DHKP-C
AND TKP(ML) PRISONERS TO START HUNGER STRIKE IN ALL PRISONS OF TURKEY
TO THE PRESS AND PUBLIC
OPINION
Our DEATH FAST resistance
created an earthquake; it will destroy theisolation cells and those who are behind their
construction.
WE ARE CONTINUING TO ADD
NEW PAGES TO OUR HISTORY OF RESISTANCE WITH HONOUR
Today the attack of the
fascist state targeting the revolutionary prisonersand aiming to put the "F"
Type isolation prisons into operation has entered a new stage.
Since the beginning of the
year 2000, the fascist state declared that it would put the isolation cells into
operation, and is speeding up its preparations to this end. Since May 2000, because of the
activities of those close to the prisoners and various democratic and sensitive sections
of our people to support the revolutionary prisoners, and the stepping up of their actions
against the cells, they have not been put into operation. But this postponement did not
mean an abandonment of the attacks aimed at putting the cells into operation. The
collaborationist and servile authorities who could not face up to the reaction of the
people tried to appease them with demagogy and lies about changing the Anti-Terror Law,
forming Prison Supervisory Associations, talking about "amnesty", all in order
to legitimise the cells. By saying that, as soon as parliament opened, these regulations
would be the first paragraphs of legislation on the agenda, they aimed to break down the
sensitivity that had been created and render the opposition ineffective. These paragraphs
had no clarity and contained nothing definite, and they did nothing to change the essence
of the attacks to implement the isolation cells; on the contrary their aim was to be
nothing other than a cover to conceal the practice of repression and torture. On every
side this cover was pierced with holes and it did not suffice to conceal the truth. The
fascist state is not abandoning its efforts with the "F" Type Prisons. Almost
every day for months now, this reality has been clear to everyone. Thousands of relatives
of prisoners, intellectuals, revolutionaries, democrats and progressives were detained and
subjected to torture. Our old mothers who went on the road to Ankara or out into the city
squares of Istanbul to protest against the cells were beaten nearly to death. As a matter
of routine those who took part in protests in front of Galatasaray High School (in
Istanbul city centre) were dragged along the ground and arrested. Despite all these
fascist practices, our families and sensitive public opinion did not abandon us. Almost
every day there were actions in support of us and against the cells, and appeals were made
to the Justice Ministry and the government. These appeals said, "the cells are
death". The only reply they received was torture, beatings and detention.
The fascist state has
continued its display of resolution. "The cells absolutely will be introduced",
"The 'F' Types are modern and conform to human rights standards," they say.
They openly stated that
they would not abandon the cell-type prisons.
Everybody has spoken.
Everybody has said something. Those who are against the cells and those who are for them
have spoken and will speak. Now the time has come for we prisoners to utter a word.
Since the beginning of this
period, we have said that this attack by the fascist state can only be repelled with a
line of struggle, with resistance, which can endure paying the price. This was the only
language comprehensible to the fascist state, which for decades has bowed down before the
resistance of the revolutionary prisoners in the prisons of our country. Today once again,
we declare that we will reply to imperialism and its collaborationist servants in the
language that they understand.
Just as the September 12,
1980 junta's attempts to make prisoners surrender were beaten off;
Just as the August 1
circular was torn to shreds;
Just as the Eskisehir
coffin prison was closed down;
Just as with the 1996
Death Fast caused the Eskisehir coffin prison to be closed down again and it became a
barricade which protected our people from the attacks;
Today, we, the
revolutionary captives who are undertaking the same duty, will continue to follow the path
which our martyrs blazed without hesitation, and once again we will make the people's
enemies bow down.
Those who are making such a
display of determination will once again be made to bow down, and we revolutionaries on
the other hand will declare our victory to the rest of the world. We are determined.
We will not hesitate to pay
whatever price is necessary, but we will not enter the isolation cells. They can massacre
all of us, we may fall martyr in Death Fasts, there may be only one of us left in the
prisons, but even then they will not be able to put that single captive into the cells
alive.
We will smash the isolation
cells over the heads of those responsible for ordering their construction. We will be
loyal to history which has been written with the blood and lives of our fallen comrades
who resisted during
Death Fasts, or in Buca,
Umraniye, Ulucanlar, Burdur, Bergama prisons. We will form a barricade with our own
bodies, blocking those who wish to put us into cells. From now on the loud voice of the
resistance will echo in the prisons of our country. Today, once again, we are calling on
imperialism, its collaborators and their servants in front of the whole world; VICTORY IS
OURS. COLLABORATION, SERVILITY, DEFEAT AND SURRENDER ARE YOURS. We never blackened our
history and never will do so. We will continue to add new and honourable pages in the
history books. With this belief and determination, against the political attack of the
servile collaborationist authorities which target our people in the form of the cell-type
prisons, we are starting an Unlimited Hunger Strike which will be converted into a Death
Fast in due course, starting from October 20. As the DHKP-C (Revolutionary People's
Liberation Party-Front) and TKP(ML), (Communist Party of Turkey (Marxist-Leninist)), we
bear the enthusiasm and morale of starting such a period of historic resistance, and we
know in declaring the start of our resistance that from this moment we will achieve
victory.
