>We want JUSTICE against the injustice of Susurluk, and our children have >lain down to die to secure that. We want justice; to demand a reckoning from >the torturers and murderers and to close the cells which are contrary to >human conditions of living. >Let us be on the side of the resistance of our children, who represent >justice in the face of injustice. This is a resistance to those who were >implicated in Susurluk and to the cells they created. Let us join their >resistance. > >November 4, 2000 >No. 187 >THE CONTINUING HUNGER STRIKE AGAINST THE CELL-TYPE PRISONS IS IN ITS >FIFTEENTH DAY; LIES CONTINUE TO BE TOLD >Today is the 15th day of the hunger strike. With every passing day our >children come closer to death. For 24 hours of each day, our sons and >daughters are wasting away body cell by body cell. We are their mothers and >fathers. What words can express to you the feelings a mother has. They are >feelings of love for them and honour for the resistance they are waging. >They are saying that only the families outside are against the cells. True: >we do not want our children we love very much to be worn down over years and >slowly killed in the cells. We do not want them to die under torture. >Is it not for this that our aging bodies are beaten with clubs, that we are >detained and dragged along the ground by our hair? Is it not because we love >our children very much that we have marched for month campaigning, shouting >that our children will die? >We are not the only ones who do not want the cells. Neither our people >outside nor our children. Whoever does want them is nothing other than an >enemy to them and to their lives. Our sons and daughters went over to this >honourable resistance in order to have the cells closed. >They will continue until the cells are closed. >We who are outside the prisons are their voice and we will continue to be by >their side in this resistance. Let those who own the cells go into them, >because we will not and our children will not. > >November 7, 2000 >No. 193 >THE INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE WITH THE DEMAND TO CLOSE THE CELL-TYPE PRISONS >IS IN ITS EIGHTEENTH DAY >My son, my daughter, they want you to fit your lives in behind the walls of >a prison. Today is the 18th day of your resistance. I know that your >resistance will turn into a Death Fast. >They say that these narrow places, these cells, have been made for you, to >get you to abandon your beliefs and your honour. While the Cakicis, the Nuri >Ergins, the Yahya Murat Demirels can move around freely in prison with >pistols, can have a good time, they tell you to surrender and see it as >permissible to torture and slaughter you. They have no trouble getting >mobile telephones, guns and heroin trays inside prison, they openly engage >in prostitution and immorality; while inside prison you can be turned into >blood-spattered corpses. For you, the prisons are places of oppression, >while for them they are places in which they can wander around at will and >go where they want with firearms. What they want from you is not merely a >handful of sky, for years they have been trying to get you to surrender your >honour and beliefs. Today, once again they are saying the same thing. They >say they will take away your beliefs, make you give up your honour and make >you enter the deepest possible graveyard. They want to destroy you in the >cells. >Your are our longing for justice in place of injustice, you are the >representative of the people's values, values which they are trying to >destroy. We learned the values of being human and being honourable and we >taught them to you. And we know that, like in the 1984 and 1996 Death Fast, >like in Ulucanlar, you will defend this honour. We will be with you in this >honourable resistance you have begun. >We will not permit our sons and daughters to be killed in the cells. > >November 8, 2000 >No. 194 >THE STATE IS TRYING TO PREPARE THE GROUND FOR NEW OPERATIONS IN THE PRISONS; >THE HUNGER STRIKE WHICH WAS STARTED NINETEEN DAYS AGO TO CLOSE THE 'F' TYPE >PRISONS IS STILL CONTINUING. >Today, on the 19th day of the hunger strike in the prisons, the state is >trying to prepare the ground for an attack in the prisons. In Usak Prison, >the mafia has created incidents, thus starting discussions in which is said >that there is no control over prisons, and who is in charge of them. >Whenever they were thinking about launching an attack on our children, the >only thing that came out of their mouths was, "We have no control in the >prisons, we cannot guarantee the authority of the state." >For them there is only one problem, namely one of making our children >surrender, one of getting them to abandon their beliefs. For this, they see >inflicting the cell-type prisons on our sons and daughters as permissible. >They turn a blind eye to the mafiosis, to the Cakicis, they ignore the Nuri >Ergins, and the Yahya Murat Demirels can live peacefully while the only >problem the authorities are worried about is the problem of getting our sons >and daughters to surrender. Weapons, mobile telephones and heroin trays find >their way into the hands of the mafiosi while our children have problems >created for them with regard to even the most basic human needs, such as >food and clothing. >The state says it is trying to guarantee its authority in the prisons. Does >it want to create new Ulucanlar massacres, does it want to sever arms from >bodies again? Its only problem is to bury our sons and daughters in the >deepest possible grave and annihilate them. For our part