From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Fri Jul  5 05:01:13 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 05 Jul 1996 05:01:13
Subject: test....
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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Mon Jul  8 03:35:22 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 08 Jul 1996 03:35:22
Subject: KURD-L Is Back!
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KURD-L Is Back!

After several months of absence, the kurd-l listserv is once again
up and running. After we stopped doing the list back in March, we
received so much mail from subscribers that we felt it was
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and about the national liberation struggle in Kurdistan. We hope
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Freedom For Kurdistan!

Arm The Spirit, July 7/96


From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Tue Jul  9 14:36:54 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 09 Jul 1996 14:36:54
Subject: Irish Republican Socialist Solidari
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.92.960709065..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: Irish Republican Socialist Solidarity With The Kurdish People

Irish Republican Socialist Party Statement Of Solidarity With The
Just Struggle Of The Kurdish People

March 30, 1996

     The Irish Republican Socialist Party would like to convey
our solidarity with the struggle of the Kurdish people, and with
the PKK.
     The Kurdish people's liberation movement is in its essence
the movement of the Kurdish working classes against the
imperialistic oppression and the injustice and against feudalism
and its remnants. The liberation of Kurdistan is for the
liberation of the working class from oppression, not for the
enrichment of Kurdish captialism. Capitalism throughout the world
has become an outdated and decadent system that is approaching
its end; but at the same time it is becoming more vicious and it
is persecuting the people who are not yet liberated with
increasing violence. The barbaric brutality of the Turkish regime
used against the Kurdish people is a crime against humanity.
     As we continue to struggle for national liberation and
socialism in Ireland, we find inspiration in the heroic struggle
and tremendous sacrifice of the Kurdish people as they continue
to strive for the liberation of their nation and the Kurdish
working class. We extend greetings of solidarity to the PKK and
to all those fighting for Kurdish national liberation, whether in
territories occupied by Turkey, Iran, Iraq or Syria. Just as we
remain confident that we will end the partition of Ireland, we
are condfident that the Kurdish people will continue to fight on
until all of Kurdistan is united and freed from occupation and
imperialist exploitation.

Statement From The Republican Socialist Prisoners Of War In Long
Kesh

     At this time of year we anticipate the coming of Easter. For
Irish republicans, it is traditional for us to remember at Easter
not only the heroic struggle of 1916, but the memory, not only of
the martyrs of the Easter Rising, but of all those who died in
the struggle for Irish national liberation. From their example
and the memory of their sacrifice we draw the strength and
inspiration to fight on ourselves.
     So to do we take strength and inspiration from the more than
15,000 Kurdish martyrs who have died since 1980 as a result of
the genocidal attacks by the Turkish government. We salute the
Kurdish people in their just struggle and send greetings of our
sincere solidarity with them.

Beir Bua!


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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Wed Jul 10 23:40:01 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 10 Jul 1996 23:40:01
Subject: PKK 4th National Conference In Kurd
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.92.960710130..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: PKK 4th National Conference In Kurdistan

4th PKK National Conference

     According to a report on the Kurdish television station
MED-TV, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) held its 4th National
Conference in Kurdistan in early June. Only a summary of the
results were made public:

- The PKK assumes that the peoples of Asia will join closer
together in the future in order to defend themselves from the
imperialist policies of the West.

- The PKK assumes that the opposition of the Arab states and Iran
to the increasing cooperation between Turkey and Israel will
continue.

- The PKK will expand its political activities, even in the
Turkish regions of Turkey, in order to strengthen the social base
of the Turkish and Kurdish populations.

- The Conference concluded that the unilateral cease-fire of the
PKK had not only remained unanswered, but that the Turkish
military utilized it in order to strengthen its military attacks.

- Therefore, the unilateral cease-fire must be called off, and the
PKK must greatly expand its military strength and actions, even in
urban areas.

- The Conference gave its approval to use of "suicide commandos"
to be utilized against "targets of strategic importance" should
the need arise.

(Source: Kurdistan Rundbrief #12/96)


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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Thu Jul 11 12:35:24 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 11 Jul 1996 12:35:24
Subject: MED-TV Has Been Banned
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.92.960710171..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>

MED-TV Has Been Banned

American Kurdish Information Network (AKIN)
Press Release #10
July 5, 1996

     The Kurdish television station MED-TV was due to start
sending out its signal via the Eutel satellite of the Polish
state television company PTT as of July 2. But due to pressure
from the Turkish government, Polish authorities have canceled the
deal. For the past three months, MED-TV was broadcast with the
help of the government of Portugal, but this country also revoked
the station s license. Portugal, following after Spain, France,
and Germany, also bowed to pressure from Turkey.
     MED-TV began multi-lingual satellite broadcasts on May 15,
1995, fulfilling a need for 35 million Kurds. Internationally,
this step was welcomed as an attempt to give a voice to the world
s largest stateless people. (Kurdish-language broadcasting is
still illegal in Turkey and some other countries.) MED-TV
broadcast for 6 hours each day, providing programming in Kurdish,
Turkish, Assyrian, and Arabic. The signal could be received in
all of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, a huge
potential viewership in 34 countries.
     From the very beginning, the Turkish government exerted
great political pressure, coupled with economic threats, on the
governments of Europe, urging them to deny broadcast access to
MED-TV. But they had no luck for the past 16 months. The Kurds
enjoyed their very own television station! MED-TV is a legal
company, privately owned, organized by an association of
international Kurdish business people, licensed and regulated by
the Independent Television Commission (ITC) in London. The
station alway s fulfilled all of its legal and contract
requirements, and it also abided by European laws concerning
international broadcasting. But now, economic and political
pressure from the Turkish government are threatening the
integrity of internationally-recogn ized standards of free
speech. MED-TV's future is now dependent on whether countries
choose to adhere to international broadcast conventions or bow to
pressure from Turkey.
     MED-TV has vowed to carry on. A variety of options are being
examined in order to keep fulfilling the legitimate desire of the
Kurdish people to have an uncensored voice of their own, one
which is respected by the governments of the world.

Visit MED-TV's homepage for more information:
http://www.ib.be/med/

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Press Release From The ITC International Press Center In Brussels

July 3, 1996

     MED-TV is the first-ever international Kurdish-language
satellite television channel, serving the world's largest nation
without a recognized homeland. The station broadcasted out of
London to a potential audience of some 35 million Kurds scattered
throughout Europe, the Russian Federation, North Africa and the
Middle East. The emergence of MED-TV has inspired enormous media
interest and high-level diplomatic debate: hailed as an historic
achievement and a defeat for political censorship, it has from
the very beginning faced intense political and extrajudicial
pressure at the hands of an enraged Turkish state for whom
expressions of the Kurdish identity and broadcasts in the Kurdish
language are illegal and fiercely surpressed.
     MED-TV, a Kurdish language satellite television station
privately owned and funded by the international Kurdish business
community, was licensed by the Independent Television Commission
and began regular broadcasts out of London on May 15, 1995.
Broadcasting from its production studios in Brussel, Germany and
Sweden, MED-TV reaches a potential audience of some 35 million
Kurds scattered throughout Europe, North Africa, the Russian
Federation and the Middle East in three Kurdish dialects -
Sorani, Kurmanci and Zazaki - as well as in Turkish, Arabic and
Assyrian. The Turkish government has used every tactic in the
book to block transmission and reception of MED-TV.
     Its first step was a disinformation campaign launched in the
Turkish press before MED-TV began test transmissions in March
1995. The station was dubbed "PKK-TV", implying it was an arm of
the Kurdistan Workers Party. The label stuck and was repeated in
the Western press, including Screen Digest and The Independent
newspaper both of which later ran apologies and retractions. We
faced the same situation in Germany with newsmagazine Focus.
     This was followed by a campaign to intimidate those who
watched the station. The Turkish press gave full coverage to the
destruction of satellite dishes and the detention of suspected
viewers. The pro-Kurdish daily Yeni Politika remarked that
whereas its stories of human rights abuses by the state were
routinely censored, officials had allowed publication of the
confiscation of dishes and the harassment of viewers to warn off
Kurds with the temerity to tune into MED-TV. In spite of this,
sales of satellite dishes soared.
     While applying pressure to viewers at home, the Turkish
government has pursued a vigorous campaign in European capitals
to have MED-TV's licence revoked. President Suleyman Demirel
criticised the British government for permitting the station to
operate, alleging "the PKK guides these broadcasts".
     By August, the ITC had received three requests from the
Turkish government and, according to New Media Markets, even the
British Foreign Office wrote to the ITC complaining of MED-TV's
support for the Kurdish guerrilla movement. The Commission
refused on the grounds that it had "no reason to believe it has
broken any UK broadcasting regulations".
     During her November 1995 visit to Britain, Prime Minister
Tansu Ciller presented John Major with a dossier to support her
request that MED-TV be banned - a request which ran against the
grain of her press statement stressing "the passionate commitment
of Turkey's people to democracy, personal freedom and individual
liberties" and their desire for "free speech". In December,
Ciller requested that Germany prevent cable broadcasts of MED-TV.
Reporting on Ciller's efforts, the Financial Times wrote in
January 1996: "Happily this pressure has so far been unsuccessful
but several West European banks, legal firms and other companies
have refused to work with MED-TV, apparently in fear of
alienating the Turkish authorities."
     The latest target of Turkish pressures is the satellite
itself. On December 14, 1995 in a pioneering attempt to censor
transnational broadcasting, MED-TV's transmission was disrupted
by a pirate signal during a live debate in its Brussels studios.
Engineers estimated the cost of the operation at U.S. $375,000
and assumed that the rogue transmitter was used in Western
Europe. And in January 1996, unconfirmed reports in Hurriyet
(13/1/96) alleged that the French government pressures and would
request that MED-TV's Eutelsat satellite contract not be renewed.
     The Turkish government dismantled an agreement with French
Telecom for U.S. $4.5 billion for the reason that French Telecom
was used as a third partner by MED-TV. Even now, despite free
capacity on a transponder which belongs to France, France is not
ready to lease this transponder to MED-TV.
     MED-TV's future depends as much on intergovernmental
relations as it does on MED-TV's continued adherence to the
broadcasting codes of the ITC and the European Convention on
Trans-Frontier Television. Turkey's attempts to export media
repression to Europe threatens not just MED-TV but international
media independence and the freedom of expression itself. It is
not possible to extinguish the voice of a people. Our struggle
for democracy and the right to free expression will continue.

-----

Second Press Release From The ITC International Press Center In
Brussels

July 3, 1996

     MED-TV signed a new contract commencing July 2, 1996 with a
Polish broadcaster for continued transmission of its programs. In
a shock development yesterday the contract was vetoed by the
Polish government responding to Turkish government pressure to
prohibit the Polish PTT from transmission of MED-TV's satellite
feed. For the past 3 months, MED-TV has been broadcasting with
the co-operation of the Portuguese government which has now also
bowed to pressure from Turkey to terminate its broadcasting
concessions. Portugal follows Spain, France and Germany in its
recent capitulation.
     MED-TV first commenced regular transmission of its
multi-lingual programs on May 15, 1995, answering the needs of a
Kurdish population of 35 million people. Praised internationally
as a major achievement by a stateless people denied its own voice
(broadcasting in the Kurdish language is still prohibited by
Turkey, among other countries). MED-TV transmitted 6 hours of
programs in Kurdish, Turkish, Assyrian and Arabic across Europe,
north Africa and the Middle East to a viewership of 34 countries,
and 50 million potential customers.
     From the outset, the Turkish government has applied intense
political pressure, backed by economic ploys, upon European
governments to refuse MED-TV access to their transmission
facilities. Even so, for the past 16 months Turkey has been
denied success: Kurdish viewers have had their own Kurdish
channel.
     MED-TV is a legal company, privately owned and funded by the
international Kurdish business community, licensed and monitored
by the ITC (Independent Television Commission) in London. It has
fulfilled all its legal and contractual obligations, remaining
within the framework of its brief and adhering to the European
Convention on Trans-frontier television.
     Political pressure by the Turkish government now threatens
internationally accepted laws governing freedom of expression.
MED-TV's future remains at the merey of expedient
inter-governmental relations.
     Despite the threat, legal negotiations are continuing. A
number of alternative options remain for MED-TV to continue to
address the needs of the Kurdish people for a legitimate,
uncensored voice of their own, respected by the world's
governments.

MED-TV
Brussels
July 3, 1996

-----

Background Of MED-TV

     MED-TV evolved in response to calls over recent years,
particularly from the Europe-wide Kurdish diaspora, for a
televison station of its own. Feasiblity work began in May 1994.
By the autumn, MED Broadcasting Ltd. had been established,
licensed in Britain by the Independent Television Commission, and
early production work had begun.
     MED-TV started test-transmission on March 30, 1995,
broadcasting from London three hours daily. Test tapes included
music programmes, animations and films. Within its first one and
a half months MED-TV had also broadcast live studio debates from
its studio in Brussels.
     On May 15, 1995, MED-TV commenced normal broadcasts during
peak viewing hours daily between 17.00-19.00. GMT. (19.00-22.00.
Kurdistan local time) with the aim in the very near future of
extending to provide a 24-hour service.

MED-TV: A Target Of Historic Satellite Sabotage

(A press release from December 18, 1995)

     On December 14, 1995, a live satellite program transmission
of MED-TV was sabotaged by a second uplink, intercepting routine
and licenced transmission from London. It is possible that this
is the first time in satellite communication history this has
been done.
     According to official sources, the second carrier
responsible for the jamming was spotted after MED-TV's own
transmission carrier was intentionally dropped to identify the
origin of the pirate interception. Secam color bars, implying
deliberate jamming, were momentarily seen but an identification
of origin could not be made. MED-TV's satellite service providers
suspect sabotage while official sources say the cost of such
jamming would be roughly a quarter of a million pounds, involving
the use of high caliber technology. MED-TV's engineers believe
that, given its nature, the intercepting signal has been
transmitted from a European country.
     The jamming took place during a scheduled live debate
program in which Chairman of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK),
Abdullah Ocalan, was expected to declare a cease-fire to allow
Turkey to conduct its December 24, 1995, early general elections
without hindrance. The interception notably started after Ocalan
began to reveal that Turkey had aimed to negotiate indirectly
with his organization during a previous cease-fire in 1993, and
that the late Turkish President Turgut Ozal had taken concrete
steps to solve Turkey's Kurdish problem.
     The first of its kind, this illegal interception comes
exactly two weeks after Turkey's Prime Minister, Tansu Ciller,
visited London and asked her British counterpart John Major to
take effective measures against MED-TV. Turkish newspapers quoted
Major saying during the meeting that although the British
government could not intervene in ITC affairs, "it will do
everything within its hands" to fulfill Ankara's request.
     Turkey, which still bans Kurdish broadcast in its own
territories, has repeatedly appealed to the British and Belgian
governments to close down MED-TV - the only Kurdish satellite
channel in the world. Official petitions to this effect, calling
for a closure under the European Convention of Transfrontier
Television, have been made by Ankara to the ITC as well. Separate
Turkish initiatives have been made in other European countries to
ban MED-TV from cable output and since it started broadcast in
March 1995, MED-TV and its employees have repeatedly received
threats from unidentified circles.
     The recent case of interception further implies that
Turkey's political censorship, condemned world-wide and heavily
criticized by European countries, is now extending beyond
national boundaries at dangerous levels and in violation of
European and international laws. MED-TV condemns such acts and
attempts of censorship and appeals to the international community
and media to support it's right to broadcast to over 30 million
Kurds in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East without
interruption and continuing to abide with the regulations set
forth by its licencee, the British ITC.

Other Sabotage

Turkey: Telephone Interference On Live Show

     During a live studio debate in early December, the calls of
two important guest speakers telephoning in from Turkey were
inexplicably drowned out for 10-20 minutes by Hizbullah military
march music and electronic interference. Sema Kulu and Mehmet
Sexo are both HADEP parliamentary candidates and both were
phoning from their private homes in Diyarbakir.
     The rules regarding election candidate access to the media
have surely been breached here? Over the top of the music one of
them commented about the interference. Apparently no other
telephone lines from Turkey or elsewhere were effected. This form
of local telephone interference it said to happen quite routinely
in Turkey, but it is interesting that this time it was witnessed
so publicly on international TV.

Pressure Against MED-TV

     This is partly as the result of digesting and responding to
the latest round of Turkish diplomatic pressure against the
channel. This has had at least one tangible effect in the way the
British Foreign & Commonwealth Office has taken a step back from
us: careful not to be seen in any way to be actively supporting
MED-TV. Most noticable is the FCO's recent withdrawal of its
British Satellite News service from MED-TV. This free 10-minute
daily news feed is still available to us (as it is to everyone
else) should we wish to record their daily satellite broadcasts.
However, orders from above have recently stopped MED-TV being
supplied any longer with the free weekly compilation cassette of
the previous week's transmissions and the essential accompanying
commentary scripts.
     Without scripts the film images (broadcast with sound
effects only) are almost unusable/incomprehensible. It is ironic
that MED-TV is now effectively denied the right to a service
which promotes Britain, British culture and British interests. It
would be interesting to enquire if any other channels are
debarred. Should you wish to pursue this, you can contact the
Production Manager Steve Turner on 44-171-410-5240.
     As you know, Tansu Ciller visited London for meetings with
the PM and Labour Leader Tony Blair on 22/11/95. According to
Hurriyet (23/11/95) at her meeting in Downing Street, Ciller is
said to have given Major a dossier containing remarks made by
Abdullah Ocalan, and pressuring for measures to be taken to close
down MED-TV. Since MED is working within strict ITC Codes, this
seems rather contrary to her statement stressing "the passionate
commitment of Turkey's people to democracy, personal freedom and
individual liberties" and their desire for "free speech". Major
apparently said the government could not intervene with the
independent work of the ITC, but pledged support. Turkey also
plans to attack Belgium and Britain through the European
Convention on Trans-Frontier TV.
     And since MED-TV began delivery on cable networks in several
European countries on her December visit to Germany Ciller asked
that MED-TV be prevented from going out on cable in Germany
(Hurriyet 6/12/95). It seems unlikely we will ever see copies of
any of the official documents mentioned - the apparent evidence
against us! - even when a request for them were made formally by
supportive MPs, NGOs or our lawyers.

(Source: MED-TV WWW Page)


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Arm The Spirit is an autonomist/anti-imperialist information
collective based in Toronto, Canada. Our focus includes a wide
variety of material, including political prisoners, national
liberation struggles, armed communist resistance, anti-fascism,
the fight against patriarchy, and more. We regularly publish our
writings, research, and translation materials in our magazine and
bulletins called Arm The Spirit. For more information, contact:

Arm The Spirit
P.O. Box 6326, Stn. A
Toronto, Ontario
M5W 1P7 Canada

E-mail: ats at etext.org
WWW: http://burn.ucsd.edu/~ats
FTP: ftp.etext.org --> /pub/Politics/Arm.The.Spirit
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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Mon Jul 15 23:21:38 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 15 Jul 1996 23:21:38
Subject: MED-TV Has Been Banned
References: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.92.960710171..@burn.ucsd.edu>
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.92.960711071..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>

MED-TV Has Been Banned

American Kurdish Information Network (AKIN)
Press Release #10
July 5, 1996

     The Kurdish television station MED-TV was due to start
sending out its signal via the Eutel satellite of the Polish
state television company PTT as of July 2. But due to pressure
from the Turkish government, Polish authorities have canceled the
deal. For the past three months, MED-TV was broadcast with the
help of the government of Portugal, but this country also revoked
the station s license. Portugal, following after Spain, France,
and Germany, also bowed to pressure from Turkey.
     MED-TV began multi-lingual satellite broadcasts on May 15,
1995, fulfilling a need for 35 million Kurds. Internationally,
this step was welcomed as an attempt to give a voice to the world
s largest stateless people. (Kurdish-language broadcasting is
still illegal in Turkey and some other countries.) MED-TV
broadcast for 6 hours each day, providing programming in Kurdish,
Turkish, Assyrian, and Arabic. The signal could be received in
all of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, a huge
potential viewership in 34 countries.
     From the very beginning, the Turkish government exerted
great political pressure, coupled with economic threats, on the
governments of Europe, urging them to deny broadcast access to
MED-TV. But they had no luck for the past 16 months. The Kurds
enjoyed their very own television station! MED-TV is a legal
company, privately owned, organized by an association of
international Kurdish business people, licensed and regulated by
the Independent Television Commission (ITC) in London. The
station alway s fulfilled all of its legal and contract
requirements, and it also abided by European laws concerning
international broadcasting. But now, economic and political
pressure from the Turkish government are threatening the
integrity of internationally-recogn ized standards of free
speech. MED-TV's future is now dependent on whether countries
choose to adhere to international broadcast conventions or bow to
pressure from Turkey.
     MED-TV has vowed to carry on. A variety of options are being
examined in order to keep fulfilling the legitimate desire of the
Kurdish people to have an uncensored voice of their own, one
which is respected by the governments of the world.

