TO THE PRESS AND PUBLIC OPINION WE WILL DESTROY THE ISOLATION CELLS WITH OUR DEATH FAST RESISTANCE NO FORCE WILL BE ABLE TO PREVENT THIS The indefinite hunger strike that we started on October 20 was transformed into a Death Fast in Bayrampasa, Usak, Ulucanlar, Buca and Ceyhan prisons by November 25. On November 25, 2000, the Justice Minister, Hikmet Sami Turk, issued the statement that our Death Fast will not affect the "restructuring programme in the prisons". In the same statement, Minister Turk said the action had reached a dangerous level, and he wanted "support" from all institutions, democratic mass organisations and families to put an end to it. Especially after 1980, the state tried to establish various programmes for political prisoners. The forms these programmes took were different but they all had the same aim, to make the revolutionary prisoners surrender and by extension to achieve the surrender of the people as well. But the state could not put its plans into operation, and every time, due to the determined resistance of the prisoners, they forced the state to take a step back. The most recent example of this was the 1996 Death Fast resistance. This victory, in which we gave 12 martyrs, showed the whole world the power of revolutionary will. At the time of the 1996 Death Fast, the then Justice Minister Sevket Kazan engaged in demagogy and tried to smear our action, and this was actually the policy of the state. And today Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk is engaging in the same practices and implementing the same policy of the state. He issued a press release on November 25 saying the Death Fast would have no effect on the 'F' Type prisons policy, and this was again an attempt to show determination. As happened before in 1982, 1984 and 1996, we will again succeed, and will close down the 'F' Type prisons. Minister Turk, in his press release, said our demands were not limited to the closure of the 'F' Type cell prisons. We declared our demands before the whole of public opinion. There is nothing secret about them. On the contrary, our demands are very clear. Our resistance is to stop all the attacks directed against the people. We stated this from the very first day. In his press release, Minister Turk wanted families, institutions, associations and democratic mass organisations to intervene. This shows in the most concrete manner possible how helpless he is. Our families, by themselves going on hunger strike, gave the most appropriate response to the Minister of Justice. Since the first day we started our resistance, we declared that until our demands are accepted, we will carry on and we are ready to pay the price. The promise we made is our honour. We will not go back on our promise. Until we win victory, our resistance will continue. The efforts of the state to break our action will have no result. By submitting our bodies to hunger alongside our people, We Will Win Victory. LONG LIVE OUR DEATH FAST RESISTANCE All the DHKP-C, TKP(ML) and TKIP prisoners in the prisons
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