From: Press Agency Ozgurluk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 01:42:56 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Ozgurluk] [AFIB] Solidarity Appeal for Turkish Hunger Strikers] _______________________________ ANTIFA INFO-BULLETIN News * Analysis * Research * Action _______________________________ SPECIAL EDITION - August 21, 2001 - * * * ____________________________________________________________________________ __ SOLIDARITY APPEAL FOR TURKISH HUNGER STRIKERS ____________________________________________________________________________ __ CONTENTS: 01. TAYAD [London]: Death Fast Appeal: Let us increase the numbers of the TAYAD Committee. 02. PRESS AGENCY OZGURLUK [Turkey-Exile]: Dijon, France: Hunger Strike in Solidarity with the International Struggle of Political Prisoners in Turkey (Statement by the Anarchist Black Cross). * * * TAYAD COMMITTEE LONDON Tel/Fax: 0044 207 249 9984 Mobile: 0044 7951 791802 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sunday, 19 August 2001 - ----- ____________________________________________________________________ DEATH FAST APPEAL Let us increase the numbers of the TAYAD Committee ____________________________________________________________________ We are calling upon all sympathetic people in Europe to join the TAYAD Committee. For the last 300 days our Death Fast resistance has been taking place in Turkey by the prisoners in the prisons and by the TAYAD members outside of the prisons. The struggle on our soil has increased and expanded during the last 300 days. Now there should be resistance voices in Europe as well. All parents. We are calling you to support the children and the parents of the martyrs. We should all take part in this struggle we should all feel hunger. We should represent their voices in Europe. In this struggle every one of us can do something. We are calling you to take part in the TAYAD Committee. * Make a phone call to those who are resisting * * Send a small present to the resisters * * Tell your children about Mrs. Gulsuman and Mrs. Senay who died on Death Fast and send a postcard to their children. Donate some money for their education * * Write leaflets about them; collect newspaper articles that mention them to show to others * * Call the Minister of Justice, the Turkish embassy in your country, human rights organisations and parliament and ask them why people have been dying and what is more important than human life * Access the internet and look at the martyrs faces and read their messages. Think about what they said and what gave them the strength to carry out this struggle. With your relatives and friends go on hunger strike and contact TAYAD to tell them you have done this. When your call the embassies or the press tell them that you are on hunger strike in support of the prisoners in Turkey and put pressure on them to accept the prisoners demands. Every day before leaving home phone the Minister of Justice and tell him to start negotiations with the prisoners and to except their demands. Call human rights organisations and ask them why they have not gone to the Armutlu shantytown in Istanbul which is under police blockade and where five TAYAD members have died on Death Fast. Call political parties who consider themselves left or democratic and ask them what are they doing about this struggle and why are they not a part of it. Call the Interior Minister and ask him why he sent the police into Armutlu instead of taking care of the real enemies in the country. Join the marches visit the hunger strike tents through out Europe. Put black flags up in your car and house. At night turn your lights on and off for ten minutes at night and encourage your neighbours to do the same. You can go into your city centres and do candle light vigils and tell people to put pressure on their governments to stop supporting the F-type isolation cell prisons in Turkey. If you can play a musical instrument then you can perform songs in support of the resistance and collect money for the resisters. Perform a play about the isolation cells and tell people about those who have died in them. Lawyers, journalists, MP's go to Armutlu in Istanbul and tell the police to lift their blockade. Muslims, Christians, Jews people of all religions pray for the people who are struggling against oppression. The old, young, men, women those who are bravely sacrificing their lives for the liberation of their country. Children draw a picture for the children who have lost their parents through the Death Fast and send the picture to them. Youth! Hear the call of those who are resisting who are of a similar age to you. They are giving their lives for the people. Display pictures of the youth that have died at your schools and colleges. Translate their ideas into other languages; create internet sites for them. Those who are opposed to globalisation and who campaign for the environment arrange a delegation to go to Turkey. One of the biggest anti-imperialist, anti-globalisation, anti-IMF struggles is taking place in Turkey today. Go there and see it for yourselves and pass on your experiences to others. Show your international solidarity just like Ernesto CHE Guevara. Take the pictures of our martyrs and hang them on your walls. Ask yourselves why are so many people dying in Turkey. Stay indoors one day and stay hungry and ask yourselves what the resisters are feeling. Imagine that you are one of them or you are a relative, a child or a parent. Take part in this event be part of the writing of history. Phone to TAYAD and the TAYAD Committee's, speak to the resisters in the resistance houses. Hear their determination it will effect you to hear their voices. It will remind you what humanity is even in Europe's degenerated rotten living conditions. They are the future of your children; they are our hope they are the ones who will save this planet which was made dirty. 