Visit MED-TV's homepage for more information:
http://www.med-tv.be/med/

----------------------------------------------------------------
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2623 Connecticut Avenue NW Suite #1
Washington, DC
20008-1522 USA

Tel: (202) 483-6444
Fax: (202) 483-6476

E-mail: akin at kurdish.org
Home Page: http://burn.ucsd.edu/~akin
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The American Kurdish Information Network (AKIN) provides a public
service to foster Kurdish-American understanding and friendship.

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Press Release From The ITC International Press Center In Brussels

July 3, 1996

     MED-TV is the first-ever international Kurdish-language
satellite television channel, serving the world's largest nation
without a recognized homeland. The station broadcasted out of
London to a potential audience of some 35 million Kurds scattered
throughout Europe, the Russian Federation, North Africa and the
Middle East. The emergence of MED-TV has inspired enormous media
interest and high-level diplomatic debate: hailed as an historic
achievement and a defeat for political censorship, it has from
the very beginning faced intense political and extrajudicial
pressure at the hands of an enraged Turkish state for whom
expressions of the Kurdish identity and broadcasts in the Kurdish
language are illegal and fiercely surpressed.
     MED-TV, a Kurdish language satellite television station
privately owned and funded by the international Kurdish business
community, was licensed by the Independent Television Commission
and began regular broadcasts out of London on May 15, 1995.
Broadcasting from its production studios in Brussel, Germany and
Sweden, MED-TV reaches a potential audience of some 35 million
Kurds scattered throughout Europe, North Africa, the Russian
Federation and the Middle East in three Kurdish dialects -
Sorani, Kurmanci and Zazaki - as well as in Turkish, Arabic and
Assyrian. The Turkish government has used every tactic in the
book to block transmission and reception of MED-TV.
     Its first step was a disinformation campaign launched in the
Turkish press before MED-TV began test transmissions in March
1995. The station was dubbed "PKK-TV", implying it was an arm of
the Kurdistan Workers Party. The label stuck and was repeated in
the Western press, including Screen Digest and The Independent
newspaper both of which later ran apologies and retractions. We
faced the same situation in Germany with newsmagazine Focus.
     This was followed by a campaign to intimidate those who
watched the station. The Turkish press gave full coverage to the
destruction of satellite dishes and the detention of suspected
viewers. The pro-Kurdish daily Yeni Politika remarked that
whereas its stories of human rights abuses by the state were
routinely censored, officials had allowed publication of the
confiscation of dishes and the harassment of viewers to warn off
Kurds with the temerity to tune into MED-TV. In spite of this,
sales of satellite dishes soared.
     While applying pressure to viewers at home, the Turkish
government has pursued a vigorous campaign in European capitals
to have MED-TV's licence revoked. President Suleyman Demirel
criticised the British government for permitting the station to
operate, alleging "the PKK guides these broadcasts".
     By August, the ITC had received three requests from the
Turkish government and, according to New Media Markets, even the
British Foreign Office wrote to the ITC complaining of MED-TV's
support for the Kurdish guerrilla movement. The Commission
refused on the grounds that it had "no reason to believe it has
broken any UK broadcasting regulations".
     During her November 1995 visit to Britain, Prime Minister
Tansu Ciller presented John Major with a dossier to support her
request that MED-TV be banned - a request which ran against the
grain of her press statement stressing "the passionate commitment
of Turkey's people to democracy, personal freedom and individual
liberties" and their desire for "free speech". In December,
Ciller requested that Germany prevent cable broadcasts of MED-TV.
Reporting on Ciller's efforts, the Financial Times wrote in
January 1996: "Happily this pressure has so far been unsuccessful
but several West European banks, legal firms and other companies
have refused to work with MED-TV, apparently in fear of
alienating the Turkish authorities."
     The latest target of Turkish pressures is the satellite
itself. On December 14, 1995 in a pioneering attempt to censor
transnational broadcasting, MED-TV's transmission was disrupted
by a pirate signal during a live debate in its Brussels studios.
Engineers estimated the cost of the operation at U.S. $375,000
and assumed that the rogue transmitter was used in Western
Europe. And in January 1996, unconfirmed reports in Hurriyet
(13/1/96) alleged that the French government pressures and would
request that MED-TV's Eutelsat satellite contract not be renewed.
     The Turkish government dismantled an agreement with French
Telecom for U.S. $4.5 billion for the reason that French Telecom
was used as a third partner by MED-TV. Even now, despite free
capacity on a transponder which belongs to France, France is not
ready to lease this transponder to MED-TV.
     MED-TV's future depends as much on intergovernmental
relations as it does on MED-TV's continued adherence to the
broadcasting codes of the ITC and the European Convention on
Trans-Frontier Television. Turkey's attempts to export media
repression to Europe threatens not just MED-TV but international
media independence and the freedom of expression itself. It is
not possible to extinguish the voice of a people. Our struggle
for democracy and the right to free expression will continue.

-----

Second Press Release From The ITC International Press Center In
Brussels

July 3, 1996

     MED-TV signed a new contract commencing July 2, 1996 with a
Polish broadcaster for continued transmission of its programs. In
a shock development yesterday the contract was vetoed by the
Polish government responding to Turkish government pressure to
prohibit the Polish PTT from transmission of MED-TV's satellite
feed. For the past 3 months, MED-TV has been broadcasting with
the co-operation of the Portuguese government which has now also
bowed to pressure from Turkey to terminate its broadcasting
concessions. Portugal follows Spain, France and Germany in its
recent capitulation.
     MED-TV first commenced regular transmission of its
multi-lingual programs on May 15, 1995, answering the needs of a
Kurdish population of 35 million people. Praised internationally
as a major achievement by a stateless people denied its own voice
(broadcasting in the Kurdish language is still prohibited by
Turkey, among other countries). MED-TV transmitted 6 hours of
programs in Kurdish, Turkish, Assyrian and Arabic across Europe,
north Africa and the Middle East to a viewership of 34 countries,
and 50 million potential customers.
     From the outset, the Turkish government has applied intense
political pressure, backed by economic ploys, upon European
governments to refuse MED-TV access to their transmission
facilities. Even so, for the past 16 months Turkey has been
denied success: Kurdish viewers have had their own Kurdish
channel.
     MED-TV is a legal company, privately owned and funded by the
international Kurdish business community, licensed and monitored
by the ITC (Independent Television Commission) in London. It has
fulfilled all its legal and contractual obligations, remaining
within the framework of its brief and adhering to the European
Convention on Trans-frontier television.
     Political pressure by the Turkish government now threatens
internationally accepted laws governing freedom of expression.
MED-TV's future remains at the merey of expedient
inter-governmental relations.
     Despite the threat, legal negotiations are continuing. A
number of alternative options remain for MED-TV to continue to
address the needs of the Kurdish people for a legitimate,
uncensored voice of their own, respected by the world's
governments.

MED-TV
Brussels
July 3, 1996

-----

Background Of MED-TV

     MED-TV evolved in response to calls over recent years,
particularly from the Europe-wide Kurdish diaspora, for a
televison station of its own. Feasiblity work began in May 1994.
By the autumn, MED Broadcasting Ltd. had been established,
licensed in Britain by the Independent Television Commission, and
early production work had begun.
     MED-TV started test-transmission on March 30, 1995,
broadcasting from London three hours daily. Test tapes included
music programmes, animations and films. Within its first one and
a half months MED-TV had also broadcast live studio debates from
its studio in Brussels.
     On May 15, 1995, MED-TV commenced normal broadcasts during
peak viewing hours daily between 17.00-19.00. GMT. (19.00-22.00.
Kurdistan local time) with the aim in the very near future of
extending to provide a 24-hour service.

MED-TV: A Target Of Historic Satellite Sabotage

(A press release from December 18, 1995)

     On December 14, 1995, a live satellite program transmission
of MED-TV was sabotaged by a second uplink, intercepting routine
and licenced transmission from London. It is possible that this
is the first time in satellite communication history this has
been done.
     According to official sources, the second carrier
responsible for the jamming was spotted after MED-TV's own
transmission carrier was intentionally dropped to identify the
origin of the pirate interception. Secam color bars, implying
deliberate jamming, were momentarily seen but an identification
of origin could not be made. MED-TV's satellite service providers
suspect sabotage while official sources say the cost of such
jamming would be roughly a quarter of a million pounds, involving
the use of high caliber technology. MED-TV's engineers believe
that, given its nature, the intercepting signal has been
transmitted from a European country.
     The jamming took place during a scheduled live debate
program in which Chairman of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK),
Abdullah Ocalan, was expected to declare a cease-fire to allow
Turkey to conduct its December 24, 1995, early general elections
without hindrance. The interception notably started after Ocalan
began to reveal that Turkey had aimed to negotiate indirectly
with his organization during a previous cease-fire in 1993, and
that the late Turkish President Turgut Ozal had taken concrete
steps to solve Turkey's Kurdish problem.
     The first of its kind, this illegal interception comes
exactly two weeks after Turkey's Prime Minister, Tansu Ciller,
visited London and asked her British counterpart John Major to
take effective measures against MED-TV. Turkish newspapers quoted
Major saying during the meeting that although the British
government could not intervene in ITC affairs, "it will do
everything within its hands" to fulfill Ankara's request.
     Turkey, which still bans Kurdish broadcast in its own
territories, has repeatedly appealed to the British and Belgian
governments to close down MED-TV - the only Kurdish satellite
channel in the world. Official petitions to this effect, calling
for a closure under the European Convention of Transfrontier
Television, have been made by Ankara to the ITC as well. Separate
Turkish initiatives have been made in other European countries to
ban MED-TV from cable output and since it started broadcast in
March 1995, MED-TV and its employees have repeatedly received
threats from unidentified circles.
     The recent case of interception further implies that
Turkey's political censorship, condemned world-wide and heavily
criticized by European countries, is now extending beyond
national boundaries at dangerous levels and in violation of
European and international laws. MED-TV condemns such acts and
attempts of censorship and appeals to the international community
and media to support it's right to broadcast to over 30 million
Kurds in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East without
interruption and continuing to abide with the regulations set
forth by its licencee, the British ITC.

Other Sabotage

Turkey: Telephone Interference On Live Show

     During a live studio debate in early December, the calls of
two important guest speakers telephoning in from Turkey were
inexplicably drowned out for 10-20 minutes by Hizbullah military
march music and electronic interference. Sema Kulu and Mehmet
Sexo are both HADEP parliamentary candidates and both were
phoning from their private homes in Diyarbakir.
     The rules regarding election candidate access to the media
have surely been breached here? Over the top of the music one of
them commented about the interference. Apparently no other
telephone lines from Turkey or elsewhere were effected. This form
of local telephone interference it said to happen quite routinely
in Turkey, but it is interesting that this time it was witnessed
so publicly on international TV.

Pressure Against MED-TV

     This is partly as the result of digesting and responding to
the latest round of Turkish diplomatic pressure against the
channel. This has had at least one tangible effect in the way the
British Foreign & Commonwealth Office has taken a step back from
us: careful not to be seen in any way to be actively supporting
MED-TV. Most noticable is the FCO's recent withdrawal of its
British Satellite News service from MED-TV. This free 10-minute
daily news feed is still available to us (as it is to everyone
else) should we wish to record their daily satellite broadcasts.
However, orders from above have recently stopped MED-TV being
supplied any longer with the free weekly compilation cassette of
the previous week's transmissions and the essential accompanying
commentary scripts.
     Without scripts the film images (broadcast with sound
effects only) are almost unusable/incomprehensible. It is ironic
that MED-TV is now effectively denied the right to a service
which promotes Britain, British culture and British interests. It
would be interesting to enquire if any other channels are
debarred. Should you wish to pursue this, you can contact the
Production Manager Steve Turner on 44-171-410-5240.
     As you know, Tansu Ciller visited London for meetings with
the PM and Labour Leader Tony Blair on 22/11/95. According to
Hurriyet (23/11/95) at her meeting in Downing Street, Ciller is
said to have given Major a dossier containing remarks made by
Abdullah Ocalan, and pressuring for measures to be taken to close
down MED-TV. Since MED is working within strict ITC Codes, this
seems rather contrary to her statement stressing "the passionate
commitment of Turkey's people to democracy, personal freedom and
individual liberties" and their desire for "free speech". Major
apparently said the government could not intervene with the
independent work of the ITC, but pledged support. Turkey also
plans to attack Belgium and Britain through the European
Convention on Trans-Frontier TV.
     And since MED-TV began delivery on cable networks in several
European countries on her December visit to Germany Ciller asked
that MED-TV be prevented from going out on cable in Germany
(Hurriyet 6/12/95). It seems unlikely we will ever see copies of
any of the official documents mentioned - the apparent evidence
against us! - even when a request for them were made formally by
supportive MPs, NGOs or our lawyers.

(Source: MED-TV WWW Page)

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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Sun Jul 14 23:06:58 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 14 Jul 1996 23:06:58
Subject: ARGK: "To Remain Silent Is To Appro
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From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: ARGK: "To Remain Silent Is To Approve"

"To Remain Silent Is To Approve"

Zeynep Kinali, the Kurdish woman guerrilla who carried out a
"suicide attack" in Dersim on June 29 [the action killed ca. 20
Turkish soldiers - ATS], recorded a message which was sent to the
DEM News Agency in Germany prior to the attack. A section of the
message reads as follows:

     "To the patriotic people of Kurdistan and revolutionary
public opinion. In the history of all peoples, there are
significant historic incidents that change the destiny of a
people, such as the French bourgeois revolution, the Russian
Bolshevik revolution, and the Islamic revolution. These kind of
developments also influence and give direction to the history of
humanity. There have also been leaders that have left their mark
on history, like Alexander the Great, Lenin, Mao, and Mohammed.
They were in the vanguard of important developments in the history
of their own peoples and that of all humanity.
     "In Kurdistan, our guerrilla forces are harrying the enemy
and the ERNK is organizing our people all over the world wherever
they have been scattered. The people of Kurdistan are defeating
the dirty war policies of the enemy and with every passing day are
playing a great part in the struggle. Through the formation of the
Kurdistan Parliament in Exile and national alliances, progress is
being made towards a popular administration. We are paying a very
heavy price, for opposed to us are ferocious state forces with the
support of imperialist powers. However, for the first time in
history we have risen this far, achieved a sense of patriotism and
national consciousness, and are closer to freedom. For the first
time, we have found respect and our heads are high. We are able to
look humanity in the eye with pride because we are fighting for
our freedom. We have to continue the tradition of resistance
launched by the legendary struggle of our comrades Mazlum, Hayri,
Kemal, Ferhat, Berivan, Beritan, and Ronahi. On this basis I am
going to carry out a suicide attack to demonstrate my loyalty to
our party the PKK, to President Apo, to our great resistance
martyrs, to our prisoners of war, to our comrades waging a
struggle for freedom in the mountains, and to my country and
people.
     "I will launch myself at the enemy with the morale and
strength I have received from my people and endeavor to be an
expression of my people's demand for freedom. I shout to the whole
world:  Hear me! Open your eyes!' We are the children of a people
that has had its country taken away and been scattered to the four
corners of the world. We want to live in freedom in our own land
like human beings. Blood, tears, and tyranny must no longer be
this people's destiny. We long for people, fraternity, love,
humanity, nature, and life more than anyone. We do not want to
cause war, to die, and to kill. But there is no other way of
gaining our freedom. It is the imperialist powers and their lackey
Turkey who are responsible for the war.
     "To remain silent is to commit the greatest crime. If you can
see the blood flowing before your eyes and still remain silent,
then you are the most guilty."

(Source: Ozgur Politika Weekly Bulletin #22, July 3-12, 1996)


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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Tue Jul 16 07:39:28 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 16 Jul 1996 07:39:28
Subject: "The Revolution In Kurdistan Is A N
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From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: "The Revolution In Kurdistan Is A Necessity"

"The Revolution In Kurdistan Is A Necessity"

A Report On The 4th National Conference Of The Kurdistan Workers
Party (PKK)

     From May 1-15, 1996, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) held
its 4th National Conference. During the conference, important
political and military decisions were reached in order to
facilitate the struggle.
     The first PKK national conference was held in 1981, the
second in 1982, the third in 1994, and now the fourth has been
held, following a series of individual conferences in the various
regions of the struggle, especially in the war regions of
Kurdistan itself.

Ocalan's Political Report

     The final session of the 4th National Conference of the PKK
was organized following months of preparation during the winter
months, as well as a series of regional meetings and conferences.
Delegates were present from the various regions of the struggle,
including the Kurdish provinces of Botan, Garzan, Amed, Serhat,
Dersim, Erzurum, as well as South Kurdistan, Europe, and other
areas. The President of the PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, sent a
comprehensive political report to the 15-day conference. In this
report, he analyzed the current political situation, the status of
the leadership, the party, and the army, the ideological-political
development of the PKK, the situation in the liberated
territories, as well as other themes.

"We Live The Congress Every Day!"

     In a written message sent to the conference, the President of
the PKK stated the following:

     "Everyone has by now become accustomed to the congresses,
conferences, and other gatherings organized by our party. These
are no longer classic examples of congresses or conferences.
Rather, we are in a constant state of being in Congress. For us,
every day is the Congress! Most recently, this 4th National
Conference can be seen as the result of the past two years of our
work.
     "What work was this? We began with the ideological content of
the PKK and progressed through military and cultural developments,
and these have been very significant developments. These have been
solidified in important solutions and decisions. We have spoken of
the most important day-to-day tasks which confront us. What are
these? The vanguard role of the PKK, the character of militants of
the PKK.
     "Who are militants of the PKK? What are their special traits?
How must they recognize and fulfill their role? I think that the
unique character of our militants has reached an unprecedented
level of strength and determination. Now the PKK has reached a
level where it can no longer be turned back or stopped."

The Developing Vanguard Role Of Asia

     Throughout the entire conference, the significance of the
vanguard role of Asia and the Middle East in the developing
struggle against the militarist policies of the
imperialist-capitalist system under the name of the "New World
Order", as well as the increasing importance of the PKK in
opposition to these counter-revolutionary attacks, were analyzed.
     In the report which PKK President Abdullah Ocalan prepared
for the conference, the following was stated concerning
developments in the Middle East and the present formation of
blocs: "We have reached a phase today where the international
reality and the reality of Kurdistan influence one another, where
politicization and the necessity of a solution can be felt. The
system of real-existing socialism has collapsed, and the
capitalist-imperialist system, which proclaimed a "New World
Order", has developed into dead-end problems and contradictions
rather than a clarity of fronts. This has sharpened the formation
of blocs; that is the international reality."

The Name Of Consciousness: PKK

     In his political report, PKK President Abdullah Ocalan
describes the role of the PKK in the Middle East and in this new
formation of blocs as follows: "In this new phase of bloc
formation, the PKK will remain strong in consciousness and
position, so that it can react to unforeseen developments in a way
that can make them useful. The revolution in Kurdistan will
advance just as swiftly and play just as important a role as the
dawning revolution of all humanity."
     The conference pointed to the significant roles played in the
Middle East and the Caucasus by countries such as Russia, China,
Iran, and Syria. It was stated that Russia is standing firm
against attacks from the West and has concluded a new partnership
with China, which amounts to an Asiatic union. It was stressed
that this Asiatic union could develop into a union of states which
could play an important role as a line of defense against
imperialist-capitalist attacks.
     It was also stated that within this structure, regional
unions have been created to ward off imperialist attacks in the
Middle East, and that these unions, under the leadership of Syria
and Iran, could prove quite significant. All Arabs and Iran stand
together against the regional partnership of Turkey and Israel.
     Throughout the entire conference, analyses were made as to
what role the revolution in Kurdistan can play within these
developments in the Middle East and Asia and what significance
these building of blocs has for it.

"We Have Important Work To Do!"

     During the 15-day 4th National Conference of the PKK, it was
stressed that there are important tasks to be carried out at the
present time. It was stated that the strategy of the PKK is in a
constant state of development, and that there are no problems with
the strategy, rather that day-to-day tactics need to be developed,
and that it's necessary to expand the revolutionary tactics of
struggle in South Kurdistan, that the emphasis on the revolution
in South Kurdistan is of great significance at both the
international and national level, and that all military,
political, and economic goals in South Kurdistan must be
fulfilled.
     It was stressed that the revolution in South Kurdistan plays
an important role within the bloc formations of the Middle East,
because South Kurdistan is such a strategic region for Kurdish
unions with Iran as well as the Arab states. It was declared that
this revolution is important for the democratization of Iraq as
well as for the creation of a new union which strives for the
equality and freedom of all peoples, and that this is very
significant and offers the possibility of acting as a positive
influence over Iran and the Arab states.
     The negative role of Turkey in this respect was analyzed,
namely the fact that Turkey can rely on NATO forces to back her
up, and that although this negative role has largely been made to
fail, there still has not been a complete victory in this field
and that one of the most significant tasks for the coming phase is
to achieve this victory.

