From: DHKC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 13:49:07 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: WHO IS CALLING US TERRORISTS? Date: January 4, 2002 Statement No: 230 To the Members of the European Parliament To the Institutions of the European Union WHO IS CALLING US TERRORISTS? The absence of DHKP-C and the PKK in the “List of Terrorist Organisations” which was prepared by the European Union, made the oligarchy in Turkey very angry. From the government to the monopolist media many circles criticised the European Union for “having learnt no lessons on terror despite of the September 11 incident”. On this matter the biggest cry came from the partners of the coalition government namely the MHP (Nationalist Movement Party) members. Some circles within the oligarchy are talking about reconsidering their relations with the European Union because both DHKP-C and the PKK were not considered as being terrorist organisations. Without doubt, the moaning of Turkey’s administration is also reaching you through official channels and the media. How will you evaluate all these criticisms and bellows from the oligarchy in Turkey? Some of the pro-European circles in our country and the unofficial statements on behalf of the European Union suggest that “there is another secret list which was prepared by the EU and both DHKP-C and the PKK were included”. This is called opportunism and it aims to respond to the oligarchy’s criticism. Without a doubt everyone knows that there are political calculations and demagogy effecting both the decision of the EU and the statements of Turkey’s oligarchy. 1- the demands of Turkey’s oligarchy upon Europe concerning our organisation are not new. 2- Europe is not providing freedom for our organisation as Turkey’s oligarchy claims. 3- Our organisation was arbitrarily banned in Germany to oppress it, and in France our members and supporters are terrorised through detentions and arrests and a de-facto ban exists in practice. If you are for democracy, Human Rights and freedom, what needs to be done is not to ban those who are fighting for freedom with “lists of terrorist organisations” and to oppress and place limitations on revolutionary and patriotic organisations in Europe. Neither the pressure of the US, nor the screams of Turkey’s oligarchy can lead you in the right direction. You should have the courage to see things from an historical, social and scientific angle. Only if you adopt such an angle will you see that the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party and Revolutionary People’s Liberation Front are not “terrorist organisations”. We are patriots and revolutionaries who struggle against a fascist regime that TERRORISES their own people. VIOLENCE is an historic, scientific and social reality and did not appear without any reason. If people are using violence for freedom and justice, this is because they were left no other way. History has proven that people and revolutionaries only see violence as a tool of struggle under such conditions. It is the fascist regime in Turkey that determined that revolutionary organisations become “illegal” and use “violence”. WITHOUT QUESTIONING THE TERRORIST STATE IN TURKEY, YOU CANNOT QUESTION ANY ORGANISATION. The history of terror in Turkey has been exhibited clearly through press releases both by our organisation and by some other institutions. We will present you with some of them again. Only if you question them, will you have the right to debate violence. Examine them. Condemn them. We are ready to discuss everything on this issue. A RECENT RELEASE PROVING THE TERROR. According a press release from Turkey’s Internal Ministry that was issued last month, “between 1995-2001, in the entire of Turkey, 1 Million 740 thousand and 70 people were detained.” This number is enough to show how the people in Turkey face terror in their own land and how they live under constant police terror. Turkey is a country where all demonstrations demanding rights and liberties and attempts to organise people are prevented by police terror, torture and massacres. If the detention of almost 2 million people in six years is not TERROR, then what is? THE LAST DECADE OF TERROR 1991 23 People were killed during detention under torture. The death squads massacred 22 People. The police and gendarme massacred 32 people by shootings during public demonstrations. According to official accounts 552 people were subjected to torture. 1992 - 17 People were killed during detention under torture. The death squads massacred 63 People. 118 people were massacred during public demonstrations. 13 Journalists were killed. According to official accounts 594 people were subjected to torture. 1993 - 29 People were killed during detention under torture. The death squads massacred 57 People. The police and gendarme massacred 23 people by shootings during public demonstrations. 7 Journalists were killed. According to official accounts 827 people were subjected to torture. 