THE DEMANDS OF OUR
RESISTANCE
1 - The ongoing
construction of the "F" Type prisons, which have actually been put on the agenda
in the framework of a policy of isolating and putting revolutionary prisoners on their
own, making them surrender with torture methods and depersonalising them, must be halted.
2 - With the demagogy of
"terrorism", an entire people have been accused of being "suspects";
torture, massacres and executions legalised, and the torturers and murderers are under the
protection of the anti-terror law (Article 3713); not only its Paragraph 16 on which the
"F" Type isolation cells are based but this entire Article is clearly
anti-democratic and must be abolished, along with all its provisions.
3 - The protocol signed by
the Justice, Interior and Health Ministries and known by the people as the
"Tripartite Protocol", which includes the denial of the captives' rights to a
defence and medical treatment, and which forces the legal representatives to be subjected
to dishonourable searches, must be abolished.
4 - The State Security
Courts which, with the reason for their foundation and their practices since 1984, are
special-extraordinary courts, must be abolished, along with all the provisions for which
they are responsible.
5 - Prisons must be
periodically checked by the lawyers who are entrusted with the task by the Bar of the
relevant city, the doctors who are selected by the Medical Chamber, lawyers and relatives
of prisoners who are selected by the captives, the representatives who are entrusted with
this by the organisations of captives, NGOs on the issue of human rights, and the Union of
Prison Staff. These checks should not be arbitrary but must be carried out under the
protection of the law.
6 - Those who are
responsible for massacring three of our friends in Buca Prison on September 21, 1995, four
of our friends in Umraniye Prison on January 4,
1996, ten of our friends in Diyarbakir Prison on September 24, 1996, ten of our friends in
Ulucanlar Prison on September 26, 1999, and for the injury of hundreds of our friends
during attacks must be judged and punished as expeditiously as possible, and this must
take place in a way accessible to the public.
Those who attacked our
friends in Burdur Prison on July 5, 2000, who severed arms, raped, tortured and those who
gave the orders for it must be judged and punished, and this must take place in a way
accessible to the public.
Our friends named below
were imprisoned alive at different times. The state was responsible for the security of
these friends' lives. As is well known, the acceptability and legality of the prisoners'
status is based on the state's guarantee of the security of their lives. These friends, on
the other hand, were massacred by the state. We want our friends back. Their names are:
UGUR SARIASLAN, TURAN
KILIÇ, YUSUF BAG, MECIT SEÇKIN, RIZA BOYBAS, ORHAN ÖZEN, GÜLTEKIN BEYHAN, AYGÜN UGUR,
BERDAN KERIMGILLER, ILGINÇ
ÖZKESKIN, HÜSEYIN
DEMIRCIOGLU, ALI AYATA, MÜJDAT YANAT, AYÇE IDIL ERKMEN,
TAHSIN YILMAZ, YEMLIHA
KAYA, HICABI KÜÇÜK, HAYATI CAN, ÜMIT ALTINTAS, HALIL
TÜRKER, ABUZER ÇAT,
MAHIR EMSALSIZ, AHMET SAVRAN, AZIZ DÖNMEZ, HABIB GÜL,
ZAFER KIRBIYIK, ÖNDER
GENÇASLAN ISMET KAVAKLIOGLU, H. HÜSNÜ EROGLU, MEHMET
YALÇINKAYA, KALENDER
KAYAPINAR, YUNUS YAMAN, MEHMET BATUGE, KADIR DEMIR,
EDIP DIREKÇI, NIHAT
ÇAKMAK, ERKAN PERISAN, RIDVAN BULUT, HAKKI TEKIN, MEHMET
SABRI GÜMÜS, CEMAL
CAM, AHMET ÇELIK, POLAT IYIT, ENGIN HUYLU, MURAT DIL,
UGUR HÜLAGÜ GÜNDOGAN,
MUSTAFA KAYA, KAZIM TUNÇ.
7 - All our friends who
have suffered from permanent illness, whose health problems have continued since the 1996
Death Fast, who were injured during state operations and denied medical treatment, must be
immediately released.
8 - Those who tortured us
during detention must be dismissed from their jobs and must be judged and punished quickly
and in a manner accessible to the public. The protection of the torturers with
"verdicts of immunity" must be abolished.
9 - All anti-democratic
laws against the struggle of the peoples for freedom and democracy must be abolished, and
the oppression of the Kurdish nation and the other national minorities must be ended.
DOWN WITH FASCISM, LONG
LIVE OUR STRUGGLE!
DOWN WITH SURRENDERING, DOWN WITH
LIQUIDATIONISM!
WE WILL DIE BUT WE WILL NOT ENTER THE
ISOLATION CELLS!
LONG LIVE OUR GENERAL RESISTANCE!
WE WILL WIN!
DEVRIMCI
HALK KURTULUS PARTISI-CEPHESI
Organisation
of Captives
TURKIYE KOMUNIST PARTISI
(MARKSIST-LENINIST)*
Party Committee for
the Prisons
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