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Subject: Turkey: TAYAD Bulletins on hunger strike/Death Fast
> TAYAD FAMILIES ARE CALLING YOU!
> LISTEN TO THEIR VOICES! JOIN YOUR VOICES TO THEIRS!
>
> October 14, 2000
> No. 157
> ONCE AGAIN, UNRESTRAINED ATTACKS IN GALATASARAY
> To put a stop to the construction of the cells, to have the anti-terror
law
> abolished, this week the families of prisoners were in front of
Galatasaray
> High School once again. The state, which is trying to legitimise the
> isolation cells, has nothing left to defend them and is trying to prepare
> new scenarios to bring about provocations in Umraniye Prison. We families
of
> prisoners will frustrate these scenarios they are trying to put into
effect
> such as that there is a tunnel, a rebellion has broken out etc. We condemn
> the unrestrained attack by the police on the families of prisoners who
were
> standing by their sons and daughters in front of Galatasaray High School
> today, and call for our families who were arrested to be immediately
> released. Fifteen persons were detained. Here are the names we were able
to
> discover:
> Eylem Goktas
> Fadik Adiyaman
> Gulcicek Bal
> Mihriban Yesil.
>
> October 23, 2000
> No. 162
> ON THE THIRD DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE STARTED BY OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS
> Because of yesterday's count we were not able to leave home for an entire
> day. What were our feelings like. At the very least we felt troubled, and
> sighed.
> One day. not much but even one day behind four walls troubled us and was
> difficult. Moreover, in our own house, with our spouse. Even though we
were
> together with our household and our relatives. Although we had television,
> radio and telephones, we were bored and it was difficult for us.
> Think also of the 'F' Type prisons. That is not a matter of one day, three
> days, five days, one month or even five months. Think about staying for
> years in these cells. Isn't this the greatest torture that can be done to
> human beings? Moreover, think about cells in a country where in the
prisons,
> before your eyes, human beings who are prisoners are openly tortured to
> death. What can't be done to prisoners who remain in cells on their own?
> This is the third day of the hunger strike started to demand the closure
of
> the 'F' Type prisons. Everybody who is against torture must support this
> just resistance and give strength to it. Let us not allow them to be
killed.
>
> October 25, 2000
> No. 165
> ON THE FIFTH DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE STARTED BY OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS
> It is five days since our sons and daughters started an indefinite hunger
> strike to close the 'F' Type prisons. We are the mothers and fathers of
our
> children who are in prison. We want our sons and daughters to not be
killed,
> not be put in cells. For this, we go out into the streets, are detained,
are
> beaten with clubs. And now our children have lain down to die.
> Our sons and daughters will continue their hunger strike until the
cell-type
> prisons are closed and all their demands are accepted.
> We appeal to all who call themselves human beings to be sensitive and not
> remain silent.
>
> October 26, 2000
> No. 167
> ON THE SIXTH DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE STARTED BY OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS
> IT IS CONTINUING IN 13 PRISONS
> The indefinite hunger strike by over a thousand political prisoners and
> convicts is continuing.
> On the one hand, the families of prisoners who protested against
lawlessness
> and injustice encountered attacks by police using clubs and armoured cars
in
> Ankara. Those who say, "We will do away with torture" are putting the MHP
> (Nationalist Movement Party), who openly defend torture, at the head of
the
> parliament's Human Rights Commission. This mask of Turkey, which is
> supposedly democratising itself on the road to European Union membership,
> has fallen off. Its true face is exposed.
> Our sons and daughters will die. Our sons and daughters will die and be
> killed because they want medical treatment for their friends, because they
> want to remove the obstacles that exist to a right to a defence, because
> they have come out and opposed and resisted torture, because they said
they
> wanted this country to be democratic and free. Let us not permit our sons
> and daughters to be killed. Their resistance is a search for justice in a
> land where there is no justice. Their resistance is a struggle for
democracy
> and freedom in a land without democracy and freedom. Let us not abandon
> them, let us give strength to their resistance, let us not allow them to
be
> killed.
>
> October 27, 2000
> No. 168
> ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE STARTED BY OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS
> Every day our sons and daughters are heading towards death. Today the
hunger
> strike continues on the seventh day. How persistent the Justice Ministry
is
> on the subject of isolation cells; on the subject of the cells, our
children
> are also determined not to enter them. Because the desire is to put
pressure
> on them, to make them give up their personality and surrender and abandon
> their beliefs. As mothers, as fathers, we ask; are cells appropriate for
> human beings? They want to kill our sons and daughters in the cells.
> Let us not remain silent in the face of death, let us not permit it!
>
> October 28, 2000
> No. 171
> ON THE EIGHTH DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE STARTED TO HAVE THE 'F' TYPE
PRISONS
> CLOSED
> Today our sons and daughters have subjected themselves to hunger for eight
> days. Our children are heading towards death while staff are being
> transferred to Bolu to complete the construction of cell-type prisons.
Those
> who killed our sons and daughters yesterday in Buca, Umraniye, Diyarbakir,
> those who carried out savage tortures in Ulucanlar saying, "Will you
> surrender or will you die?" wanted before the whole world to get people to
> surrender just for wanting a dormitory, so what will they not do to people
> who are all by themselves in cells?
> How can we trust those who killed our children, tore their arms off and
> threw them to dogs, just for wanting another ward, medical treatment, and
to
> lead life as human beings?
> Yes, for this our children are on hunger strike. We do not want the cells.
> We do not want them because does any mother or father want their child to
> have their personality taken away in the cells, wants them to be left
alone
> in the cells, feel pain and experience torture? They do not simply want
our
> children to surrender, but all of us. So let us not remain insensitive in
> the face of the hunger strike.
