>to the death of our children. It was seen that for six months, when we were
>trying to have our voices heard, we were dragged along the streets by our
>hair and beaten. We are detained and put in jail. However much we cry out,
>they oppress us all the more. Just like our children, for the sake of a
>human life for our children and everybody, we are submitting our bodies to
>hunger.
>We mothers, spouses, siblings will not permit those we love to gradually
>waste away before our eyes. For this reason, four of those who are close to
>the prisoners are starting a hunger strike which they will turn into a Death
>Fast. Our sons and daughters' demands are also our demands. If the demands
>of our sons and daughters are not accepted, then we persons in all their
>families, no matter whether we are aged 7 or 70, will also lie down to die
>one by one.
>We call out to eyes that do not see, ears that do not hear, and hearts which
>do not feel.
>Today it is our children and those close to us, tomorrow it will be ordinary
>and political prisoners who are close to you; they are condemned to be worn
>down in the 'F' Type prisons. From today, join your voices to ours.
>Tomorrow, do not be put in the same situation for the sake of leading a
>human life.
>THE DEMANDS OF OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS ARE OUR DEMANDS, LONG LIVE OUR
>INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE RESISTANCE!
>(The place where the hunger strike is taking place: Ayazpasa District,
>Ayazpasa Mosque Street, Saray Apartment No. 4, Taksim (the house of Bilgesu
>Erenus).
>
>November 15, 2000
>No. 202
>OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS ARE CONTINUING THE HUNGER STRIKE THEY STARTED 26 DAYS
>AGO. WE TOO HAVE SUBMITTED OUR BODIES TO HUNGER
>Today is the 26th day of the hunger strike. The hunger strike will continue
>until our demands for the closure of the cell-type prisons are accepted.
>We will not remain spectators to the deaths of our sons and daughters. For
>this, we, like them have submitted our bodies to hunger. This is the second
>day of our hunger strike.
>What kind of country is this; where we have to pay a price with our bodies
>for the most basic human demands. We, for wanting justice in place of
>injustice, and saying we want an end to oppression, are submitting our
>bodies to hunger. They are killing our children before our eyes for making
>the most basic demands. And they want us to be spectators to it.
>In Ulucanlar they killed our children in the prison bathhouse, using
>torture, in Burdur they cut off arms and now they are trying to complete
>their work in the cells. And they want us to go into the cells. Because of
>this they are afraid whenever we go into the streets shouting, "Our children
>are dying," and for standing by our children we are oppressed even more,
>they want us to stay at home and be mere spectators, contrary to all notions
>of humanity. Yesterday we did not leave our children isolated, we supported
>them by submitting our own bodies to hunger. Because resisting oppression is
>the most honourable duty. Like our children, we will take our place in this
>honourable resistance. We appeal to everyone to not remain insensitive in
>the face of this repression.
>
>November 16, 2000
>No. 203
>DAYS OF READING ON THE DEATH FAST
>On Wednesday November 15 at 5 pm, Pinar Kur, the authoress of the novel "Bir
>Dile Agac" ("A Tree to a Language"), paid a visit to the four TAYAD
>(Association for Aiding Prisoners' Families) mothers who are on hunger
>strike, and announced that she was reading a chapter from her book in
>support of them.
>After Pinar Kur ended her visit to the mothers, she announced that in the
>26th day of the hunger strike in the prisons, to make sensitivity greater
>she would join in the death fast of the mothers for a day as a gesture of
>support.
>
>November 16, 2000
>No. 204
>TO CREATE A NEW LIFE;
>OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS DAY BY DAY ARE APPROACHING DEATH
>Today the indefinite hunger strike in the prisons to close the cell-type
>prisons is continuing in its 27th day. Day by day they are approaching
>death.
>Death for our greatly beloved sons and daughters. We know that our sons and
>daughters will die. How many times have we seen blood-spattered corpses
>behind prison walls, how many times have their bodies been worn down cell by
>cell. And they embraced death.
>"Those who do not know the value of life do not know how to die for their
>homeland," was said by those who sacrificed themselves without hesitation.
>In the 1984 and 1996 Death Fasts and at Ulucanlar. To create a new life. Now
>they will pay this price again. We will not remain silent to the deaths of
>our sons and daughters and have submitted our own bodies to hunger. Today is
>the 3rd day of our hunger strike. We will start a Death Fast. We will not
>remain silent to the attempts to destroy our sons and daughters in the cells
>and we will not permit this.
>
>November 17, 2000
>No. 205
>TODAY AT 1300, WE WILL BE IN FRONT OF SULTANAHMET JUSTICE BUILDING
>Despite this being the 28th day of the indefinite hunger strike begun to
>close the 'F' Type prisons and to demand every manner of human, democratic
>right and freedom, they are persistently and stubbornly refusing to accept
>these reasonable demands, and to make it clear to them that they are guilty
>if deaths or permanent disablement arises, we will be in front of the
>Sultanahmet Justice building at 1300 today to accuse. We appeal to the press
>to make note of the indictment by the prisoners' families.
>
>November 17, 2000
>No. 206
>PAY HEED TO THIS VOICE!
