>From: "dhkcbureau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;@tonto.eunet.fi>
>Subject: Turkey: TAYAD Bulletins on hunger strike/Death Fast
>
>TAYAD FAMILIES ARE CALLING YOU!
>LISTEN TO THEIR VOICES! JOIN YOUR VOICES TO THEIRS!
>
>October 14, 2000
>No. 157
>ONCE AGAIN, UNRESTRAINED ATTACKS IN GALATASARAY
>To put a stop to the construction of the cells, to have the anti-terror law
>abolished, this week the families of prisoners were in front of Galatasaray
>High School once again. The state, which is trying to legitimise the
>isolation cells, has nothing left to defend them and is trying to prepare
>new scenarios to bring about provocations in Umraniye Prison. We families of
>prisoners will frustrate these scenarios they are trying to put into effect
>such as that there is a tunnel, a rebellion has broken out etc. We condemn
>the unrestrained attack by the police on the families of prisoners who were
>standing by their sons and daughters in front of Galatasaray High School
>today, and call for our families who were arrested to be immediately
>released. Fifteen persons were detained. Here are the names we were able to
>discover:
>Eylem Goktas
>Fadik Adiyaman
>Gulcicek Bal
>Mihriban Yesil.
>
>October 23, 2000
>No. 162
>ON THE THIRD DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE STARTED BY OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS
>Because of yesterday's count we were not able to leave home for an entire
>day. What were our feelings like. At the very least we felt troubled, and
>sighed.
>One day. not much but even one day behind four walls troubled us and was
>difficult. Moreover, in our own house, with our spouse. Even though we were
>together with our household and our relatives. Although we had television,
>radio and telephones, we were bored and it was difficult for us.
>Think also of the 'F' Type prisons. That is not a matter of one day, three
>days, five days, one month or even five months. Think about staying for
>years in these cells. Isn't this the greatest torture that can be done to
>human beings? Moreover, think about cells in a country where in the prisons,
>before your eyes, human beings who are prisoners are openly tortured to
>death. What can't be done to prisoners who remain in cells on their own?
>This is the third day of the hunger strike started to demand the closure of
>the 'F' Type prisons. Everybody who is against torture must support this
>just resistance and give strength to it. Let us not allow them to be killed.
>
>October 25, 2000
>No. 165
>ON THE FIFTH DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE STARTED BY OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS
>It is five days since our sons and daughters started an indefinite hunger
>strike to close the 'F' Type prisons. We are the mothers and fathers of our
>children who are in prison. We want our sons and daughters to not be killed,
>not be put in cells. For this, we go out into the streets, are detained, are
>beaten with clubs. And now our children have lain down to die.
>Our sons and daughters will continue their hunger strike until the cell-type
>prisons are closed and all their demands are accepted.
>We appeal to all who call themselves human beings to be sensitive and not
>remain silent.
>
>October 26, 2000
>No. 167
>ON THE SIXTH DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE STARTED BY OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS
>IT IS CONTINUING IN 13 PRISONS
>The indefinite hunger strike by over a thousand political prisoners and
>convicts is continuing.
>On the one hand, the families of prisoners who protested against lawlessness
>and injustice encountered attacks by police using clubs and armoured cars in
>Ankara. Those who say, "We will do away with torture" are putting the MHP
>(Nationalist Movement Party), who openly defend torture, at the head of the
>parliament's Human Rights Commission. This mask of Turkey, which is
>supposedly democratising itself on the road to European Union membership,
>has fallen off. Its true face is exposed.
>Our sons and daughters will die. Our sons and daughters will die and be
>killed because they want medical treatment for their friends, because they
>want to remove the obstacles that exist to a right to a defence, because
>they have come out and opposed and resisted torture, because they said they
>wanted this country to be democratic and free. Let us not permit our sons
>and daughters to be killed. Their resistance is a search for justice in a
>land where there is no justice. Their resistance is a struggle for democracy
>and freedom in a land without democracy and freedom. Let us not abandon
>them, let us give strength to their resistance, let us not allow them to be
>killed.
>
>October 27, 2000
>No. 168
>ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE STARTED BY OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS
>Every day our sons and daughters are heading towards death. Today the hunger
>strike continues on the seventh day. How persistent the Justice Ministry is
>on the subject of isolation cells; on the subject of the cells, our children
>are also determined not to enter them. Because the desire is to put pressure
>on them, to make them give up their personality and surrender and abandon
>their beliefs. As mothers, as fathers, we ask; are cells appropriate for
>human beings? They want to kill our sons and daughters in the cells.
>Let us not remain silent in the face of death, let us not permit it!