> Let us not remain silent in the face of death.
>
> October 8, 2000
> No. 172
> TERROR CONTINUES IN GALATASARAY
> Today the families of prisoners were in Galatasaray today out of concern
> about the lives of their sons and daughters and out of a desire to
guarantee
> the safety of their children's lives.
> As with every week, the families of the prisoners were dragged along the
> ground, harassed and detained. We will not become accustomed to this
terror.
> We will not become inured to the terror that is practised against us. To
> make the voices of our sons and daughters heard, we will continue hunger
> strikes, continue to shout out in the city squares our warnings against
> operations aimed at killing our children. The state must abandon its
> aggressive behaviour towards the families of prisoners.
> We appeal to public opinion to support the prisoners and the families of
> prisoners.
> October 29, 2000
> No. 173
> TODAY IS THE NINTH DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE IN THE PRISONS
> Our very beloved sons and daughters are walking towards death on the 9th
day
> of their hunger strike. They are heading towards death because they do not
> want to abandon their beliefs, their personality, their way of living as
> human beings.
> If our children were crooks like Cakici and Yahya Demirel, if they had
> applauded Clinton to the echo in parliament and saluted him like a hero
> after selling our land piece by piece, they would not be massacred in the
> prisons and nobody would try to kill them in the isolation cells.
> Now in the days since the hunger strike started, they are talking about
> amnesties.
> Our children do not want an amnesty for wanting justice, for wanting the
> independence and freedom of their homeland. Because how can our children
be
> guilty and want an amnesty for wanting justice and wanting to live like
> human beings. Our sons and daughters will continue the hunger strike until
> the isolation cells are closed. This is a resistance to injustice, a
> resistance by the people to oppression. Let us be on the side of this
> resistance. The resistance is the resistance of all of us.
> Will we be silent when they want to kill our sons and daughters?
>
> October 29, 2000
> No. 174
> ANATOLIA TAYAD FOUNDING MEMBER KADIR GUVENC MUST BE SET FREE
> In Galatasaray every week, the security forces, not content with savagely
> attacking the families of prisoners, also try to imprison the participants
> in actions.
> On the Saturday action on October 28, 2000, the Anatolia TAYAD founder
> member Kadir Guvenc was detained and on the pretext of being a member of
an
> organisation, was taken from Beyoglu police station to Aksaray Security
> Department's anti-terror branch. Kadir Guven, who stayed in Umraniye
Prison
> for a year, is a founder member of Anatolia TAYAD. Kadir Guvenc was taken
to
> the anti-terror branch as a way of intimidating the families and friends
of
> prisoners.
> The state, which recognises no limits in its repression and violence
towards
> prisoners' families, aims in this way to isolate the prisoners, who are on
> the 9th day of a hunger strike today.
> Neither detention nor threats of imprisonment will stop us from supporting
> our sons and daughters.
> Kadir Guvenc must be released immediately!
>
> October 30, 2000
> No. 175
> THE HUNGER STRIKE STARTED 10 DAYS AGO TO CLOSE THE "F" TYPE CELL PRISONS
> CONTINUES
> Today our sons and daughters are on the 10th day of their hunger strike.
> What do our sons and daughters want? They have lain down to die because
> instead of oppression, torture and injustice, they want justice and the
> possibility of leading life in a human way. Their just resistance stems
from
> this.
> Our sons and daughters are hope in place of oppression and injustice. For
> this they are on hunger strike. One mother's cry, "Our children are
dying,"
> is a statement addressed to you. This is not the first time we are
> eyewitnesses to the death of our children bit by bit, body cell by body
> cell. We experienced this bitterness in the 1984 Death Fast and the 1996
> Death Fast. The whole world bore witness to this just resistance. Once
again
> our sons and daughters are heading towards death. And we feel pride in our
> sons and daughters for creating this just resistance and being the
> representatives of Justice.
> Let us unite around this just resistance. Let us not remain silent.
>
> October 30, 2000
> No. 178
> ON THE 11TH DAY OF THE CONTINUING HUNGER STRIKE IN THE PRISONS, POLICE
> DETENTIONS CONTINUE
> Today, it is the 11th day of the hunger strike continuing in the prisons
to
> bring about the closure of the 'F' Type prisons. While our children are
> heading towards death, the police are furiously continuing their attacks.
> At six-thirty this morning, in Cagaloglu (Istanbul), 30 people at the
> offices of Nisan (April) Publications, which is where the magazine
> "Yasadigimiz Vatan" ("The Homeland We Live In") is published, were
detained
> by Istanbul Security Department anti-terror units. Without showing any
kind
> of search warrant, the police smashed down the door and forcibly arrested
> everyone they found in the office where the magazine is published. A lot
of
> equipment and publications were in the office were confiscated or
plundered.
> Moreover, as though this were not enough, the entrance and exit to the
> street where the magazine is published were blocked by police.
> Injustices in a country with democracy and freedom continue. On the one
> hand, human beings are violently detained and beaten and magazines
subjected
> to repression; on the other, the construction of cells which are contrary
to
> leading a human way of life is continuing. Are we to be silent about all
> these things which we experience?
> We appeal to all sensitive public opinion to not remain silent concerning
> these experiences.
> We want people to express their anger at the raid on "Yasadigimiz Vatan"
> magazine and want the immediate release of those who have been detained.
