Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 05:11:31 +0200
From: DHKC Informationbureau Amsterdam <ozgurluk-AT-xs4all.nl>
Subject: Statement from Amsterdam on the HUNGERSTRIKE


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              WITH THE HUNGERSTRIKE TILL DEATH AGAINST FASCISM!

               THEY DEFEND THEIR HONOUR WITH THEIR OWN LIVES !

Today, on the 45th. day of the hungerstrike the prisoners of the DHKP-C (30
persons), the TKP(ML) (10 persons), the TKP/ML (7 persons), the
TKEP-Leninist (6 persons), the TDP (2 persons) and 1 prisoner of the Direnis
Hareketi in the prisons of Bayrampasa, Umraniye en Sakarya declare that they
will increase the hungerstrike: it will be changed into a hungerstrike till
death.

    “We will not end the fasting till death before our demands are met!”

   * The isolation decree of May 6 must be withdrawn!
   * The extortion of confessions and the forced replacements of the
     prisoners must end!
   * We demand the immediate closure of the isolation prison of Eskisehir
     and the other isolation prisons!
   * The attacks against the relatives must end!
   * The hindrance of our rights to legal defence and medical treatment must
     stop!
   * We demand the immediate end to the policy of disappearances, the
     murders, massacres and torture. We demand the immediate ending of the
     state terror against the Kurdish people and the working people in the
     whole country!
   * The cruel oppression against the prisoners, especially in Erzurum and
     Diyarbakir, must be stopped!

The attacks against the revolutionary prisoners, the massacres of the
fascist state in the prisons are part of the war to bring the people on its
knees. The primary target of the ANAYOL government was to break the will
power of the revolutionary prisoners. For this reason they appointed police
chief Mehmet Agar as minister of Justice. The new government coalition of
the Refah Partisi and the DYP continues this policy and the promoted Mehmet
Agar to minister of the Interior.

Against this policy of annihilation, culminating in the massacres by the
contra-guerrilla in the prisons of Buca and Umraniye, the revolutionary
prisoners resisted, supported by a broad solidarity outside of the prisons.
With this resistance they forced the fascist state to a temporary retreat.

With the end of the old government and especially under the new government
of the Refah Partisi and the DYP, the attacks increased. The isolation
decree, the cancellation of the human rights for the political prisoners,
the attacks against the relatives: they are a mirror image of the increased
attacks against the people. With this terror the fascist system and the
oligarchy try to get a grip on the steadily worsening crisis. Today, the
revolutionary prisoners started a hungerstrike till death against this
terror. They will rather die than deviate from their demands.

The new government will not find a solution for the crisis, too. From this
government the people can only expect more exploitation, even more bloodshed
and even more tears!

Twelve years after the hungerstrike of 1984 (*), the revolutionaries will
defeat cruelty once more with their lives!

The flag of Apo, Fatih, Hasan and Haydar will be carried on by the Free
Prisoners (**)!

DHKC Information Bureau Amsterdam

(*) In 1984 three revolutionary prisoners from Devrimci Sol, Abdullah Meral,
Haydar Basbay and Hasan Felci, and one prisoner from the TIKB, M. Fatih
Oktulmus, died in a hungerstrike till death. The prisoners successfully
resisted the destruction of their identity and degradation to objects
without a free will of their own. The state wanted to enforce this by
measures like uniformed clothing and submission to military rituals.

(**) The revolutionary prisoners call themselves “Free Prisoners” because
they successfully defended their identity in an continuing resistance as
revolutionaries despite incarceration, torture and massacres. They will
never surrender.