>
>October 28, 2000
>No. 171
>ON THE EIGHTH DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE STARTED TO HAVE THE 'F' TYPE PRISONS
>CLOSED
>Today our sons and daughters have subjected themselves to hunger for eight
>days. Our children are heading towards death while staff are being
>transferred to Bolu to complete the construction of cell-type prisons. Those
>who killed our sons and daughters yesterday in Buca, Umraniye, Diyarbakir,
>those who carried out savage tortures in Ulucanlar saying, "Will you
>surrender or will you die?" wanted before the whole world to get people to
>surrender just for wanting a dormitory, so what will they not do to people
>who are all by themselves in cells?
>How can we trust those who killed our children, tore their arms off and
>threw them to dogs, just for wanting another ward, medical treatment, and to
>lead life as human beings?
>Yes, for this our children are on hunger strike. We do not want the cells.
>We do not want them because does any mother or father want their child to
>have their personality taken away in the cells, wants them to be left alone
>in the cells, feel pain and experience torture? They do not simply want our
>children to surrender, but all of us. So let us not remain insensitive in
>the face of the hunger strike.
>Let us not remain silent in the face of death.
>
>October 8, 2000
>No. 172
>TERROR CONTINUES IN GALATASARAY
>Today the families of prisoners were in Galatasaray today out of concern
>about the lives of their sons and daughters and out of a desire to guarantee
>the safety of their children's lives.
>As with every week, the families of the prisoners were dragged along the
>ground, harassed and detained. We will not become accustomed to this terror.
>We will not become inured to the terror that is practised against us. To
>make the voices of our sons and daughters heard, we will continue hunger
>strikes, continue to shout out in the city squares our warnings against
>operations aimed at killing our children. The state must abandon its
>aggressive behaviour towards the families of prisoners.
>We appeal to public opinion to support the prisoners and the families of
>prisoners.
>October 29, 2000
>No. 173
>TODAY IS THE NINTH DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE IN THE PRISONS
>Our very beloved sons and daughters are walking towards death on the 9th day
>of their hunger strike. They are heading towards death because they do not
>want to abandon their beliefs, their personality, their way of living as
>human beings.
>If our children were crooks like Cakici and Yahya Demirel, if they had
>applauded Clinton to the echo in parliament and saluted him like a hero
>after selling our land piece by piece, they would not be massacred in the
>prisons and nobody would try to kill them in the isolation cells.
>Now in the days since the hunger strike started, they are talking about
>amnesties.
>Our children do not want an amnesty for wanting justice, for wanting the
>independence and freedom of their homeland. Because how can our children be
>guilty and want an amnesty for wanting justice and wanting to live like
>human beings. Our sons and daughters will continue the hunger strike until
>the isolation cells are closed. This is a resistance to injustice, a
>resistance by the people to oppression. Let us be on the side of this
>resistance. The resistance is the resistance of all of us.
>Will we be silent when they want to kill our sons and daughters?
>
>October 29, 2000
>No. 174
>ANATOLIA TAYAD FOUNDING MEMBER KADIR GUVENC MUST BE SET FREE
>In Galatasaray every week, the security forces, not content with savagely
>attacking the families of prisoners, also try to imprison the participants
>in actions.
>On the Saturday action on October 28, 2000, the Anatolia TAYAD founder
>member Kadir Guvenc was detained and on the pretext of being a member of an
>organisation, was taken from Beyoglu police station to Aksaray Security
>Department's anti-terror branch. Kadir Guven, who stayed in Umraniye Prison
>for a year, is a founder member of Anatolia TAYAD. Kadir Guvenc was taken to
>the anti-terror branch as a way of intimidating the families and friends of
>prisoners.
>The state, which recognises no limits in its repression and violence towards
>prisoners' families, aims in this way to isolate the prisoners, who are on
>the 9th day of a hunger strike today.
>Neither detention nor threats of imprisonment will stop us from supporting
>our sons and daughters.
>Kadir Guvenc must be released immediately!
>
>October 30, 2000
>No. 175
>THE HUNGER STRIKE STARTED 10 DAYS AGO TO CLOSE THE "F" TYPE CELL PRISONS
>CONTINUES
>Today our sons and daughters are on the 10th day of their hunger strike.
>What do our sons and daughters want? They have lain down to die because
>instead of oppression, torture and injustice, they want justice and the
>possibility of leading life in a human way. Their just resistance stems from
>this.
>Our sons and daughters are hope in place of oppression and injustice. For
>this they are on hunger strike. One mother's cry, "Our children are dying,"
>is a statement addressed to you. This is not the first time we are
>eyewitnesses to the death of our children bit by bit, body cell by body
>cell. We experienced this bitterness in the 1984 Death Fast and the 1996
>Death Fast. The whole world bore witness to this just resistance. Once again
>our sons and daughters are heading towards death. And we feel pride in our
>sons and daughters for creating this just resistance and being the
>representatives of Justice.
>Let us unite around this just resistance. Let us not remain silent.
