>From: Press Agency Ozgurluk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >VATAN > >For writing about the murderers, torturers, plunderers and profiteers, >Susurluk, the contra-guerrillas and torture cells, VATAN has been >RAIDED! > >In Turkey there is a magazine named VATAN. > >In three to four months hundreds, even thousands of police have raided >it. Its offices in Anatolia are raided almost every month, their >workers are arrested. > >Furniture and fittings and technical equipment are broken and smashed >to bits. The excuse is, "We want to search for a particular individual >inside." But they never find that "particular individual". > >However, the raids and repression go on. > >So, will VATAN be silenced? > >Will the voice of the patriots be silenced? > >On October 31, at about six in the morning, the main office of our >magazine, which is located in Istanbul Cagaoglu, was raided >again. Thirty of our workers and readers were detained. > >WHY VATAN? Why this hostility to us? > >Why this inability to tolerate us? > >Why not the offices of those who siphon off money from the banks, >those who use the newspapers as a tool for obtaining contracts, or >those who follow in the oligarchy's wake. why not the offices of those >newspapers where thieves and those implicated in Susurluk and former >contras, but the Vatan offices are raided instead? > >There is a magazine in Turkey, called VATAN. > >The police, the prosecutors, the MGK cannot tolerate us. > >Because we. write about the torturers, Susurluk, the >contra-guerrillas, the murders, the disappearances. We write about who >is responsible for the poverty and the oppression. We tell those who >have not been told of these things. > >We have not minced words, nor will we. We will say white is white, and >black is black. > >Everybody who has any interest in the politics of Turkey knows about >this. > >In the bourgeois press, in the editorial writers' articles, there is >not a word written about us except when our magazine is subject to >repression. But everybody knows us. What we write is known. We are >always at the back of their mind. > >There is a magazine in Turkey, called VATAN. > >In recent history, on the anniversary of major massacres, our bureaus >are absolutely guaranteed to be raided. > >Because it is well known that on these anniversaries we will tell >about the massacres again. > >We tell the oligarchy, "You are the murderers!" One by one we expose >the lies, the deceptions, the games they play and their injustices. > >It is known that we call upon the people to demand a reckoning. > >There is a magazine in Turkey, called VATAN. > >Nobody can say that what we write are lies, or mistaken. > >This is where our strength comes from. > >The strength of VATAN comes from being right and legitimate. > >Those who cannot say that we tell lies or what we say is mistaken try >to silence us with repression and arrests. > >The need to "search for a particular individual" is not why they raid >our bureaus. What they cannot bear is the "headquarters" of what is >right, correct and patriotic, and so they target it. > >There is a magazine in Turkey, called VATAN. > >Bringing it out is not simply a matter of "labour". We pay a price >just to bring it out. > >The price is not just a matter of a few months in prison, or a few >billion Turkish lira in fines. The price is paid in torture, in prison >sentences of 10-20 years. We pay with our lives. The other day in >Umraniye, the 15-year-old Sukru Saritas was killed while selling our >magazine. For years, our publications have been paying that kind of >price. > >We know that in this country, defending the truth is work involving >honour and courage. > >VATAN is almost saturated with honour and courage. > >Every line we write is accountable to the people, we are all ready to >defend every line we write even when confronted with the torturers. > >VATAN is the only magazine in Turkey which writes and tells the >truth. Line by line, it is the only magazine which fights for justice >and freedom. > >And this is why they cannot tolerate it. > >Yes, from time to time others also write the truth. But their >publications change in line with the authorities. They were in >opposition yesterday but now they are defend the opposite of >what they defended. > >VATAN does not change its truth, either in accordance with the >policies of the authorities nor as a result of the violence of >tyranny. > >Every event, all of Turkey's problems, all problems connected with the >people are correctly diagnosed by VATAN. > >Only VATAN cannot be criticised. It has shown courage in writing the >truth and has also written the solutions to problems. > >So this is another reason why they cannot tolerate VATAN. > >VATAN will raise its voice even further against imperialism, the >oligarchy, Susurluk, every form of oppression and injustice. The voice >of the patriots will also grow louder. > >PATRIOTS, join your voices to that of VATAN'S. > >You who want independence, democracy, freedom and justice, you who >work but cannot subsist on what you earn, VATAN is your voice. Raise >your voices! > >Let's return to the question asked at the beginning: > >Will VATAN be silenced? > >Can the voice of the patriots be silenced? > >The answer to this is our resolution, our boldness and our publications. > >The voice of the patriots cannot be silenced! > >We will continue to write about Susurluk, the contra-guerrillas and >the isolation cells, continue to demand a reckoning and justice. > >We will continue to be the voice of justice, the people and the >patriots. > >VATAN IS A VOICE THAT CANNOT BE SILENCED! > >THE VOICE OF INDEPENDENCE, DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM! > >THE COURAGEOUS, SHOUTED DEMAND FROM THE PEOPLE FOR WHAT IS TRUE AND >WHAT IS RIGHT! > > 3, 2000 > >Yasadigimiz VATAN > > >-- >Press Agency Ozgurluk >In Support of the Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Struggle in Turkey >http://www.ozgurluk.org >DHKC: http://www.ozgurluk.org/dhkc > > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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