>
> November 1, 2000
> No. 181
> THE HUNGER STRIKE BY OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS CONTINUES IN ITS 12TH DAY
> The hunger strike in the prisons to bring about the closure of the
cell-type
> prisons is in its 12th day. Now they want to bury our children in the
> deepest grave possible. They say, enter the cells, abandon your beliefs,
> humanity and honour. This is why those we love very much are heading
towards
> death, body cell by body cell.
> Today it is exactly 12 days. And it will continue.
> Our sons and daughters will die to say "no" to torture and injustice, to
> support human honour and because they want to lead lives as human beings.
> That is: they will continue until they win victory.
> The cry of a mother: this is not a foreign sound for you. Before the
world's
> eyes, our children wasted away in 1984, and in the 1996 Death Fast we
> experienced that again. We had said, our sons and daughters and dying,
will
> you remain silent? Once again we are in the midst of a just resistance.
> We are not only standing by honour and justice for ourselves, but for all
of
> us. For this reason, let us not remain silent, let us be on the side of
just
> resistance.
>
> November 2, 2000
> No. 182
> THE HUNGER STRIKE IN CONNECTION WITH CLOSING THE CELL-TYPE PRISONS IS IN
ITS
> 13TH DAY
> While the hunger strike started in the prisons by our children continues,
> the cell-type prisons were introduced by putting the PKK prisoners into
> cells in Erzurum Prison. The cells are contrary to human living conditions
> and are aimed at isolating human beings, and they are meant to kill our
sons
> and daughters. They want to bury our sons and daughters in the deepest
grave
> when they could not obtain results from massacring them.
> The prisons; while they are places where the Cakicis, the Yahya Murat
> Demirels, the Haluk Kircis, those who sold our land, the mafiosis and the
> murderers undergo mobile telephone crises, lahmacun (Turkish pizza) crises
> and heroin problems to their heart's content, our children are tortured
and
> murdered in a hamam (bath), their arms are torn off by bulldozer blades,
> they are injured by exploding bombs and tortured. They are places where
our
> children are turned into blood-spattered corpses.
> Yes, there is a prison problem in this country. The problem is one of the
> state trying to get our children to abandon their beliefs and surrender.
The
> problem is one of our sons and daughters being denied medical treatment,
> having their right to a legal defence being taken away and being murdered
> behind prison walls by state security forces. The prisons are places which
> produce continual tyranny, crackdowns and torture against our children.
This
> is why they have lain down and gone on hunger strike.
> And our sons and daughters are heading towards death. It is not only the
> lives of our children which they want to destroy in the cells, but the
lives
> of all of us. Let us not remain silent in the face of this tyranny and
> repression. We will not remain silent in the face of this repression.
>
> November 3, 2000
> No. 185
> ON THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF THE INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE AIMED AT CLOSING THE
> 'F' TYPE PRISONS
> Today is the 14th day of the continuing hunger strike aimed at closing
down
> the isolation cells.
> The construction of the cells was continued on the 4th anniversary of
> Susurluk. While those implicated in Susurluk can wander freely around our
> country, continuing their massacres and tortures, our sons and daughters
are
> on hunger strike in protest at the cells which are contrary to conditions
> for leading a human way of life. What has been done over the past four
> years. Those involved in Susurluk are still continuing massacres, pillage
> and torture.
> Everything is clear: there is no justice!
> If Susurluk had ended, our sons would not have been tortured and murdered
in
> the bath at Ulucanlar, if Susurluk had ended, dogs would not run around
with
> the severed arms of our children in their mouths, if Susurluk was over,
the
> Yahya Murat Demirels would not have turned our country into a marketplace
to
> be pillaged.
> We want JUSTICE against the injustice of Susurluk, and our children have
> lain down to die to secure that. We want justice; to demand a reckoning
from
> the torturers and murderers and to close the cells which are contrary to
> human conditions of living.
> Let us be on the side of the resistance of our children, who represent
> justice in the face of injustice. This is a resistance to those who were
> implicated in Susurluk and to the cells they created. Let us join their
> resistance.
>
> November 4, 2000
> No. 187
> THE CONTINUING HUNGER STRIKE AGAINST THE CELL-TYPE PRISONS IS IN ITS
> FIFTEENTH DAY; LIES CONTINUE TO BE TOLD
> Today is the 15th day of the hunger strike. With every passing day our
> children come closer to death. For 24 hours of each day, our sons and
> daughters are wasting away body cell by body cell. We are their mothers
and
> fathers. What words can express to you the feelings a mother has. They are
> feelings of love for them and honour for the resistance they are waging.
> They are saying that only the families outside are against the cells.
True:
> we do not want our children we love very much to be worn down over years
and
> slowly killed in the cells. We do not want them to die under torture.
> Is it not for this that our aging bodies are beaten with clubs, that we
are
> detained and dragged along the ground by our hair? Is it not because we
love
> our children very much that we have marched for month campaigning,
shouting
> that our children will die?
> We are not the only ones who do not want the cells. Neither our people
> outside nor our children. Whoever does want them is nothing other than an
> enemy to them and to their lives. Our sons and daughters went over to this
> honourable resistance in order to have the cells closed.
> They will continue until the cells are closed.
> We who are outside the prisons are their voice and we will continue to be
by
> their side in this resistance. Let those who own the cells go into them,
> because we will not and our children will not.
>
> November 7, 2000
> No. 193
> THE INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE WITH THE DEMAND TO CLOSE THE CELL-TYPE
PRISONS
> IS IN ITS EIGHTEENTH DAY
> My son, my daughter, they want you to fit your lives in behind the walls
of
> a prison. Today is the 18th day of your resistance. I know that your
> resistance will turn into a Death Fast.