The Revolution Must Be Carried Into Turkey

     The 4th National Conference of the PKK concluded that the
chance is now at hand to carry the revolution into Turkey, that a
phase has broken out where the Turkish people are no longer able
to live without revolution, and that the ultimate success of the
revolution in Kurdistan also depends upon a successful revolution
in Turkey. The Turkish Special War is experiencing a great defeat,
and not even the new pact between Turkey and Israel can save it.

A Solution Without The PKK Is An Illusion

     The conference stressed that the revolution in Kurdistan has
reached international dimensions, and that a solution without the
PKK is nothing more than an empty illusion. "To be a Kurd without
the PKK is just as impossible as democracy without the PKK or
politics without the PKK; this is not only true for Kurdistan, but
also for Turkey and the neighboring countries as well; in all
parts of Kurdistan, politics are developing under the influence of
the PKK."

Comprehensive Decisions Reached

     During the PKK conference, important military and political
decisions were reached. These include: centralizing the activities
of the political front with respect to the specific conditions of
the region, separating these from the military activities, and the
carrying out of political activities under general points of
reference; the realization of people's democracy in Botan-Behdinan
and the creation of red power; expanding the preparations for the
National Congress and the activities of the Parliament into South
Kurdistan; developing organs of administration and models for
liberated territories; the realization of these in concrete plans
and projects.

(Translated by Arm The Spirit from Kurdistan Rundbrief #13/96;
Original source: Ozgur Politika, June 10, 1996)

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From M.WESTERMAYER at 3LANDBOX.comlink.apc.org  Wed Jul 17 17:49:00 1996
From: M.WESTERMAYER at 3LANDBOX.comlink.apc.org (M.WESTERMAYER at 3LANDBOX.comlink.apc.org)
Date: 17 Jul 1996 17:49:00
Subject: "The Revolution In Kurdistan Is A N
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Manfred Westermayer              Asocio de Verduloj Esperantistaj (AVE)

kl>A Solution Without The PKK Is An Illusion
kl>
kl>     The conference stressed that the revolution in Kurdistan has
kl>reached international dimensions, and that a solution without the
kl>PKK is nothing more than an empty illusion. "To be a Kurd without
kl>the PKK is just as impossible as democracy without the PKK or
kl>politics without the PKK; this is not only true for Kurdistan, but
kl>also for Turkey and the neighboring countries as well; in all
kl>parts of Kurdistan, politics are developing under the influence of
kl>the PKK."

Dear friends of kurdish people,

I would spell this different:

PKK makes politics for kurdish people - yes.

Democracy needs more than PKK - it needs different organisations who have  
the same goal: first of all cultural autonomy of kurdish people.

First of all kurdish people should learn not only to speak but also to  
write their language, men and women !

PKK should welcome other political organisations and not be against them.

I wish you success in this sense.

Manfred Westermayer

[M.WESTERMAYER at 3LANDBOX.BAWUE.CL.SUB.DE]

From stk at schism.antenna.nl  Sun Jul 21 22:55:00 1996
From: stk at schism.antenna.nl (stk at schism.antenna.nl)
Date: 21 Jul 1996 22:55:00
Subject: First prisoner dies in hunger strik
Message-ID: <072196195531Rnf0.77b9@schism.antenna.nl>

------------------------------ forwarded message -----------------------------
schism at schism.antenna.nl (schism at schism.antenna.nl) writes:

------------------------------ forwarded message -----------------------------

FIRST PRISONER DIES IN HUNGER STRIKE TILL DEATH 

Amsterdam,  July 21, 1996

In the morning of July 21, 1996, the first prisoner on hunger strike till death
died. Ayguen Ugur, who belonged to the TKP(ML)  - Turkish Communist Party
(Marxist-Leninist) - , who couldn't drink anymore since July 12, is the first
who fell of the 217 political prisoners who are on hunger strike till death in
the prisons in Turkey and Kurdistan. He participated in the hunger strike till
death in the prison of Umraniye (Istanbul). Five days ago he lost consciousness.
It is expected that more prisoners will die today or in the very near future.
The Turkish government still refuses to negotiate with the prisoners. 

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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Mon Jul 22 17:42:57 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 22 Jul 1996 17:42:57
Subject: David Korn: "A Washington Arrest"
Message-ID: <bac1c849.QQazlu15911.19960722133..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: AKIN <akin at kurdish.org>

A Washington Arrest

By David A. Korn

First came the sound of shattering glass. Then the office door burst open
and a dozen beefy men, several with shotguns at the ready, charged through
it. As he turned from his desk to learn what was happening a command rang
out: "Freeze!" He was grabbed, thrown face first against the wall, searched, 
then cuffed and led off to jail.

The date was Friday, April 12,1996. The place was Washington, D.C., a
small commercial and office building on upper Connecticut Avenue, but he
might have imagined himself back in Ankara, or in any city of his native
Turkey. Still, one reassuring thought ran through his mind: This is
America. I won't be tortured.

He was known as Kani Xulam and he was the Director of the American Kurdish
Information Network. In the three years since he had taken up residence in
the nation's capital and set up AKIN, as it became known, as a legally
registered non-profit organization, he had become a highly effective
spokesman for the cause of Turkey's Kurdish minority.

He had come to Washington from Los Angeles, where his parents and brother
were established amid a small but prospering Kurdish-American community. He
was tall and slender and though exceedingly polite and slightly reserved had
a warm friendly smile and a firm handshake. His wire rimmed glasses marked
him as the intellectual his friends knew him to be; if you gave Kani Xulam a
book, they found, he would actually read it and then want to talk with you
about it. He had worked for the Kurdish cause since his student days on
scholarship at the University of Toronto where he was the most active Kurd
on campus, and he represented Kurdistan at a model U.N. session.

The task he assumed in the nation's capital was far more ambitious. It was
to make known to the American public and to the United States government,
the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the vast and intricate
executive branch, the oppression inflicted by the government of Turkey upon
its millions of Kurdish citizens, the denial of cultural and political
rights, the arrests, the torture and the killings. It was to argue for a
political solution to the conflict between the Turkish government and the
Kurds, instead of the military one that was being persued by the Turkish
army. And to plead and cajole for a change, even a small one, in the U.S. 
policy of massively arming Turkey with the helicopter gunships, artillery, 
tanks and armored personnel carriers that were being used in the wanton 
destruction of Kurdish villages and the devastation of the Kurdish 
countryside in southeastern Turkey.

Kani Xulam's arms were the modem and the fax machine. He bombarded his
targets with press releases, petitions, and newsletters. At the start he had
a lot to learn about how things get done in Washington, but he learned fast.
His was basically a one man operation and certainly not that of the typical
Washington lobbyist. He didn't sport expensive suits or alligator shoes or Gucci
briefcases. He couldn't afford them. He worked eighteen hour days, lived on
next to nothing, and walked the two miles each way between his office and his
small downtown apartment. He was totally dedicated to the cause.

He found few friends in the foreign policy bureaucracy of the executive
branch, ruled, as he discovered, by a long-entrenched and stubbornly
pro-Turkish policy. But he made headway on the Hill, established wide
ranging contacts there, even got passed a Sense of Congress Resolution
calling on the U.S. government to withhold arms supplies and press 
Turkey to observe international human rights standards and guarantee 
democratic political rights to its Kurdish minority. He joined 
enthusiastically in the work of Washington human rights organizations 
and became a respected member of that community.

He became a formidable competitor of Turkey's lavishly financed propaganda
machine, a David pitted against the Goliath of high-priced Washington and
New York public relations and law firms hired by the Turkish government to
cast a rosy glow over Turkey's dismal reality. The Turkish Embassy didn't
like it at all. It considered Kani Xulam dangerously effective. It put out 
word that AKIN was an operation run by the Kurdistan Workers Party, the PKK,
which since 1984 has been leading an armed rebellion against the government
of Turkey and which the State Department - at Turkish government instigation -
has labeled a terrorist organization. The Turks claimed that Kani Xulam was the
PKK's chief representative in the united States and, therefore, a terrorist.
They wanted AKIN closed down and Kani Xulam removed from the scene.

Ever since he opened AKIN, the Turks had watched him closely. Their review
of his records apparently led them to believe that he was using an assumed
name. Human rights advocates and AKIN supporters are persuaded that the
Turkish Embassy passed this and other more serious allegations against Kani
Xulam to the State Department's Office of Diplomatic Security and that it
was at Turkish government urging that the Department began secretly to
investigate him. On February 22, 1996 he was put under FBI surveillance. On
April 11, the day before his arrest, the FBI sent an agent in disguise to
his office, an attractive blond woman in her thirties who claimed to be 
visiting from Boston and seeking information on the Kurds for a term paper 
her nephew was writing.

But the arrest warrant that State Department security officers produced as
they handcuffed Kani Xulam's hands behind his back, as though he were a
violent and dangerous offender, spoke only of his having made false
statements on U.S. passport applications. For someone with no criminal
record, like Kani Xulam, the charge carried a recommended maximum penalty of 
six months in prison. For that, federal law enforcement agencies would hardly 
send a dozen heavily armed agents to break down doors. What else was it then
that
the Turkish Embassy told U.S. authorities they should expect to find at
AKIN's offices? A cache of arms, explosives, or drugs? Discovering none of
those 
things, federal agents carted off the organization's computers, files, and even
petty cash on hand.

Kani Xulam's faith that, in America, he wouldn't be tortured turned out to
be justified. But he also learned that, even in America, the rules aren't
followed scrupulously and the courts don't automatically protect the rights
of the accused. When he asked to call an attorney he was told he could do
so at the police station where he was to be taken. At the police station he 
was told he could do so at the District of Columbia jail. And at the D.C.
jail he
was put straight into solitary confinement. It wasn't until the next day,
some 18 hours after his arrest, that he was able to talk to a public
defender attorney and get her to notify his family in California. In
Federal Court hearings the following Monday and Wednesday, judges denied his
request for release on bail, disregarding both the fact that he had no
previous criminal record and character witness testimony given by three
highly respected members of the Washington community.

Turkey's ambassador to Washington, Nuzhet Kandemir, exulted over the arrest
and the court's action in denying bail. At a lunch with reporters on April
17, Kandemir called AKIN a terrorist group and expressed the hope that U.S.
authorities would close it down. He added: "We have been very unhappy with a
lot of activities of AKIN on a daily basis which were very harmful to
Turkish interests and this administration knows (that) quite well."

Kani Xulam found that prison conditions in America could be as bad as what
one might expect in Turkey. His solitary cell was full of cockroaches. The 
bed was a metal frame with no mattress or pillow (though later he was given 
a foam rubber matting half his height). He wasn't allowed to make phone calls 
or receive mail, and the jail had no library to draw on. He sat for seven days 
looking at the walls and talking with cockroaches that came to eye him
inquisitively. Still, he was a little apprehensive when released from
solitary "into the general population" (as the prison expression goes). He
had heard stories about prison violence, and the reputation of the D.C. jail 
was far from reassuring. His first cellmate was a disturbed young man in his 
late teens who at times muttered incoherently and at other times loudly 
described the details of making love to his girlfriend. But a subsequent 
cellmate, also in his late teens, turned out to be a follower of Louis
Farrakhan.
Kani instructed him in Islamic prayers and in reading the Koran in Arabic
and the young man held him in reverence.

A little over two weeks after his arrest, Kani was packed off to Los
Angeles, where he had filed his passport applications and where he was to
be tried. The trip there was the worst of his time in jail. It lasted ten
days and it turned out to be a kind of grand tour of the American prison
system, a crazy odyssey that took him from the D.C. jail in turn to more than 
half a dozen federal and state prisons in Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Oregon,
Arizona, 
Nevada and California before ending up at the federal penitentiary in Los
Angeles.
It consisted of long bus and airplane rides shackled to a seat alongside
dozens or sometimes hundreds of other prisoners. Travel from Pennsylvania
to Oklahoma was by Boeing 747; the Oklahoma prison had its own airstrip and
the plane taxied right up to the prison gate to disgorge its passengers into
the care of waiting guards. At each stop prisoners were searched,
fingerprinted, and
photographed. They were routinely awakened at 2 or 3 a.m. to be "processed"
for travel that did not begin until late morning. At the federal prison in
Las Vegas, Kani was put in solitary confinement after speaking up to calm
cellmates near riot in their frustration at not being fed and allowed to
sleep. Unlike the D.C. Jail, however, the Las Vegas prison had a library. He 
read through two thick volumes and considered his brief stay there almost a 
pleasure.

But the most memorable leg of the trip came near the end. It was a six hour
bus ride without rest stop or on board access to a toilet. Prisoners
urinated in their seats and the urine sloshed up and down the floor of the
vehicle as it wound its way along the road.

While Kani Xulam was being shipped back and forth across the country like a
piece of lost luggage, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia was considering an appeal filled by his attorney, Daniel Alcorn, of
the lower court's denial of bond. The Court's ruling was unambiguously
sharp. Judges Patricia Wald and David Tatel wrote: "We cannot but conclude 
that a serious error has been made here. A first time offender accused of a 
nonviolent crime with strong community ties and respected members of that
community
willing to supervise his release in any manner the court finds necessary...is
incarcerated pending trial, despite the fact that his entire lifestyle and
mission strongly suggest he will stay in place, and his charged misdeed (if,
indeed, he is found guilty) was to falsify information on a passport in order 
to remain in this country."

Kani Xulam was released from Los Angeles federal prison on $50,000 bond on
May 15, 1996 and he was taken into custody by the Immigration and
Naturalization 
Service (INS) and set free days later after filing an application for
political asylum.
His Los Angeles attorney, Peter Schey, President of the Center for Human Rights
and Constitutional Law, summed up the defense's view of the government's
actions: "...the United States Government's criminal and deportation
charges against Kani Xulam are politically motivated and were encouraged by
the Turkish Government. The United States Government is more concerned with its
strategic relations with the undemocratic Government of Turkey than with the
human and democratic rights of the Kurdish minority in Turkey..."

Even before Kani Xulam's release, AKIN was back in business under volunteer
management. It is still waiting, however, for the government to give it
back its files, computers, and petty cash.

AKIN can be contacted at the following address:

American Kurdish Information Network
2623 Connecticut Avenue NW #1
Washington, DC 20008-1522

Tel: (202) 483-6444
Fax: (202) 483-6476
E-Mail: akin at kurdish.org
Home Page: http://burn.ucsd.edu/~akin
 



From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Mon Jul 22 21:35:42 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 22 Jul 1996 21:35:42
Subject: Turkish Hungerstriker Dies!
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From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>

HUMAN DIGNITY WILL DEFEAT TORTURE!                                =20

VICTORY OR DEATH!

On the 63rd day of the hunger strike till death the revolutionary resistanc=
e
in the prisons took its first victim. Our comrade from the TKP(ML), Ayg=FCn
Ugur, has shown with his death that torture, repression and cruelty and
even death can not smear our dignity, can not break our resistance.
Imperialism and its allies and lackeys, the Turkish oligarchy and contra
guerrilla attack our peoples, the workers and labourers, the farmers, civil
servants and inhabitants of the gececondus with all their remaining
strength to save there rule. Because they can not cope with the crisis,
they try to drag our people with them into the abyss. The prisons, as the
hearths and examples of revolutionary resistance, constitute the main
target in their rabid attacks.

But their furious attacks, their cruel repression, their massacres and
torture are in vain. The revolutionary struggle has long since taken up
broad segments of the people. The children and the parents, the students,
the youth, the mothers and fathers of the prisoners, the unionists and the
inhabitants of the gececondus are in the front-line of the struggle,
together with the fighting and dying revolutionaries... They will break the
neck of the fascist system in Turkey.

The struggle reverberates even into Europe. Besides the hunger strike till
death in Turkey, which for the first time in history has taken a mass
characteristic, people in Europe are prepared as well to die in their
resistance. Since July 19, 1996, our comrades S=FCkran =D6geyik, Erg=FCn Se=
fer,
S=FCleyman Harman, Ayse Aksu, Meryem Altun and Ali Kiran in Belgium and
England are on hunger strike till death. In Europe as well the hearths of
many workers and students beat for the struggle of the liberation of
Turkey.

We call upon all whose hearths beat for justice for the people, who raise
their fists against repression, who long for a life without exploitation
and a life in dignity:

Join our resistance! Where ever you may be, use all your strength against
the inhumanity of imperialism and fascism whose acts constitute
exploitation, repression, torture and murder, whose name is written with
blood! Together we will defeat cruelty. We will drown fascism in the blood
it sheds.

We are right, we will win!
Shoulder to shoulder against fascism!
Ayg=FCn Ugur will live forever!
Our revolutionary prisoners will live forever!
Long live our resistance in the hungerstrike till death!

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From stk at schism.antenna.nl  Mon Jul 22 03:41:00 1996
From: stk at schism.antenna.nl (stk at schism.antenna.nl)
Date: 22 Jul 1996 03:41:00
Subject: Kani Yilmaz Update
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Press Release 8 july 1996


Kani Yilmaz: Update
His lawyers intend to appeal to the House of Lords

On 4 1996 the Divisional Court gave judgement in the
application for Habeas Corpus in the case of Kani Yilmaz,
European spokesman of the Kurdish National Liberation Front
(ERNK) and the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party). Mr. Yilmaz was
arrested in London in October 1994 just before he was due to
address a meeting of British parlementarians concerning the
announcement of PKK ceasefire proposals regarding its conflict
with the Turkish Republic. He was initially arrested on
grounds of national security, despite having entered the
country legally some three days earlier. Mr. Yilmaz was later
detained in custody persuant to a request for his extradition
made by the Federal Republic of Germany for alleged
participation in a wave of bombing campaigns carried out by
the PKK in June and November 1993.

The present Judgement upheld the legality of the request and
dismissed the application for Habeas Corpus. Lawyers Mike
Mansfield and Mark Miller on Mr. Yilmaz's behalf had sought to
argue that the request was made in bad faith and on account of
his political opinions and prominence within the Kurdish
community in Germany and not in consequence of any credible
evidence of guilt. Furthermore, it was submitted that the
offences were of a "political character" and therefore not
extraditable in any event. The Divisional Court rejected both
grounds, the first due to lack of evidence, the second by
virtue of ruling at law.

The Court did however find as a fact that the offences were
politically rather then criminally motivated. It held that the
offences were in part directed towards the Federal Republic's
foreign policy toward Turkey and its hostile domestic policy
towards Kurds within the FRG. However, it ruled, as matter of
law, that such offences could only be of a political character
within the meaning of the Extradition Act 1989, if they were
directed solely against the requesting state. It, therefore,
dismessed the applicant's legal subsmission that a dual
purpose was permissible within the meaning of the Act.

Mr. Yilmaz's lawyers have given notice of their intention to
appeal to the House of Lords on this important point of law,
which has clear implications for all emigree dissidents
currently in exile in the UK and for the future scope of
security operations between European states.

In Germany the PKK is banned since November 1994 and many
Kurdish cultural ans community organisations have been closed
down. Members of the Kurdish community have been subject to
numerous restrictions on their civil rights and to police
harassment. Germany is also one of Turkey's closest NATO
allies and a main arms supplier.




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From schism at schism.antenna.nl  Wed Jul 24 00:21:00 1996
From: schism at schism.antenna.nl (schism at schism.antenna.nl)
Date: 24 Jul 1996 00:21:00
Subject: DHKP-C fighter dies in hunger strik
References: <199607231739.TAA21646@magigimmix>
Message-ID: <072396212158Rnf0.77b9@schism.antenna.nl>

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"DHKC informationbureau Amsterdam" <ozgurluk at xs4all.nl> writes:

Dear friends,

Latest news about the situation in Turkey and the hunger strike till death.

This morning our comrade ALTAN BERDAN KERIMGILLER, fighter of the 
DHKP-C (the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front) died on the 65. 
day of resistance in the hunger strike till death. Berdan belonged to the first group 
of prisoners in Bayrampasa-prison who went on hunger strike till death. He has 
become the first martyrer of the 92 DHKP-C members who are on hunger strike 
till death. Berdan, 26 years old, was imprisoned 4 years ago and hadn't 
received a trial yet. He went into coma last weekend. 

Today the people went on the streets of Umraniye to protest against the murders
in prison. In a new move of the government, the gendarmes (military police),
armed with machine guns, are sent in to oppress any rebellion. 