we will not remain >silent on this issue and will continue to support the just resistance of our >sons and daughters; until they win. > >November 9, 2000 >No. 195 >THE INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE STARTED TO CLOSE DOWN THE CELLS IS IN ITS 20TH >DAY; THOSE WHO ARE IN CHARGE OF THE CELLS WANT TO KILL OUR SONS AND >DAUGHTERS IN THEM >Today is the 20th day of the indefinite hunger strike embarked upon in the >prisons to have the cell-type prisons closed - the hunger strike is >continuing. If their demands are not accepted our children will start the >Death Fast. >For years, behind prison walls, oppression has been practised against our >sons and daughters. Behind these walls, torture is practised; our children >have been turned into blood-spattered corpses so disfigured we were even >unable to recognise them. Even the bath of the prison was turned into a >place where they tried to get our children to surrender. The masters of the >isolation cells said, "Will you surrender or will you die?" And they killed >our sons for not abandoning their beliefs, for wanting justice and defending >human honour. >Why are they subjecting ours to such tyranny? On the one hand, the Cakicis >and Murat Demirels can go and see medical specialists and can live in >luxury, while our children have their medical treatment interfered with, are >left handicapped and indeed are left to die. Now they are preventing our >children from receiving treatment on the grounds that there is no money, >while at the same time they have money to build the cells. And they want >them to go into the cells. To live; if it were to be asked, this is living >the way you believe and dying the way you believe. Our sons and daughters, >defending human honour, wanting justice instead of injustice, defending the >traditions of the people, will live according to their beliefs and die >according to their beliefs. Now they are on hunger strike for this. In the >cells they want to destroy our human honour and our longing for justice. Let >us come out and stand up for honour. What they want to destroy by forcing it >into the cells is the life of all of us. Let us not remain silent in the >face of all these events. > >November 10, 2000 >No. 196 >THE INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE STARTED TO CLOSE DOWN THE CELLS IS IN ITS 21ST >DAY AND IS CONTINUING. >While the hunger strike continues today in its 21st day, all that is we hear >in the press and the television is statements by those who own the isolation >cells saying they have no control over the prisons and cannot uphold their >authority. >If anyone thinks about our children, it is to use the mafia and gangs as an >excuse to prepare the ground for attacks in the prisons. The press is being >raised to its feet. It is trying to make such things appear justified. While >conditions are created for the gangs to lead a pleasant life in prison, and >they can easily smuggle heroin trays inside. Mobile telephones and weapons >are once again being given to them. >Every form of massacre and torture is deemed fitting for our children and >all their rights are taken away, all because they wanted to live in a human >way and defended human honour. The cells have been built with this aim in >mind. To destroy our sons and daughters, trillions of Turkish lira have been >spent. Who can remain silent and insensitive in the face of all this? >We will not remain silent about the deaths of our sons and daughters. We >want you to take part in the congress on "THE REALITY OF THE PRISONS, THE >PROBLEMS EXPERIENCED IN THEM AND SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS" and be a witness to >its proceedings. (Venue: Ali Poyrazoglu Theatre, Oguzhan Street, No. 19, >Findikzade, Istanbul). > >November 11, 2000 >No. 197 >THE MASTERS OF THE CELLS WILL HAVE ERRED ONCE AGAIN, AND OUR CHILDREN WILL >WIN >Our children are resisting for themselves and their people. Today, the >hunger strike to close the cell-type prisons is in its 22nd day and is >continuing. >The justice minister, Hikmet Sami Turk, said in the first days of the hunger >strike, "Their resistance is futile; we will put the 'F' Type prisons into >operation." And together with this, debates about amnesty again arose. >Despite all this, our sons and daughters started a strong resistance. This >resistance will continue until it triumphs. >The justice minister and those behind the isolation cells know that they >will not go into the cells. Take a look at the past: the 1984 and 1996 Death >Fasts, Umraniye, Buca and Ulucanlar come to mind. Those who said to our >children, "Will you surrender or will you die?" when they were trying to get >them to give in will get the same answer they got before. Those who would >have us surrender our honour, our longing for justice and our humanity will >see once again how we will pay a price to protect them; together with our >greatly beloved children, we will again triumph in this honourable >resistance. This is the resistance of all of us. Do not delay, unite with us >around this just resistance. >Today, let us take part in the second day of "The Reality Of The Prisons, >The Problems Experienced In Them And Suggested Solutions" and let us bear >witness again to what we have experienced. > >November 12, 2000 >No. 198 >OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS ARE APPROACHING DEATH. TODAY IS THE 23RD DAY OF THE >HUNGER STRIKE. AND WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN! >Today is the 23rd day of the hunger strike in the prisons. With every >passing day our offspring