>Tyranny, plunder, pillage.
>Again our sons and daughters experience bitterness and death. Pay heed to
>it!
>This is the voice of our children's pain, the voice of their death!
>So that our sons and daughters do not start to die, and so that they do not
>turn their indefinite hunger strike into a Death Fast in three days' time,
>support them, speak up for them! Do not let our sons and daughters die!
>Below is the text of the message containing the demands of our sons and
>daughters with regard to the indefinite hunger strike and Death Fast which
>has been sent to the Justice Ministry.
>"TO THE JUSTICE MINISTRY, ANKARA
>I (name) started an indefinite hunger strike resistance on October . for the
>sake of the demands given below. In the event that, during my Indefinite
>Hunger Strike and Death Fast resistance, I lose consciousness and am unable
>to take decisions for myself, if the demands for which we are resisting have
>not been accepted and our resistance does not produce 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 able to take decisions for
>myself.
>MY HUNGER STRIKE DEMANDS
>From today, the construction of the 'F' Type prisons must stop.
>No. 3713, the Anti-Terror Law, must be abolished, along with all its
>consequences.
>The "Tripartite Protocol" signed by the Justice, Interior and Health
>Ministries must be cancelled.
>The State Security Courts must be abolished, all the sentences passed by
>them and their consequences must be quashed.
>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.
>These checks should not be interfered with arbitrarily and must have legal
>protection.
>Those responsible for killing and injuring our friends on September 21, 1995
>in BUCA, on January 4, 1996 in UMRANIYE, on September 26, 1999 in ULUCANLAR,
>and on July 5, 2000 in BURDUR must be punished in a manner accessible to
>public opinion.
>Our friends suffering from various illnesses, who have complications arising
>from the 1996 Death Fast or who were wounded in various operations and who
>have been denied treatment must immediately be released.
>Those who in various places and at various dates subjected us to torture
>must be revealed to the public, and must be quickly judged and punished in a
>manner accessible to public opinion.
>All anti-democratic laws meant to bar the peoples' struggle for democracy
>and freedom must be abolished, and the oppression of the Kurds and other
>minorities must be ended.
>NAME
>SIGNATURE
>
>November 17, 2000
>No. 207
>OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS WHO STARTED AN INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE FOR JUSTICE,
>DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM ARE ON THEIR 28TH DAY
>Today our sons and daughters are on the 28th day of an indefinite hunger
>strike. What do our sons and daughters want?
>They want the closure of the 'F' Type prisons which are now accepted by all
>as being a form of torture.
>They want our friends, who have been abandoned to silent death by denying
>them medical treatment, to receive this treatment. They want the removal of
>illegality the removal of obstacles placed to their receiving a legal
>defence. They want the punishment of those responsible for torturing and
>murdering them in the prisons. They want justice, democracy and freedom in
>this country.
>For all this, our sons and daughters have been on hunger strike for 28 days.
>These demands are just and legitimate. Those who want to turn this land into
>a hell by paying no heed to these demands were accused by us today at 1300.
>We appeal to all to join us in the struggle for justice, democracy and
>freedom and support our sons and daughters who are on the indefinite hunger
>strike.
>
>November 18, 2000
>No. 208
>TODAY THE INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE RESISTANCE BY OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS IS
>IN ITS 29TH DAY
>THEY WILL START A DEATH FAST BECAUSE THEIR DEMANDS HAVE NOT BEEN ACCEPTED
>Today is the 29th day of our hunger strike. In a day's time, our sons and
>daughters will turn their hunger strike into a Death Fast. For months we
>have been saying that our sons and daughters will die. We were detained, we
>were dragged along the ground by our hair. They want us to remain mere
>spectators to what is happening to our sons and daughters. When we stand by
>them we have been greatly oppressed. But still, we have not remained silent.
>Because we are their mothers. How could they expect us to remain silent?
>In spite of these being the most human demands, demands anybody could
>accept. Do our sons and daughters want a great deal? For wanting an extra
>ward, they have been killed by torture in the prison bathhouse, or have had
>their arms torn off so dogs could walk around with the severed human limb in
>their mouths. Tyranny towards our sons and daughters is deemed to be
>permissible, and now they have built cells and want to put them in these
>cells.
>Is it not just to want justice instead of injustice, to oppose torture
>rather than accepting it? Who is capable of defending torture and injustice?
>We, as TAYAD families, to support this just resistance, have submitted our
>bodies to hunger. Today is the 5th day. Like our sons and daughters we will
>die but we will not permit the cells to be introduced. We will start a Death
>Fast.
>
>November 18, 2000
>No. 209
>ATTACK AND DETENTIONS AT GALATASARAY
>In 13 prisons, nearly 1,000 prisoners who are on the 29th day of the
>indefinite hunger strike will tomorrow transform their protest into a Death
>Fast.
>The TAYAD families are on the 5th day of their hunger strike alongside their
>sons and daughters who have lain down to die. For months, so as not to
>repeat the experiences of 1996, families and friends of prisoners have been
>in front of Galatasaray High School. On every occasion they were beaten and
>dragged along the ground but nothing could stop them from going to
>Galatasaray and nothing could stop them from supporting their sons and
>daughters.
