(Forwarded) November 19, 2000 LONG LIVE OUR DEATH FAST RESISTANCE! The Indefinite Hunger Strike by DHKP-C (Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front), TKP(ML) (Communist Party of Turkey (Marxist-Leninist)) and TKIP (Communist Workers' Party of Turkey) prisoners in the jails of Turkey which was started on October 20 is in its 30th day. Their just and legitimate demands have not been accepted, it is as though the authorities are merely awaiting their deaths. The only weapon the prisoners have is their own bodies and they announced that from today the Indefinite Hunger Strike resistance has been turned into a Death Fast. The prisoners, in the knowledge that they will win, are saying, "FOR OUR DEMANDS WE HAVE LAID OUR BODIES DOWN TO DIE, FOR THEIR SAKE WE WILL DIE BUT WE WILL NOT GO INTO THE CELLS," and here is the latest information we have: Umraniye Prison (Istanbul): 15 DHKP-C, 5 TKP(ML), 1 TKIP; Cankiri Prison: 5 DHKP-C, 1 TKIP; Bursa Prison: 3 DHKP-C, 7 TKP(ML); Aydin Prison: 3 DHKP-C; Canakkale Prison: 10 DHKP-C, 1 TKP(ML); Malatya Prison: 2 DHKP-C, 4 TKP(ML); Bartin Prison: 5 DHKP-C, 2 TKP(ML), 1 TKIP; Gebze Prison: 5 TKP(ML), 1 TKIP; Usak Prison: 3 DHKP-C, 1 TKP(ML); Buca Prison (Izmir): 3 DHKP-C, 1 TKP (ML); Ulucanlar Prison (Ankara, scene of last year's massacre): 1 DHKP-C, 1 TKIP; Bayrampasa Prison (Istanbul): 10 DHKP-C, 3 TKP(ML); Ceyhan Prison: 3 DHKP-C, 2 TKP(ML), 1 TKIP; these are the numbers of prisoners by affiliation who have joined the Death Fast. (Translator's note: exactly 100 prisoners are on the Death Fast, 63 DHKP-C, 31 TKP(ML) and 6 TKIP.) Outside of the prisons, in support for the resistance, mothers who had been on hunger strike for six days together with their sons and daughters have turned it into a Death Fast. The Federation of Anatolian People's Culture Centres is on its 16th day of Hunger Strikes. The Indefinite Hunger Strike begun in London by IKM on November 14 is in its 5th day. In the prisons of Europe, the resistance is also continuing: In Hamburg Prison, Ali Ekti started a 20-day solidarity Hunger Strike on November 17 which is in its third day today, in the same prison Ibrahim Yilmaz and Burhan Yildiz are on the second day of a two-day Hunger Strike. In Holland, in Rotterdam and Breda prisons, 5 revolutionary prisoners and 6 ordinary prisoners are on the 7th day of an Unlimited Hunger Strike started on November 13. Aydin Dogan and Inan Altun, who are in French and German prisons respectively, have completed the 9th day of a 20-day solidarity Hunger Strike. Erdogan Cakir's Hunger Strike started on November 14 is in its 6th day. Ilhan Yelkuvan, Sefik Sarikaya and Mehmet Ali Urludag are on the 13th day of a Hunger Strike. (Translator's note: Ilhan Yelkuvan went on Hunger Strike for 63 days at the end of 1999 and beginning of 2000 in a successful protest against being kept in a German isolation cell.) Mehmet Karsli and Reiner Dietrich are on the 27th day of Indefinite and Alternating Hunger Strikes. Mesut Demirel and Ihsan Ersoy are on the 7th day of a 20-day Hunger Strike. Revolutionary prisoners are our honour, let us act in support of our honour, let us take the side of the Death Fast resistance of the revolutionary prisoners! LONG LIVE OUR GENERAL RESISTANCE! LONG LIVE OUR DEATH FAST RESISTANCE! IKM (Committee For Struggle Against Torture Through Isolation) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
