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Subject: [abc-e] Dijon, France : Hunger strike in Solidarity
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Date: Sun Aug 19 11:52:14 UTC+0200 2001
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Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 03:37:25 +0200
Subject: Dijon, France : Hunger strike in Solidarity with the
  international struggle of political prisoners in Turkey
From: Maloka <maloka-AT-chez.com>
To: People <maloka-AT-chez.com>

PRESS RELEASE - FRIDAY 17TH, AUGUST 2001
Dijon, France : Hunger strike in Solidarity with the
international struggle 
of political prisoners in Turkey

Today, Friday 17th, August 2001, 12:00pm, we reply to the
call of the 
Solidarity Association of Prisoners' Families and Friends
(TAYAD) and are 
going on hunger strike for 3 days.
On the 8th of August in Istanbul, turkish police forces
assaulted the 
central office of the paper Vatan -which is closed to one of
the 
organizations whose some members are on hunger strike in the prisons.
With the same violence as during the assault carried out
against prisons in 
December 2000, walls were broken down with sledgehammer and
offices 
completely trashed, and several dozens of people were
arrested as well. 
Being known for such practices, there's no doubt that they
will be tortured 
for days by turkish police forces prior to end up in an
isolation cell or 
simply being declared as dead or as "having disappeared".
This new police operation is one more step in the struggle
run by the 
turkish State to break down the hunger strike that started
295 days ago in 
turkish prisons (on August 10th) and the solidarity shown by
families on 
the outside. The district of Kucukarmutlu (Istanbul) was
sealed off for 4 
days by police forces to take out prisoners' families
running a solidarity 
hunger strike. They threatened to assault their houses but
had to retreat 
because families threatened to sacrifice. On the outside,
there are 
currently several dozens of prisoners' relatives who are
between life and 
death, embarked on a death fast in solidarity their
relatives struggling in 
prisons for over 100 days for some of them. This political
repression is 
also hitting directly political militants by executions : on
the 6th of 
July, Ismael Karaman was murdered into the street in the
district of 
Avcilar (Istanbul).
Aside from this violent policy, the State is attempting to
split up the 
movement by releasing a number of prisoners on hunger
strike, betting on 
their stopping of the hunger strike once on the outside.
Nevertheless, this 
strategy doesn't really works because some prisoners
released have 
continued to show solidarity and have started over their
unlimited hunger 
strike by joining the families. Inside prisons and
hospitals, the situation 
is dramatic. Several dozens of them are in a hopeless
condition in 
hospitals. They suffer from heavy brain, kidneys and lungs
confusion but 
are maintained alive by forced perfusion. Indeed, the
turkish State had 
ordered some doctors -who then accepted- to contravene
international 
treaties (Malta and Tokyo) and to force-feed prisoners
needing it. Since 
then, they are maintained alive artificially so as to
minimize the impact 
which the loss of a human life would cause, if moreover
added to the 
casualties of this struggle that has already caused 58 ones
since the 19th 
of December, 2000. 28 prisoners who were then on hunger
strike deceased 
during the assault carried out against 20 prisons throughout
the country 
and 30 additional strikers have died since then.
On tuesday 14th, August 2001, Osman Osmanagaoglu, a prisoner
on struggle 
who was recently released along with others, deceased in a
district of 
Istanbul on the 299th day of the death fast. He's the 59th
casualty of this 
struggle.
This movement against the introduction of cellular
confinement in turkish 
prisons doesn't weaken, as well as the refusal of the State
to accept 
prisoners' claims focusing mainly on the closure of
confinement prisons (F 
type) and the abolition of anti-terrorist laws that allow
the incarceration 
of anyone being suspected of having any link with an
organization 
classified as "terrorist" by the State. During the few
discussions that 
took place between the government and representatives of
Human Rights 
associations, some minor concessions were made but were
judged insufficient 
by those associations as well as by prisoners on struggle.
Since then, the 
State is retreating in its uncompromising position while
european States 
remain silent faced with the current situation in turkish prisons.
Even worse, they subsidize the turkish government with 101,8
million euros, 
at the same time as they require from it to humanize and
modernize its 
prison system. In the scope of integrating Turkey within the
European 
Union, this normalization is aimed at introducing a clean
and "democratic" 
way of torture : white torture by isolation.
Suffering and fighting against this practice for numerous
years already, 
prisoners detained in european jails have shown solidarity
with this 
resistance by multiple actions, amongst hunger strikes by rota.
In the meantime in Europe, several prisoners' families and
friends are on 
hunger strike in solidarity with the resistance going on in
Turkey :
- in Switzerland : Cemile Ayyildiz has been on unlimited
hunger strike 
since the 10th July.
- in Austria : a hunger that started on the 4th of August
will last 45 days.
- in The Netherlands : a hunger strike that started on the
11th of August 
will last for 45 days.
- in Germany : a hunger strike that started on the 11th of
August will last 
for 45 days.
- in Paris (France) : 14 people are on hunger strike since
the 15th of 
August and will last for 12 days.
- in Salon-de-Provence (France) : one person started a
hunger strike on the 
17th of August and will continue until the 21st.
- other hunger strikes are going on in the cities of
Bordeaux, Toulouse and 
Lyon (France).
By going today on hunger strike for 3 days, we intend to
relay this 
resistance beyond the prison walls and beyond the borders.

SOLIDARITY IS A WEAPON !

Anarchist Black Cross - Dijon
c/o Maloka
B.P. 536
21 014 Dijon-cedex
France
Email : maloka-AT-chez.com
Web site : www.chez.com/maloka

Comite de Lutte Contre la Barbarie et l'Arbitraire
777, Bd. Nations unies
13 300 Salon-de-Provence
France
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