We will keep you informed as soon as more news is available. 

greetings, 

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From DHKC at LINK-ATU.COMLINK.DE  Tue Jul 23 06:10:00 1996
From: DHKC at LINK-ATU.COMLINK.DE (DHKC at LINK-ATU.COMLINK.DE)
Date: 23 Jul 1996 06:10:00
Subject: Todesfasten 64. Tag
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                                           *DEVRIMCI HALK KURTULUS CEPHESI*
                                           Informationsb?ro Wien 22.07.96



In der T?rkei befinden sich 217 Gefangene der DHKP-C, TKP(ML), MLKP, TKP/ML,
TDP und Direnis Hareketi im Todesfasten. ?ber 1.500 Gefangene der DHKP-C,
TKP(ML), MLKP, TKP/ML, TDP, Direnis Hareketi, Ekim, TIKB und THKP-C/HD?
befinden sich in unbefristeten Hungerstreik. Heute ist der


                                  *64. Tag.*


Ihre Forderungen sind:
  - Der Erla? zur Einf?hrung der Einzelhaft mu? aufgehoben werden!
  - Das Erpressen von Gest?ndnissen und die Zwangsverlegungen m?ssen beendet
    werden!
  - Das Eskisehir-Gef?ngnis und alle anderen Isolationsgef?ngnisse m?ssen
    sofort geschlossen werden!
  - Die Angriffe auf die Angeh?rigen der Gefangenen m?ssen eingestellt werden!
  - Die Behinderung der Rechte auf Verteidigung und medizinische Behandlung
    m?ssen beseitigt werden!
  - Die Politik des Verschwindenlassens, der Morde, Massaker und Folter mu?
    beendet werden! Der Staatsterror gegen das kurdische Volk und gegen die
    Werkt?tigen des Landes mu? beendet werden!
  - Den Greueltaten in den Kerkern wie zuletzt in Ertzurum und Diarbakir
    m?ssen aufh?ren!

Am 20. April begannen die revolution?ren Gefangenen mit einem unbefristeten
Hungerstreik. Am 3. Juli wandelten 156 Gefangene diesen Hungerstreik in ein
Todesfasten um. Ab diesem Zeitpunkt traten immer mehr Gefangene ins Todesfasten.
Am 11. Juli, dem 53. Tag waren es 171, am 55. Tag 190, am 58. Tag 203, und
am 59. Tag befanden sich bereits 217 revolution?re Gefangene im Todesfasten.
Mittlerweile befinden sich viele von ihnen im Koma.

Die revolution?ren Gefangenen in den Kerkern des Faschismus haben nichts mehr
zu verlieren. Seit Jahrzehnten war die Kerkerpolitik des Staates darauf
ausgerichtet, die Gefangenen zur Kapitulation, zum Aufgeben und zum Verrat an
all dem, wof?r sie gek?mpft haben zu zwingen. Doch die Gefangenen haben dem
immer Widerstand entgegengesetzt. Im Verlauf dieser Widerst?nde haben sie eine
revolution?re Form der Gefangenschaft, die "Freie Gefangenschaft" entwickelt.
Sie sehen sich nicht als "Str?flinge" sondern als K?mpferInnen an der
Gef?ngnisfront. Mit dieser Einstellung, und mit dem Bewu?tsein, da? sie au?er
ihren K?rpern keine anderen Waffen haben, sind sie 12 Jahre nach dem ersten
siegreichen Todesfasten-Widerstand erneut ins Todesfasten getreten.

Der Widerstand der Gefangenen wird von unz?hligen Solidarit?tsaktionen in der
ganzen T?rkei aber auch in Europa unterst?tzt. Nicht nur die Angeh?rigen, auch
Menschenrechtsvereine, Rechtsanw?lte, Gewerkschaften, Jugendorganisationen,
Stadtteilorganisierungen, Zeitungen, K?nstler, Intellektuelle, Kulturvereine,
legale Parteien,... schlossen sich dem Kampf der Gefangenen an:

   Das Todesfasten der Angeh?rigen Aliriza EROGLU, Nadire CELIK, und G?zel SAHIN
     in der ?DP-Zentrale in Ankara dauert weiter an.

   In der 2. Abteilung der Genel-Is (Gewerkschaft der Stadtverwaltungsarbeiter)
     dauert das Todes-fasten der GewerkschafterInnen Aynur KARAASLAN,
     S?kr? KARTAL, Mevsim G?RLEVIK und Ayhan ERMIS und der unbefristete
     Hungerstreik von 13 ArbeiterInnen weiter an.

   Das Todesfasten der VertreterInnen der Revolution?ren Volkskr?fte in Europa,
     S?kran OGEYIK, Erg?n SEFER, S?leyman HARMAN und Ayse AKSU in Br?ssel sowie
     Meryem ALTUN und Ali KIRAN in London, dauert weiter an.

   27 B?ros der Zeitung Kurtulus befinden sich seit 10 Tagen im unbefristeten
     Hungerstreik.

   In der Mecidiyek?y-Zentrale der Gewerkschaft Genel-Is dauert der
     Hungerstreik der Angeh?rigen an.

   Der unbefristete Hungerstreik von T?DEF (F?deration der StudentInnenvereine
     der T?rkei) und DLMK (Kampfkommittees f?r Demokratische Gymnasien) dauert
     an.

   Der Hungerstreik des AKSM (Anatolisches Volkskultur- und Kunstzentrum)
     dauert an.

   Der unbefristete Hungerstreik der BewohnerInnen  von Okmeydani  im Pir
     Sultan Abdal-Verein wird fortgesetzt.

   Der unbefristete Hungerstreik der BewohnerInnen von Nurtepe im Haci
     Bectas-i Veli-Verein dauert an.


*21. Juli*

   *Der TKP(ML)-Gefangene Ayg?n UGUR ist in ?mraniye im Todesfasten gefallen.*


*20. Juli*

   Durch die brutalen Polizeiangriffe in der Y?ksel-Stra?e wurden die
   Angeh?rigen der Gefangenen schwer verletzt. Darunter befand sich auch die
   Sprecherin der Plattform f?r Recht und Freiheit, Oya G?kbayrak. Mit ihr
   zusammen wurden 150 Menschen festgenommen.

   In Mersin griff die Polizei die Angeh?rigen von Gefangenen an. W?hrend des
   Angriffs wurden 60 Menschen, darunter auch JournalistInnen, festgenommen.

   Die Mitarbeiter des Ege-Kulturzentrums haben einen Solidarit?tshungerstreik
   mit den Todesfastenden begonnen.

   In K?ln verhinderte die deutsche Polizei eine Demonstration des
   Solidarit?tskommitees mit den Freien Gefangenen. Die Demonstration wurde
   verboten, der Grenz?bergang zu Belgien abgesperrt, K?ln von Polizisten
   belagert.
   Der Volkskulturverein in der N?he des Demonstrationsortes wurde von der
   Polizei ?berfallen. Die 25 Menschen, die sich im Verein befanden wurden
   zusammengeschlagen und festgenommen.
   Am Hauptbahnhof wurden ca. 150 Menschen eingekesselt. Die Polizei schl?gt
   gezielt mit Kn?ppeln auf die K?pfe der Menschen und setzt auch
   Elektroschock-Ger?te und Hunde ein. Viele Menschen werden verletzt, einige
   von ihnen schwer.
   Insgesamt wurden ca. 200 Menschen, die ihre Solidarit?t mit den Gefangenen
   im Todesfasten zeigen wollten, festgenommen.


*19. Juli*

   Um 21.30 Uhr griff die Polizei in Bagcilar/Istanbul eine Kundgebung zur
   Unterst?zuung des Todesfastens an. Dabei wurde der Kurtulus-Leser Levent
   DOGAN von Polizisten in den Kopf geschossen. Ein anderer Kundgebungs-
   teilnehmer wurde ins Bein geschossen und festge-nommen. Zwei Kundgebungs-
   teilnehmer wurden festgenommen und sind seitden "verschwunden".

   Das Volk von Gazi errichtete in der Ismetpasastra?e Barrikaden. "Freiheit
   f?r politische Gefan-genen", "Wir lassen die revolution?ren Gefangenen in
   den Gef?ngnissen nicht allein", "Wir werden die H?nde derer brechen, die
   sich gegen die politischen Gefangene erheben","Es lebe die revolution?re
   Solidarit?t" sind ihre Parolen. Sie legten Feuer, tanzten und sangen. Am
   Abend des 18. Juli griffen hunderte Polizisten mit Panzern das Volk an.

   Auch das Volk, das sich in Nurtepe um die DHKC-K?mpfer gesammelt hat,
   leistete hinter den Barrikaden Widerstand. Nach einiger Zeit griff die
   Polizei die Barrikaden an. Die Polizei scho? auf die Widerstandsleistenden.
   Nach dem Polizeiangriff wurden einzelne H?user von der Polizei durchsucht
   und laut einer Nachricht, die wir um Mitternacht erhielten, wurden 15
   Personen verhaftet.

   Kurz nach dem Widerstand von Nurtepe erhob sich auch das Volk von Okmeydani
   f?r seine Gefangenen. Ca um 22:30 wurden in Okmeydani Barrikaden errichtet,
   die bis 1.00 Uhr verteidigt wurden.

   Au?erdem fand eine Kundgebung in der Zaferstra?e in ?rnektepe statt. Bei
   dieser Kundgebung erkl?rten sich die DemonstrantInnen, darunter 200 DHKC
   Sympathisanten sowie Sympathisanten von MLKP und TKP(ML), mit den
   Forderungen der Gefangenen solidarisch. Bei der folgenden Auseinandersetzung
   wurden zwei Polizisten verletzt.

   Die VertreterInnen der Revolution?ren Volkskr?fte in Europa, S?kran OGEYIK,
   Erg?n SEFER, S?leyman HARMAN und Ayse AKSU in Br?ssel sowie Meryem ALTUN
   und Ali KIRAN in London haben mit dem Todesfasten begonnen.


*18. Juli*

   Der Gesundheitszustand der Angeh?rigen Aliriza EROGLU, Nadire CELIK, und
   G?zel SAHIN, die sich in der ?DP-Zentrale in Ankara im Todesfasten befinden,
   verschlechtert sich von Tag zu Tag. Am 18. Juli wurden sie ins Krankenhaus
   gebracht, verweigerten jedoch die Behandlung.

   Die Zeitung Kurtulus erhielt folgende telefonische Erkl?rung: "Am
   Kosuyoluweg wurde ein Bankomat in die Luft gesprengt. Im Namen der DHKC
   widmen wir dieser Aktion den 4 Gefallenen in G?ltepe und den politischen
   Gefangenen im Todesfasten!"

   Die H?rriyet-Redaktion in Frankfurt wurde aus Solidarit?t mit den Gefangenen
   im Todesfasten von 40 AktivistInnen besetzt.

   Die Polizei bedroht st?ndig das Zentralb?ro der Zeitung Kurtulus in
   Istanbul. Am 18.Juli.1996 versuchte die Polizei drei Kurtulus-
   Mitarbeiter in der N?he des Zentralb?ros festzunehmen. Obwohl die
   Polizei versuchte die Zug?nge zur Kurtulus zu sperren, gelang es
   MitarbeiterInnen von Atilim, Partizan Sesi und Alinteri ihre Kollegen
   zu besuchen.

                                                      *DHKC*
                                        Revolution?re Volksbefreiungsfront
                                              Informationsb?ro Wien
                                                    22. 7. 1996


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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Wed Jul 24 21:36:05 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 24 Jul 1996 21:36:05
Subject: Support For MED-TV
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.960724155..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>

American Kurdish Information Network (AKIN)
Press Release #11
July 24, 1996
Telephone: (202) 483-6444

Support For MED-TV

Earlier this month, bowing to pressure from the Turkish government, the
broadcasting rights for the Europe-based Kurdish satellite station MED-TV
were revoked. There has been much outcry from the Kurdish Diaspora
concerning this crackdown on freedom of expression. We received the
following letters of support for MED-TV from the jailed members of the
Kurdish Democracy Party (DEP) in Ankara Prison and from noted Turkish
intellectual Haluk Gerger. We wished to share them with you:


        "MED-TV brought life to the Kurdish cultural scene the way water
and air do these things to living organisms. It was a source of news for
the Kurds and a mirror that reflected their reality to them. Thanks to
MED-TV, the Kurdish language was coming alive, something which threatened
those who wanted to suffocate it.
        "MED-TV epitomized the hope of the Kurdish people for renewal; it
was a magnet which drew the Kurds together. For these reasons, we condemn
those who wish it to be banned and ask for its broadcasting to resume
immediately."

Leyla Zana, Hatip Dicle, Orhan Dogan, Selim Sadak
(jailed Kurdish members of the Turkish Parliament)


        "I am a Turkish academic. I have appeared in virtually all Turkish
TV networks as well as some foreign TV channels. I have never experienced
the complete freedom of expression that I've had in various MED-TV
programs. MED-TV was a forum where all voices that were either persecuted
or otherwise barred to express themselves freely in countries like Turkey,
Iraq, Syria, and Iran could find a prominent place for themselves: peace
activists, members of ethnic or religious minorities, women, politicians,
spokespersons for marginalized communities, etc. It was also a medium
through which democratic values like free discussion, dissent, criticism,
and tolerance could be transmitted to millions who never in their daily
lives have had the chance to indulge in such "luxuries". It was a school
for millions to understand and respect different cultures, values, and
perspectives. It was indeed a garden of cultures where a thousand roses
blossomed. It is disheartening, to say the least, to see this garden
brutalized and vandalized.
        "Working for it, watching it, or participating in its programs, we
have been infected with the 'disease of freedom', as its enemies would call
our yearning for MED-TV. We cherish this wonderful experiment and will do
our best to have it back."

Dr. Haluk Gerger


----
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2623 Connecticut Avenue NW #1
Washington, DC 20008-1522

Tel: (202) 483-6444
Fax: (202) 483-6476
E-mail: akin at kurdish.org
Home Page: http://burn.ucsd.edu/~akin
----

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to foster Kurdish-American understanding and friendship"




From DHKC at LINK-ATU.COMLINK.DE  Wed Jul 24 02:46:00 1996
From: DHKC at LINK-ATU.COMLINK.DE (DHKC at LINK-ATU.COMLINK.DE)
Date: 24 Jul 1996 02:46:00
Subject: Todesfasten 66. Tag
Message-ID: <6DSfL4V9y7B@cephe.link-atu.comlink.de>

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                                           *DEVRIMCI HALK KURTULUS CEPHESI*
                                           Informationsb?ro Wien 24.07.96


In der T?rkei befinden sich 277 Gefangene der DHKP-C, TKP(ML), MLKP, TKP/ML,
TDP und Direnis Hareketi in 16 Gef?ngnissen im Todesfasten. Heute ist der

                             *66. Tag.*


>               *Ayg?n UGUR - TKP(ML) - gefallen am 63. Tag*
>          *Altan Berdan KERIMGILLER - DHKP-C - gefallen am 65. Tag*
>             *Ilgin? ?ZKESKIN - DHKP-C - gefallen am 66. Tag*


Das Todesfasten der Angeh?rigen Aliriza EROGLU, Nadire CELIK, und G?zel SAHIN
in der ?DP-Zentrale in Ankara dauert weiter an.

In der 2. Abteilung der Genel-Is (Gewerkschaft der Stadtverwaltungsarbeiter)
dauert das Todes-fasten der GewerkschafterInnen Aynur KARAASLAN, S?kr? KARTAL,
Mevsim G?RLEVIK und Ayhan ERMIS und der unbefristete Hungerstreik von 13
ArbeiterInnen weiter an.

Das Todesfasten der VertreterInnen der Revolution?ren Volkskr?fte in Europa,
S?kran OGEYIK, Erg?n SEFER, S?leyman HARMAN und Ayse AKSU in Br?ssel sowie
Meryem ALTUN und Ali KIRAN in London, dauert weiter an.

27 B?ros der Zeitung Kurtulus befinden sich im unbefristeten Hungerstreik.

In der Mecidiyek?y-Zentrale der Gewerkschaft Genel-Is dauert der
Hungerstreik der Angeh?rigen an.

Der unbefristete Hungerstreik von T?DEF (F?deration der StudentInnenvereine
der T?rkei) und DLMK (Kampfkommittees f?r Demokratische Gymnasien) dauert an.

Der Hungerstreik des AKSM (Anatolisches Volkskultur- und Kunstzentrum)
dauert an.

Der unbefristete Hungerstreik der BewohnerInnen von Okmeydani im Pir Sultan
Abdal-Verein dauert an.

Der unbefristete Hungerstreik der BewohnerInnen von Nurtepe im Haci Bectas-i
Veli-Verein dauert an.

Der unbefristete Hungerstreik der BewohnerInnen von Gaziosmanpasa im Yunus
Emre Verein dauert an.


*24. Juli*

   Das Zentralb?ro der Zeitung Kurtulus in Istanbul wurde schon tagelang von
   der Polizei belagert. Immer wieder wurden JounalistInnen und BesucherInnen
   festgenommen. Am 24. Juli um 19.30 Uhr umstellten Polizeienheiten das B?ro.
   Die anwesenden BesucherInnen und JournalistInnen verbarrikadierten die
   T?re. Nach einer Stunde st?rmten Spezialeinheiten mit Gasbomben und Waffen
   die Kurtulus-Redaktion. Alle 16 Anwesenden wurden festgenommen.


*23. Juli*

   *Der DHKP-C-Gefangene Ilgin? ?ZKESKIN ist in Bayrampasa im Todesfasten*
   *gefallen.*

   Der Gefallene Ayg?n UGUR wurde von der Polizei in Mersin beerdigt.

   In Sirgazi/Istanbul findet die Beerdigungs-Demonstration f?r Ayg?n UGUR
   statt. Die Menschen marschieren vom Cemevi (Alevitisches Zentrum) zum
   Friedhof.


*22. Juli*

   *Der DHKP-C-Gefangene Altan Berdan KERIMGILLER ist in Bayrampasa im*
   *Todesfasten gefallen.*

   Die Menschen, die vor dem Gef?ngnis ?mraniye auf die Leche des Gefallenen
   Ayg?n UGUR warteten, wurden von der Polizei angegriffen. 12 Menschen wurder
   schwer verletzt, 300 Menschen wurden festgenommen und ins Folterzentrum in
   der Vatan-Stra?e gebracht. Sie sind noch immer inhaftiert. Die Leiche des
   Gefallenen Ayg?n UGUR wurde von der Polizei nach Mersin gebracht.

Um 20.30 Uhr wurde die Merter Tozkoparan-Autobahn von DHKC-Milizen mit Feuer gesperrt. Die anwesende Polizei konnte nicht handeln.

   Nachdem der Tod von Ayg?n UGUR bekannt wurde, haben weitere Gefangene ihren
   Hungerstreik in ein Todesfasten umgewandelt:
     *Bayrampasa*:
       DHKP-C: Ercan KARTAL, Ural EROGLU, Savas D?RTYOL, Orkan Baris EKINCI,
         Okan YILMAZ, Arif G?LBUDAK, Erkan ERDEN, H?seyin IKKE, Furat TAVUK,
         Alaadin G?NDOGDU, Murat ACAR, Hamide ?ZT?RK, Seyhan DOGAN,
         Sefinur TEZGEL, Funda DAVRAN, Nil?fer ALCAN, Alev YILDIZ;
       MLKP: M. Akif HAN, Hasan POLAT, Muarrem ESINA, F?s?n ERDOGAN,
         Ali Hidir POLAT;
       TKP(ML): Aydin ILANBOYAT, Taylan YILDIZ, ?zg?r SALTIK, Selma TURGUT,
         Selda CAMKIRAN, Murat TARGAY;
       TKEP/Leninist: Fatma YILDIRI;
       Direnis Hareketi: Yadigar TEPE, Kemal TUFAN;
     *?mraniye*: MLKP: Fehmi CAPAN, Cemil KUYU;
     *Buca*: MLKP: Dincer ERG?N;
     *Aydin*: MLKP: B?lent ?NER;
     *Canakkale*: MLKP: D?zg?n DEMIRPENCE, Emine G?NG?R, Nihan G?KTAS;
     *Bursa*: MLKP: Kerim TEPELI, Hamit VALYIC;
     *Eskisehir*: MLKP: Garip KIRMIZIKAYA, Safak KARSLIOGLU;
     *Sakkarya*: MLKP: H?seyin YALCINKAYA, ?zg?r G?NASLAN, Fatma HARMAN;
     *Geschlossenes Zentralgef?ngnis Ankara*: MLKP: Hatice K?SKER, Ali TOPRAK;
     *Konya*: MLKP: Asiye G?DEN, H. Ibrahim TIRIAKI, B?lent GENC;
     *Iskenderun*: MLKP: Ibrahim BOZAY, Yusuf DEMIR;


*21. Juli*

   *Der TKP(ML)-Gefangene Ayg?n UGUR ist in ?mraniye im Todesfasten gefallen.*

   Im Yunus Emre-Volksverein in Gaziosmanpasa/Istanbul hat ein
   unbefristeter Hungerstreik zur Unterst?tzung des Todesfastens begonnen.

   In ?rnektepe/Istanbul fand um 22.30 Uhr eine Kundgebung der Revolution?ren
   Volkskr?fte f?r Ayg?n UGUR und das Todesfasten statt. Es wurden Barrikaden
   gebaut und Molotovcoctails verwendet. Die Polizei setzte Schu?waffen ein.


