>From: dhkcbureau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >LIES > >LIE NO.1: "The lie that the Death Fast and the Hunger Strike have ended." >"In Edirne 'F' Type Prison, those who wanted to carry out hunger strikes and >Death Fasts soon abandoned their attempts." (Akit, December 23) LIE! In >Edirne, Sincan, Kocaeli 'F' Type prisons and Bakirkoy prison for women and >children, in Usak Prison where the political prisoners have not yet been >sent to other prisons, and in all the hospitals where the Death Fast >resisters are, THE HUNGER STRIKES AND DEATH FASTS ARE CONTINUING. A note to >Akit, which is an Islamist newspaper: in these days of fasting: how can such >lies be appropriate? (It is currently Ramadan in the Islamic world.) You can >break your fast by drinking the blood of 30 revolutionaries (normally this >is done by drinking water). Water does not suit you, the blood of >revolutionaries does. > >LIE NO.2: "Ercan Kartal and Sadi Ozpolat, who were transported to Edirne 'F' >Type Prison, have broken off their hunger strike." (Hurriyet and Milliyet, >December 23) The resisters Ercan Kartal and Sadi Ozpolat are continuing >their hunger strike. Those who create such news, write such news, have such >news written and consent to having such news transmitted are COMMON LIARS. >They are slanderers who strangers to decency, dignity, honour and respect. >Again, the same newspapers write, "The stubborn attitude of the authorities >caused them to be subjected to a body search and then be given a Number Zero >haircut." This is not a stubborn attitude, this is torture! Look at Lie No. >1 by Akit, and Lie No. 2 by Hurriyet. Islamic Akit and the very secular >Hurriyet are united in the way they tell lies. How much they are side by >side with the state when it slaughters revolutionaries, how much they labour >to defend the slaughter of revolutionaries. Hurriyet is known to be the >newspaper of MIT and most of its headlines are saturated with the >contra-guerrilla mentality. Everyone remember Hurriyet's photographs at the >time of the Ulucanlar massacre, captioned "Five minutes before the riot >started." Of the sources given above, Hurriyet has the most previous >convictions in this regard. > >LIE NO. 3: Ecevit said, "In this way, death actions have been removed in the >whole of Turkey," (Statement dated December 22). "The Death Fast was fake" >(Headline in Milliyet newspaper, and various writers) It is unnecessary to >say too much about this. The reply to this comes every day from hospitals >where it is declared that "those on the Death Fast are refusing medical >treatment". The basic answer will be in the form of our deaths. What will >those who say now that "the Death Fast is fake" say when it is shown that >they themselves are the FAKERS? In 1996, Sevket Kazan also said, "They are >eating," and then they started to die. Twelve prisoners died. Nobody >believes what Sevket Kazan says any more. Everyone who is now like Kazan was >then will be shown to be contemptible. > >LIE NO. 4: "The state knew what the situation was in the prisons before it >went in. It knew that the prisoners were not on the "death fast". (Aksam, >December 23, Emin Pazarci) Finally they are really doing badly. They are >dreaming up new lies to cover their old lies. But there are so many lies >that they cannot save themselves from the contradictions in them. So the >state also knew that there was no Death Fast in the prisons. So why was it >stated that the operation was aimed at "returning the prisoners to life"? >Because the Health Minister is a member of the MHP and said on TV, "Let them >kick the bucket," it cannot be expected that such a person would say >something humane. Those people who continue to utter these lies have the >same mentality as those who say "let them kick the bucket". > >LIE NO. 5: "The lie that 'we could not go into the prisons for 10 years'", >"Those prisons we could not enter for 10 years." (All the daily newspapers >and columnists which support the murderous assault share this same lie). The >prison administration protocols, documents on the results of roll calls and >search warrants are held by the Justice Ministry. All these documents must >be revealed. The statements by protective custody officials, former >prosecutors and justice ministers are available. When it became clear that >such statements were too far-fetched to be believed, the Justice Minister >said, "Actually we went in, carried out searches but it was never > completed." This lie that they could not go