20th October 2001 will be the first anniversary of this struggle. We are calling every one to increase the level of activity and to expand the committees, to show your solidarity and support in Europe. (In London the Hunger strike tent is outside Manor House tube station) TAYAD Committee Belgium Tel: 0032 2735 2546 Fax: 0032 2735 3246 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Address: Rue Stevin 190 1000 Brussels TAYAD Committee Sweden Tel: 0041 12 71 47 34 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] TAYAD Committee Austria Tel: 0043 676 307 63 90 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TAYAD Committee Holland Tel: 0031 614 755 91 TAYAD Committee Germany Tel: 0049 521 6294 Witlekind str. 21 33615 Bylefelt E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TAYAD Turkey Taksim caddesi - Ara cesme sokak Studyo apt. No. 15 kat 2 Taksim Istanbul Tel/Fax: 0090 212 249 26 04 0090 212 249 26 34 0090 212 249 26 61 Website: http://www.tayad.com/ E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solidarity Death Fasters outside of the prisons ISTANBUL Abdulbaki Yusufoplu 0090 542 844 7070 Gamze Turan 0090 212 229 7606 Resis Sari 0090 535 300 55 50 / 0090 212 2299 259 Ferhat Erturk 0090 536 328 4209 Gulay Kavak 0090 212 229 7606 ANKARA Ayse Bastemur Ozlem Durakcan 0090 312 391 3668 TRABZON Tuncay Sonmez 0090 535 449 9359 IZMIR Sukran Sahin 0090 533 465 0905 Send your protest messages to the following: Prime Minister Tel: 0090 312 419 5897 / 98 Fax: 0090 312 417 0476 Republic of Turkey Parliament Tel/Fax: 0090 312 420 5041 Minister of Justice Tel: 0090 312 419 6050 / 51 Fax: 0090 312 417 4030 Minister of Interior Tel: 0090 312 418 1368 0090 312 425 4030 Fax: 0090 312 418 1795 Courtesy of Press Agency Ozgurluk--In Support of the Peoples Liberation Struggle in Turkey and Kurdistan; E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Web: http//www.ozgurluk.org. ***** PRESS AGENCY OZGURLUK In Support of the Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Struggle in Turkey E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http//www.ozgurluk.org - Monday, 20 August 2001 - ----- ___________________________________________________________________________ Dijon, France: HUNGER STRIKE IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS IN TURKEY ___________________________________________________________________________ PRESS RELEASE - FRIDAY 17TH, AUGUST 2001 Today, Friday 17th, August 2001, 12:00pm, we reply to the call of the Solidarity Association of Prisoners' Families and Friends (TAYAD) and are going on hunger strike for 3 days. On the 8th of August in Istanbul, Turkish police forces assaulted the central office of the paper Vatan - which is closed to one of the organizations whose some members are on hunger strike in the prisons. With the same violence as during the assault carried out against prisons in December 2000, walls were broken down with sledgehammer and offices completely trashed, and several dozens of people were arrested as well. Being known for such practices, there's no doubt that they will be tortured for days by turkish police forces prior to end up in an isolation cell or simply being declared as dead or as "having disappeared". This new police operation is one more step in the struggle run by the turkish State to break down the hunger strike that started 295 days ago in turkish prisons (on August 10th) and the solidarity shown by families on the outside. The district of Kucukarmutlu (Istanbul) was sealed off for 4 days by police forces to take out prisoners' families running a solidarity hunger strike. They threatened to assault their houses but had to retreat because families threatened to sacrifice. On the outside, there are currently several dozens of prisoners' relatives who are between life and death, embarked on a death fast in solidarity their relatives struggling in prisons for over 100 days for some of them. This political repression is also hitting directly political militants by executions : on the 6th of July, Ismael Karaman was murdered into the street in the district of Avcilar (Istanbul). Aside from this violent policy, the State is attempting to split up the movement by releasing a number of prisoners on hunger strike, betting on their stopping of the hunger strike once on the outside. Nevertheless, this strategy doesn't really works because some prisoners released have continued to show solidarity and have started over their unlimited hunger strike by joining the families. Inside prisons and hospitals, the situation is dramatic. Several dozens of them are in a hopeless condition in hospitals. They suffer from heavy brain, kidneys and lungs confusion but are maintained alive by forced perfusion. Indeed, the Turkish State had ordered some doctors -who then accepted- to contravene international treaties (Malta and Tokyo) and to force-feed prisoners needing it. Since then, they are maintained alive artificially so as to minimize the impact which the loss of a human life would cause, if moreover added to the casualties of this struggle that has already caused 58 ones since the 19th of December, 2000. 28 prisoners who were then on hunger strike deceased during the assault carried out against 20 prisons throughout the country and 30 additional strikers have died since then. On Tuesday 14th, August 2001, Osman Osmanagaoglu, a prisoner on struggle who was recently released along with others, deceased in a district of Istanbul on the 299th day of the death fast. He's the 59th casualty of this struggle. This movement against the introduction of cellular confinement in Turkish prisons doesn't weaken, as well as the refusal of the State to accept prisoners' claims focusing mainly on the closure of confinement prisons (F type) and the abolition of anti-terrorist laws that allow the incarceration of anyone being suspected of having any link with an organization classified as "terrorist" by the State. During the few discussions that took place between the government and representatives of Human Rights associations, some minor concessions were made but were judged insufficient by those associations as well as by prisoners on struggle. Since then, the State is retreating in its uncompromising position while european States remain silent faced with the current situation in turkish prisons. Even worse, they subsidize the turkish government with 101,8 million euros, at the same time as they require from it to humanize and modernize its prison system. In the scope of integrating Turkey within the European Union, this normalization is aimed at introducing a clean and "democratic" way of torture : white torture by isolation. Suffering and fighting against this practice for numerous years already, prisoners detained in european jails have shown solidarity with this resistance by multiple actions, amongst hunger strikes by rota. In the meantime in Europe, several prisoners' families and friends are on hunger strike in solidarity with the resistance going on in Turkey : - in Switzerland : Cemile Ayyildiz has been on unlimited hunger strike since the 10th July. - in Austria : a hunger that started on the 4th of August will last 45 days. - in The Netherlands : a hunger strike that started on the 11th of August will last for 45 days. - in Germany : a hunger strike that started on the 11th of August will last for 45 days. - in Paris (France): 14 people are on hunger strike since the 15th of August and will last for 12 days. - in Salon-de-Provence (France) : one person started a hunger strike on the 17th of August and will continue until the 21st. - other hunger strikes are going on in the cities of Bordeaux, Toulouse and Lyon (France). By going today on hunger strike for 3 days, we intend to relay this resistance beyond the prison walls and beyond the borders. SOLIDARITY IS A WEAPON ! 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