                                                    *DHKC*
                                      Revolution?re Volksbefreiungsfront
                                            Informationsb?ro Wien
                                                 24. 7. 1996


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From IHD-ANK at INFO-IST.comlink.apc.org  Thu Jul 25 09:28:00 1996
From: IHD-ANK at INFO-IST.comlink.apc.org (IHD-ANK at INFO-IST.comlink.apc.org)
Date: 25 Jul 1996 09:28:00
Subject: 6 prisoners died in Turkey!
Message-ID: <6DW3IFFZqoB@xp-ihdan.info-ist.comlink.apc.org>

Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

July 25, 1996

URGENT ACTION ALERT

STOP THE DEATHS IN TURKISH PRISONS!

TURKEY         AYGUN UGUR  in Istanbul  on 21 July 1996
               ALTAN BERDAN KERIMGILLER in Istanbul on 23 July 1996
               ILGINC OZKESKIN in Istanbul on 24 July 1996
               HUSEYIN DEMIRCIOGLU in Ankara  on 25 July 1996
               ALI AYATA in Bursa on 25 July 1996
               MUJDAT YANAT in Aydin on 25 july 1996
lost their lifes in Turkish prisons so far.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Hundreds of Turkish prisoners have been carrying out hunger-strike for 67
days to stop the oppressions and ill-treatment and to improve the
conditions in prisons.  6 prisoners died in this hunger-strike up to now
and Turkish Government  has still refused to negotiate with these
prisoners being close to death.

Nowadays, many organizations; including trade-unions, non-governmental
organizations, chambers, political parties and relatives of these
prisoners have been demonstrating to stop the deaths in prisons.During
these demonstrations many people,  have been wounded , detained and
tortured by security forces.

6 prisoners died due to the refusal of their rights and legitimate claims
recognised by international instruments.

RECOMMENDED ACTION

Without being too late, please send your telegrams/telexes/faxes/airmail
letters in English or your own language :

-expressing concern for the safety of the prisoners carrying out hunger-
strike and being close to death.

-urging that the government should accept the claims of prisoners,
recognised by international instruments and stop the oppressions and
attacks over the political prisoners.

-point out that current government is responsible for the deaths in
prisons.

Please send your massagges immediately :

TO TURKISH AUTHORITIES

Minister of Justice :

Mr. Sevket Kazan                ( salutation : Dear Minister )
Adalet Bakanligi
Bakanliklar Ankara, Turkey
Fax: 90-312- 417 3954

Minister of Interior

Mr. Mehmet Agar            ( salutation : Dear Minister )
Icisleri Bakanligi
Bakanliklar Ankara Turkey
Fax: 90- 312- 417 2390

Prime Minister
Mr. Necmettin Erbakan 	( salutation : Dear Prime Minister )
Basbakanlik
Bakanliklar Ankara, Turkey
Fax: 90-312-417 04 76

copies to:
Ms. Yildiz Temurturkan
Insan Haklari Dernegi (Human Rights Associations)
Bayindir Sok. 38/8 Kizilay Ankara, Turkey
Fax: 90-312-435 7615
e-mail: ihd-ank at info-ist.comlink.de

## CrossPoint v3.02 ##

From schism at schism.antenna.nl  Fri Jul 26 13:14:00 1996
From: schism at schism.antenna.nl (schism at schism.antenna.nl)
Date: 26 Jul 1996 13:14:00
Subject: 6 prisoners died in Turkey!
References: <6DW3IFFZqoB@xp-ihdan.info-ist.comlink.apc.org>
Message-ID: <072696101453Rnf0.77b9@schism.antenna.nl>

------------------------------ forwarded message -----------------------------
ihd-ank at info-ist.comlink.apc.org () writes:


July 25, 1996

URGENT ACTION ALERT

STOP THE DEATHS IN TURKISH PRISONS!

TURKEY         AYGUN UGUR  in Istanbul  on 21 July 1996
               ALTAN BERDAN KERIMGILLER in Istanbul on 23 July 1996
               ILGINC OZKESKIN in Istanbul on 24 July 1996
               HUSEYIN DEMIRCIOGLU in Ankara  on 25 July 1996
               ALI AYATA in Bursa on 25 July 1996
               MUJDAT YANAT in Aydin on 25 july 1996
lost their lifes in Turkish prisons so far.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Hundreds of Turkish prisoners have been carrying out hunger-strike for 67
days to stop the oppressions and ill-treatment and to improve the
conditions in prisons.  6 prisoners died in this hunger-strike up to now
and Turkish Government  has still refused to negotiate with these
prisoners being close to death.

Nowadays, many organizations; including trade-unions, non-governmental
organizations, chambers, political parties and relatives of these
prisoners have been demonstrating to stop the deaths in prisons.During
these demonstrations many people,  have been wounded , detained and
tortured by security forces.

6 prisoners died due to the refusal of their rights and legitimate claims
recognised by international instruments.

RECOMMENDED ACTION

Without being too late, please send your telegrams/telexes/faxes/airmail
letters in English or your own language :

-expressing concern for the safety of the prisoners carrying out hunger-
strike and being close to death.

-urging that the government should accept the claims of prisoners,
recognised by international instruments and stop the oppressions and
attacks over the political prisoners.

-point out that current government is responsible for the deaths in
prisons.

Please send your massagges immediately :

TO TURKISH AUTHORITIES

Minister of Justice :

Mr. Sevket Kazan                ( salutation : Dear Minister )
Adalet Bakanligi
Bakanliklar Ankara, Turkey
Fax: 90-312- 417 3954

Minister of Interior

Mr. Mehmet Agar            ( salutation : Dear Minister )
Icisleri Bakanligi
Bakanliklar Ankara Turkey
Fax: 90- 312- 417 2390

Prime Minister
Mr. Necmettin Erbakan 	( salutation : Dear Prime Minister )
Basbakanlik
Bakanliklar Ankara, Turkey
Fax: 90-312-417 04 76

copies to:
Ms. Yildiz Temurturkan
Insan Haklari Dernegi (Human Rights Associations)
Bayindir Sok. 38/8 Kizilay Ankara, Turkey
Fax: 90-312-435 7615
e-mail: ihd-ank at info-ist.comlink.de

## CrossPoint v3.02 ##

----------------------------- end forwarded message --------------------------


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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Fri Jul 26 13:00:49 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 26 Jul 1996 13:00:49
Subject: Stop The Deaths In Turkish Prisons!
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.960726072..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>

URGENT ACTION ALERT

July 25, 1996

STOP THE DEATHS IN TURKISH PRISONS!

TURKEY         AYGUN UGUR  in Istanbul  on 21 July 1996
               ALTAN BERDAN KERIMGILLER in Istanbul on 23 July 1996
               ILGINC OZKESKIN in Istanbul on 24 July 1996
               HUSEYIN DEMIRCIOGLU in Ankara  on 25 July 1996
               ALI AYATA in Bursa on 25 July 1996
               MUJDAT YANAT in Aydin on 25 july 1996
			...lost their lives in Turkish prisons so far.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Hundreds of Turkish prisoners have been carrying out hunger-strike for 67
days to stop the oppressions and ill-treatment and to improve the
conditions in prisons.  6 prisoners died in this hunger-strike up to now
and Turkish Government  has still refused to negotiate with these
prisoners being close to death.

Nowadays, many organizations; including trade-unions, non-governmental
organizations, chambers, political parties and relatives of these
prisoners have been demonstrating to stop the deaths in prisons.During
these demonstrations many people,  have been wounded , detained and
tortured by security forces.

6 prisoners died due to the refusal of their rights and legitimate claims
recognised by international instruments.

RECOMMENDED ACTION

Without being too late, please send your telegrams/telexes/faxes/airmail
letters in English or your own language :

-expressing concern for the safety of the prisoners carrying out hunger-
strike and being close to death.

-urging that the government should accept the claims of prisoners,
recognised by international instruments and stop the oppressions and
attacks over the political prisoners.

-point out that current government is responsible for the deaths in
prisons.

Please send your massagges immediately :

TO TURKISH AUTHORITIES

Minister of Justice :

Mr. Sevket Kazan                ( salutation : Dear Minister )
Adalet Bakanligi
Bakanliklar Ankara, Turkey
Fax: 90-312- 417 3954

Minister of Interior

Mr. Mehmet Agar            ( salutation : Dear Minister )
Icisleri Bakanligi
Bakanliklar Ankara Turkey
Fax: 90- 312- 417 2390

Prime Minister
Mr. Necmettin Erbakan 	( salutation : Dear Prime Minister )
Basbakanlik
Bakanliklar Ankara, Turkey
Fax: 90-312-417 04 76

copies to:
Ms. Yildiz Temurturkan
Insan Haklari Dernegi (Human Rights Associations)
Bayindir Sok. 38/8 Kizilay Ankara, Turkey
Fax: 90-312-435 7615
e-mail: ihd-ank at info-ist.comlink.de

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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Fri Jul 26 14:46:31 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 26 Jul 1996 14:46:31
Subject: Mainstream News On Turkish Politica
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.960726080..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: Mainstream News On Turkish Political Prisoner Hungerstrike

Mounting Death Toll Highlights Turk Rights Record

By Jonathan Lyons

Ankara, Turkey (Reuter - July 25, 1996) The death toll in
Turkey's two-month-old prison hunger strike jumped to five on
Thursday, turning the spotlight on the country's human rights
record.
     The five were part of a group of more than 300 leftists in
around 30 jails who have pledged to fast to the death to demand
the closure of notorious Eskisehir prison - dubbed The Coffin by
inmates - and to protest against general prison conditions.
     Dozens of hunger strikers are now reported by lawyers to be
in a critical condition.
     Inmate Ali Ayata died in Bursa prison, his lawyer told
Reuters, while human rights activists said Huseyin Demircioglu
starved himself to death in Ankara Central Prison.
     Three other hunger strikers died earlier this week.
     The prisoners and their lawyers also charge prison officials
with dispersing leftist inmates across the country, depriving
them of family visits and legal counsel.
     "The Government's Disgrace", said the secularist daily
Milliyet on its front page, highlighting the risks for Turkey's
new Islamist-led coalition.
     "Where is Sevket Kazan, what kind of justice minister are
you?" demanded prominent columnist Mehmet Ali Birand in the daily
Sabah, another secularist paper.
     "People are dying before your eyes and you do not lift a
finger. What kind of Moslems are you?" Birand also called on the
prisoners to break their deadly fast.
     Minister Kazan, of the Islam-based Welfare Party, has so far
refused to close Eskisehir, saying conditions there exceeded
Western standards and arguing that its use of individual cells
kept leftist prisoners under firm control.
     Most Turkish prisons rely on large open wards, which
officials say are difficult to monitor.
     Kazan told state-run Anatolian news agency that prison
inmates had weapons and were trying to draw the security forces
into an operation. "At the necessary time we will do what is
required and show them the authority of the state."
     Turkey's powerful Security Council, chaired by the prime
minister and dominated by the security chiefs, was set to discuss
the mounting crisis at 1100 GMT.
     Turkish and Western rights groups, who regularly criticize
the country's human rights record, frequently cite abuses during
pre-trial detentions and later in the prisons.
     France on Tuesday called for Ankara to improve jail
conditions in response to the hunger strike. Investigators in
Germany have linked recent arson attacks against Turkish-owned
targets to the sympathisers with the striking leftists.
     "Ali Ayata in Bursa prison died at 7 a.m. (0400 GMT) this
morning from the hunger strike", lawyer Ahmet Duzgun Yuksel told
Reuters. Ayata was a member of the Turkish Communist
Party/Marxist Leninist (TKP/ML) urban guerrilla group.
     An official at the Human Rights Association said Demircioglu
died in Ankara Central Prison in the early morning. He had been
held on remand for alleged membership of another far-left group. 
"There are about three people in a critical condition in each (of
about 30) prisons where the hunger strike is taking place",
Yuksel said.
     A group of medical workers outside Ankara Central Jail
clapped their hands slowly in protest at Demircioglu's death,
less than a month after the formation of the coalition government
of Islamist Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan.
     "It must not be forgotten that the convicts and detainees
are humans. Prison conditions must be improved", Mehmet Altiok,
head of the Ankara Medical Chamber, said outside the prison.     
Hunger strikes are common in Turkey but they often end in
compromise instead of the grisly deaths of recent days. So far
there has been little discussion of force feeding the inmates -
in part out of fear of sparking widespread prison riots.
     Political analysts blame years of state violence and inmate
ill-treatment for the present crisis.
     They say the strong hold of the military, which staged three
coups in the three decades to 1980, and a hardline bureaucracy
dogs efforts to improve Turkey's rights record.

European Media, Opposition Parties Slam Turkey

By Fiona Fleck

Bonn, Germany (Reuter - July 25, 1996) European media and
opposition parties rallied support on Thursday for some 150
Turkish prisoners on hunger strike to protest at political
detentions, but governments were muted in their response.
     In Germany, the country most affected outside Turkey because
of its two million-strong Turkish community, critics poured scorn
on Ankara for what they said were political detentions and human
rights abuses in Turkish prisons.
     "Now there has to be a concession to the hunger strikers'
justifed demand for dignified treatment in prison", said a
commentator on German television (ARD), dismissing the Bonn
government's call on Wednesday to the hunger strikers to give up
their protest.
     Socialist members of the European Parliament said the EU
should threaten to block funds for Turkey in budget talks later
this year. Their leader Pauline Green said she had written to
Turkish Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan voicing concern over the
deaths of six strikers.
     "The Turkish government have used the institutions of the
European Union to gain what they want and have given nothing of
what they promised in return", Green said.
     Last year, the European parliament allowed an EU customs
union with Turkey to go through after adding amendments meant to
assure that human rights were respected.
     London did not comment on the protest, but British police
said 20 demonstrators had briefly occupied a Turkish Airlines
office in protest against conditions in Turkish jails.
     French officials called on Ankara to find a solution to the
strike that respected human rights but did not elaborate.
     After a third night of firebombings of Turkish shops in
Germany, German media condemned the attacks which prosecutors say
could be the work of Turkish left-wingers showing solidarity with
the protest back home.
     "These attacks on Turkish shops in Germany are senseless and
counter-productive. They arouse anger and misunderstanding here
and could lead to a further escalation of violence in Turkey",
the ARD television commentator said.
     In Strasbourg, Leni Fischer, the President of the European
Council Parliamentary Assembly, called on Turkey to "respect the
European Convention on Human Rights, the rules of the Council of
Europe concerning prisons and to take into account the demands
made by the prisoners..."
     Fischer, who is German, said consultations were underway to
send a delegation of parliamentarians to Turkey to discuss the
issue with authorities there.
     In Turkey's traditional foe Greece, officials slammed
Turkey's human rights record over the strikers' deaths and
appealed to the European Union to intervene.
     German commentators and opposition politicians urged Bonn
and other Western governments not to turn a blind eye to "abuses"
by a NATO ally that is lobbying hard to join the European Union.
     "If several hundred prisoners in a NATO country risk their
lives to protest against the methods of the legal system there,
their Western partners cannot simply look away", the respected
Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper commented.
     Germany's opposition Social Democrats (SPD) expressed
solidarity with the hunger strikers a day after Turkish
protesters occupied the party's Frankfurt headquarters for five
hours before being ousted by police.
     "The prisoners' central demand is something that must be
adhered to by all civilised people and states, prisons must be
run without human rights violations", Rudolf Bindig, the SPD
human rights spokesman in the German parliament said.

Death Fast No Easy Way Of Dying

By Suna Erdem

Istanbul, Turkey (Reuter - July 25, 1996) Some hunger strikers in
Turkey will be coughing blood, will suffer internal bleeding,
lose their eyesight, hearing and finally lose consciousness in
their "death fast" which has killed six so far, a former prison
hunger striker said on Thursday.
     "A hunger strike is the hardest method of protest", said
Zeynel Polat, 38, who fasted for 70 days to near-death in 1984.
     "Every day, every hour, every second, you are conscious of
going to death...Towards the end, you cough up blood, suffer
internal bleeding and haemorrhoids. The pain is excruciating."
     Three inmates died on Thursday, the 67th day of a "death
fast", bringing to six the death toll for the protest against
Eskisehir high-security prison - where inmates say they are
maltreated - and prison conditions in general.
     "Even if the strike ends today, there are prisoners who can
no longer be saved", said doctor Muharrem Baytimur, a senior
member of the Turkish chamber of medicine.
     "And after 60 days, irreversible damage can appear in
certain organs. For instance, kidney failure, brain damage,
muscle deterioration", he told Reuters.
     More than 300 leftist inmates have been on hunger strike
since May.
     Polat, in jail through most of the 1980s charged with
leftist activities, began a hunger strike in support of the
inmates 14 days ago. He complains only of dizziness so far.
     "Later on, you lose consciousness - first intermittently,
then completely, then you can't move", he told Reuters in an
interview. "I only realised later that I had been unconscious
when you couldn't remember things my friends talked about."
     The first three days are the worst, said Polat, who works
with the radical leftist Kurtulus newspaper, because the body is
still sending hunger signals to the brain. Then the body becomes
accustomed to functioning without food.
     Doctors say while the human body can survive some 90 days on
hunger strike, this is cut to 60 days in prison conditions.
     Days of careful feeding of serums and a special diet brought
Polat back to life: "Make a mistake and you're dead", he says.   
Hunger strikers typically drink water and take salt or sugar
during their action, until they decide to go for a "death fast",
Polat said. "Then the dying process speeds up."
     Prison hunger strikes are common in Turkey, but deaths
rare.
     Turkey's hardline military has staged three coups in the two
decades to 1980, and political analysts blame years of state
violence and inmate ill-treatment - often during lengthy
pre-trial detentions - for the present crisis.
     Polat was jailed in 1982. His trial did not end until 1991.
His case is now under appeal.
     Polat and fellow leftists in Istanbul's Metris jail - one of
several to join the 1984 strike - acted against what they said
were harsh military practises following the 1980 army coup.
     These included forcing prisoners to salute before even the
lowliest of soldiers, recite the national anthem and pray before
eating - and beating them if they did not comply, Polat said.
     "They were tring to homogenise us, to make us give up our
ideals and become slaves of the state. They did not want
opposition", he said. "Which is what they are really trying to do
now, when they say they want to 'reform' people in jails." 

Arsonists Hit Turkish Store In Germany

Bonn, Germany (Reuter - July 25, 1996) Attackers firebombed a
Turkish-owned department store in central Germany and police said
they were investigating the possibility of a link to similar
recent attacks believed to be the work of left-wing Turks.
     A police spokesman said an automatic sprinkler system at the
store in Offenbach, near Frankfurt, put out the fire quickly. No
one was injured and there was little damage, he said.
     Witnesses said five or six people fled the scene after one
of them had thrown a petrol bomb through a shop window.
     Police said they were checking whether the attack was linked
to a string of similar firebomb attacks on Turkish properties
over the last few days.
     Investigators suspect those attacks were carried out by
left-wing Turkish extremists supporting a two-month old hunger
strike by prisoners in their homeland, who are protesting against
living conditions in the jails.

Turkish Anti-Terror Policeman Shot Dead

Ankara, Turkey (Reuter - July 25, 1996) Unknown assailants shot
dead a Turkish anti-terrorist policeman and seriously wounded
another in a drive-by shooting, police said on Thursday.
     A police spokesman told Reuters the policeman died in
hospital after the overnight attack in the western town of Gebze.
     Anatolian news agency said the shooting was carried out by
"terrorists", but the spokesman said it was unclear which group
was responsible or if the incident were connected to a worsening
hunger strike by militant leftist prisoners.
     Two prisoners died in the hunger strike on Thursday, taking
the death toll in the protest over prison conditions to five.


From schism at schism.antenna.nl  Wed Jul 24 20:01:00 1996
From: schism at schism.antenna.nl (schism at schism.antenna.nl)
Date: 24 Jul 1996 20:01:00
Subject: AP on the struggle in Turkey
References: <199607241332.PAA10117@magigimmix>
Message-ID: <072496170141Rnf0.77b9@schism.antenna.nl>

------------------------------ forwarded message -----------------------------
"DHKC informationbureau Amsterdam" <ozgurluk at xs4all.nl> writes:

By SUZAN FRASER 
Associated Press Writer 
Monday, July 22, 1996 12:55 pm EDT 


ANKARA, Turkey (AP) -- Stone-throwing demonstrators battled police
outside a prison Monday in a widening protest led by hunger striking
inmates demanding better treatment. 

The pressure for prison reforms in the often criticized Turkish prison
system is one of the first major tests for the new government, led by
the Islamic-inspired Welfare Party. 

The clash outside Buca prison in Izmir followed the death Sunday of an
inmate in Istanbul who was refusing even sugared water as part of a
``death fast.'' One police officer was injured in the Aegean port, the
Anatolia agency said. 

