52 POLITICAL PRISONERS HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES.
THE TORTURE AND ASSAULTS CONTINUE
During the operation which took place in 20 prisons, between 19-22nd
December, 28 political prisoners were murdered with bullets and by
fire. More or less every day new deaths from the political prisoners are
happening. Despite of the massacre the political prisoners have continued
their Death Fast resistance until their demands are accepted. Up to the
20-6-2001, the number of prisoners who have lost their lives has reached
24. This number is growing constantly.
1. From 19-22nd December until today all together 52 political
prisoners have died. On the 20th October 2000, 819 political prisoners in 18
prisons started an unlimited hungerstrike. In 13 prisons at least 203
political prisoners turned their resistance into a death fast. 50 of the
death fasters are women, 153 men.
The prisons in which the death fast continues; �mraniye, Ayd�n, Bursa,
�ank�r�, �anakkale, Bart�n, Gebze, Malatya,Bayrampa�a, Buca, U�ak, Ceyhan,
Ulucanlar.
Nowadays death fast continue in the cells.After the massacre from
19-22nd December the participation in the death fast grow up to 500. The
number of political prisoners who continued their hungerstrike grew to 2000.
2- What do the political prisoners on death fast demand:
a) The closure of the F-type cell prisons.
b) The abolition of the anti-terror law no 3713 with all its results.
c) The Tripartite protocol (by the Ministers of Justice, Internal
Affairs and Health which abolishes defense and legitimizes ill-treatment and
torture) has to be cancelled.
d) The DGM�s (State Security Courts) which are courts from the period
of the junta have to be abolished.
e) Those responsibles for the deaths and severe injuries of our friends
during different attacks in the prisons of Buca, �mraniye, Diyarbak�r,
Ulucanlar and Burdur shall be brought before court.
f) The release of our ill friends, whose complaints continued after the
death fast of 1996, those who were wounded during several attacks and did
not receive medical treatment; Judgement of the torturers.
g) Abolition of all anti-democratical laws which are a hindrance before
the people�s struggle for democracy and freedom and an end to repression.
3-In the prisons of Turkey torture and the denial of rights have been
recent in every period. The number of political prisoners who have lost
their lives only in the last five years during massacres in prisons and
because of hindering their medical treatment is 500. Besides there are
dozens of prisoners who have been severely injured during several operations
in different prisons. As a result of the operation in the prison of Burdur
on July 5, 2000, Veli Sa��l�k�s arm was ripped off by a bulldozer.
4- All of those who have resisted against the cells have been attacked.
On the 9th of October 2000, the hungerstrike tent in Holland-Rotterdam,
which was set up in support of the death fast and for the closure of the
isolation cells was attacked by fascists. During this attack Cafer Dereli
lost his life.
5- On the 10th December �zkan Tekin, who hung a poster against the F-type
prisons in Istanbul was killed in the middle of the streets.
6- With the participation of dozens of organisations, trade unions and
human rights organisations there were many organized mass actions which
demanded the closure of the F-type prisons.
But all of those who campaigned for the closure of the F-type
prisons were attacked. Arrests and operations were made and many people
were detained. The association of the prisoner�s families (TAYAD) and some
departments of the Human Rights Association were closed, proceedings were
taken against the Bar Association of Istanbul, the chairmen of the trade
union T�m-Yarg� Sen was arrested, proceedings were taken against the former
state prosecutor of the Bayrampa�a prison, the press was censored, lawyers
have been menaced. All democratic sections who are against the F-types have
been put under repression. Furthermore the state, who even did not succceed
to end the death fast after the massacre, brought the forcible intervention
to the agenda of the parliament by even threatening the doctors, and
started its torture through force- feeding and chaining the prisoners to
beds.
7- During the massacre attack in 20 prisons between the 19-22nd
December, 28 political prisoners were massacred. Also two soldiers were shot
while the military opened fire and they died. But to prevent the truth from
coming up,the reports of their otopsy were hidden. 10,000 soldiers and
police personel took part in this operation. 20,000 bombs (fire, blast,
smoke and gas bombs) were used. They also used liquids, whose character has
not beendefined yet. Heavy working machines were used.
In the prison of Bayrampa�a 6 women were burned alive in the women�s
dormitory. There exists witnesses who can proove this massacre. The
witnesses are still in the prison of Bak�rk�y. The prisoners were held under
a hail of bullets. The otopsy report of Alp Ata Ak�ay�z who was killed by
bullets, has not even been given to his father, who is a former state
prosecutor.All video images and documents that proove the murder of the
prisoners (the whole operation was filmed by the soldiers) has been kept
secret.
8- The prisoners who have been injured with bullets or have burns from
the operation of 19-22nd December were not even treated. One of the bullets
in the body of �zlem Saral Cibelik, who was wounded in the prison of
�anakkale has been taken out by her comrads. There are dozens of prisoners
severely injured.
9- G�lay Efendio�lu was raped in the prison of Malatya. The male
prisoners,who were transferred to the cells were raped with truncheons.
10- In the prisons of Turkey the political prisoners continue their hunger
strike and they reached the 244th day of hunger strike to death. There are
still families of prisoners (mothers from TAYAD) outside, who continue their
death fast.10 people continue their death fast. Among them, G�ls�man
D�nmez, Canan Kulaksiz, Senay Hanoglu, Erdogan Guler and Ugur Turkmen lost
their lives. There are still six relatives of prisoners, who continue their
death fast in Istanbul. (from 13th of April) they are on their 219th day of
death fast. A new group of TAYAD members that consists of 4 people started
hunger strike to death. Two political prisoners that they were released
from prison, continue their hunger strike to death outside the prison with
the strikers of the TAYAD.
