TURKEY:STATEMENT FROM REVOLUTIONARY PRISONERS

[dhkcbureau]

TURKEY: STATEMENT OF THE CAPTIVES “Until our demands receive a positive response our resistance will continue with the participation of new volunteers”   TO OUR PEOPLE   We begun our death fast resistance on October 20th, 2000 demanding the closure of the F-type prisons. After that, on December 9th, 2000 the second team joined the first team on death fast. And it continued with the participation of our new death fast teams on May 11th and May 20th, 2001. Since the beginning of our death fast resistance we have lost tens of our friends, and again tens of them have been converted into the living dead because of forcible medical intervention and because of the practice of giving the wrong medical treatment on purpose. Until our demands receive a positive response our resistance will continue with the participation of new volunteers. Either our dead bodies will leave the cells of the F-type prisons or we will leave them alive! The justice ministry is in misery because of our death fast resistance. They estimate that our resistance will end spontaneously. This is a hopeless expectation. Our response to this was our fighters who joined the resistance on May 11th and May 20th. The amendments to article 16 of the Anti-terror law only aim to deceive our people, not to end the isolation, on the contrary, it legalises the practices of confinement and the violations of our rights. The Sentencing Judges and the Council of Prison Inspectors are not legal bodies that are in our favour, they were only newly created to legitimise the violations of our rights and together with this, aiming to make us surrender our thoughts. As all of the political prisoners from all of the different trials, we declare that we will continue our death fast resistance until our demands receive a positive response.   Our Demands:   1-Isolation can not be considered abolished without architectural changes, the closure of cells for 1 to 3 persons and without enabling us to live together unconditionally. Isolation must be ended.   2-All the restrictions and practices aiming to destroy our thoughts must be abolished.   3-Our demands are humanitarian, right, legitimate and democratic.   4-Forcible medical intervention is a form of torture. To leave us handicapped is a crime. Tens of our friends were left handicapped through torture. They cannot remember their past and are without the ability to think. The torture of forcible medical intervention must be stopped.   ALL THE RESISTING POLITICAL PRISONERS