About 1,500 leftist inmates in 33 prisons are staging a hunger strike
-- entering its 65th day. It began after the previous government
carried out large-scale transfers of prisoners to remote parts of the
country, canceled visiting rights to families of political prisoners
and imposed strict rules on the daily lives of prisoners. 

The hunger strikers also want an end to alleged harassment and torture
in prisons and prompt medical treatment for sick prisoners. 

On Sunday, 20-year-old Aygun Ugur died in his cell after being in coma
for almost a week, said Husnu Ondul, spokesman for the Human Rights
Association, which often alleges government abuses. Ugur was among 217
inmates on ``death fast'' -- refusing the sugared water taken by the
others. 

The hunger strikers are not accepting medical treatment, but it was
not clear why prison officials did not intervene after Ugur fell
unconscious. 

Human rights groups say four other inmates were in serious condition
and more deaths were expected. 

Turkey's new government eased some of the restrictions in an effort to
end the hunger strikes, but the protesters were not satisfied. 

``Transfers to other prisons still continue and inmates face torture
to repent and denounce their organizations,'' said Ondul. 

Meanwhile, about a half dozen parents have started a hunger strike in
support of their children jailed in Ankara and Istanbul. 

Two mothers and a father laid in separate beds in a room at the
leftist Freedoms and Democracy Party headquarters in Ankara. They have
been on hunger strike for 20 days, and were too weak to speak to
journalists. 

Some 50 other relatives of prisoners on hunger strike gathered with
them. 

Sevgi Yamac, 46, said he supports her son ``so much so that I have
even instructed my relatives to chose a plot for his grave.'' 

Her son, Mert, was arrested four years ago when he was at high school
for hanging a leftist banner. He was sentenced to seven years for
membership of an illegal leftist group. 

``If he dies he'll die as a martyr for the country,'' she said. 
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From DHKC at LINK-ATU.COMLINK.DE  Fri Jul 26 19:41:00 1996
From: DHKC at LINK-ATU.COMLINK.DE (DHKC at LINK-ATU.COMLINK.DE)
Date: 26 Jul 1996 19:41:00
Subject: Todesfasten 69. Tag
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                                           *DEVRIMCI HALK KURTULUS CEPHESI*
                                           Informationsb?ro Wien 27.07.96


In der T?rkei befinden sich 314 Gefangene der DHKP-C, TKP(ML), MLKP, TKP/ML,
TDP und Direnis Hareketi im Todesfasten. 2070 Gefangene der DHKP-C, TKP(ML),
MLKP, TKP/ML, TDP, Direnis Hareketi, Ekim, TIKB und THKP-C/HD? befinden sich
im unbefristeten Hungerstreik. Heute ist der

                                  *69. Tag.*


>               Ayg?n UGUR - TKP(ML) - gefallen am 63. Tag
>               Altan Berdan KERIMGILLER - DHKP-C - gefallen am 65. Tag
>               Ilgin? ?ZKESKIN - DHKP-C - gefallen am 66. Tag
>               H?seyin DEMIRCIOGLU - MLKP - gefallen am 67. Tag
>               Ali AYATA - TKP(ML) - gefallen am 67. Tag
>               M?jdat YANAT - DHKP-C - gefallen am 67. Tag
>               Tahsin YILMAZ - TIKB - gefallen am 68. Tag
>               Ayse Idil ERKMEN - DHKP-C - gefallen am 68. Tag
>               Hicabi K???K - TIKB - gefallen am 69. Tag
>               Yemliha KAYA - DHKP-C - gefallen am 69. Tag
>               Osman AKG?L - TIKB - gefallen am 69. Tag


Das Todesfasten der Angeh?rigen Aliriza EROGLU, Nadire CELIK, und G?zel
SAHIN in Ankara dauert weiter an.

In der 2. Abteilung der Genel-Is (Gewerkschaft der Stadtverwaltungsarbei-
ter) dauert das Todes-fasten der GewerkschafterInnen Aynur KARAASLAN,
S?kr? KARTAL, Mevsim G?RLEVIK und Ayhan ERMIS und der unbefristete
Hungerstreik von 13 ArbeiterInnen weiter an.

Das Todesfasten der VertreterInnen der Revolution?ren Volkskr?fte in Europa,
S?kran OGEYIK, Erg?n SEFER, S?leyman HARMAN und Ayse AKSU in Br?ssel sowie
Meryem ALTUN und Ali KIRAN in London, dauert weiter an.

27 B?ros der Zeitung Kurtulus befinden sich im unbefristeten Hungerstreik.
20 JournalistInnen von Kurtulus werden noch immer im Folterzentrum
Vatan-Stra?e festgehalten.

In der Mecidiyek?y-Zentrale der Gewerkschaft Genel-Is dauert der Hungerstreik
der Angeh?rigen an.

Der unbefristete Hungerstreik von T?DEF (F?deration der StudentInnenvereine
der T?rkei) und DLMK (Kampfkomitees f?r Demokratische Gymnasien) dauert an.

Der Hungerstreik des AKSM (Anatolisches Volkskultur- und Kunstzentrum) dauert
an.

Der unbefristete Hungerstreik der BewohnerInnen von Okmeydani im Pir Sultan
Abdal-Verein dauert an.

Der unbefristete Hungerstreik der BewohnerInnen von Nurtepe im Haci Bectas-i
Veli-Verein dauert an.

Der unbefristete Hungerstreik der BewohnerInnen von Gaziosmanpasa im Yunus
Emre Verein dauert an.

> Der t?rkische Staat ist dabei, mit Propaganda wie "die Gef?ngnisse sind au?er
> Kontrolle", "der Terror wird aus den Gef?ngnissen geleitet" und "das
> Todesfasten ist das Werk von Terroristen"... einen Massaker an den Gefangenen
> vorzubereiten. Der Justizminister Sefdet KAZAN hat am Freitag, 26. Juli offen
> mit der St?rmung der Gef?ngnisse gedroht. Er erkl?rte auch, da? er dabei ?ber
> 50 Tote erwarte. Heute wurden in ganzen Land mehrere Kranken-h?user geleert,
> um Platz f?r die Gefangenen zu machen.
>
> Wir werden nicht zulassen, da? unsere Freunde und GenossInnen in den Kerkern
> des Faschismus massakriert werden. Wenn der Staat unsere Gefangenen angreift,
> werden wir und unser Volk die Verantwortlichen zur Rechenschaft ziehen. Dabei
> ist es egal, wo sie sich befinden: sei es in den Ministerien und staatlichen
> Institutionen, in den Polizei- und Milit?reinheiten oder in den Konzern-
> zentralen der Oligarchie...
>
>                *FASIZME ?L?M!  TUTSAKLARA ?ZG?RL?K!*
>          *TOD DEM FASCHISMUS!  FREIHEIT F?R DIE GEFANGENEN!*


*27. Juli*

   *Der TIKB-Gefangene Hicabi K???K ist in Bursa im Hungerstreik gefallen.*

   *Die DHKP-C-Gefangene Yemliha KAYA ist in Bayrampasa im Todesfasten*
   *gefallen.*

   *Der TIKB-Gefangene Osman AKG?L ist in ?mraniye im Hungerstreik gefallen.*

   In Galatasaray/Istanbul fand wie jede Woche eine Protestaktion der
   Angeh?rigen der "Verschwundenen" statt. Diesmal wurde sie jedoch nicht von
   der Polizei angegriffen. Die Angeh?rigen trugen statt der Bilder der
   Verschwundenen die Bilder der Gefallenen im Todesfasten.

   In Wien demonstrierten an die 2.000 Menschen zur Unterst?tzung des
   Todesfastens.

   In Bochum demonstrierten 4.000 Menschen zur Unterst?tzung des Todesfastens.

   In Hamburg wurde das B?ro einer Fluglinie von 20 Menschen besetzt.


*26. Juli*

   *Der TIKB-Gefangene Tahsin YILMAZ ist in Bayrampasa im Hungerstreik*
   *gefallen.*

   *Die DHKP-C-Gefangene Ayse Idil ERKMEN ist in Canakkale im Todesfasten*
   *gefallen.*
     Sie war Schauspielerin der Ayse G?len Volksb?hne und arbeitete im OKM
     (Ortak?y Kulturzentrum).

   Alle Gefangenen von PKK, ERNK und AGRK treten in einen unbefristeten
   Hungerstreik und boykottieren s?mtliche Gerichtsverhandlungen. Sie k?ndigten
   an, da? sie, wenn die Forderungen der Todesfastenden nicht erf?llt werden,
   auch ins Todesfasten treten werden.

   Der Justizminister Sefdet KACAN erkl?rte bei einer Pressekonferenz, da? er
   die Forderungen der Gefangenen nicht erf?llen w?rde. Er drohte den
   Gefangenen mit der St?rmung der Gef?ngnisse, wenn der Hungerstreik nicht
   beendet w?rde. Um 19.30 Uhr gab er bekannt, da? die St?rmung der Zellen
   geplant sei.

   Die Angeh?rigen Aliriza EROGLU, Nadire CELIK, und G?zel SAHIN, die sich in
   der ?DP-Zentrale in Ankara im Todesfasten befinden, wurden ins Krankenhaus
   gebracht. Dort setzen sie das Todesfasten fort.

   Die Leiche von H?seyin DEMIRCIOGLU wurde von der Polizei entf?hrt und am
   Karacaahmet-Friedhof begraben. Nur seine Familie durfte an der Beerdigung
   teilnehmen. Nach der Beerdigung wurde die Familie festgenommen. Hundert
   Menschen, die vor dem Friedhof gegen das Vorgehen der Polizei demonstrierten
   wurden angegriffen, geschlagen und festgenommen.

   Zur Beerdigung von M?cdat YANAT kamen 1.500 Menschen zum Friedhof von
   Buca/Izmir.

   Um 11.00 Uhr versammelten sich 200 Menschen vor dem Bursa-Gef?ngnis zu einer
   Presseerkl?rung. Danach wurde Ali AYATA von seiner Familie beerdigt.


*25. Juli*

   *Der MLKP-Gefangene H?seyin DEM?RC?-O?LU ist in Ankara im Todesfasten*
   *gefallen.*
     Er war 31 Jahre alt und wurde zu 12 ? Jahren verurteilt. Er war bis
     zum Tod bei Bewu?tsein und verweigerte die ?rztliche Untersuchung.

   *Der TKP(ML)-Gefangene Ali AYATA ist in Bursa im Todesfasten gefallen.*
     Er war 34 Jahre alt. Er war bis zu seinem Tod um 6.30 Uhr bei Bewu?tsein
     und verweigerte die ?rztliche Untersuchung. Seine Genossen wollten seine
     Leiche nicht der Polizei ?bergeben und hielten im Gef?ngnis die Totenfeier.

   *Der DHKP-C-Gefangene M?jdat YANAT ist in Aydin im Todesfasten gefallen.*
     Er fiel in den Morgenstunden. Er war bis zum Tod bei Bewu?tsein und
     verweigerte die ?rztliche Untersuchung.

   In Erzurum versuchten die PKK-Gefangenen Abdulvahap KARATAY und Ahmet ?GE
   eine Selbstverbrennung. Sie wurden jedoch von den W?chtern daran gehindert
   und wurden nur verletzt.

   Im Frauentrakt von Gef?ngnis in Sivas begannen 83 PKK-Gefangene mit einem
   unbefristeten Hungerstreik.

   In Ankara demonstrierten 2.000 Menschen, die sich aus Solidarit?t mit dem
   Todesfasten im unbefristeten Hungerstreik befinden, von Cemberlitas zum
   Justizministerium.

   In ?mraniye/Istanbul hielten Kleinh?ndler ihre L?den geschlossen.

   In Istanbul wurde ein Polizeiwagen angegriffen. Zwei Polizisten starben,
   einer wurde verletzt. Die Angreifer konnten sich unbehelligt zur?ckziehen.

   Das Volk von Gazi/Istanbul, da? sich seit 23. Juli im Widerstand hinter
   Barrikaden befindet, wurde erneut von der Polizei angegriffen. Gegen die
   angreifenden Panzer wurden Molotovcoctails eingesetzt. 32 Menschen wurden
   festgenommen, viele wurden verletzt. Nach dem Angriff versammelten sich
   viele Menschen vor dem Cemevi zu einer Kundgebung gegen das "Verschwinden-
   lassen" der Festgenommenen.

   Die DHKP-C-Gefangenen Mahir ?Z, und Ali SAHIN, wurden ins Krankenhaus Konya
   gebracht. Sie leisteten jedoch Widerstand gegen die Zwangsern?hrung und
   erreichten, da? sie wieder ins Gef?ngnis gebracht wurden. Beide fielen kurz
   darauf ins Koma.


                                                      *DHKC*
                                        Revolution?re Volksbefreiungsfront
                                              Informationsb?ro Wien
                                                   27. 7. 1996


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From: DHKC at LINK-ATU.COMLINK.DE (DHKC at LINK-ATU.COMLINK.DE)
Date: 26 Jul 1996 19:42:00
Subject: Todesfasten 69. Tag
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*LETRTE MELDUNG:*

Wie wir soeben erfahren haben, wurde das Todesfasten heute abend siegreich
beendet! Der t?rkische Staat hat die wichtigsten Forderungen der revolu-
tion?ren Gefangenen erf?llt, die Todesfastenden und Hungerstreikenden
werden gerade medizinisch versorgt.


                                                      *DHKC*
                                        Revolution?re Volksbefreiungsfront
                                              Informationsb?ro Wien
                                                   27. 7. 1996

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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Sun Jul 28 17:24:38 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 28 Jul 1996 17:24:38
Subject: Photographs from hungerstrikers in
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From: DHKC Informationbureau Amsterdam <tabe at ozgurluk.xs4all.nl>
Subject: Photographs from hungerstrikers in Turkey online

Hello,

Just wanted to tell you that we have worked very hard to bring some 30 
pictures from Turkish and Kurdish hungerstrikers online. They give a good 
insight on the conditions in the prisons and in the determination of the 
Hungerstrikers. Also some pictures of the peoples resistance outside the 
prison have been added.

Long live our justified struggle!
We are right and we will win!
We will shock the world with our revolution!

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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Sun Jul 28 17:24:42 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 28 Jul 1996 17:24:42
Subject: THE PRISONERS WON, ALL DEMANDS ARE
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From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: THE PRISONERS WON, ALL DEMANDS ARE MET!

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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 00:07:37 +0000
From: DHKC informationbureau Amsterdam <ozgurluk at xs4all.nl>
Subject: THE PRISONERS WON, ALL DEMANDS ARE MET!

Dear comrades,

We just received the latest news from Turkey. The revolutionary prisoners have 
won. All their demands are met. The prisoners in Eskisehir, aka "the coffin" 
will be be moved to Umraniye, Istanbul. Now the ambulances are going into the 
jails to bring the prisoners to hospital. 
We'll keep you posted as soon as we receive further details and statements.

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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Sun Jul 28 17:24:46 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 28 Jul 1996 17:24:46
Subject: Turkish jets bomb Kurd bases in nor
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.960728094..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: Turkish jets bomb Kurd bases in north Iraq

Turkish jets bomb Kurd bases in north Iraq, report

    ANKARA, July 25 (Reuter) - Turkish air force planes bombed
Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrilla camps in northern Iraq
on Thursday, the state-run Anatolian news agency said.
    It said jets from air bases in the eastern Turkish cities of
Diyarbakir and Malatya hit five rebel camps in the mountains of
northern Iraq.
    ``The separatist terrorist organisation suffered heavy
losses,'' the agency said but it gave no casualty figures.
    Turkish planes and troops often strike across the border at
the PKK, which uses camps in northern Iraq in its fight for
autonomy or independence in southeast Turkey.
    A Western allied air force based in Turkey has protected the
Kurds of northern Iraq from possible attack by Baghdad since
shortly after the end of the Gulf War in 1991.
    Turkish MPs, many of whom say the U.S.-led force
inadvertently helps the PKK establish itself in northern Iraq,
must vote by the end of this month on whether to extend the
allies' mandate.
    An Iraqi Kurdish group said on Wednesday that Turkish air
force planes had bombed Iraqi Kurdish settlements in northern
Iraq, demolishing many houses.

Reut09:37 07-25-96


From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Sun Jul 28 17:24:57 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 28 Jul 1996 17:24:57
Subject: AKIN Salutes The Hunger Strikers
Message-ID: <bac1c849.9607281342.AA17618@burn>

From: akin at burn.ucsd.edu (American Kurdish Information Network)

[From the web site of AKIN, http://burn.ucsd.edu/~akin]


American Kurdish Information Network (AKIN)
July 27, 1996
Press Release #12
Telephone: (202) 483-6444

AKIN Salutes the Hunger Strikers
Urges Washington to Condemn Their Untimely Deaths

On July 21, 1996, a Reuters wire report noted that Aygun Ugur, a Turkish
prisoner, died as a result of an hunger strike in Turkey.  He, together
with 2000 other Turkish prisoners, had gone on a hunger strike on May 19,
1996.  They had asked the authorities in the government to stop torture and
solitary confinements, among other things, in the Turkish prison system.
As usual, no one, to this day, has bothered to talk with them.  As this
statement was being prepared, 10 other Turkish and Kurdish inmates have
died. More deaths are expected.  The government, the wire reports note, is
planning the option of force to break the resistance of the inmates.

When the death of second hunger striker, that of Altan Bedran Kerimgiller,
became public, the inmate's mother, the Press noted, had wailed: "My baby
has gone.  Make my baby come back!"  The Turkish Justice Minister Sevket
Kazan, on the other hand, instead of healing the mother's wound was
assuming the aura of a commander: "I don't give a damn about the foreign
press reports and letters from Amnesty International.  ...  Turkey is an
independent country."

For years now, we have been telling the world about these tales of Turkish
oppression against their opponents.  This culture of oppression was
recently the subject of an editorial by Ahmet Altan, one of the most
insightful Turkish journalists.  He wrote on July 22, 1996, "I read a
declaration of our Minister of Culture in the paper Hurriyet the day before
yesterday.  He said that our people like Kirkpinar fighting, (Kirkpinar
refers to a city where Turkish all-in wrestling tournaments take place) it
doesn't like opera and ballet; we like hand to hand fighting."  This
reminded us of another infamous quote, from another brutal period, by one
of Hitler's ideologues, Himmler: "When I hear the word culture, I reach out
for my revolver."

Some 14 years ago, on July 14, 1982, four Kurdish prisoners began a hunger
strike that culminated in their deaths over the political and civil rights
of the Kurds.  Their memory has now sparked the Kurdish liberation struggle
all over the Middle East.  Their pictures adorn the Kurdish homes.  Their
names are given to the Kurdish boys.  Today, 10,000 Kurdish political
prisoners still languish in Turkish jails.  On Friday, July 26, 1996, they
had a joint statement indicating their decision to join their Turkish
friends, through their own hunger strike, in solidarity.

Washington, as usual, pretends to be oblivious to the atrocities of the
Turkish government.  Ankara is hailed as a friend, sometimes as a model  --
when these deaths do not occur  --  for others to emulate.  The statement
that emanated from the State Department was short.  It said, "We deeply
regret the loss of life that has occurred."  But lest this might offend
Ankara, it added, "... [this] is an internal affair of Turkey."

We condemn unequivocally this validation of oppression against the inmates,
the Kurds and other opponents of the Turkish government.  We salute the
strikers, their loved ones, and others who have expressed indignation over
these untimely deaths.  We wish it to be known that we welcomed the
statement by the European Commissioner Hans van den Broek urging Turkey in
strong language to "prevent further deaths."  We ask the State Department
to do no less.

