From: Press Agency Ozgurluk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 13:16:09 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: "[Ozgurluk.Org]" TDN on DHKP-C 5 January 2001, Copyright � Turkish Daily News DHKP-C is growing into a major threat The terrorist organization has suddenly risen into the limelight and promises to fill the vacuum of the PKK but with an urban twist Editorial by Ilnur Cevik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Once upon a time, the late President Turgut Ozal took the PKK terrorist group lightly disregarding it as a handful of bandits... That mentality allowed the PKK to flourish into a major threat, not only to the personal safety of the citizens of the Turkish Republic but even to the territorial integrity of our country... After years of bloodbath in Southeastern Turkey and the loss of tens of billions of dollars, the PKK was defeated by our security forces and today has been cut down to a manageable size. At the time those who disregarded the PKK unfortunately missed the point that the PKK did not flourish into a major terrorist threat on its own. The conditions in Eastern and Southeastern Turkey were ripe to allow the PKK to make so much headway. Some of the underprivileged and impoverished people of the region were only more than ready to help the PKK. Now the Turkish state has realized past mistakes and there is now talk of winning back these people... The PKK was always a rural threat and could not make an impact in the cities. Its efforts to infiltrate major cities failed. With the PKK losing, we unfortunately see the rise of the left-wing Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) terrorist group which is active in major cities with special emphasis on Istanbul... Why Istanbul? Besides housing a handful of rich families and a degenerate social elite, Istanbul is also the home of millions of families who have immigrated to this city with high hopes but who have been trapped with poverty and hardships. It is the breeding ground of dissatisfaction and revolt. We see that the slum areas of Istanbul have become a boiling pot with the growing injustices in our society and we also observe that the left-wing terrorist groups with special emphasis on the DHKP-C are effectively exploiting this. The authorities can battle the DHKP-C but they will never achieve outright success as long as they do not wipe out the growing social and economic imbalances in Turkey. The people see how the wealth of the country is being plundered by a handful of crooks while the nation is being asked to make sacrifices. Did anyone expect this to last forever. Didn't they realize that sooner or later all this would explode into violence? You can use Turkish nationalism against Kurdish nationalism and thus create a general consensus in Turkey to battle separatist terrorism. But can you rally support against a terrorist group which flourishes on the injustices which the masses are subjected to? -- Press Agency Ozgurluk In Support of the Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Struggle in Turkey http://www.ozgurluk.org DHKC: http://www.ozgurluk.org/dhkc _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