into the prisons for 10 years >had two aims. First, it made a massacre appear justified. Two, this gave the >opportunity for the system parties to engage in infighting and blame the >DYP-SHP government. > >WARNING TO THOSE WHO ARE TELLING LIES! What will you do if they stopped >telling these lies and proceeded to come up with other explanations? >For example, before the December 19 operation it was said to be an >"operation to save the lives of the Death Fasters", now they are saying the >"state knew there was not a Death Fast". Do not defend this state that tells >lies and these ministers who defend massacres. > >LIE NO. 6: "They were eating, they were taking nutritional medication and >vitamins." (Newspapers, ministers, various quacks...) During the Death Fast, >water with sugar, salt and B1 vitamins were taken. Firstly, B1 has no >nutritional value. It was only taken to reduce the amount of brain damage >caused by hunger striking. Secondly: this was not a "secret". When the Death >Fast prisoners informed the Justice Minister and the Medical Chamber of >their wishes, all this was stated. Nobody should take vitamins as material >for engaging in lies. > >LIE NO.7: The lie which says that it is "savagery" to protest against >savagery: "In Canakkale Prison, Fidan KALSEN was set on fire by her > friends." (All the newspapers and TV which sought to cover up the state's >massacre). Fidan KALSEN made a protest against savagery. "Don't come. End >the savagery," she said to the torturers and executioners. But the savagery >did not stop and she set herself on fire to be able to stop it. The people >who were engaging in savagery called her action of self-sacrifice savage. >You are shameless. They are trying to conceal the fact that six people in >Bayrampasa were set on fire by making it appear that they had done it >themselves. Nobody should try to lie and clown around about this bravest of >actions. You only have to read the December 23 issue of Milliyet to read the >following lines: "On the first day of the operation, the corpse of the >DHKP-C nurse Fidan Kalsen who had set herself on fire was found and she was >giving the victory sign with both hands." Those who can think of nothing but >dollars and only have the trash culture picked up from television are afraid >and in the most servile manner they bow down before the authorities, and of >course they cannot understand someone like Fidan Kalsen. Of course Fidan was >not a child of the Susurluk state and the defenders of torture and murder, >she was a child of the people. > >LIE NO. 8: The lie of Tantan: The great commander Tantan gave a briefing on >December 23 about the December 19 operation: "We took the maximum care. That >is why there were very few losses. Our police are successful." First of all >he has to look like a caring commander of his own force whom he could not >stop from going on a march earlier. He is a poor commander who cannot make >his own forces obey him. Everybody remembers him from the 1980s in Istanbul >when he was arresting transsexuals and taking them to Kilyos to have their >hair forcibly shaved. Everyone remembers him walking around the streets with >a sub-machine-gun like a really tough bully-boy. Now we know he is a damp >squib. From December 19-22, he was the commander of the bulldozers. They >showed maximum care. But they cannot say they broke the resistance within >four days. As you will see, like the other liars he has no way of covering >up his lies. He thinks he will find an opportunity for the police forces to >hide their thefts, torture and immorality. He is using the equipment found >in prisons as a tool for infighting with the Justice Ministry. > >LIE NO. 9: The lies caused by helplessness over the Umraniye Prison >resistance. Again, Tantan said: "The prisoners had made alterations in the >prison interior and because the authorities had a different blueprint for >the prison, they were unable to get inside. Tantan said that the security >forces had been working from a different plan to enter the prison." They are >pathetic. They do not even know anything about their prisons. They are >really poor. Do they think that the prisoners could change the location of >the prison? You can only explain your helplessness in this peculiar manner. >This is the best that Tantan can come up with. The fascist mentality is >revealed: first they said they did not go inside because they did not want >many casualties, and then they said alterations had been made inside the >prison. This is kind of rubbish he comes out with. > >LIE NO.10: "They pretended to resist in Umraniye. 