American Kurdish Information Network (AKIN)
2623 Connecicut Avenue NW #1
Washington, DC 20008-1522

Tel: (202) 483-6444
Fax: (202) 483-6476
E-mail: akin at kurdish.org
Home Page: http://burn.ucsd.edu/~akin





From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Mon Jul 29 02:45:15 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 29 Jul 1996 02:45:15
Subject: Turkish Political Prisoners End Hun
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.960728193..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: Turkish Political Prisoners End Hungerstrike

Turkish Political Prisoners End Hungerstrike In Victory

The Prisoners Have Forced The Merchants In Religion, The Mafia
And The Murderers Of The Refah-Yol Government On Their Knees. All
Demands Have Been Met

     The resistance which lasted 69 days is finished. The
prisoners have forced the mafia murderers of the Refah-Yol
government to accept their demands. 12 Martyrs fell during the
resistance which lasted 69 days. The fascist state demanded the
lives of 12 prisoners before they met the humanitarian demands of
the prisoners. This resistance of 69 days has been a real
struggle, a war, in which the bodies of the prisoners were left
to die by the state. In this struggle many actions were carried
out by the relatives and the people. Thousands, and tens of
thousands struggled in the streets and behind the barricades.
Hundreds of relatives were beaten up daily in the streets. The
police stations were packed with people. There have been
hungerstrikes till death outside of the prisons as well. The
fathers and mothers, more than 60 days old, exposed their bodies
to death, just like the union leaders and members and the people
abroad. It has been a war of will power. The people have won the
battle. The 12 comrades who died did not only win the struggle in
the prisons against this most cruel and bloody government, they
also used their bodies as a barricade against the attacks of this
fascist state against our peoples. During the resistance the
authorities of the state used the media for their intimidation
and their campaign of demagogy. They lied and they cheated, they
attacked with all means. No use. The voice of the prisoners was
heard all over Turkey and it reached the whole world. They did
not force the prisoners to their knees. The determination of the
prisoners and their relatives and our people has forced the
torturers to their knees. This success belongs to everyone who
believes in democracy, freedom, the love for the people and
justice. This success is the success of our friends who supported
our resistance in any way they could.
     Our 12 comrades who were at the front of struggle:

Aygun Ugur (TKP(ML)), Altan Berdan Kerimgiller (DHKP-C), Olginc
Ozkeskin (DHKP-C), Huseyin Demircioglu (MLKP), Ali Ayata
(TKP(ML)), Mujdat Yanat (DHKP-C), Tahsin Yilmaz (TIKB), Ayse Idil
Erkmen (DHKP-C), Hicabi Kucuk ((TIKB), Yemliha Kaya (DHKP-C),
Osman Akgun (TIKB) and Hayati Can (TKP(ML)).

     They have become a statue of honour.
     They will live on in our struggle of liberation and in the
names of thousands newly born children. Their murderers, those
who are responsible, the rest of their lives, will live in fear.

Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Cephesi (Revolutionary People's Liberation
Front)

----------

Revolutionary People's Liberation Front
Bulletin No. 24

July 25, 1996

The Hungerstrikers Till Death Call Upon Everybody: Rise Against
The Tyrants, The Thieves And The Ones Who Sell Out The Country!

     On the 63rd, 64th, and 67th day of the hungerstrike we
received the news: the prisoners are dying everywhere in the
country. Until now 6 prisoners have died and this number can rise
with the hour. They can not make us afraid with death,
imprisonment and torture! We surpassed death! The fascist
government attacks those people who long for freedom, justice,
equality, a decent life, their human rights, a free, democratic
and socialist country to hold on to their power, a power which is
based on exploitation. For years we have struggled for an
independent, democratic and socialist country, and for years we
had to deal with the repression of the fascist regime. Thousands
of us have been murdered, hundreds of thousands have been
arrested and tortured... The policy of the oligarchy is being
continued, be it by the junta or by the bourgeois parties. The
government can no longer stop the war in the cities and in the
countryside, that's why they attack the prisoners. After the coup
of September 12, 1980, the army most brutally attacked our
prisoners and many of them gave their lives, but they never
surrendered. The fascist generals of September 12 couldn't win.
The governments of DYP and ANAP and of Refah and the DYP want the
same, but they will not succeed either. A government which
attacks the prisoners to achieve it goals is a weak government,
they will not succeed and the situation is becoming bleak for
them. In their despair they increase the attacks against the
democrats and the revolutionaries. The Kurdish, Turkish and other
peoples see the bloodshed every day. Every day more people join
the struggle. The regime attacks again and again, opens new
prisons and the situation in the existing prisons is becoming
worse and worse. The state of emergency still exists, be it
unofficially... Women of 65, 70 years old are beaten up,
tortured. But They Cannot Silence The People! The uprising of the
prisoners is the uprising of the people. It is a call for the war
for a independent, democratic and socialist country.

The People Who Are Dying Now Are The True Owners Of This Land,
The True Representatives Of This Land!

     They are the people who resisted over and over again against
the tyrants, they are the people who never surrendered. They are
like Seyh Bedrettin, Pir Sultan, Seyit Riza, Mahir, Deniz and
Ibrahim. They are the heirs of those who died during the junta.
They continue the tradition of Niyazi, Sabo and Sinan who said:
"The revolutionaries never surrender!" They are going the way of
the prisoners who resisted in Buca and Umraniye. The hungerstrike
till death is a frontal attack against those who want to open the
concentration camps. The hungerstrike till death is an uprising
against the fascist regime, the exploitation and repression. The
hungerstrike till death is a challenge to the regime which wants
to prevent the liberation of the people. You want to scare the
people with death? They will not be frightened. They die on the
65th and 67th day of the hungerstrike. They know they can die any
moment, but they don't care.

The People On Hungerstrike Till Death Surpassed Death!
The Fire Of The Uprising Will Not Be Extinguished!
No Consciousness Or Technical Stuff Is Stronger Than The
Consciousness Of The Revolutionaries!

     Our prisoners are free. The prisons, the death penalties and
the isolation cells will not destroy them, they will not destroy
their relationship with the people and the land. The prisoners
are destroying the repressive policy of this fascist regime. 

Now They Are Utterly Confused!

     The revolutionary consciousness is diminishing the power of
fascism which once looked so huge. Their weapons and laws do not
work anymore. The oligarchy has lost its trump cards.

The Hungerstrike Till The End Will Be The End Of The Refah-Yol
Government

     The people of this country is rising.
     The world is now resisting.
     The people who didn't believe, start believing. The people
who didn't want to see, begin to see. This is the reality of the
resistance and the war of the revolutionary people. The workers,
the youth, villagers, civil servants, intellectuals, artists, the
people of the gececondus, the entire people is starting to see,
they begin to follow their conscience. The people of the world
are listening now to the people who are dying for their beliefs.
These people are showing the reality of Turkey to the world.

Fascism Rules In Turkey, The People Have No Freedom. All Laws Are
Designed For The Imperialists And The Monopoly Capitalists. The
Country Is Governed By Murderers, Torturers, The Merchants Of
Faith, And The Mafia.

     The history of our people is a history of resistance and
uprisings. To give up now means treason. The uprising is
spreading over the whole country: Istanbul, Ankara, Bursa, Aydin,
Cankiri, Konya... The uprising broke through the prison walls,
the uprising is now everywhere in the country. The fire of the
uprising will get rid of the oppressors, no power can stop this
fire. U.S. imperialism and the generals of September 12th used
religion to stop the revolutionary struggle. That's why they
supported the Refah party and made it possible for them to grow.
The Refah party is paying back the imperialists and monopolists
now. The hungerstrikers who are dying now are revealing the true
face of the Refah party: they are murderers of their own people,
puppets of U.S. and the monopolies, the ones who sell out
religion. Religious people who want justice and who are on the
side of the people are seeing no the true face of the Refah
party. Maybe We Will Lose Many Comrades, But The Uprising Will
Spread Step By Step Over The Whole Country, Hundreds Of People
Will Take Over The Flag Of Our Martyrs. No Power Will Change
Their Minds. Everybody Must Think Again! Their demagogic talk
about terrorism will be seriously damaged. The true face of the
Refah party will be clear for everybody. The whole world will see
the legitimacy of our struggle. The People Who Remain Silent, Who
Are Getting Tired, Who Lose Their Conviction, Who Are Looking For
Their Freedom Within The System, Will Have Have To Look Again.
You can not stay in the dark. Think about it, there is no way
out, there is no escape. The people who want freedom and justice
but who do not act can not sleep with a clear conscience, they
can not pretend that nothing is happening.
     The revolutionary struggle is increasing. The true sons and
daughters of this people are dying for the revolution, leaving a
heroic inheritance. Now it is time to follow their heroism, now
it is time to support them, now it's time to go on to the streets
to fight the enemy.

Revolutionaries, Comrades: Let's Spread The War Across The Whole
Country

     Aygun Ugur and Ali Ayata from the TKP(ML), our militants
from the Party-Front, Altan Berdan Kerimgiller, Ilginc Ozkeskin
and Mujdat Yanat, and Hueseyin Demircioglu from the MLKP already
gave their lives. More will follow. They died for their land and
their people, they fell for the revolution. We will have to
continue their struggle. We cannot accept the worst, we will have
to find a way to continue the struggle in all possible ways.
     If you do not have a weapon, get one. Take away the arms
from the enemy. A brick, a bottle of petrol, a knife, a box of
matches, all these can be weapons against the enemy. From now on
all kind of actions against the Refah party, the DYP, the MHP and
the BBP and the people who work in these parties, all kind of
actions against the police and the soldiers and civilian
militias, the big capitalists, the fascist bureaucrats, the
people who support this government, are legitimate actions. Do
not wait for orders. It is the revolutionary responsibility of
all people to look for the enemy, to look for the materials to
attack him. The revolutionaries must show the people the way in
their own areas to resist this government. In the area you work
and live in, you have to tell the story of these heroic martyrs,
you have to organise the people to go on to the streets.

You Can No Longer Remain Silment, Our People Are Dying In The
Hungerstrike Till Death. If You Want to Keep Your Honour And
Conscience, You Cannot Remain Silent! Those Who Remain Silent Are
Supporting Fascism! Like Our Hungerstrikers Till Death, We Will
Fight, We Will Unite, And Victory Will Be Ours! Do Not Fear, Our
Martyrs, We Will Change The Prisons Into Graveyards Of The
Oligarchy!

Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Cephesi (Revolutionary People's Liberation
Front)

------

Hungerstrike In Turkish Jails At Day 68

8 Prisoners Have Died In Their Struggle Against Prison Conditions

     Everyday now we receive news about the next prisoner who
died in the hungerstrike till death. In less than a week 8
prisoners have died. Last Sunday the first prisoner fell, Aygun
Ugur. He was a member from the TKP(ML) and was imprisoned in
Umraniye prison in Istanbul. Last Tuesday the first DHKP-C
prisoner fell, Altan Berdan Kerimgiller, followed on Wednesday by
Ilginc Ozkeskin. Both had been imprisoned in Bayrampasa prison in
Istanbul. Last Thursday Huseyin Demircioglu (MLKP), imprisoned in
Ankara, Ali Ayata from the TKP(ML) in Bursa, and Mujdat Yanat
from the DHKP-C in Aydin, fell. Last night, Tahsin Yilmaz from
the TIKB died in Bayrampasa prison. Just now we received the
message that Ayse Idil Erkmen from the DHKC died in the prison of
Canakkale. She was an actor in a people's theatre and had not
been tried yet.
     This is the 68th day of the hungerstrike till death for 270
prisoners. The Turkish government brusquely refuses to talk about
the demands of the prisoners. The prisoners simply demand a
dignified life and the closure of the isolation prisons. However,
the Turkish government announced the isolation prisons will not
be closed and that they plan to forcibly feed the prisoners. The
prisoners refuse all medical treatment and it is to be feared
that when the army and police intervene in the prisons, this will
lead to a bloodbath.
     But not only inside the prisons are people fighting for
their life. Outside the prisons relatives, unionists and
journalists are on hungerstrike till death. Also outside Turkey
people have gone on hungerstrike. In Brussels and London 6 people
announced they will continue, if need be till death. In Amsterdam
5 people announced to continue their solidarity hungerstrike till
the end as well.
     The prisoners do not have a choice. For them it's life or
death. They will continue their resistance. Only massive pressure
will induce the Turkish government to seriously discuss the
prisoners' demands. The empty words of concern from the European
politicians are completely insufficient. The European states will
have to act, there have to be concrete measures by the European
states against the Turkish government. Only in this way can
further bloodshed be stopped. Eight deaths are more than
enough...

Support the resistance of the hungerstrikers in the Turkish
jails!
Support the fight against fascism in Turkey!

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Photos Of Hungerstrike At DHKC WWW Site

Hello,

Just wanted to tell you that we have worked very hard to bring some 30 
pictures from Turkish and Kurdish hungerstrikers online. They give a good 
insight on the conditions in the prisons and in the determination of the 
Hungerstrikers. Also some pictures of the peoples resistance outside the 
prison have been added.

Long live our justified struggle!
We are right and we will win!
We will shock the world with our revolution!

DHKC Informationbureau Amsterdam <ozgurluk at xs4all.nl>

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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Mon Jul 29 15:11:59 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 29 Jul 1996 15:11:59
Subject: Turkey in Euro-dock on jailed Kurdi
Message-ID: <bac1c849.199607291315.JAA22028@l>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at etext.org>
Subject: Turkey in Euro-dock on jailed Kurdish deputies

Turkey in Euro-dock on jailed Kurdish deputies

    STRASBOURG, France, July 16 (Reuter) - The European Court of
Human Rights said on Tuesday it would hear a plea from six
Kurdish former parliamentarians sentenced to long jail sentences
for complicity with banned Kurdistan rebels.
    Turkey's supreme court has upheld the convictions by a lower
court, for up to 15 years, of five of the six former members of
the Democratic Party (DEP). The sixth was ordered released.
    The applicants argue they were held in police custody in
violation of the European Convention on Human Rights and that
their detention had been excessive.
    They also argue that Turkish law did not give them an
opportunity to have the legality of their detention in police
custody reviewed speedily by a court, according to a statement
by the European Court based in Strasbourg.
    The members of parliament were stripped of their
parliamentary immunity in March 1994 and later convicted for
complicity with the banned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK),
fighting for independence in southeast Turkey.
    The Human Rights Commission, which vets cases for the court,
upheld the applicants' charge that the Convention had been
violated on three counts. The court often follows the
Commission's non-binding recommendations.

Reut06:59 07-16-96

From DHKC at LINK-ATU.COMLINK.DE  Mon Jul 29 02:22:00 1996
From: DHKC at LINK-ATU.COMLINK.DE (DHKC at LINK-ATU.COMLINK.DE)
Date: 29 Jul 1996 02:22:00
Subject: Todesfasten siegreich beendet
Message-ID: <6Dlg6SR9y7B@cephe.link-atu.comlink.de>

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                                           *DEVRIMCI HALK KURTULUS CEPHESI*
                                           Informationsb?ro Wien 28.07.96


                *Das Todesfasten ist nach 69 Tagen beendet!*
    *Die t?rkische Regierung hat die Forderungen der Gefangenen erf?llt.*


Der 69 Tage andauernde Widerstand ist beendet. Die Erf?llung der Forderungen
der revolution?ren Gefangenen wurden von der m?rderischen Mafiaregierung (DYP
und REFAH) zugesagt:
     - Der Erla? zur Er?ffnung der Sondergef?ngnisse, Einf?hrung der
       Einzelhaft und der Zwangsverlegungen wurde aufgehoben.
     - Keine weiteren Angriffe auf die Gefangenen und ihre Angeh?rige.
     - Keine Behinderung der medizinischen Versorgung
     - Aufschiebung der laufenden Verfahren bis zur Verhandlungsf?higkeit der
       Gefangenen.

In den 69 Tagen des Widerstandes sind 11 Revolution?re Gefangene gefallen.
Ein Gefangener fiel am 28. Juli im Krankenhaus, vier schweben noch immer
in Lebensgefahr. Die faschistische Regierung hat f?r 4 Forderungen der
Gefangenen 12 Leben genommen.F?r die Politischen Gefangenen war es ein
Kampf, in dem sich der Zustand ihrer K?rper von Tag zu Tag verschlechtert
hat. F?r die Angeh?rigen und das Volk war es ein Kampf, bei dem sie jeden
Tag bei Aktionen und hinter den Barrikaden waren. Die Angeh?rigen und
Freunde der Gefangenen wurden jeden Tag bedroht, geschlagen, festgenommen
und gefoltert. Die Polizeistationen wurden mit den Menschen im Widerstand
gef?llt. 60-j?hrige M?tter und V?ter und f?hrende GewerkschafterInnen sind
au?erhalb der Gef?ngnisse ins Todesfasten getreten.

Es wurde ein willensstarker Kampf gef?hrt. Das Volk hat diesen Kampf
gewonnen. Die 12 Ge-fallenen haben ihre K?rper zu Barrikaden gegen das
brutalste Regime das wir je hatten gemacht.Die Verantwortlichen in der
Regierung und die Presse haben jede m?gliche Propaganda und Drohung
ben?tzt. Der Staat hat gelogen, bedroht, mit Kn?ppeln geschlagen,
festgenommen, gefoltert und geschossen. Aber ohne Erfolg. Die Stimme des
Widerstands aus den Gef?ngnissen hat sich im ganzen Land, auf der ganzen
Welt verbreitet.

Sie konnten den Willen der Freien Gefangenen nicht einsperren. Sie konnten die
Standfestigkeit der Angeh?rigen nicht brechen. Demokratie, Freiheit und
Menschenliebe haben gesiegt. Der Erfolg geh?rt uns allen, den Gefangenen, den
Angeh?rigen, unseren V?lkern und unseren Freunden aus aller Welt, die immer
bei uns waren.

Zw?lf Menschen sind im Todesfasten gefallen:
Ayg?n UGUR - TKP(ML), Altan Berdan KERIMGILLER - DHKP-C, Ilgin? ?ZKESKIN -
DHKP-C, H?seyin DEMIRCIOGLU - MLKP, Ali AYATA - TKP(ML), M?jdat YANAT - DHKP-C,
Tahsin YILMAZ - TIKB, Ayse Idil ERKMEN - DHKP-C, Hicabi K???K - TIKB, Yemliha
KAYA - DHKP-C, Osman AKG?L - TIKB, Hayati CAN - TKP(ML);
Sie werden in unserem Kampf und in unseren Kindern weiterleben.

Ihre M?rder sterben jeden Tag...

                                                      *DHKC*
                                        Revolution?re Volksbefreiungsfront
                                              Informationsb?ro Wien
                                                   28. 7. 1996

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From Inshallah at turkey.com  Tue Jul 30 10:54:19 1996
From: Inshallah at turkey.com (Inshallah at turkey.com)
Date: 30 Jul 1996 10:54:19
Subject: Todesfasten siegreich beendet
References: <6Dlg6SR9y7B@cephe.link-atu.comlink.de>
Message-ID: <4tlia4.sr1@unlisys.unlisys.net>

DHKC at LINK-ATU.COMLINK.DE (p.A. IZFV) wrote:

>                                           *DEVRIMCI HALK KURTULUS CEPHESI*
>                                           Informationsb?ro Wien 28.07.96


>                *Das Todesfasten ist nach 69 Tagen beendet!*
>    *Die t?rkische Regierung hat die Forderungen der Gefangenen erf?llt.*

Ihr seit die ausgeburt der H?lle !!!
Am Tag des J?ngsten Gerichts wird Allah eure Seelen in den tiefen der
H?lle einfahren lassen von dort aus k?nnt ihr dann eure Taten bereuen.
So Allah will werden euch eure Taten vielleicht nach einer Ewigkeit
der Qualen verziehen. 

Inshallah

Islamic Freedom Fighters


From tilman at berlin.snafu.de  Tue Jul 30 12:51:50 1996
From: tilman at berlin.snafu.de (tilman at berlin.snafu.de)
Date: 30 Jul 1996 12:51:50
Subject: Todesfasten siegreich beendet
References: <6Dlg6SR9y7B@cephe.link-atu.comlink.de>
Message-ID: <31fe65b7.8614272@news.snafu.de>

In <4tlia4$sr1 at unlisys.unlisys.net>, Inshallah at turkey.com wrote:

>Ihr seit die ausgeburt der H?lle !!!

(& blah, blah, blah)

Eine F?lschung von einem "snafu.de" user.

Tilman (auch snafu user)



From tilman at berlin.snafu.de  Tue Jul 30 12:51:53 1996
From: tilman at berlin.snafu.de (tilman at berlin.snafu.de)
Date: 30 Jul 1996 12:51:53
Subject: Todesfasten siegreich beendet
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In <6Dlg6SR9y7B at cephe.link-atu.comlink.apc.org>,
DHKC at LINK-ATU.COMLINK.DE (p.A. IZFV) wrote:

>                *Das Todesfasten ist nach 69 Tagen beendet!*
>    *Die t?rkische Regierung hat die Forderungen der Gefangenen erf?llt.*
>
>
>Der 69 Tage andauernde Widerstand ist beendet. Die Erf?llung der Forderungen
>der revolution?ren Gefangenen wurden von der m?rderischen Mafiaregierung (DYP
>und REFAH) zugesagt:

(...)

Naja - eben nur "zugesagt". Gibs das auch schriftlich? Wurden die
Gefangenen bereits zur?ckverlegt? Ich traue dieser M?rderbande nicht.

Tilman



















From quasi.modo at linkskurve.ezln.fr  Tue Jul 30 14:33:30 1996
From: quasi.modo at linkskurve.ezln.fr (quasi.modo at linkskurve.ezln.fr)
Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:33:30
Subject: Todesfasten siegreich beendet
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>Ihr seit die ausgeburt der H=F6lle !!!

Und ihr seid auf cold turkey, wenn ihr mich fragt.

>Am Tag des J=FCngsten Gerichts wird Allah eure Seelen in den tiefen der
>H=F6lle einfahren lassen von dort aus k=F6nnt ihr dann eure Taten bereuen.

