoners surrender >were beaten off; > >Just as the August 1 circular was torn to shreds; > >Just as the Eskisehir coffin prison was closed down; > >Just as with the 1996 Death Fast we caused the Eskisehir coffin prison to be >closed down again and it became a barricade which protected our people from >the attacks; > >Today, we, the revolutionary captives who are undertaking the same duty, >will continue to follow the path which our martyrs blazed without >hesitation, and once again we will make the people's enemies bow down. > >Those who are making such a display of determination against us will once >again be made to bow down, and we revolutionaries on the other hand will >declare our >victory to the rest of the world. > >We are determined. > >We will not hesitate to pay whatever price is necessary, but we will not >enter the isolation cells. They can massacre all of us, we may fall martyr >in Death Fasts, there may be only one of us left in the prisons, but even >then they will not be able to put that single captive into the cells alive. > >We will smash the isolation cells over the heads of those responsible for >ordering their construction. We will be loyal to history which has been >written with the blood and lives of our fallen comrades who resisted during >Death Fasts, or in Buca, Umraniye, Ulucanlar, Burdur and Bergama prisons. We >will form a barricade with our own bodies, blocking those who wish to put us >into cells. From now on the loud voice of the resistance will echo in the >prisons of our country. Today, once again, we are calling on imperialism, >its collaborators and their servants in front of the whole world; VICTORY IS >OURS. COLLABORATION, SERVILITY, DEFEAT AND SURRENDER ARE YOURS. We never >blackened our history and never will do so. We will continue to add new and >honourable pages in the history books. With this belief and determination, >against the political attack of the servile collaborationist authorities >which target our people in the form of the cell-type prisons, we are >starting an Unlimited Hunger Strike, starting from October 20, which will be >converted into a Death Fast in due course. As the DHKP-C (Revolutionary >People's Liberation Party-Front) and TKP(ML), (Communist Party of Turkey >(Marxist-Leninist)), we bear the enthusiasm and morale of starting such a >period of historic resistance, and we know in declaring the start of our >resistance that from this moment we will achieve victory. > >THE DEMANDS OF OUR RESISTANCE > >1 - The ongoing construction of the "F" Type prisons, which have actually >been put on the agenda in the framework of a policy of isolating and putting >revolutionary prisoners on their own, making them surrender with torture >methods and depersonalising them, must be halted. > >2 - With the demagogy of "terrorism", an entire people have been accused of >being "suspects"; torture, massacres and executions legalised, and the >torturers and murderers are under the protection of the anti-terror law >(Article 3713); not only its Paragraph 16 on which the "F" Type isolation >cells are based but this entire Article is clearly anti-democratic and must >be abolished, along with all its provisions. > >3 - The protocol signed by the Justice, Interior and Health Ministries and >known by the people as the "Tripartite Protocol", which includes the denial >of the captives' rights to a defence and medical treatment, and which forces >the legal representatives to be subjected to dishonourable searches, must be >abolished. > >4 - The State Security Courts which, with the reason for their foundation >and their practices since 1984, are special-extraordinary courts, must be >abolished, along with all the provisions for which they are responsible. > >5 - Prisons must be periodically checked by the lawyers who are entrusted >with the task by the Bar of the relevant city, the doctors who are selected >by the Medical Chamber, lawyers and relatives of prisoners who are selected >by the captives, the representatives who are entrusted with this by the >organisations of captives, NGOs on the issue of human rights, and the Union >of Prison Staff. These checks should not be arbitrary but must be carried >out under the protection of the law. > >6 - Those who are responsible for massacring three of our friends in Buca >Prison on September 21, 1995, four of our friends in Umraniye Prison on >January 4, 1996, ten of our friends in Diyarbakir Prison on September 24, >1996, ten of our friends in Ulucanlar Prison on September 26, 1999, and for >the injury of hundreds of our friends during attacks must be judged and >punished as expeditiously as possible, and this must take place in a way >accessible to the public. > >Those who attacked our friends in Burdur Prison on July 5, 2000, who severed >arms, raped, tortured and those who gave the orders for it must be judged >and punished, and this must take place in a way accessible to the public. > >Our friends named below were imprisoned alive at different times. The state >was responsible for the security of these friends' lives. As is well known, >the acceptability and legality of the prisoners' status is based on the >state's guarantee of the security of their lives. These friends, on the >other hand, were massacred by the state. We want our friends back. Their >names are: UGUR SARIASLAN, TURAN KILIC, YUSUF BAG, MECIT SECKIN, RIZA >BOYBAS, ORHAN �ZEN, G�LTEKIN BEYHAN, AYG�N UGUR, BERDAN KERIMGILLER, ILGINC >�ZKESKIN, H�SEYIN DEMIRCIOGLU, ALI AYATA, M�JDAT YANAT, AYCE IDIL ERKMEN, >TAHSIN YILMAZ, YEMLIHA KAYA, HICABI K�C�K, HAYATI CAN, �MIT ALTINTAS, HALIL >T�RKER, ABUZER CAT, MAHIR EMSALSIZ, AHMET SAVRAN, AZIZ D�NMEZ, HABIB G�L, >ZAFER KIRBIYIK, �NDER GENCASLAN, ISMET KAVAKLIOGLU, H. H�SN� EROGLU, MEHMET >YALCINKAYA, KALENDER KAYAPINAR, YUNUS YAMAN, MEHMET BATUGE, KADIR DEMIR, >EDIP DIREK�I, NIHAT CAKMAK, ERKAN PERISAN, RIDVAN BULUT, HAKKI TEKIN, MEHMET >SABRI G�M�S, CEMAL CAM, AHMET CELIK, POLAT IYIT, ENGIN HUYLU, MURAT DIL, >UGUR H�LAG� G�NDOGAN, MUSTAFA KAYA, KAZIM TUNC. > >7 - All our friends who have suffered from permanent illness, whose health >problems have continued since the 1996 Death Fast, who were injured during >state operations and denied medical treatment, must be immediately released. > >8 - Those who tortured us during detention must be dismissed from their jobs >and must be judged and punished quickly and in a manner accessible to the >public. The protection of the torturers by "verdicts of immunity" must be >abolished. > >9 - All anti-democratic laws against the struggle of the peoples for freedom >and democracy must be abolished, and the oppression of the Kurdish nation >and the other national minorities must be ended. > >DOWN WITH FASCISM, LONG LIVE OUR STRUGGLE! > >DOWN WITH SURRENDERING, DOWN WITH LIQUIDATIONISM! > >WE WILL DIE BUT WE WILL NOT ENTER THE ISOLATION CELLS! > >LONG LIVE OUR GENERAL RESISTANCE! > >WE WILL WIN! > >DEVRIMCI HALK KURTULUS PARTISI-CEPHESI > >Organisation of Captives > >TURKIYE KOMUNIST PARTISI (MARKSIST-LENINIST) > >Party Committee for the Prisons > > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. 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