approach nearer to death. On the one hand, while >they are playing the game of entering the European Union and claiming to be >on the road to democratisation, while on the other hand repression and >tyranny are being stepped up. Hunger, poverty and unemployment become worse >every day while there are those in our country who lead lives of ease, >carried aloft by green US dollars. Life has another face here: exactly a >year ago, on November 12, some of our people were buried under a pile of >concrete and lost their lives. And behind the destroyed walls in the hungry >days of cold winters, our people are forgotten in tents. In our country >where there is no justice, those who want a country of freedom and equality >are tortured in the prison bath or their arms are severed from their bodies. >What oppression is there that is like this? >Whose justice do our sons and daughters want? Thousands of our people were >killed in the (August 1999) earthquake, others live in poorly equipped tents >that are dangerous to stay in when the weather is cold, and millions of our >people live on the edge of hunger - where is their justice, who represents >justice for them? In a place without justice, those who want justice are >legitimate, and in a place of torture where honour is ground underfoot, what >more honourable thing can there be than to resist tyranny? This honourable >resistance is honour itself. We are proud of our children for the resistance >they are conducting. We are on the side of our sons and daughters who >represent justice. They want to confine the lives of all of us within the >four walls of these cells. Let us not remain silent to those who are trying >to destroy life. > >November 13, 2000 >No. 199 >TODAY IS THE 24TH DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE >OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS APPROACH A LITTLE NEARER TO DEATH EVERY DAY >The hunger strike in the prisons, which is in its 24th day, is continuing. >If the demands for the 'F' Type prisons to be closed are not accepted, the >hunger strike will be transformed into a Death Fast. >Our sons and daughters have started a just and honourable resistannce. >In this world there is nothing more lofty and honourable than wanting >justice instead of injustice and being prepared to pay the price for it, >there is nothing more legitimate than resisting tyranny and oppression. Now >our children are in the midst of an honourable resistance and are paying the >price for it. >We as the TAYAD families, will continue to be on the side of this just >resistance and will not remain silent in the face of death. > >November 14, 2000 >No. 200 >ON THE 25TH DAY OF THE CONTINUING INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE TO CLOSE DOWN THE >CELL-TYPE PRISONS, WE ARE ALSO SUBMITTING OUR BODIES TO HUNGER >Today our sons and daughters are on the 25th day of their hunger strike. >They will turn it into a Death Fast if their most human demands, for which >they are paying the price of hunger, are not accepted. We are also >submitting our bodies to hunger as part of this just resistance, and we will >not permit our sons and daughters to be destroyed in the cells. Nor will we >be spectators to the deaths of our greatly beloved sons and daughters. >The resistance of our sons and daughters, who are prepared to pay the price >of living in a human way, is also our resistance. Let us be on the side of >those who have started this resistance to oppression and let us not remain >silent about what they are going through. > >November 14, 2000 >No. 201 >THE DEMANDS OF OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS, FOR WHICH WE TOO ARE GOING ON HUNGER >STRIKE > >This is the 25th day of our children's hunger strike. The state is >continuing to be insensitive, continuing not to offer a solution. These are >the demands for which our children will die: >The closure of the 'F' Type cell prisons. >Law 3713 with all its consequences must be abolished. >The Tripartite Protocol must be abolished. >The State Security Courts and all the consequences flowing from them must be >abolished. >At regular intervals, the prisons must be supervised by delegations of >lawyers, doctors, prisoners' families, representatives of relevant >non-governmental organisations and the Association of Judicial Personnel. >Those responsible for massacres in the prisons must be swiftly indicted and >punished. >Our friends who are suffering from various ailments or from the Death Fast >or were wounded in operations in the prisons and have had no medical >treatment are to be released. >Those who tortured our sons and daughters when they were detained are to be >put on trial in a manner accessible to public opinion. >All anti-democratic laws which impede the struggle for people's democracy >and freedom must be abolished, there must be an end to the oppression of the >Kurdish nation and other national minorities. >These demands by our children are very human ones. Everybody who is human >wants to live under human conditions. While the state is already supposed to >be guaranteeing all of these, our children are having to lay down and die >for the sake of these rights. The desire for these things is shared by all >human beings on the face of the earth. >But the state is so far from having people live in such a way that it is >stopping its ears to these human demands and is continuing to be a spectator > _______________________________________________________ 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] _______________________________________________________
