>From: dhkcbureau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >DEATH FAST RESISTERS SPEAK > >The political prisoners and convicts who on October 20, 2000 started an >indefinite hunger strike action have turned it into a DEATH FAST since >November 19, 2000. The political prisoners are marching toward death, body >cell by body cell, in order to have the Cell-Type Prisons closed, and say >that "before all else I will resist the isolation cells for the sake of >honour and my moral values. I think that morality is a matter of resisting >the cells. I cannot conceive of a life alone and separate from human beings >and those I love. I will not go into the cells even if I die here." The >following words belong to them. > >"WE ARE NOT ONLY FOR CLOSING THE 'F' TYPE PRISONS BUT TO BE THE HOPE AND >FUTURE OF OUR PEOPLE." > >Ahmet IBILI: " (.) Today the prisons are a focus of the war of our people >with imperialism and collaboration. The 'F' Type prisons are a symbol of >this war. For this reason we are not only for the closure of the 'F' Type >prisons but will be the hope and future of our people. (.) The duty falls to >us to repel this attack that imperialism and the oligarchy are directing at >our people and our revolution. The duty will be performed by approaching >death day by day." > >Muharrem GENC: " (.) I have been through many acts of resistance in the >prisons up to the present. While living through that I learned that we would >win every time we resisted. We will win today as well. This victory is very >valuable and important for us. Yes, there will be manoeuvres by the enemy, >and this resistance will be very difficult. But the enemy is not strong >enough to prevent our victory. We will win the victory by shaking the enemy >with our martyrdom. I will not hesitate to fall a martyr when my time comes. > >Ali Riza DEMIR: " (.) In this action, I am aware of being on a mission in >Turkey today. Against the liquidation offensive of bourgeois ideology, we >are holding firm to our position and marching on our path directly onward. >When the enemy in the prisons shouts, "Surrender," our comrades proudly >shout back, "We will die but we will not surrender." With the banner of our >Death Fast attack we will once again pull down the enemy's towers. (.)" > >Ahmet IBILI: " (.) At the same time, this is a period of purification. >Whoever is or is not revolutionary, whoever is or is not waging the struggle >of the people, whoever does or does not want revolution and socialism will >come to light, and the hypocritical masks will fall away. Everybody will be >placed in the right category. I am not writing as someone for whom these >facts are external to myself. I am writing as someone who has a place in >this war and will have a place in this war. (.)" > >Ahmet OZDEMIR: " (.) And of course the form this action will take will be >the Death Fast. Our action will be a powerful resistance of long-term and >historical importance. The oligarchy said that 'without order in the prisons >there can be no order in Turkey,' and built the 'F' Type coffin prisons to >say 'surrender', preparing them as a comprehensive attack, and with our >resolution to sacrifice ourselves and belief in victory, we will deal them >another blow and force them to their knees. This is the only thing that is >certain. (.)" > >Ergul ACER: " (.) This time the form the attack takes is the isolation >cells. This attack is on the people and the revolution. Those who want >surrender are those who want to wear down the people. The revolutionary >struggle is what they want to destroy, eliminate, force back. It is an >attack on the homeland. This is a fight for honour and justice. (.)" > >Gulay KAVAK: " (.) The contra-guerrilla state is trying to make us abandon >our political identity and beliefs. With the cell-type prisons they have >prepared a strategy of the offensive. They are trying to make us surrender, >they are trying to destroy the hopes of our people for liberation and hopes >for socialism. They will never succeed. (.) > >Osman OSMANAGAOGLU: " (.) The cell-type prisons policy is a strategic step >towards an offensive by the Susurluk state to make an entire people as a >whole surrender, and especially the revolutionary captives. (.) The cell >offensive is not only limited to the revolutionary captives in the prisons, >the aim is to make the entire people surrender. (.) We will smash the cells >which are the means to make the revolutionary captives and the people >surrender, smashing them over the heads of those who ordered them built, and >we will do this by laying down to die, by our martyrs, our people and our >families (.)" > >Veli GUNES: "(.) In order to make the masses of people surrender, the >oligarchy is trying to strengthen its rule by making the revolutionaries >surrender with these 'F' Type prisons. While on the one hand it carries out >massacres in the prisons, on the other it is attacking the most basic >demands of the people. In order to abolish these policies of the enemy, I >completely agree with my comrades that we will achieve it through the Death >Fast as far as the prisons are concerned. (.) > >Yildiz GEMICIOGLU: "(.) They are trying to bring about the surrender of our >revolutionary identity, our honour, our humanity, our personality. In order >to hold our heads high, no matter what the cost, to hold our heads high in >front of our families, our people and the history of humanity, all this >depends on now repelling the state's offensive which is using the cells. We >will demand a reckoning with our deaths for our massacred and tortured >comrades in Ulucanlar, Burdur and Bergama. (.) > >Zeynep ARIKAN: "The policy of the cells has been on our agenda for a long >time. We have been discussing it. The idea of the Death Fast has been on my >mind for a long time. The enemy thinks that their policy of going on the >offensive will succeed. (.) As happened in 1996, we will defeat the enemy >while the enemy are preparing for victory and while he has gone to work >filled with the hope of victory. I believe this." > >Suat KARABULUT: ". Now I am very close to our martyrs and also to victory. >However, until now I kept our martyrs alive in my heart and in my life. My >comrades will do the same for me. I will be buried in the hearts of my >comrades during this magnificent struggle. What a happy thing for me and all >of us. How fortunate for revolutionaries who rush towards immortality in >order to make life flow as it should..." > >Irfan ORTAKCI: ". As part of this, the model they call the 'F' Types