> They say that these narrow places, these cells, have been made for you, to
> get you to abandon your beliefs and your honour. While the Cakicis, the
Nuri
> Ergins, the Yahya Murat Demirels can move around freely in prison with
> pistols, can have a good time, they tell you to surrender and see it as
> permissible to torture and slaughter you. They have no trouble getting
> mobile telephones, guns and heroin trays inside prison, they openly engage
> in prostitution and immorality; while inside prison you can be turned into
> blood-spattered corpses. For you, the prisons are places of oppression,
> while for them they are places in which they can wander around at will and
> go where they want with firearms. What they want from you is not merely a
> handful of sky, for years they have been trying to get you to surrender
your
> honour and beliefs. Today, once again they are saying the same thing. They
> say they will take away your beliefs, make you give up your honour and
make
> you enter the deepest possible graveyard. They want to destroy you in the
> cells.
> Your are our longing for justice in place of injustice, you are the
> representative of the people's values, values which they are trying to
> destroy. We learned the values of being human and being honourable and we
> taught them to you. And we know that, like in the 1984 and 1996 Death
Fast,
> like in Ulucanlar, you will defend this honour. We will be with you in
this
> honourable resistance you have begun.
> We will not permit our sons and daughters to be killed in the cells.
>
> November 8, 2000
> No. 194
> THE STATE IS TRYING TO PREPARE THE GROUND FOR NEW OPERATIONS IN THE
PRISONS;
> THE HUNGER STRIKE WHICH WAS STARTED NINETEEN DAYS AGO TO CLOSE THE 'F'
TYPE
> PRISONS IS STILL CONTINUING.
> Today, on the 19th day of the hunger strike in the prisons, the state is
> trying to prepare the ground for an attack in the prisons. In Usak Prison,
> the mafia has created incidents, thus starting discussions in which is
said
> that there is no control over prisons, and who is in charge of them.
> Whenever they were thinking about launching an attack on our children, the
> only thing that came out of their mouths was, "We have no control in the
> prisons, we cannot guarantee the authority of the state."
> For them there is only one problem, namely one of making our children
> surrender, one of getting them to abandon their beliefs. For this, they
see
> inflicting the cell-type prisons on our sons and daughters as permissible.
> They turn a blind eye to the mafiosis, to the Cakicis, they ignore the
Nuri
> Ergins, and the Yahya Murat Demirels can live peacefully while the only
> problem the authorities are worried about is the problem of getting our
sons
> and daughters to surrender. Weapons, mobile telephones and heroin trays
find
> their way into the hands of the mafiosi while our children have problems
> created for them with regard to even the most basic human needs, such as
> food and clothing.
> The state says it is trying to guarantee its authority in the prisons.
Does
> it want to create new Ulucanlar massacres, does it want to sever arms from
> bodies again? Its only problem is to bury our sons and daughters in the
> deepest possible grave and annihilate them. For our part we will not
remain
> silent on this issue and will continue to support the just resistance of
our
> sons and daughters; until they win.
>
> November 9, 2000
> No. 195
> THE INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE STARTED TO CLOSE DOWN THE CELLS IS IN ITS
20TH
> DAY; THOSE WHO ARE IN CHARGE OF THE CELLS WANT TO KILL OUR SONS AND
> DAUGHTERS IN THEM
> Today is the 20th day of the indefinite hunger strike embarked upon in the
> prisons to have the cell-type prisons closed - the hunger strike is
> continuing. If their demands are not accepted our children will start the
> Death Fast.
> For years, behind prison walls, oppression has been practised against our
> sons and daughters. Behind these walls, torture is practised; our children
> have been turned into blood-spattered corpses so disfigured we were even
> unable to recognise them. Even the bath of the prison was turned into a
> place where they tried to get our children to surrender. The masters of
the
> isolation cells said, "Will you surrender or will you die?" And they
killed
> our sons for not abandoning their beliefs, for wanting justice and
defending
> human honour.
> Why are they subjecting ours to such tyranny? On the one hand, the Cakicis
> and Murat Demirels can go and see medical specialists and can live in
> luxury, while our children have their medical treatment interfered with,
are
> left handicapped and indeed are left to die. Now they are preventing our
> children from receiving treatment on the grounds that there is no money,
> while at the same time they have money to build the cells. And they want
> them to go into the cells. To live; if it were to be asked, this is living
> the way you believe and dying the way you believe. Our sons and daughters,
> defending human honour, wanting justice instead of injustice, defending
the
> traditions of the people, will live according to their beliefs and die
> according to their beliefs. Now they are on hunger strike for this. In the
> cells they want to destroy our human honour and our longing for justice.
Let
> us come out and stand up for honour. What they want to destroy by forcing
it
> into the cells is the life of all of us. Let us not remain silent in the
> face of all these events.
>
> November 10, 2000
> No. 196
> THE INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE STARTED TO CLOSE DOWN THE CELLS IS IN ITS
21ST
> DAY AND IS CONTINUING.
> While the hunger strike continues today in its 21st day, all that is we
hear
> in the press and the television is statements by those who own the
isolation
> cells saying they have no control over the prisons and cannot uphold their
> authority.
> If anyone thinks about our children, it is to use the mafia and gangs as
an
> excuse to prepare the ground for attacks in the prisons. The press is
being
> raised to its feet. It is trying to make such things appear justified.
While
> conditions are created for the gangs to lead a pleasant life in prison,
and
> they can easily smuggle heroin trays inside. Mobile telephones and weapons
> are once again being given to them.
> Every form of massacre and torture is deemed fitting for our children and
> all their rights are taken away, all because they wanted to live in a
human
> way and defended human honour. The cells have been built with this aim in
> mind. To destroy our sons and daughters, trillions of Turkish lira have
been
> spent. Who can remain silent and insensitive in the face of all this?