400 prisoners held 40 to >45 people hostage and they pretended to resist." (Turkiye newspaper, >December 23) "In Umraniye 378 prisoners were made to resist by 45 leaders." >(Milliyet, December 23) "45 persons were forcibly directing 423 prisoners to >continue their resistance action." (Sabah newspaper, December 23). They have >lost all logic and are acting as though their lives depended on it, but it >will inevitably end up as a comedy. On the one side, they were saying that >there were 400 persons, on the other there were 45, and resistance lasted >three days. This is a lie, and a pathetic one. We saw hundreds of people >shouting slogans as the resistance ended. In the past there were one or two >leaders, but there is no way to make it credible that one or two leaders >force 378 people to engage in resistance, so they have to increase the >number of leaders! See how half-witted they are. > >LIE NO. 11: "The permanent under-secretary of the Health Ministry, Haluk >Tokucoglu, says that doctors who do not intervene in the case of Death >Fasters and hunger strikers will be prosecuted for negligence (The press, >December 23). So there is no Death Fast, but there can be intervention in >the Death Fast. > >"It was reported that six persons who were brought to Izmir Ataturk Hospital >and were on the Death Fast did not have the symptoms that Death Fasters >would have." (December 22, the press) > >Four doctors who were said to have announced this news issued a denial. >(Cumhuriyet newspaper, December 23) These lies can only be dispelled by >people who have courage and responsibility and tell the truth. All doctors >and journalists should tell the truth! > >LIE NO. 12: "Cengizhan Pilav who was on the Death Fast in Elbistan Prison >said that he went on the Death Fast because of pressure from his stepmother, >and he ended it." (Sabah newspaper, December 23) The list of people on the >Death Fast was repeatedly published in the press. That name is on none of >these lists. This is a lie made up to support the lie that the Death Fasts >are ending. > >LIE NO. 13: The lie of "pressure from organisations". In Usak hospital, the >Death Fast resister Sevgi Erdogan who was surrounded by soldiers, said to >camera: "We are doing this of our own free will. Because we were brought >here by force we are not taking any food. We will die in any case." This was >televised on Channel D on December 22. > >Those who are carrying on their Death Fast in the 'F' Type INDIVIDUAL CELLS >are televised on a daily basis. they are wounded, burnt, are alone among so >many soldiers and they keep shouting, "Long live our Death Fast resistance" >and giving victory signs. This reality, these pictures. If somebody is still >saying this is a matter of pressure from organisation pressure, it must be >from the torturers who have committed the massacres, but nobody else! > >LIE NO. 14: "The Rescue Lie": "We intervened to save prisoners from their >organisations and from death." (December 19, Ecevit, Sami Turk) The reality >was admitted four days later. "By putting the 'F' Type into practice, terror >will be taken off the agenda in Turkey." (December 23, Interior Ministry and >gendarme commander, Colonel Ali Aydin, at press conference) >The aim was admitted quite openly in this operation. "In all the operations, >over 20,000 gas bombs were used, 5,048 of them in Canakkale." (December 23, >the newspapers.) That is the confession that the operation was not about >rescuing prisoners, but about treating them savagely. "Umraniye also fell. >four prisoners were killed." (Hurriyet, December 23) This was not a rescue, >it was a war against the state's own prisons. After all this, if someone >says it was done to save the prisoners, that person is either stupid or he >thinks other people are stupid enough to believe it. A lying state and a >lying media. We leave to your own judgement their minds, their logic, and >who they are serving. The media is struggling to make the massacre appear >innocent. This is the height of illogicality. Your problems, your efforts >are entirely about saving the state. You won't be able to! > >NO FORCE CAN CONCEAL THE TRUTH! > >THE RESISTANCE WILL CONTINUE! > >December 24, 2000 >PLATFORM FOR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS > > _______________________________________________________ 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 geopolitics. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