>
>October 30, 2000
>No. 178
>ON THE 11TH DAY OF THE CONTINUING HUNGER STRIKE IN THE PRISONS, POLICE
>DETENTIONS CONTINUE
>Today, it is the 11th day of the hunger strike continuing in the prisons to
>bring about the closure of the 'F' Type prisons. While our children are
>heading towards death, the police are furiously continuing their attacks.
>At six-thirty this morning, in Cagaloglu (Istanbul), 30 people at the
>offices of Nisan (April) Publications, which is where the magazine
>"Yasadigimiz Vatan" ("The Homeland We Live In") is published, were detained
>by Istanbul Security Department anti-terror units. Without showing any kind
>of search warrant, the police smashed down the door and forcibly arrested
>everyone they found in the office where the magazine is published. A lot of
>equipment and publications were in the office were confiscated or plundered.
>Moreover, as though this were not enough, the entrance and exit to the
>street where the magazine is published were blocked by police.
>Injustices in a country with democracy and freedom continue. On the one
>hand, human beings are violently detained and beaten and magazines subjected
>to repression; on the other, the construction of cells which are contrary to
>leading a human way of life is continuing. Are we to be silent about all
>these things which we experience?
>We appeal to all sensitive public opinion to not remain silent concerning
>these experiences.
>We want people to express their anger at the raid on "Yasadigimiz Vatan"
>magazine and want the immediate release of those who have been detained.
>
>November 1, 2000
>No. 181
>THE HUNGER STRIKE BY OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS CONTINUES IN ITS 12TH DAY
>The hunger strike in the prisons to bring about the closure of the cell-type
>prisons is in its 12th day. Now they want to bury our children in the
>deepest grave possible. They say, enter the cells, abandon your beliefs,
>humanity and honour. This is why those we love very much are heading towards
>death, body cell by body cell.
>Today it is exactly 12 days. And it will continue.
>Our sons and daughters will die to say "no" to torture and injustice, to
>support human honour and because they want to lead lives as human beings.
>That is: they will continue until they win victory.
>The cry of a mother: this is not a foreign sound for you. Before the world's
>eyes, our children wasted away in 1984, and in the 1996 Death Fast we
>experienced that again. We had said, our sons and daughters and dying, will
>you remain silent? Once again we are in the midst of a just resistance.
>We are not only standing by honour and justice for ourselves, but for all of
>us. For this reason, let us not remain silent, let us be on the side of just
>resistance.
>
>November 2, 2000
>No. 182
>THE HUNGER STRIKE IN CONNECTION WITH CLOSING THE CELL-TYPE PRISONS IS IN ITS
>13TH DAY
>While the hunger strike started in the prisons by our children continues,
>the cell-type prisons were introduced by putting the PKK prisoners into
>cells in Erzurum Prison. The cells are contrary to human living conditions
>and are aimed at isolating human beings, and they are meant to kill our sons
>and daughters. They want to bury our sons and daughters in the deepest grave
>when they could not obtain results from massacring them.
>The prisons; while they are places where the Cakicis, the Yahya Murat
>Demirels, the Haluk Kircis, those who sold our land, the mafiosis and the
>murderers undergo mobile telephone crises, lahmacun (Turkish pizza) crises
>and heroin problems to their heart's content, our children are tortured and
>murdered in a hamam (bath), their arms are torn off by bulldozer blades,
>they are injured by exploding bombs and tortured. They are places where our
>children are turned into blood-spattered corpses.
>Yes, there is a prison problem in this country. The problem is one of the
>state trying to get our children to abandon their beliefs and surrender. The
>problem is one of our sons and daughters being denied medical treatment,
>having their right to a legal defence being taken away and being murdered
>behind prison walls by state security forces. The prisons are places which
>produce continual tyranny, crackdowns and torture against our children. This
>is why they have lain down and gone on hunger strike.
>And our sons and daughters are heading towards death. It is not only the
>lives of our children which they want to destroy in the cells, but the lives
>of all of us. Let us not remain silent in the face of this tyranny and
>repression. We will not remain silent in the face of this repression.
>
>November 3, 2000
>No. 185
>ON THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF THE INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE AIMED AT CLOSING THE
>'F' TYPE PRISONS
>Today is the 14th day of the continuing hunger strike aimed at closing down
>the isolation cells.
>The construction of the cells was continued on the 4th anniversary of
>Susurluk. While those implicated in Susurluk can wander freely around our
>country, continuing their massacres and tortures, our sons and daughters are
>on hunger strike in protest at the cells which are contrary to conditions
>for leading a human way of life. What has been done over the past four
>years. Those involved in Susurluk are still continuing massacres, pillage
>and torture.
>Everything is clear: there is no justice!
>If Susurluk had ended, our sons would not have been tortured and murdered in
>the bath at Ulucanlar, if Susurluk had ended, dogs would not run around with
>the severed arms of our children in their mouths, if Susurluk was over, the
>Yahya Murat Demirels would not have turned our country into a marketplace to
>be pillaged.
>
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