> We will not remain silent about the deaths of our sons and daughters. We
> want you to take part in the congress on "THE REALITY OF THE PRISONS, THE
> PROBLEMS EXPERIENCED IN THEM AND SUGGESTED SOLUTIONS" and be a witness to
> its proceedings. (Venue: Ali Poyrazoglu Theatre, Oguzhan Street, No. 19,
> Findikzade, Istanbul).
>
> November 11, 2000
> No. 197
> THE MASTERS OF THE CELLS WILL HAVE ERRED ONCE AGAIN, AND OUR CHILDREN WILL
> WIN
> Our children are resisting for themselves and their people. Today, the
> hunger strike to close the cell-type prisons is in its 22nd day and is
> continuing.
> The justice minister, Hikmet Sami Turk, said in the first days of the
hunger
> strike, "Their resistance is futile; we will put the 'F' Type prisons into
> operation." And together with this, debates about amnesty again arose.
> Despite all this, our sons and daughters started a strong resistance. This
> resistance will continue until it triumphs.
> The justice minister and those behind the isolation cells know that they
> will not go into the cells. Take a look at the past: the 1984 and 1996
Death
> Fasts, Umraniye, Buca and Ulucanlar come to mind. Those who said to our
> children, "Will you surrender or will you die?" when they were trying to
get
> them to give in will get the same answer they got before. Those who would
> have us surrender our honour, our longing for justice and our humanity
will
> see once again how we will pay a price to protect them; together with our
> greatly beloved children, we will again triumph in this honourable
> resistance. This is the resistance of all of us. Do not delay, unite with
us
> around this just resistance.
> Today, let us take part in the second day of "The Reality Of The Prisons,
> The Problems Experienced In Them And Suggested Solutions" and let us bear
> witness again to what we have experienced.
>
> November 12, 2000
> No. 198
> OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS ARE APPROACHING DEATH. TODAY IS THE 23RD DAY OF THE
> HUNGER STRIKE. AND WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN!
> Today is the 23rd day of the hunger strike in the prisons. With every
> passing day our offspring approach nearer to death. On the one hand, while
> they are playing the game of entering the European Union and claiming to
be
> on the road to democratisation, while on the other hand repression and
> tyranny are being stepped up. Hunger, poverty and unemployment become
worse
> every day while there are those in our country who lead lives of ease,
> carried aloft by green US dollars. Life has another face here: exactly a
> year ago, on November 12, some of our people were buried under a pile of
> concrete and lost their lives. And behind the destroyed walls in the
hungry
> days of cold winters, our people are forgotten in tents. In our country
> where there is no justice, those who want a country of freedom and
equality
> are tortured in the prison bath or their arms are severed from their
bodies.
> What oppression is there that is like this?
> Whose justice do our sons and daughters want? Thousands of our people were
> killed in the (August 1999) earthquake, others live in poorly equipped
tents
> that are dangerous to stay in when the weather is cold, and millions of
our
> people live on the edge of hunger - where is their justice, who represents
> justice for them? In a place without justice, those who want justice are
> legitimate, and in a place of torture where honour is ground underfoot,
what
> more honourable thing can there be than to resist tyranny? This honourable
> resistance is honour itself. We are proud of our children for the
resistance
> they are conducting. We are on the side of our sons and daughters who
> represent justice. They want to confine the lives of all of us within the
> four walls of these cells. Let us not remain silent to those who are
trying
> to destroy life.
>
> November 13, 2000
> No. 199
> TODAY IS THE 24TH DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE
> OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS APPROACH A LITTLE NEARER TO DEATH EVERY DAY
> The hunger strike in the prisons, which is in its 24th day, is continuing.
> If the demands for the 'F' Type prisons to be closed are not accepted, the
> hunger strike will be transformed into a Death Fast.
> Our sons and daughters have started a just and honourable resistannce.
> In this world there is nothing more lofty and honourable than wanting
> justice instead of injustice and being prepared to pay the price for it,
> there is nothing more legitimate than resisting tyranny and oppression.
Now
> our children are in the midst of an honourable resistance and are paying
the
> price for it.
> We as the TAYAD families, will continue to be on the side of this just
> resistance and will not remain silent in the face of death.
>
> November 14, 2000
> No. 200
> ON THE 25TH DAY OF THE CONTINUING INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE TO CLOSE DOWN
THE
> CELL-TYPE PRISONS, WE ARE ALSO SUBMITTING OUR BODIES TO HUNGER
> Today our sons and daughters are on the 25th day of their hunger strike.
> They will turn it into a Death Fast if their most human demands, for which
> they are paying the price of hunger, are not accepted. We are also
> submitting our bodies to hunger as part of this just resistance, and we
will
> not permit our sons and daughters to be destroyed in the cells. Nor will
we
> be spectators to the deaths of our greatly beloved sons and daughters.
> The resistance of our sons and daughters, who are prepared to pay the
price
> of living in a human way, is also our resistance. Let us be on the side of
> those who have started this resistance to oppression and let us not remain
> silent about what they are going through.
>
> November 14, 2000
> No. 201
> THE DEMANDS OF OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS, FOR WHICH WE TOO ARE GOING ON
HUNGER
> STRIKE
>
> This is the 25th day of our children's hunger strike. The state is
> continuing to be insensitive, continuing not to offer a solution. These
are
> the demands for which our children will die:
> The closure of the 'F' Type cell prisons.
> Law 3713 with all its consequences must be abolished.
> The Tripartite Protocol must be abolished.