is >being kept on the agenda. Certainly this is not the first time we have >confronted such an attack. We encountered it during September 12 (the 1980 >military coup), we came up against it in the 1990s, and each time we emerged >triumphant. (.) Drawing lessons from past defeats, they are taking pains to >make their attacks more comprehensive and more organised. They are maturing >their use of all means of communication like the press, television and >radio, and are trying to subjectively make the cells appear justified. From >our point of view this will not be an easy victory. We will pay new prices >and create new traditions. No victory is won without paying a price." > >Cihan SEKER: ". A very difficult period lies ahead and the reality is that >we will pay a heavy price. For years the enemy has dreamed of a policy to >bring about surrender, and today this takes the form of the 'F' Type cells. >The enemy will attack in a more comprehensive fashion, angered by past >defeats. Whatever form it takes, we will experience a wave of attacks. As in >the past, at the price of our own bodies, today we will make the enemy taste >defeat again. (.)" > >Ozgur SONER: " . I am conscious of what calculations have been made by the >enemy concerning the Free Captives and the revolutionary movement in Turkey, >and this policy of the cell-type prisons, and I am conscious of what this >attack means. (.) The resistance and our victory over the offensive of the >enemy will not only be the gain of ourselves, the captives. Our victory will >be the victory of the Anatolian people. (.) I believe in the excellence of >cheerfully running towards death without hesitation whenever dying is >required.'" > >Temel CAGIRTEKIN: " . We know the real aim and target of the coffins which >have continuously been on the agenda for a long time and been presented >before public opinion as a 'cell-type' and 'room system'. They have already >taken the first step with the Tripartite Protocol. The conditions to attack >the prisoners have been created and brought on to the agenda on a continual >basis. (Amnesty, new cell systems, etc.) We revolutionary captives know the >dimension and the targets of this offensive. (.) Also today, I believe in >historic duty such as the Death Fast, I believe it will be on the agenda in >the forthcoming period, and with this consciousness, I believe in accepting >it as my duty and with such an offensive, we will smash the cell-type >coffins of the enemy. " > >Hasan GUNGORMEZ: "We are in a new period. The enemy hopes to make us >surrender and once again places the cells on the agenda. He is preparing >more seriously and comprehensively. We also know the importance of the >period. We are aware of our mission of being the leadership, and we have >prepared ourselves in accordance with this. No matter what the form of the >offensive will be, we will win. We have no other alternative." > >Esma ARSLANBOGAN: " . Again since the beginning, I have been feeling that >they can never put us into the cells." > >Murat OZTEN: " . Of course, we will achieve victory at great cost and by >raising the revolutionary will comprehensively. I am conscious of all of >this. I know that the period calls for determination and self-sacrifice on a >limitless scale, and I am ready to provide this with my mind, my heart and >my body, with whatever I have." > >Sinan EREN: " . During the time I was involved in the struggle, we took part >in many acts of resistance and we achieved victory by defeating death. This >resistance will be the most magnificent and I am proud to be part of it (.) >We completely believe that we will achieve victory. We will display the kind >of resistance created by the Death Fast, Ulucanlar and all our other >martyrs. Everybody should know for certain that we will not hesitate to look >death in the face, like Berdan and like Mujdat. > >Zehra KURTAY: " (.) I feel no hesitation on the subject of victory. I can >see the victory now. We will show everybody that we will pay the price but >they will not finish us off, they will not finish off revolutionism on the >soil of this country. Everyone will learn this truth once again. Again we >will create a legend with our blood and our lives." > >Umut SAHINGOZ: "(.) Before all else I will resist the cells for the sake of >honour and my moral values. I think that morality is a matter of resisting >the cells. I cannot conceive of a life alone and separate from human beings >and those I love. I will not go into the cells even if I die here." > >Hasan PINAR: " (.) Fundamentally everything is very clear. The enemy says >that to be able to continue in power he will destroy you, if he could not he >would try to weaken you. That is, to continue his own authority he makes use >of every form of oppression, trick and demagogy. Although he is neither just >nor legitimate he is trying to appear resolute. (.) I volunteer to repel the >attacks which take the form of the cell-type prisons." > >Mehmet ZINCIR: " (.) The enemy seems resolute but we too are resolute. Once >again we will defeat them. I believe in victory. I believe we will defeat >them." > >Ali SANLI: " (.) I say, hello victory, welcome death, to say more is >unnecessary, we will win." > >"WE WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY FORM OF MEDICAL INTERVENTION WITHOUT OUR DEMANDS >BEING GRANTED." > >The political captives and convicts carried out an Indefinite Hunger Strike >action for 30 days, have turned this is into a death fast and have declared >in a formal statement to the Justice Ministry that unless their demands are >granted they reject any kind of medical intervention. > >In the political captives' formal statement to the Justice Ministry it is >said: > >" (.) On October 20, 2000 I started an Indefinite Hunger Strike resistance >and have continued it since then with the demands given below. Within the >Indefinite Hunger Strike and Death Fast resistance, if I lose consciousness >or am in a condition where I am not able to express my own will, so long as >the demands for which our resistance has been waged have not been accepted >and our resistance has not yielded a result, I refuse to accept any form of >medical intervention. At the moment of writing this text I am in full >possession of my faculties and am in full command of my own will (.)" In >saying this, they yet again stressed their own resolution. > > > > > _______________________________________________________ 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. 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