(This is a reissue. It looks like last night when we tried to send the
second part we actually sent the whole item by mistake, so it was too large
for the system. We are reissuing the second part, and hopefully it will be
small enough. DHKC London Information Bureau.)
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
_______________________________________________
Leninist-International mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To change your options or unsubscribe go to:
http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