> The State Security Courts and all the consequences flowing from them must
be
> abolished.
> At regular intervals, the prisons must be supervised by delegations of
> lawyers, doctors, prisoners' families, representatives of relevant
> non-governmental organisations and the Association of Judicial Personnel.
> Those responsible for massacres in the prisons must be swiftly indicted
and
> punished.
> Our friends who are suffering from various ailments or from the Death Fast
> or were wounded in operations in the prisons and have had no medical
> treatment are to be released.
> Those who tortured our sons and daughters when they were detained are to
be
> put on trial in a manner accessible to public opinion.
> All anti-democratic laws which impede the struggle for people's democracy
> and freedom must be abolished, there must be an end to the oppression of
the
> Kurdish nation and other national minorities.
> These demands by our children are very human ones. Everybody who is human
> wants to live under human conditions. While the state is already supposed
to
> be guaranteeing all of these, our children are having to lay down and die
> for the sake of these rights. The desire for these things is shared by all
> human beings on the face of the earth.
> But the state is so far from having people live in such a way that it is
> stopping its ears to these human demands and is continuing to be a
spectator
> to the death of our children. It was seen that for six months, when we
were
> trying to have our voices heard, we were dragged along the streets by our
> hair and beaten. We are detained and put in jail. However much we cry out,
> they oppress us all the more. Just like our children, for the sake of a
> human life for our children and everybody, we are submitting our bodies to
> hunger.
> We mothers, spouses, siblings will not permit those we love to gradually
> waste away before our eyes. For this reason, four of those who are close
to
> the prisoners are starting a hunger strike which they will turn into a
Death
> Fast. Our sons and daughters' demands are also our demands. If the demands
> of our sons and daughters are not accepted, then we persons in all their
> families, no matter whether we are aged 7 or 70, will also lie down to die
> one by one.
> We call out to eyes that do not see, ears that do not hear, and hearts
which
> do not feel.
> Today it is our children and those close to us, tomorrow it will be
ordinary
> and political prisoners who are close to you; they are condemned to be
worn
> down in the 'F' Type prisons. From today, join your voices to ours.
> Tomorrow, do not be put in the same situation for the sake of leading a
> human life.
> THE DEMANDS OF OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS ARE OUR DEMANDS, LONG LIVE OUR
> INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE RESISTANCE!
> (The place where the hunger strike is taking place: Ayazpasa District,
> Ayazpasa Mosque Street, Saray Apartment No. 4, Taksim (the house of
Bilgesu
> Erenus).
>
> November 15, 2000
> No. 202
> OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS ARE CONTINUING THE HUNGER STRIKE THEY STARTED 26
DAYS
> AGO. WE TOO HAVE SUBMITTED OUR BODIES TO HUNGER
> Today is the 26th day of the hunger strike. The hunger strike will
continue
> until our demands for the closure of the cell-type prisons are accepted.
> We will not remain spectators to the deaths of our sons and daughters. For
> this, we, like them have submitted our bodies to hunger. This is the
second
> day of our hunger strike.
> What kind of country is this; where we have to pay a price with our bodies
> for the most basic human demands. We, for wanting justice in place of
> injustice, and saying we want an end to oppression, are submitting our
> bodies to hunger. They are killing our children before our eyes for making
> the most basic demands. And they want us to be spectators to it.
> In Ulucanlar they killed our children in the prison bathhouse, using
> torture, in Burdur they cut off arms and now they are trying to complete
> their work in the cells. And they want us to go into the cells. Because of
> this they are afraid whenever we go into the streets shouting, "Our
children
> are dying," and for standing by our children we are oppressed even more,
> they want us to stay at home and be mere spectators, contrary to all
notions
> of humanity. Yesterday we did not leave our children isolated, we
supported
> them by submitting our own bodies to hunger. Because resisting oppression
is
> the most honourable duty. Like our children, we will take our place in
this
> honourable resistance. We appeal to everyone to not remain insensitive in
> the face of this repression.
>
> November 16, 2000
> No. 203
> DAYS OF READING ON THE DEATH FAST
> On Wednesday November 15 at 5 pm, Pinar Kur, the authoress of the novel
"Bir
> Dile Agac" ("A Tree to a Language"), paid a visit to the four TAYAD
> (Association for Aiding Prisoners' Families) mothers who are on hunger
> strike, and announced that she was reading a chapter from her book in
> support of them.
> After Pinar Kur ended her visit to the mothers, she announced that in the
> 26th day of the hunger strike in the prisons, to make sensitivity greater
> she would join in the death fast of the mothers for a day as a gesture of
> support.
>
> November 16, 2000
> No. 204
> TO CREATE A NEW LIFE;
> OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS DAY BY DAY ARE APPROACHING DEATH
> Today the indefinite hunger strike in the prisons to close the cell-type
> prisons is continuing in its 27th day. Day by day they are approaching
> death.
> Death for our greatly beloved sons and daughters. We know that our sons
and
> daughters will die. How many times have we seen blood-spattered corpses
> behind prison walls, how many times have their bodies been worn down cell
by
> cell. And they embraced death.
> "Those who do not know the value of life do not know how to die for their
> homeland," was said by those who sacrificed themselves without hesitation.
> In the 1984 and 1996 Death Fasts and at Ulucanlar. To create a new life.
Now
> they will pay this price again. We will not remain silent to the deaths of
> our sons and daughters and have submitted our own bodies to hunger. Today
is
> the 3rd day of our hunger strike. We will start a Death Fast. We will not
> remain silent to the attempts to destroy our sons and daughters in the
cells
> and we will not permit this.
