>From: dhkcbureau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: "[Ozgurluk.Org]" Turkey: statement by revolutionary prisoners on >hunger strike > >October 30, 2000 > >As you will know: over a year ago a wave of attacks against revolutionary >prisoners began, this time under the name of "F" Type prisons. From that day >to the present, the state has done its best to prepare the ground for >bringing this policy to life. It is trying to legitimise the cells by >getting public opinion to think, "they are acceptable". The policy of >imposing cells in the prisons is not limited to we prisoners. The aim of >imperialism is to make all our peoples surrender. For this reason, everyone >who calls him or himself a revolutionary, a democrat, a human being will >become a target. We have also written to you the reason why the attacks >aimed at implementing the isolation cells are continuing and growing. Both >in our country and abroad, almost every type of action is taking place in >opposition to the isolation cells. Actions outside our country give us >strength and morale. While reactions against imperialism strengthen what is >just, they weaken whatever is unjust. In our country the attacks aimed at >putting the cells into operation are continuing as another way of making the >people surrender. Today being against the cells means being against >imperialism. It is very clear that the basic principle behind these attacks >is to bring about the isolation and abandonment of the prisoners, to destroy >their political identity and eliminate their organisations in the prisons. > >>From yesterday to today, the policy of the state in the prisons has been to >say, "Surrender." > >Examples of this state policy of destruction are the attempts following the >1980 fascist junta to introduce prison uniforms and "military training", the >introduction of the August 1,1990 circular, > >the 1995 Buca massacre, > >the 1996 Umraniye massacre, > >the 1996 May circular and the re-opening of the Eskisehir coffin prison, > >the 1996 Diyarbakir massacre, > >the September 26, 1999 Ulucanlar massacre, > >and attacks at Burdur and Bergama. All these examples clearly show their >aims and intentions. The target is the revolutionary prisoners and the aim >is to achieve their surrender. Immediately after the Ulucanlar massacre, a >session of the MGK (National Security Council) took the decision to "go over >to the cell-type prisons". This decision signalled the form this process >would take. Once again the revolutionary prisoners were targeted. But why? > >Why is the state saying it will throw prisoners into the "F" Type prisons? > >Why is it saying it will not permit people to live together in solidarity? > >Why is it saying it will introduce a "reform" programme? Why is it carrying >out massacres, practising torture, severing arms from bodies? Why? Because >the imperialists want it. Because the IMF wants it. Because the Kocs, >Sabancis and collaborators like them who are selling our country to >imperialism want it. Because revolutionaries for them are the enemy, for the >revolutionaries are the enemies of the exploitative and oppressive system. > >Because the revolutionaries undermine their "stability". We want "democracy, >independence and freedom". The authorities do not recognise the right to >live of anyone who does not think the same as they do. And we do not think >the same as they do. So they say, "Either think like me or you will die." >"You will say what I want you to say or you will be silent, and I can >silence you by force." > >WE WILL NOT BE SILENT! They want to encircle us. This encirclement is >practised with the aim of creating a society devoid of organisations and >making the people surrender. They want to encircle workers, civil servants, >small businessmen, farmers, slum dwellers, youth, revolutionaries and the >entire people. WE ARE DEFENDING OURSELVES AGAINST THIS ENCIRCLEMENT! This >encirclement is being carried out under the supervision of EU and US >imperialism. To make the people surrender, organisations are to be >eliminated because the European and US imperialists wish it. Because they >are wanting Turkey to "tidy up" to ensure that there is no alternative to >stability, and the chief threat to stability is the revolutionaries. All >this is being done to render the revolutionaries ineffective. And if the >revolutionaries are rendered ineffective it will be so much simpler to make >the people surrender. By eliminating the revolutionaries, exploitation and >pillage will proceed more easily and the monopolies will be more secure. > >Without centres of resistance, Turkey will be a "rose garden without thorns" >for imperialism. Once they have put the "F" Type prisons into operation, >that can be achieved. After the laws on "arbitration" (note: laws which >allow foreign monopolies to invest in Turkey without any restrictions or >supervision by the authorities there whatsoever) were introduced and the >economy was placed under the direction of the IMF, the construction of the >"F" Type prisons proceeded at great speed. Prime Minister Ecevit said, >"Without stability in the prisons, stability in society cannot be >guaranteed." > >So, after this statement, during Ecevit's visit to the USA, the Ulucanlar >massacre was perpetrated and the imperialists were assured that the >isolation cells would be implemented. It is clear that without eliminating >the revolutionaries in our country, without achieving surrender, the >imperialists and their collaborationist servants will not have the "complete >stability" they desire. >As long as there are revolutionaries, it will not be so easy for the puppets >of imperialism to take over in the Caucasus and the Middle East. It will not >be so easy for them to continue their regime based on plunder, exploitation >and oppression. > >That is why they insist on the ISOLATION CELLS. > >That is why WE, proceeding from these facts and in order to set up a >barricade against these attacks and attempts at encirclement, to push >forward the struggle of the peoples of our country for independence and >democracy and to frustrate the plans of the imperialists aimed at >liquidating us, have, as prisoners of the DHKP-C (Revolutionary People's >Liberation Party-Front), TKP(ML) (Communist Party of Turkey >(Marxist-Leninist)) and TKIP (Communist Workers' Party of Turkey) on October >20, 2000 begun a hunger strike against the attacks aimed at implementing the >ISOLATION CELLS, which we will continue on the basis of a DEATH FAST. >In the knowledge that this is a battle for democracy and freedom which we >must all conduct jointly, we expect you to give strength to our resistance >and act in unity with us. We wish you success in your work. > >THE DEMANDS OF OUR RESISTANCE ARE AS FOLLOWS: > >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 with "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. > >WE WILL WIN! > >All the DHKP-C, TKP(ML) and TKIP prisoners in the jails of Turkey > > > _______________________________________________________ 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. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
