Dear KOMINFORM,
Just an update to let list members know that a third organisation, TKIP
(Communist Workers' Party of Turkey), has joined the hunger strike in
Turkey's prisons.
DHKC London Information Bureau
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From: "heikki sipil� " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 4:07 PM
Subject: Turkish revolutionaries. Announcement of hunger strike
>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
>
>
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