>
> November 17, 2000
> No. 205
> TODAY AT 1300, WE WILL BE IN FRONT OF SULTANAHMET JUSTICE BUILDING
> Despite this being the 28th day of the indefinite hunger strike begun to
> close the 'F' Type prisons and to demand every manner of human, democratic
> right and freedom, they are persistently and stubbornly refusing to accept
> these reasonable demands, and to make it clear to them that they are
guilty
> if deaths or permanent disablement arises, we will be in front of the
> Sultanahmet Justice building at 1300 today to accuse. We appeal to the
press
> to make note of the indictment by the prisoners' families.
>
> November 17, 2000
> No. 206
> PAY HEED TO THIS VOICE!
> Tyranny, plunder, pillage.
> Again our sons and daughters experience bitterness and death. Pay heed to
> it!
> This is the voice of our children's pain, the voice of their death!
> So that our sons and daughters do not start to die, and so that they do
not
> turn their indefinite hunger strike into a Death Fast in three days' time,
> support them, speak up for them! Do not let our sons and daughters die!
> Below is the text of the message containing the demands of our sons and
> daughters with regard to the indefinite hunger strike and Death Fast which
> has been sent to the Justice Ministry.
> "TO THE JUSTICE MINISTRY, ANKARA
> I (name) started an indefinite hunger strike resistance on October . for
the
> sake of the demands given below. In the event that, during my Indefinite
> Hunger Strike and Death Fast resistance, I lose consciousness and am
unable
> to take decisions for myself, if the demands for which we are resisting
have
> not been accepted and our resistance does not produce a result, I refuse
to
> accept any form of medical intervention. At the moment of writing this
text,
> I am in full possession of my faculties and am able to take decisions for
> myself.
> MY HUNGER STRIKE DEMANDS
> >From today, the construction of the 'F' Type prisons must stop.
> No. 3713, the Anti-Terror Law, must be abolished, along with all its
> consequences.
> The "Tripartite Protocol" signed by the Justice, Interior and Health
> Ministries must be cancelled.
> The State Security Courts must be abolished, all the sentences passed by
> them and their consequences must be quashed.
> At regular intervals, the prisons must be supervised by delegations of
> lawyers, doctors, prisoners' families, representatives of relevant
> non-governmental organisations and the Association of Judicial Personnel.
> These checks should not be interfered with arbitrarily and must have legal
> protection.
> Those responsible for killing and injuring our friends on September 21,
1995
> in BUCA, on January 4, 1996 in UMRANIYE, on September 26, 1999 in
ULUCANLAR,
> and on July 5, 2000 in BURDUR must be punished in a manner accessible to
> public opinion.
> Our friends suffering from various illnesses, who have complications
arising
> from the 1996 Death Fast or who were wounded in various operations and who
> have been denied treatment must immediately be released.
> Those who in various places and at various dates subjected us to torture
> must be revealed to the public, and must be quickly judged and punished in
a
> manner accessible to public opinion.
> All anti-democratic laws meant to bar the peoples' struggle for democracy
> and freedom must be abolished, and the oppression of the Kurds and other
> minorities must be ended.
> NAME
> SIGNATURE
>
> November 17, 2000
> No. 207
> OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS WHO STARTED AN INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE FOR
JUSTICE,
> DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM ARE ON THEIR 28TH DAY
> Today our sons and daughters are on the 28th day of an indefinite hunger
> strike. What do our sons and daughters want?
> They want the closure of the 'F' Type prisons which are now accepted by
all
> as being a form of torture.
> They want our friends, who have been abandoned to silent death by denying
> them medical treatment, to receive this treatment. They want the removal
of
> illegality the removal of obstacles placed to their receiving a legal
> defence. They want the punishment of those responsible for torturing and
> murdering them in the prisons. They want justice, democracy and freedom in
> this country.
> For all this, our sons and daughters have been on hunger strike for 28
days.
> These demands are just and legitimate. Those who want to turn this land
into
> a hell by paying no heed to these demands were accused by us today at
1300.
> We appeal to all to join us in the struggle for justice, democracy and
> freedom and support our sons and daughters who are on the indefinite
hunger
> strike.
>
> November 18, 2000
> No. 208
> TODAY THE INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE RESISTANCE BY OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS IS
> IN ITS 29TH DAY
> THEY WILL START A DEATH FAST BECAUSE THEIR DEMANDS HAVE NOT BEEN ACCEPTED
> Today is the 29th day of our hunger strike. In a day's time, our sons and
> daughters will turn their hunger strike into a Death Fast. For months we
> have been saying that our sons and daughters will die. We were detained,
we
> were dragged along the ground by our hair. They want us to remain mere
> spectators to what is happening to our sons and daughters. When we stand
by
> them we have been greatly oppressed. But still, we have not remained
silent.
> Because we are their mothers. How could they expect us to remain silent?
> In spite of these being the most human demands, demands anybody could
> accept. Do our sons and daughters want a great deal? For wanting an extra
> ward, they have been killed by torture in the prison bathhouse, or have
had
> their arms torn off so dogs could walk around with the severed human limb
in
> their mouths. Tyranny towards our sons and daughters is deemed to be
> permissible, and now they have built cells and want to put them in these
> cells.
> Is it not just to want justice instead of injustice, to oppose torture
> rather than accepting it? Who is capable of defending torture and
injustice?
> We, as TAYAD families, to support this just resistance, have submitted our
> bodies to hunger. Today is the 5th day. Like our sons and daughters we
will
> die but we will not permit the cells to be introduced. We will start a
Death
> Fast.