In Smirna and in Instanbul, members of revolutionary organizations,
started hunger strike outside the prisons in order to show their support to
the political prisoners that continue their hunger strike to death in the
prisons. In all the F-kind prisons of Turkey the fifth group of political
prisoners started hunger strike to death.
Day by day their condition becomes worse.
11- Meanwhile the deaths are being announced every day and every hour. Our
dead comrads have reached the 24 until today.
-On March 21, Cengiz Soyda� (DHKP-C) lost his life on the 153rd day of death
fast in the F-type "annihilation camp" of Sincan.
-On April 7, Adil Kaplan(TKP\ML) lost his life on the 170th day of death
fast in the F-type "annihilation camp" of Edirne.
-On April 7, B�lent �oban (DHKP-C) died on the 170th day of death fast in
the F-type "annihilation camp" of Kand�ra.
-On April 9, G�ls�man D�nmez, a relative of a prisoner and member of the
Solidarity Association of Prisoner�s Families (TAYAD) died on the 147th
dayof death fast. She continued her death fast in a house together with six
other families. Her brother was in prison, he was 38 years old.
- On April 11, Nergiz G�lmez (TKP\ML) lost her life on the 174th day of
death fast at the prison of Kartal.
- On April 11, also Fatma Ersoy (DHKP-C) from the prison of K�tahya lost her
life on the 174th day of death fast.
- Tuncay G�nel (TIKB) from the F-type "annihilation camp" of Edirne died on
the 174th day of death fast, on April 11.
- On April 12, Celal Alpay (TKP\ML) from Izmir died on the 175th day of
death fast.
- On April 12, also Abdullah Bozda� (DHKP-C) died on the 175th day of death
fast in Izmir.
- On April 13, Erol Evcil (DHKP-C) lost his life in Ankara
- On April 14, Murat �oban (DHKP-C) died in Ankara.
- On April 15, Canan Kulaks�z, a relative of a prisoner and member of
TAYAD died on the 137th day of death fast. She was 19 years old and student
in biology at the Ege University.
-Sedat Gursel Akmaz ( DHKP-C) died on the 16th of April in the prison of
Smyrna.
-On April 18, Ender Can Yildiz (TKP\ML) died in the F-kind prisons of
Sincan.
-Senay Hanoglu (TAYAD) died in the 160th day of hunger strike. It happened
in the house that the members of TAYAD in Instanbul are continuing their
strike.
-Sibel Surucu (TKEP\L) died on April 22, in Instanbul.
-Hatice Yurekli (TKIP) died on April 22, in Ankara.
-Sedat Katrakut, (DHKP-C) died on April 25, in Edirne.
-Erdogan Guler (TAYAD) died on April 25, in Smyrna.
-Fatma Hulya Tumgan (MLKP) died on April 28, in Anckara.
-Huseyin Kayaci (MLKP) died on the 6th of May, in Smyrna.
-Cafer Tayyar Bektas (TKP\ML) died on the 6th of May in Ankara.
-On May 26, Ugur Turkmen (TAYAD)died in Mersin after 204 days of hunger
strike.
-On June 16, Veli Gunes (DHKP-C) died in the F-kind prison of the town
Kandira after 240 days of hunger strike.
The number of political prisoners dying grows day by day.
12- It was the result of forcible medical intervention that more than 50
political prisoners lost their memory. They can�t remember anything, even
don�t know their closest relatives. They�ll be dependent from others for a
life long.
13- Until now 8 political prisoners burned themselves as protest against
torture and forcible intervention.
14- The prisoners who were burned and injured by bullets during the
operation between 19-22nd December, haven�t been treated. They were
told to be treated if they�d stop death fast...
This massacre politics of the state of Turkey that were called into
being before the eyes of the whole world and its attempt to opress the
mostnatural democratic demands through bloodshed, can�t be ignored. The
democratic demands expressed by the political prisoners must be accepted
immediately, isolation and the cell policy have to be abolished.
15-On April 21, Kazim Gulbag burned himself in order to show his opposition
to the F-kind prisons in Turkey. This action took place in Regensburg of
Germany.
It is a need of vital importance to be accepted the following demands:
-We ask to stop the isolation policy of the "white cells" that it is treated
on the political prisoners.
-We demand the end of the vulgar obligatory feeding and the tortures to the
political prisoners.
-We ask the Ministry of Justuce of Turkey to send a representative in order
to hear the demands of the political prisoners from their representative for
the finding of a solution to the problems.
This barbaric policy of the Turkish state�that it is taking place infront of
the eyes of the whole world and the efforts to supress the demokretic
demands (by killing people) cannot be overrided. The democratic demands of
the political prisoners must be satisfied ommediately. The isolation policy
and the white cells must be abolished.
We need the help of revolutionary people from all the counties of the world.
We need to become known our fights against the barbaric state of Turkey.
We are going to win alltogether!
We are going to win with due to the help of international solidarity.
TAYAD
(SOLIDARITY ASSOCIATION OFPRISONERS�FAMILIES)
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