RALLY
Defend Hunger Strikers in Turkish Prisons
2pm Saturday 18 August
State Library
(cnr Latrobe and Swanston sts)
Turkey has more than 10,000 political prisoners. They are trade unionists,
human rights activists, revolutionary leftist groups, democrats, artists,
writers, Kurdish patriots, socialists, etc.
For the last 280 days the prisoners have staged a protest and resistance
against the government's so-called "F type" isolation-death cells scheme by
putting their lives at stake by using the only means of resistance in their
hands: hunger strike and the "Death Fast".
So far 60 prisoners and supporters outside of the prisons have died as a
result.
On 19 December 2000, government forces attacked the prisons in order to
break the resistance and remove the prisoners to the F type prisons by
force and called it "Operation Return to Life", by killing 30 of them and
seriously injuring many.
Turkey faces a deep economic crisis. However, the government prefers to
spend millions oppressing the Turkish and Kurdish workers and poor. This is
an issue for the anti-capitalist movement as well as the broader left.
Turkish and Kurdish Human Rights Committee in Melbourne is organising this
protest to raise awareness of the struggle in the prisons and build unity
with other supporters of human rights.
If you wish to endorse the protest please contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OR ring Fidan on 0410 335 601
For more information - www.ozgurluk.org
This protest is already endorsed by: Socialist Alliance (Wills Branch) and
Socialist Worker.
There will be more information at the NIKE Protest on Friday (Half-day
blockade at Bourke St NIKE, from 1pm on 3 August)
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