>
> November 18, 2000
> No. 209
> ATTACK AND DETENTIONS AT GALATASARAY
> In 13 prisons, nearly 1,000 prisoners who are on the 29th day of the
> indefinite hunger strike will tomorrow transform their protest into a
Death
> Fast.
> The TAYAD families are on the 5th day of their hunger strike alongside
their
> sons and daughters who have lain down to die. For months, so as not to
> repeat the experiences of 1996, families and friends of prisoners have
been
> in front of Galatasaray High School. On every occasion they were beaten
and
> dragged along the ground but nothing could stop them from going to
> Galatasaray and nothing could stop them from supporting their sons and
> daughters.
> Today, once again, the families and friends of prisoners were in front of
> Galatasaray. Once again they were savagely assaulted. In the months to
come,
> they will savagely assault our families again. We families are today
> supporting the sons and daughters by our readiness to die with them. We
are
> indignant over the attack in front of Galatasaray High School and we
demand
> the immediate release of those who have been detained.
>
> November 19, 2000
> No. 210
> BE BLIND AND DO NOT SEE. BE DEAF AND DO NOT HEAR. BE TONGUELESS AND DO NOT
> SPEAK. THEY WILL DIE, WE WILL DIE.
> Today, our sons and daughters, who are on the 30th day of the indefinite
> hunger strike started to have the 'F' Type prisons closed, turned their
> protest into a DEATH FAST. While the resistance is continuing in all
prisons
> we learn that the health situation of our sons and daughters is gradually
> deteriorating. What do our children, our spouses, our siblings, our
friends
> want?
> They want an honourable life and justice. Justice instead of injustice.
For
> this they have submitted their bodies to hunger. Again they will pay a
> price. We know that the state wants to exact a price for the most basic
> human rights. It is necessary to die to create a new life for this
country.
> If it is necessary to die, we are ready to die. Like those who are close
to
> us. And today, like our sons and daughters we are turning the 6th day of
our
> hunger strike resistance into a DEATH FAST. We do not want our sons and
> daughters to die. But enough is enough!
> For months we have been in the streets, we have been beaten, we have been
> arrested but we have never been silent. Every day the state has come up
with
> new lies. So your deafness has had no impact on our sons and daughters? In
> Ulucanlar, you didn't torture our children to death in the bathhouse, in
> Burdur, you didn't feed a prisoner's severed arm to a dog? And once again
> they will die. Again be blind, do not see. be deaf, do not hear. Be
> tongueless and do not speak.
> Below are the demands in writing for which we are going to decisively
> continue our Death Fast action until they are accepted:
> THE DEMANDS OF OUR DEATH FAST ACTION:
> The closure of the 'F' Type prisons
> The abolition of the Anti-Terror Law No. 3713 and all its consequences
> The lifting of the Tripartite Protocol
> The closing of the State Security Courts
> The bringing to trial of those responsible for the massacre of and severe
> injury to prisoners at Buca, Umraniye, Diyarbakir, Ulucanlar and Burdur
> prisons
> The release of those prisoners who suffer from illness, the effects of the
> 1996 Death Fast or were wounded in various operations in the prisons and
> were not given medical treatment
> The bringing to trial of the torturers
> The cancellation of all anti-democratic laws serving as a barrier to the
> struggle for democracy and freedom, and an end to repression.
> The names of those TAYAD family members who are on the Death Fast at the
> Gumussuy home of Bilgesu Erenus:
> Gulsuman Ada, Senay Hanoglu, Sukran Agdas and Fatma Sener
> The names of those prisoners and convicts who have gone on the Death Fast:
> UMRANIYE PRISON
> DHKP-C Trial prisoners: Ahmet Ibili, Ahmet Ozdemir, Ergul Acer, Yildiz
> Gemicioglu, Zehra Kurtay, Umus Sahingoz, Zeynep Arikan, Gulay Kavak,
Mehmet
> Zincir, Muharrem Genc, Veli Gunes, Hasan Pinar, Osman Osmanagaoglu, Ali
> Sanli, Ali Riza Demir
> TKP(ML) Trial prisoners: Durmus Kurt, Mehmet Kerem, Cem Yildiz, Ozgur
> Ayrilmaz, Yasar Yagan
> TKIP Trial prisoner: Servet Paksoy
> CANKIRI PRISON:
> DHKP-C Trial prisoners: Hasan Gungormez, Irfan Ortakci, Cihan Seker, Temel
> Cagirtekin, Ozgur Soner
> TKIP Trial prisoner: Muharrem Kursun
> BURSA PRISON:
> DHKP-C Trial prisoners: Erdal Arikan, Murat Ozdemir, Mesut Ors
> TKP(ML) Trial prisoners: Orhan Budak, A. Ihsan Ozkan, Erdal Cetinkaya, Ali
> Kocmen, Adil Kaplan, Ozgur Kocak, Yusuf Karaca
> AYDIN PRISON:
> DHKP-C Trial prisoners: Sinan Eren, Suat Karabulut, Burhan Gardas
>
> November 19, 2000
> No. 211
> PREPARATIONS TO ATTACK AYDIN PRISON
> There has been a concentration of military in front of Aydin Prison since
> 1400 hours.
> Well-equipped soldiers got up like robocops have come from Izmir and the
> situation is that they seem to be preparing a new attack.
> Lawyers and families are waiting in front of the prison and are trying to
> persuade the soldiers, but no explanation has been given for why they are
> there.
> Let us not permit those who intend to massacre our sons and daughters, who
> have turned their indefinite hunger strike into a Death Fast to back their
> just demands, to carry out a slaughter. We appeal to all sensitive public
> opinion to support our sons and daughters.
>
> THE TAYAD FAMILIES
>
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