  The names of the prisoners who decided to go on hungerstrike until death:

Bayrampasa/Istanbul: DHKP/C: Huseyin Fevzi TEKIN, Mehmet AKDEMIR, Kenan
GUNYOL, Hakki AKCA, Ilginc OZKESKIN, Birol ABATAY, Ali YALCIN, Yemliha KAYA,
Mehmet GUVEL, Mustafa YILMAZ, Mustafa ATALAY, Ali Ekber AKKAYA, Mehmet
YAMAN, Mustafa GOK, Altan Berdan KERIMGILLER, Munire DEMIREL, Gulizar
KESICI, Havva SUICMEZ, Yasemin OKUYUCU, Nursel DEMIRDOVUCU - MLKP: M. Ali
CELEBI, Ayhan GUNES, Delil DILAN, Birol PASA, Sakine ALTUN, Ahmet Turan
ATMACA, Umit KOCA - TKP(ML): Cafer CANGOZ, Abdullah KALAY, Okkes KARAOGLU,
Hasan RUZGAR, Nurettin EM, Mehmet Can TARGAY - TKEP/Leninist: Arzu
KEMANOGLU, Suna UZUNBIYIK, Muharrem YANCAR, Erhan IL, Serif KARTOGLU, Sedat
HAYTA - TKP/ML: Cemal RAKIP, Molla CAKIROGLU, Eyuphan BASIR, Muzaffer
ACUNBAY, Bayram KAMA, Nil Pinar ARIN, Sadegul OZDEMIR - TDP: Cahit ORAL,
Aziz HUN - Direnis Hareketi: Ramazan SADIKOGULLARI.

Umraniye/Istanbul: DHKP-C: Sadik EROGLU, Umit GUNGER, Sezgin CELIK, Huseyin
CUKURLUOZ, Gokhan GUNDUZ, Cahit BEDIR - TKP(ML): Aygun UGUR, Cafer ORAL,
Sabri DIRI - TKP/ML: Seyit KULEKCI.

Sakarya: DHKP-C: Serife DOGAN, Gulumser TOSUN, Kamile KAYIR, Sevgi SAYMAZ -
TKP(ML): Cigdem KAZAN - TKP/ML: Suzan BARAN.

Buca: DHKP-C: Bernar SATAR, Yusuf SARP, Mehmet GOCEKLI, Nevzat KALAYCI, Ali
TEKE, Gulten ISIK, Zeliha KAYAPINAR, Yasemin CANCI - MLKP: Huseyin Ali
GUNAY, Semire YILMAZ - TKP(ML): Murat KAHRAMAN, Binali YILDIZ, Erdal
TIRYAKI.

Bursa: DHKP-C: Yusuf Kenan DINCER, Nurettin ERENLER, Fedat SARTLI, Bulent
DURGAC, Ibrahim DOGAN - TKP(ML): Hayari CAN, Kemal OZELMALI, Ergun BUTUNLER,
Muslum KALOGLU, Ali AYATA - TKP/ML: Hayri YESIL, Ilhan KOZAN, Dogan
HAMISOGLU - TKEP/Leninist: Vefa SERDAR.

Eskisehir: DHKP-C: Bulent BAGCI - MLKP: Ayse YUMLU, Adem Serkan GUNDOGDU -
TKP/ML: Filiz GULMEZ, Mine ERGIN, Kenan TASKIN.

Canakkale: DHKP-C: Sinan YAVUZ, Huseyin AVSAR, Ayse BASTIMUR, Ayse Idit
ERKMEN, Mehmet EROGLU - TKP(ML): Pervin KURTULMAZ, Okan UNSAL -
TKEP/Leninist: (...) Gebze: TDP: Niyazi KAYA, Birtan GUVEN.

Aydin: DHKP-C: Vedat SAVAS, Mujdat YANAT, Mehmet Sahin ISIK, Mesut KOCA.

THOSE WHO RESIST, WILL BE VICTORIOUS!

OUR PEOPLES WILL NOT SURRENDER TO REPRESSION AND MASSACRES!

THE REVOLUTIONARY PRISONERS WILL NOT SURRENDER!

LONG LIVE THE PEOPLES RESISTANCE!

LONG LIVE OUR HUNGERSTRIKE!
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