1994 - 34 People were killed during detention and in the prisons under torture. The death squads massacred 32 People in their homes and in the streets. Unknown perpetrators murdered 292 people. 2 journalists were murdered. 1500 villages were burnt down and evacuated. 14473 people were detained and 1128 people were subjected to torture. 1995 - 101 People were killed during detention under torture. The death squads massacred 21 People. Unknown perpetrators murdered 321 people. 220 people were made “disappeared”. The police and gendarme massacred 26 people by shootings during public demonstrations. Approximately 15,000 people were detained and tortured. 243 villages were destroyed and evacuated. 1996 The number of those who were killed by the death squads and who were murdered during detention under torture reached to 190. Unknown perpetrators murdered 78 people. 194 people were made “disappeared”. 20,434 people were detained and the mass majority of them were subjected to torture. 68 villages were evacuated and destroyed. 1997 The number of those who were killed by the death squads and who were murdered under detention by torture reached to 114. Unknown perpetrators murdered 109 people. 213 people were made “disappeared”. 27,308 people were detained. It was documented that 366 people were subjected to torture. The number of villages that were evacuated and destroyed was 243. 1998 The number of those who were killed by the death squads and who were murdered during detention under torture reached to 128. Unknown perpetrators murdered 192 people. 66 people were made “disappeared”. 27,308 people were detained. It was documented that 498 people were subjected to torture. Special Teams and village guards massacred 151 peasants during village raids. 1999-2000 These years are the years when the demagogy of entering the EU intensified, the democracy game was played through the laws for harmonising Turkey within the EU with the Copenhagen criteria and at the same time extra-judicial executions and torture continued to take place. Approximately 20,000 people were detained during these years. The extra-judicial executions and murders by unknown perpetrators were reduced partially but a wide scale terror was put in practice targeting the entire people. In 1999, in Ankara Ulucanlar prison, 10 captives were tortured and massacred before everyone’s eyes. And at the end of 2000, the biggest ever massacre in the history of Republic of Turkey’s prisons. During this era, INTIMIDATION OF PEOPLE became the basic policy of the oligarchy and this aim was to be achieved through these massacres. Read these numbers again and again. Extra-judicial executions, torture, disappearances, murders by unknown perpetrators,... Who exercises all these? Those who practice them are those who wear OFFICIAL UNIFORMS. Those who practice them are not questioned, tried and punished in our country. Because all of this is used as STATE POLICY in our country. There is no doubt that all of this is called TERRÖR! It is also natural to call those who carry out this practice as TERRORISTS. Yes, we are faced with a TERRORIST STATE. Those who want us, the revolutionary and patriotic organisations, to be included in the “list of terror” are nobody but THESE TERRORISTS. This is such a terrorist state that it does not refrain to use oppression and torture on those who are already chained and in prisons. There are principles and rules that govern the treatment towards prisoners and hostages that were developed throughout centuries by mankind. But a terrorist state has no morals, principles or rules. It only knows how to practice terror. Here is the summarised balance sheet of the last two decades in Turkey’s prisons: TERROR IN THE PRISONS! In total 62 political prisoners were massacred during attacks by the gendarme and wardens. In total 25 political prisoners lost their lives during Death Fast and Hunger Strike actions. (Except the ongoing resistance) In total 67 political prisoners lost their lives because of the denial of medical treatment or the deliberate delay in treatment. In total 20 political prisoners lost their lives during protests against the oppression in prisons. In total 28 political prisoners lost their lives by torture, beatings and not receiving medical treatment when it was due. Their deaths were registered with false information. IT HAS NOT FINISHED YET! 28 Captives were massacred during the massacre of December 19-22, 2000. The number of people who lost their lives during the resistance against isolation which began on October 20, 2000 and during the Death Fast outside the prisons, and during the massacres to end the resistance in Armutlu neighbourhood of Istanbul came to 51. Torture, isolation and massacres in prisons ARE STILL CONTINUING! MHP, WHICH CALLS US TERRORISTS, ARE A GANG OF MASSACRES! In order to add our organisation and the PKK to the “list of terrorist organisation” the MHP is releasing statements by barking like a rabies-suffering dog. The murdering MHP has a special place within the oligarchy in Turkey. The MHP is one of the civilian fascist movements, which was organised by the CIA in the ‘60s, like tens of others in the other neo-colonies of imperialism. These mobs have been used against the people and revolutionaries since the ‘70s. The fascist terror of the MHP mobs in the neighbourhoods, factories, schools and cities aimed to make the people surrender through intimidation. Between 1974-1980, the fascist mobs of MHP and its side organisation Ülkü Ocaklarý (Idealistic Hearths) massacred thousands of our people. The fascist MHP is also responsible for the murder of tens of intellectuals. University lecturers (professors and doctors) Cavit Orhan Tütengil, Bedri Karafakioðlu, Ümit Doðanay; journalists like Abdi Ýpekçi and tens of other famous and known personalities were massacred as they tried to create an atmosphere of terror within society. When the single murders were not effective enough to intimidate people, this fascist movement carried out mass murders starting from 1978. During the plots in Malatya, Sivas and Çorum, the massacres in Istanbul university (March 16, 1978), in Maraº (December 24, 1978), in Bahçelievler and Piyangotepe neighbourhoods in Ankara the members of this fascist party played the key roles. The cadres and militants of the fascist party were given positions within the contra mobs and official special teams after the September 12, 1980 coup. These were trained in commando camps and used during the new era. With the support of the monopolies and the military the MHP was reinstated in TBMM (National Parliament). Today almost 20 of the MHP Members of Parliament in the parliament are those who were directly involved in murders by these mobs. The fascist murderers are moved into the parliament through the MHP. The administrative cadres of the MHP are those who planned numerous of massacres. These are the ones who call us terrorists. This is the same MHP, which is a partner in the government in Turkey that is supported by Europe to massacre us in the F-type prisons. They are the owners of a mentality, which suggests that the prisoners “should be killed” while the rights of captives were debated. Will the institutions of the EU act upon the wish of these murderers? THE TERROR IN TURKEY IS CONTINUING! Four people were burnt alive in a house in Istanbul’s Küçükarmutlu neighbourhood in November 5, 2001. They were those who were on Death Fast and those who were aiding the resisters and visitors. It was proven by the official pathology reports that during the operation in the prisons in December 19, 2000, in Bayrampasa prison’s woman ward, 6 women prisoners were burnt alive by the special teams. In the face of this clear terrorism, the European delegations used terms like "excessive violence was used"; "we have concerns". These delegations have no right to condemn those who struggle against this terror. You observe and know that on a daily basis associations and press bureaux are raided and their workers and visitors are taken to torture centres and the democratic institutions are closed down. Deaths by torture under detention are continuing non-stop. Extra-judicial executions are continuing to take place. The prosecutors give the decision to “acquit” the police and gendarme during the cases of torture, murder and massacre. Because there is a TERROR which is practised by the STATE’S DECISION. We ask while all these truths are obvious: IN REALITY, WHO IS THE TERRORIST? If all this is not terrorism then what is? If those who claim that they are "against terror" are not considering this terror and not calling those who practice this terrorists, all those exercises under the name of the “struggle against terror” are nothing but a great fabrication. IF YOU SAY NO TO VIOLENCE; LET’S STRUGGLE AGAINST HUNGER AND INJUSTICE: We invite the Members of the European Union and the EU institutions, to condemn the TERRORIST STATE OF TURKEY, and to ANNOUNCE that those who carry out these practice TERRORISTS. Just think! They are coming before you and representing the state in Turkey and asking you to add this or that organisation to the “terror list”. They are massacring thousands of people by torture, making thousands “disappear”, killing people in the streets, in their homes and in their work places without trial, arbitrarily exercising oppression and bans and you cannot call them “terrorists”. Yes, without doubt, they are terrorists. They are continuing the rule of exploitation and plunder through terror. In such a country where people are openly terrorised, considering us terrorists while we are struggling against this fascist terror means nothing but supporting fascist terror. Do not be the supporters of fascist terror. Those who wish to abolish violence must question the States, which condemn people to hunger and injustice and must oppose regimes, which violate peoples rights for the sake of their rule. The source of violence is never the revolutionary and patriotic liberation movements. REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLES’ LIBERATION FRONT _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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