In Turkey The Contra-Guerrilla Is T

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From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: In Turkey The Contra-Guerrilla Is The State

The Contra-Guerrilla Is Not An Autonomous Power Within The State,
It Is The State

     The contra-guerrilla needed and established a large number
of gangs, consisting of traitors, fascists and policemen, to
carry out all the "disappearances", the kidnappings and the
massacres. And now every gang is just interested in its own
profits. The gangs are no longer under control.
     A traffic accident has revealed what hundreds of murders by
"unknown perpetrators", hundreds of "disappearances", had not
made clear to a lot of people already, in a manner pamphlets and
articles could not. In the past years the existence of the
contra-guerrilla was much discussed. The oligarchy and the
parties of the establishment have tried for years to keep the
existence of the contra-guerrilla a secret, they denied
everything. The provocations and activities of the
contra-guerrilla began to mount in the mid-seventies. This was
not a coincidence; those were the years in which the
revolutionary movement grew in strength. The provocation on
MayDay 1977 was a first clue that from now on, the
contra-guerrilla would be employed more often. Then we saw the
bomb explosions in the Sirkeci station and in the terminal of the
Yesilkoy Airport, the arson attacks against the Ataturk Cultural
Centre and the ferry "Ankara" near the Golden Horn. The
contra-guerrilla activities had two goals: the "terror" demagogy
had to be strengthened, and the left, the revolutionaries, were
to be blamed. By accusing the revolutionaries, claiming the
communists were responsible, they tried to denounce the
revolutionaries in the eyes of the people, on the other hand they
used these actions as a pretext for operations. The massacre in
Maras before 1980, and the attempted massacres in Corum and Sivas
showed the contra-guerrilla knew no more limits in its attacks
against the people.
     Since the eighties, the contra-guerrilla organisation (in
its military outfit) has been used all over Kurdistan, in
accordance with the policy of the oligarchy. With the expansion
of the revolutionary struggle, led by the revolutionary movement,
the contra-guerrilla accelerated its institutionalisation by
expanding its terror, its organisation, and its policy. The most
striking contra-guerrilla attacks in this period were the murders
of Muammer Aksoy, Cetin Emec, Bahriye Ucok and Turan Dursun.
These were attacks with a certain goal. They tried to blame the
Islamic organisations for these murders, covering the role of the
state. But this tactic has not been successful. The knowledge of
the people, based on the propaganda and information by the
revolutionaries since the seventies prevented the state from
reaching its goal. Although the state tried to blame the Islamic
organisations, once again, for the murder of Ugur Mumcu, the
demonstrations where tens of thousands yelled "the
contra-guerrilla murdered Mumcu" and "Damn the contra-guerrilla",
showed that the people did not believe these statements anymore.
Thereupon the general staff stated: "....There is no such thing as
a contra-guerrilla. There is a Ozel Kuvvetler Komutanligi
(Special Unit Command), previously known as Ozel Harp Dairesi
(Department for Special Warfare), under the command of the
general staff. With indignation we condemn these contra-guerrilla
accusations, aimed at the Turkish Army..." Thus denying the
existence of a contra-guerrilla on the one hand, conceding on the
other that is does exist under another name. Nowadays nobody,
neither the people, nor the oligarchy, discuss the existence of
the Ozel Harp Dairesi, the contra-guerrilla. Discussed is the
function of the contra-guerrilla and its influence on the policy
of the oligarchy. Since the nineties, the contra-guerrilla is not
just an organisation of gangs, committing murders, it's a camp
where policy is determined. It determines politics, and these are
put into practise by its gangs, by the police and the army.
     With its declaration of war against the people, and because
of its brutality, the power of the contra-guerrilla increased
from the moment it started to determine politics. Apparently all,
especially many in parliament and the bourgeois press are baffled
about this network, revealed by the accident in Susurluk. But
this is not the case. These are connections, known by almost all
circles in the oligarchy, connections they must have known about.
     The power and the hegemony of the contra-guerrilla are quite
demonstrative. The connections are the source where the
contra-guerrilla takes the courage for its brutality from. And it
is this brutality which makes certain circles among the
bourgeoisie say: "This can not be true". Even though the state
does not openly confess to all the variations of murders and
massacres, it now has practically taken responsibility for it.
Since 1990, the contra-guerrilla increasingly used the method of
"disappearances". Now an estimated 4-500 people have
"disappeared". The war has extended to such a level that the
contra-guerrilla is now acting quite openly, no longer feeling
the need to cover its activities. On the contrary, it speaks
quite openly about is existence and its dirty activities, trying
to give the impression it's everywhere and omnipotent, trying to
intimidate the people and the revolutionaries.
     The oligarchy has not been able to prevent the development
of the opposition among the people, it could not prevent the
revolutionary and the nationalist struggle. The more the
oligarchy attacked the people, the greater became the influence
of the contra-guerrilla. This development has caused several
problems for the oligarchy. The contra-guerrilla needed - and
established - a whole range of gangs, consisting of traitors,
fascists and policemen, to carry out its "disappearances" and its
massacres. Nowadays these gangs are only concerned about their
own personal profits. The gangs are no longer under control.
Those who are the enemies of the people have come even closer
together in their front against the people, against the
revolutionaries and the national people's movement, but they did
not succeed in fully solving their internal conflicts. The
opposition among the bourgeoisie has been silenced with similar
methods as were applied against the people. That's why nobody
should be astonished about the gangs, revealed in recent months,
and their connection with the contra-guerrilla. In reality, these
connections are nothing new, but the extension of the war
influences and extends this network. At present some circles
still discuss whether the contra-guerrilla is a body, autonomous
from the state, which is nested inside the state structures, or
not. Some of those who do not deny and cover everything in order
to protect the state, hope - confronted with the seriousness of
the situation - the contra-guerrilla is independent from the
state. Some, certainly because they are afraid, try to assess the
situation like that, because they would otherwise risk the wrath
of the state. But some, especially in the circles of the
reformists who believe in the existence of a - albeit a defective
- democracy and who don't see through the state apparatus and its
characteristics, can not let go from their babbling about "secret
structures" and "dark forces".
     In essence everybody who has a functioning brain, and who
says "at present the MGK (Military Security Council) rules the
state", knows that this is actually the centre of the
contra-guerrilla; the MGK is in fact the contra-guerrilla. The
contra-guerrilla has never been independent from the state,
because it was set up by the state itself. What it has to do, and
how, its strategy and its tactics are determined by the state.
Maybe it could be argued that the parliament did not have a clue
and that it did not steer the activities of the contra-guerrilla.
But this is hardly surprising in a system which is a fascist one,
and where the parliament, elections and delegates are merely
window dressing.

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