>Today, once again, the families and friends of prisoners were in front of
>Galatasaray. Once again they were savagely assaulted. In the months to come,
>they will savagely assault our families again. We families are today
>supporting the sons and daughters by our readiness to die with them. We are
>indignant over the attack in front of Galatasaray High School and we demand
>the immediate release of those who have been detained.
>
>November 19, 2000
>No. 210
>BE BLIND AND DO NOT SEE. BE DEAF AND DO NOT HEAR. BE TONGUELESS AND DO NOT
>SPEAK. THEY WILL DIE, WE WILL DIE.
>Today, our sons and daughters, who are on the 30th day of the indefinite
>hunger strike started to have the 'F' Type prisons closed, turned their
>protest into a DEATH FAST. While the resistance is continuing in all prisons
>we learn that the health situation of our sons and daughters is gradually
>deteriorating. What do our children, our spouses, our siblings, our friends
>want?
>They want an honourable life and justice. Justice instead of injustice. For
>this they have submitted their bodies to hunger. Again they will pay a
>price. We know that the state wants to exact a price for the most basic
>human rights. It is necessary to die to create a new life for this country.
>If it is necessary to die, we are ready to die. Like those who are close to
>us. And today, like our sons and daughters we are turning the 6th day of our
>hunger strike resistance into a DEATH FAST. We do not want our sons and
>daughters to die. But enough is enough!
>For months we have been in the streets, we have been beaten, we have been
>arrested but we have never been silent. Every day the state has come up with
>new lies. So your deafness has had no impact on our sons and daughters? In
>Ulucanlar, you didn't torture our children to death in the bathhouse, in
>Burdur, you didn't feed a prisoner's severed arm to a dog? And once again
>they will die. Again be blind, do not see. be deaf, do not hear. Be
>tongueless and do not speak.
>Below are the demands in writing for which we are going to decisively
>continue our Death Fast action until they are accepted:
>THE DEMANDS OF OUR DEATH FAST ACTION:
>The closure of the 'F' Type prisons
>The abolition of the Anti-Terror Law No. 3713 and all its consequences
>The lifting of the Tripartite Protocol
>The closing of the State Security Courts
>The bringing to trial of those responsible for the massacre of and severe
>injury to prisoners at Buca, Umraniye, Diyarbakir, Ulucanlar and Burdur
>prisons
>The release of those prisoners who suffer from illness, the effects of the
>1996 Death Fast or were wounded in various operations in the prisons and
>were not given medical treatment
>The bringing to trial of the torturers
>The cancellation of all anti-democratic laws serving as a barrier to the
>struggle for democracy and freedom, and an end to repression.
>The names of those TAYAD family members who are on the Death Fast at the
>Gumussuy home of Bilgesu Erenus:
>Gulsuman Ada, Senay Hanoglu, Sukran Agdas and Fatma Sener
>The names of those prisoners and convicts who have gone on the Death Fast:
>UMRANIYE PRISON
>DHKP-C Trial prisoners: Ahmet Ibili, Ahmet Ozdemir, Ergul Acer, Yildiz
>Gemicioglu, Zehra Kurtay, Umus Sahingoz, Zeynep Arikan, Gulay Kavak, Mehmet
>Zincir, Muharrem Genc, Veli Gunes, Hasan Pinar, Osman Osmanagaoglu, Ali
>Sanli, Ali Riza Demir
>TKP(ML) Trial prisoners: Durmus Kurt, Mehmet Kerem, Cem Yildiz, Ozgur
>Ayrilmaz, Yasar Yagan
>TKIP Trial prisoner: Servet Paksoy
>CANKIRI PRISON:
>DHKP-C Trial prisoners: Hasan Gungormez, Irfan Ortakci, Cihan Seker, Temel
>Cagirtekin, Ozgur Soner
>TKIP Trial prisoner: Muharrem Kursun
>BURSA PRISON:
>DHKP-C Trial prisoners: Erdal Arikan, Murat Ozdemir, Mesut Ors
>TKP(ML) Trial prisoners: Orhan Budak, A. Ihsan Ozkan, Erdal Cetinkaya, Ali
>Kocmen, Adil Kaplan, Ozgur Kocak, Yusuf Karaca
>AYDIN PRISON:
>DHKP-C Trial prisoners: Sinan Eren, Suat Karabulut, Burhan Gardas
>
>November 19, 2000
>No. 211
>PREPARATIONS TO ATTACK AYDIN PRISON
>There has been a concentration of military in front of Aydin Prison since
>1400 hours.
>Well-equipped soldiers got up like robocops have come from Izmir and the
>situation is that they seem to be preparing a new attack.
>Lawyers and families are waiting in front of the prison and are trying to
>persuade the soldiers, but no explanation has been given for why they are
>there.
>Let us not permit those who intend to massacre our sons and daughters, who
>have turned their indefinite hunger strike into a Death Fast to back their
>just demands, to carry out a slaughter. We appeal to all sensitive public
>opinion to support our sons and daughters.
>
>THE TAYAD FAMILIES
>
>
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