Subject: Vl: IKM Bulletin on prisoners' struggle against force-feeding > IKM > Izolasyon Iskencesine Karsi Mücadele Komitesi > Komitee gegen Isolationshaft > Commitee for Struggle against Torture through Isolation > tel/ fax.:0049 / 40 / 28053625 > Addr: Kreuzweg 12 - 20099 Hamburg > Bank account: Postbank/ Hamburg > Account number: 79 966 205 BLZ: 200 100 20 > Internet.: www.noisolation.de > E-Mail.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hamburg, February 26, 2001 > > THE STRUGGLE OF THE PRISONERS IN TURKEY AGAINST SOLITARY CONFINEMENT AND FOR > HUMAN DIGNITY, DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM IS TODAY IN ITS 130TH DAY > "They are waiting for us to lose consciousness. But even if we become like > Semra ASKERI, the resistance and the struggle will continue and WE WILL > WIN." (Umus SAHINGOZ, woman Death Fast Fighter in the isolation ward in > Kartal Prison) > On several occasions Semra ASKERI was force-fed. Each time she regained > consciousness, she resisted the treatment and tore the intravenous feeding > tubes from her body. Now the state has achieved its goal with Semra Askeri. > She has lost her memory and no longer remembers why she is in prison. In > this way the state is attempting to leave all the prisoners handicapped. So > last week a number of prisoners were removed from the 'F' Type prisons and > taken to hospital for force-feeding. > Ismet UNVER, a Death Fast Fighter was removed from the 'F' Type Prison in > Edirne by force and taken to hospital for force-feeding. The hospital > doctors are waiting for him to lose consciousness so he can be treated. > Hatice YAZGAN was removed from Kutahya Prison on February 22 and she was > taken to hospital in Ankara for force-feeding. According to statements by > their families, attempts were made through violence to force-feed them. It > was also stated that their health situation is now very poor. Temel > CAGIRTEKIN was also removed from the 'F' Type prison in Sincan to hospital > in Ankara and was force-fed. Then he was taken back to prison. > Force-feeding of the unconscious prisoners is being carried out under the > provisions of the Tripartite Protocol (an agreement between the Justice, > Interior and Health Ministries). The mixture they are given intravenously > consists of glucose and dextrose; this places a great strain on internal > organs and it too can kill individual prisoners. It is deliberately meant to > kill political prisoners or leave them permanently handicapped. > Neither the December 19-22 massacre nor force-feeding nor the tyranny in the > 'F' Type Prisons could deter the prisoners from resistance. Approximately > 500 prisoners are continuing the resistance with the same resolve. The news > blackout, terror in the streets, arrests of family members, the > disappearance of opposition supporters and bans cannot break the solidarity > with the prisoners. With this understanding, the Death Fast by TAYAD members > and by some prisoners who were released from jail is continuing. > In Strasbourg (France), 100 people have been on a ten-day hunger strike > since February 19 in solidarity with the political prisoners and in protest > against the armed forces of Turkey's invasion of South Kurdistan > (Kurdish-inhabited northern Iraq). > VICTORY BELONGS TO THOSE WHO RESIST! > THE DEATH FAST RESISTERS ARE OUR HONOUR! > LET US STAND UP FOR THE SAKE OF OUR HONOUR! > > > _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ >
