>From: "dhkc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <leninist-international.lists.wwpublish.com> > >Further to the CMK (Central Coordination of Prisons) statement we sent, we >note it is signed by a number of parties and groups including our own. >However, many will be unknown to people unfamiliar with left-wing politics >in Turkey. The names of such organisations will probably crop up again, >especially when the next prison crackdown happens. So here is a short guide >to the organisations concerned, to the extent that we know about them. The >following is not an exhaustive list but certainly includes the most >important groups of left-wing prisoners. >DHKP-C - Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front. Sometimes referred >to as the Party-Front (Parti-Cephe) or the Front (Cephe). Marxist-Leninist, >followers of the revolutionary Mahir Cayan (martyred 1972). >TKP(ML) and TKP/ML - Communist Party of Turkey Marxist-Leninist. These are >the principal Maoist organisations, though they are separate from one >another. Both have armed wings called TIKKO (Workers' and Peasants' >Liberation Army of Turkey). TIKKO was founded by Ibrahim Kaypakkaya >(martyred 1973). >TIKB - Union of Revolutionary Communists of Turkey. Marxist-Leninist, >pro-Hoxha. Descended from organisation founded by Deniz Gezmis (martyred >1972). >MLKP - Marxist-Leninist Communist Party. Pro-Hoxha. Result of merger of >several organisations in 1995-96. >TKIP - Communist Workers' Party of Turkey - Pro-Hoxha. Formerly known as >Ekim (October). >Prisoners from all six of the organisations cited above were murdered by >state forces at Ulucanlar on September 26, 1999. >There are also Direnis Hareketi (Resistance Movement) and the TDP >(Revolution Party of Turkey). We do not know much about them or their >ideology, but they took part in the 1996 Death Fast in the prisons, as did >another party, the TKEP-L (Communist Labour Party of Turkey-Leninist). >There are many left-wing prisoners who have been in jail since the 1980 >military coup. Some have been on Death Row for nearly two decades. Some of >these prisoners belong to organisations which no longer exist outside the >prisons, at least not in their original form. >One example of this is Devrimci Yol or Dev-Yol (Revolutionary Path). It was >a large, somewhat loose organisation in the 1970s. In 1978 Devrimci Sol >(Revolutionary Left), the predecessor of the DHKP-C, was founded by people >who left Dev-Yol. The 1980 military coup hit all left groups, including >Dev-Yol. Former followers of Dev-Yol went on to found the legal party ODP >(Freedom and Solidarity Party) in the 1990s. The ODP is hostile to armed >struggle. But there are still Dev-Yol prisoners in Turkey's jails in the >year 2000, and they have been there for many years. >There are also a few prisoners from an organisation called the THKP-C/MLSPB >(People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist Armed Propaganda >Unit). It was active in the 1970s and claims descent from Mahir Cayan's >organisation but no longer exists outside the prisons, as far as we know. > >DHKC London Information Bureau > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leninist-International mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To change your options or unsubscribe go to: >http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