Allah ist wie Jahwe, Buddha, Maheo, und all die anderen 
Himmlischen g=FCtig. Er liebt diejenigen, die gegen 
Ungerechtigkeit k=E4mpfen, und ha=DFt die Heuchler. 
Nehmt euch vor eurem eigenen Allah in acht.

>So Allah will werden euch eure Taten vielleicht nach einer Ewigkeit
>der Qualen verziehen. 

Aber wird er euch verzeihen, ihr L=FCgner? 
Gruss und Glueckwunsch an die tapferen Kaempfer in den 
tuerkischen Folterknaesten!

QM



From ozgurluk at xs4all.nl  Mon Jul 29 02:54:00 1996
From: ozgurluk at xs4all.nl (ozgurluk at xs4all.nl)
Date: 29 Jul 1996 02:54:00
Subject: bulletin of the DHKC: spread the war
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REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S LIBERATION FRONT
Bulletin no. 24

July 25, 1996

THE HUNGERSTRIKERS TILL DEATH CALL UPON EVERYBODY: RISE AGAINST THE TYRANTS, THE
THIEVES AND THE ONES WHO SELL OUT THE COUNTRY!

On the 63th., 64th., and 67th. day of the hungerstrike we received the news: the
prisoners are dying everywhere in the country. Until now 6 prisoners have died
and this number can rise with the hour. They can not make us afraid with death,
imprisonment and torture! We surpassed death! The fascist government attacks
those people who long for freedom, justice, equality, a decent life, their human
rights, a free, democratic and socialist country to hold on to their power, a
power which is based on exploitation. For years we have struggled for an
independent, democratic and socialist country, and for years we had to deal with
the repression of the fascist regime. Thousands of us have been murdered,
hundreds of thousands have been arrested and tortured... The policy of the
oligarchy is being continued, be it by the junta or by the bourgeois parties.
The government can no longer stop the war in the cities and in the countryside,
that's why they attack the prisoners. After the coup of September 12, 1980, the
army most brutally attacked our prisoners and many of them gave their lives, but
they never surrendered. The fascist generals of September 12 couldn't win. The
governments of DYP and ANAP and of Refah and the DYP want the same, but they
will not succeed either. A government which attacks the prisoners to achieve it
goals is a weak government, they will not succeed and the situation is becoming
bleak for them. In their despair they increase the attacks against the democrats
and the revolutionaries. The Kurdish, Turkish and other people see the bloodshed
every day. Every day more people join the struggle. The regime attacks again and
again, opens new prisons and the situation in the existing prisons is becoming
worse and worse. The state of emergency still exists, be it unofficially...
Women of 65, 70 years old are beaten up, tortured. BUT THEY CAN NOT SILENCE THE
PEOPLE! The uprising of the prisoners is the uprising of the people. It is a
call for the war for a independent, democratic and socialist country. 

THE PEOPLE WHO ARE DYING NOW ARE THE TRUE OWNERS OF THIS LAND, THE TRUE
REPRESENTATIVES OF THIS LAND!

They are the people who resisted over and over again against the tyrants, they
are the people who never surrendered. They are like Seyh Bedrettin, Pir Sultan,
Seyit Riza, Mahir, Deniz and Ibrahim. They are the heirs of those who died
during the junta. They continue the tradition of Niyazi, Sabo and Sinan who
said: "The revolutionaries never surrender!" They are going the way of the
prisoners who resisted in Buca and Umraniye. The hungerstrike till death is a
frontal attack against those who want to open the concentration camps. The
hungerstrike till death is an uprising against the fascist regime, the
exploitation and repression. The hungerstrike till death is a challenge to the
regime which wants to prevent the liberation of the people. You wan to scare the
people with death? They will not be frightened. They die on the 65th. and 67th.
day of the hungerstrike. They know they can die any moment, but they don't care.

THE PEOPLE ON HUNGERSTRIKE TILL DEATH SURPASSED DEATH!
THE FIRE OF THE UPRISING WILL NOT BE EXTINGUISHED!
NO CONSCIOUSNESS OR TECHNICAL STUFF IS STRONGER THAN THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE
REVOLUTIONARIES!

Our prisoners are free. The prisons, the death penalties and the isolation cells
will not destroy them, the y will not destroy their relationship with the people
and the land. The prisoners are destroying the repressive policy of this fascist
regime. 

NOW THEY ARE UTTERLY CONFUSED!

The revolutionary consciousness is diminishing the power of fascism which once
looked so huge. Their weapons and laws do not work anymore. The oligarchy has
lost its trump cards. 

THE HUNGERSTRIKE TILL THE END WILL BE THE END OF THE REFAHYOL-GOVERNMENT

The people of this country is rising.
The world is now resisting.
The people who didn't believe, start believing. The people who didn't want to
see, begin to see. This is the reality of the resistance and the war of the
revolutionary people. The workers, the youth, villagers, civil servants,
intellectuals, artists, the people of the gececondus, the entire people is
starting to see, they begin to follow their conscience. The people of the world
are listening now to the people who are dying for their beliefs. These people
are showing the reality of Turkey to the world. 

FASCISM RULES IN TURKEY, THE PEOPLE HAVE NO FREEDOMS.
ALL LAWS ARE DESIGNED FOR THE IMPERIALISTS AND THE MONOPOLY CAPITALISTS.
THE COUNTRY IS GOVERNED BY MURDERERS, TORTURERS, THE MERCHANTS OF FAITH, AND THE
MAFIA.

The history of our people is a history of resistance and uprisings. To give up
now means treason. The uprising is spreading over the whole country: Istanbul.
Ankara, Bursa, Aydin, Cankiri, Konya... The uprising broke through the prison
walls, the uprising is now everywhere in the country. The fire of the uprising
will get rid of the oppressors, no power can stop this fire. US-imperialism and
the generals of September 12 used religion to stop the revolutionary struggle.
That's why they supported the Refah party and made it possible for them to grow.
The Refah party is paying back the imperialists and monopolists now. The
hungerstrikers who are dying now are revealing the true face of the Refah party:
they are murderers of their own people, puppets of US and the monopolies, the
ones who sell out religion. Religious people who want justice and who are on the
side of the people are seeing no the true face of the Refah party. MAYBE WE WILL
LOOSE MANY COMRADES, BUT THE UPRISING WILL SPREAD STEP BY STEP OVER THE WHOLE
COUNTRY, HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WILL TAKE OVER THE FLAG OF OUR MARTYRS. NO POWER
WILL CHANGE THEIR MINDS. EVERYBODY MUST THINK AGAIN! Their demagogic talk about
terrorism will be seriously damaged. The true face of the Refah party will be
clear for everybody. The whole world will see the legitimacy of our struggle.
THE PEOPLE WHO REMAIN SILENT, WHO ARE GETTING TIRED, WHO LOOSE THEIR CONVICTION,
WHO ARE LOOKING FOR THEIR FREEDOM WITHIN THE SYSTEM, WILL HAVE TO THINK AGAIN.
You can not stay in the dark. Think about it, there is no way out, there is no
escape. The people who want freedom and justice but who do not act can not sleep
with a clear conscience, they can not pretend that nothing is happening. 

The revolutionary struggle is increasing. The true sons and daughters of this
people are dying for the revolution, leaving a heroic inheritance. Now it is
time to follow their heroism, now it is time to support them, now it's time to
go on to the streets to fight the enemy. 

REVOLUTIONARIES, COMRADES:
LET'S SPREAD THE WAR ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY.

Aygun Ugur and Ali Ayata from the TKP(ML), our militants from the Party-Front
Altan Berdan Kerimgiller, Ilginc Ozkeskin and Mujdat Yanat, and Hueseyin
Demircioglu from the MLKP already gave their lives. More will follow. They died
for their land and their people, they fell for the revolution. We will have to
continue their struggle. We can not accept the worst, we will have to find a way
to continue the struggle in all possible ways. 

If you do not have a weapon, get one. Take away the arms from the enemy. A
brick, a bottle of petrol, a knife, a box of matches, all these can be weapons
against the enemy. From now on all kind of actions against the Refah party, the
DYP, the MHP and the BBP and the people who work in these parties, all kind of
actions against the police and the soldiers and civilian militias, the big
capitalists, the fascist bureaucrats, the people who support this government,
are legitimate actions. Do not wait for orders. It is the revolutionary
responsibility of all people to look for the enemy, to look for the materials to
attack him. The revolutionaries must show the people the way in their own areas
to resist this government. In the area you work and life in, you have to tell
the story of these heroic martyrs, you have to organise the people to go on to
the streets. 


YOU CAN NO LONGER REMAIN SILENT, OUR PEOPLE ARE DYING IN THE HUNGERSTRIKE TILL
DEATH. IF YOU WANT TO KEEP YOUR HONOUR EN CONSCIENCE, YOU CAN NOT REMAIN SILENT!
THOSE WHO REMAIN SILENT ARE SUPPORTING FASCISM! LIKE OUR HUNGERSTRIKERS TILL
DEATH, WE WILL FIGHT, WE WILL UNITE, AND VICTORY WILL BE OURS! DO NOT FEAR, OUR
MARTYRS, WE WILL CHANGE THE PRISONS INTO THE GRAVEYARDS OF THE OLIGARCHY!


DEVRIMCI HALK KURTULUS CEPHESI
(REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S LIBERATION FRONT)

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From ozgurluk at xs4all.nl  Mon Jul 29 02:54:00 1996
From: ozgurluk at xs4all.nl (ozgurluk at xs4all.nl)
Date: 29 Jul 1996 02:54:00
Subject: Mainstream news on ending of Hungerstrike in Turkey
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Turk Prison Hunger Strike Ends 

By SELCAN HACAOGLU 
Associated Press Writer 
Saturday, July 27, 1996 4:55 pm EDT 


ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -- Mediators struck a deal Saturday to end leftist
prisoners' 69-day hunger strike for improved prison conditions, in which 11
inmates have died. 

The agreement was reached with prisoners at Istanbul's Bayrampasa prison,
who acted as representatives of the roughly 2,000 leftist prisoners on the
hunger strike and 4,000 Kurdish inmates who recently joined the protest fast. 

``The hunger strikes at Turkey's prisons are over,'' announced Mukadder
Basegmez, an Istanbul lawmaker and mediator. 

The government had accepted inmates' demands that they be jailed closer to
where their trials are held, negotiators said. 

Medical teams entered Bayrampasa to treat the most critically ill of the 900
hunger strikers at that prison, Basegmez said. 

Human rights officials visiting the protesters have said some 100 inmates
were in critical condition and some may not be saved even if they ended
their fast. 

Three more fasting inmates died Saturday. Relatives of Bayrampasa inmates
gathered outside the Istanbul prison's gates. 

``I'm not here only for my son but out of worry for all strikers,'' said
Sultan Gurlevik, whose 18-year-old son was among the hunger strikers inside the
prison. 

``Please don't let our sons die,'' she called out, her voice shaking. 

The government, which had said Friday it was prepared to raid Bayrampasa
prison if inmates did not abandon their hunger strike, indicated Saturday it
wanted to avoid that. 

``They are trying to provoke us into a raid,'' State Minister Abdullah Gul
told reporters. ``We cannot allow blood to be spilled regardless of whose it
is.'' 

The government claims the hunger strikes have been orchestrated by ``leftist
terrorist groups'' whose leaders are in Bayrampasa prison and do not allow
hunger strikers to receive medical treatment. Authorities have said prisoners
there had taken control of several prison wards and would not allow medical
teams in to attend to hunger strikers. 

One leftist inmate was hospitalized at his request Saturday when his
condition deteriorated in a prison in the western town of Gebze. 

Hunger strikers were protesting the transfer of roughly 100 political
prisoners to Eskisehir prison, 125 miles west of Ankara. Eskisehir has
cells, unlike other Turkish prisons that have larger wards. 

The inmates also demanded better access to legal defense and medical
treatment and an end to transfers and beatings in jails. 

The three inmates who died Saturday succumbed within hours of each other,
two in Istanbul and the other in the western city of Bursa, their lawyers
said. Two were on trial for membership in illegal leftist groups; the third had
been convicted. 

Rallies were held Saturday around the nation in support of the hunger strikers. 

In the southern city of Adana, 20 people were detained during a clash with
police who refused to allow them into the post office, the Anatolia news
agency reported. They had planned to send telegrams of concern to the
Justice Ministry. 

Kurdish rebels set fire to a bus in eastern Turkey after asking the
passengers to get off, Anatolia reported. The rebels told the passengers
their action was in support of the hunger strikes. 



Turkish Hunger Strike Toll: 11 

By SELCAN HACAOGLU 
Associated Press Writer 
Saturday, July 27, 1996 4:24 pm EDT 


ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -- The government showed signs of bending to leftist
prisoners' demands for improved prison conditions Saturday, the 69th day of a
nationwide prisoner hunger strike in which 11 inmates have died. 

Mediators went into Bayrampasa prison Saturday night to meet with the
fasting prisoners serving as representatives of the roughly 2,000 prisoners on
the hunger strike. 

Three more fasting inmates died Saturday, and about 100 others were reported in
critical condition. Relatives of Bayrampasa inmates gathered outside the
Istanbul prison's gates. 

``I'm not here only for my son but out of worry for all strikers,'' said
Sultan Gurlevik, whose 18-year-old son was among the hunger strikers inside the
prison. 

``Please don't let our sons die,'' she called out, her voice shaking. 

The government, which had said Friday it was prepared to raid Bayrampasa
prison if inmates did not abandon their hunger strike, suggested Saturday it may
try to avoid that. 

``They are trying to provoke us into a raid,'' State Minister Abdullah Gul
told reporters. ``We cannot allow blood to be spilled regardless of whose it
is.'' 

The government claims the hunger strikes have been orchestrated by ``leftist
terrorist groups'' whose leaders are in Bayrampasa prison and do not allow
hunger strikers to receive medical treatment. Authorities have said prisoners
there had taken control of several prison wards and would not allow medical
teams in to attend to hunger strikers. 

One leftist inmate was hospitalized at his request Saturday when his
condition deteriorated in a prison in the western town of Gebze. 

Hunger strikers are protesting the transfer of roughly 100 political
prisoners to Eskisehir prison, 125 miles west of Ankara. Eskisehir has
cells, unlike other Turkish prisons that have larger wards. 

The government has offered to transfer those inmates to yet another prison, and
talks are focusing on which prison that should be, said Gencay Gursoy, a
left-wing politician mediating the talks. 

The government also appeared to agree to other, less problematic issues,
Gursoy said. However, the two sides were still talking late Saturday night. 

The inmates have demanded better access to legal defense and medical
treatment and an end to transfers and beatings in jails. 

The three inmates who died Saturday succumbed within hours of each other,
two in Istanbul and the other in the western city of Bursa, their lawyers
said. Two were on trial for membership in illegal leftist groups; the third had
been convicted. 

Rallies were held Saturday around the nation in support of the hunger strikers. 

In the southern city of Adana, 20 people were detained during a clash with
police who refused to allow them into the post office, the Anatolia news
agency reported. They had planned to send telegrams of concern to the
Justice Ministry. 

Kurdish rebels set fire to a bus in eastern Turkey after asking the
passengers to get off, Anatolia reported. The rebels told the passengers
their action was in support of the hunger strikes. 

About 4,000 Kurdish inmates recently joined the 2,000 fasting leftist
prisoners. 
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From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Tue Jul 30 13:29:55 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 30 Jul 1996 13:29:55
Subject: Turkish Political Prisoner Hungerst
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.960730073..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: Turkish Political Prisoner Hungerstrike Over, But More Deaths Likely

Turkey's Hunger Strikes End But More Deaths Likely

Ankara, Turkey (AP - July 28, 1996) A day after accepting
government concessions to end their 69-day hunger strike, some
inmates in critical condition Sunday were not expected to live.
     Shortly after justice officials announced they had reached a
deal to end the fasting Saturday night, another prisoner died,
bringing the death toll to 12. Seven of the 170 inmates who were
hospitalized early Sunday were in intensive care, the health
ministry said.
     "It is much too late to save them", said lawyer Behic Asci,
who represented some of the protesting inmates.
     Some 2,000 leftist inmates launched the hunger strike in May
to protest harsh inmate transfers, inadequate medical care and
restrictions on visitation rights for political prisoners. About
4,000 Kurdish inmates joined them in solidarity last week.
     After holding firm against the strikers' demands for more
than two months, Turkey's month-old Islam-oriented government
finally agreed to send 102 political prisoners to jails closer to
the site of their trials, negotiators said.
     But some predicted Sunday that Turkish prisons may be
convulsed by similar protests in the future unless the government
radically overhauls the justice system, including speeding up
trial delays and improving prison conditions.
     Some suspected terrorists wait years for their cases to come
to trial; their wait time in jail sometimes exceeds their
sentences.
     "Without judiciary reform, the government will be vulnerable
to these kind of problems forever", said lawyer Ali Dizdar.
     Though Turkey has suffered a year of political instability,
the hunger strike was Premier Necmettin Erbakan's first crisis.
The government has expressed concern that the incident might
further taint its human rights record in the West's eyes.
     The hunger strikers were either on trial or convicted of
being members in outlawed leftist groups or involved in the
country's Kurdish uprising. Some had taken part in murders or
bombings.
     Such links to terrorism limited public sympathy for the
hunger strikers.
     Human rights activists, lawyers and commentators Sunday
blamed Justice Minister Sevket Kazan for waiting too long to
offer the concessions that ended the strike.
     "You are to be blamed for the deaths, Mr. Minister", wrote
columnist Can Dundar in the liberal newspaper Yeni Yuzyil. "Your
abstinence and bullying delayed an accord for such a long time
and let all these people die."


From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Tue Jul 30 14:30:20 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 30 Jul 1996 14:30:20
Subject: Iran Attacks Kurdistan Democratic P
Message-ID: <bac1c849.Pine.NEB.3.95.960730082..@burn.ucsd.edu>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at locust.cic.net>
Subject: Iran Attacks Kurdistan Democratic Party Of Iran In Iraq

Statement From The Political Bureau Of Kurdish Democratic Party
Of Iran (KDPI)

Dear countrymen!
Respectful people of Kurdistan!
All freedom-lovers in the world!

     As can be seen and as we had warned earlier, the Islamic
Republic regime [of Iran] has implemented its treacherous plot by
attacking the centre of KDPI and the families of Iranian Kurdish
refugees by trespassing into the territory of its neighbouring
country.
     In the night of the 5th and the beginning hours of 6th of
Gelawij [Iranian month Mordad] 1375, that is July 27, 1996, a
force of some thousands of Sepah-e Pasdaran-e Iran equipped with
all kinds of heavy guns such as artillery (cannons), Katyushas
and tanks entered from Mariwan border into the territory of Iraq
and that night reached Suleymaniya and took up positions in
Muesker el-Salam. Less than 24 hours after reaching there, they
faced the region where the base of the Political Bureau is
located. Around the night of July 28, they penetrated into a very
strategic point in that region.
     At 6:30 in the morning on July 28, the invading forces
started to fire shells at the Party's base and at the Iranian
Kurdish refugees camp. This is still going on and at 10:00 in the
morning of the same day, they started their land invasion and
heavy fighting is continuing between the reactionary forces of
Pasdaran and the Pishmarg forces of the Party.
     At this time that we expose their savage invasion, we ask
all countrymen, all members of the Party, and political
organisations and any international group and association to do
any thing that they can to stop this invasion by the Iranian
regime and don't let this act against humanity end without a
response.

Political Bureau of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI)
July 28, 1996

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=FB part=EE =FB=20
>r=EAxistin=EAn siyas=EE =FB ji gisht kom =FB komeley=EAn navnetewey=EE dax=
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>Hawn=EEshtimane ber=EAzekan!
>Xelk=EE be sheref=EE Kurdistan!
>Azad=EExwazan=EE seranser=EE c=EEhan!
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Komar=EE =CEslam=EE=20
>p=EElan=EE xa=EEnaney xoy bo l=EAdan=EE binkekan=EE Hizb=EE d=EAmokrat=EE =
Kurdistan=EE =CAran =FB=20
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urmet=EE xak=EE wilat=EE=20
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6 h=EAz=EAk=EE =E7end hezar kes=EEy=20
>Supay Pasdar=EE =CAran be hem=FB c=FBre =E7ek=EAk=EE qurs wek topxane, kat=
y=FBsha =FB tanke we=20
>le sin=FBr=EE Mer=EEwane wehate n=EAw xak=EE Kurdistan=EE =CAraq =FB her e=
w shewe gey=EEshte=20
>Sul=EAman=EE =FB le (Muesker el-Selam) c=EAg=EEr b=FB. Kemtir le 24 saet d=
iway=EE gey=EEshtin=EE,=20
>berew naw=E7ey Koye ke binkey defter=EE siyas=EE l=EA ye, wer=EA kewt =FB =
shew=EE 28 J=FB=EEye le=20
>zor nuxtey strat=EAj=EEy dewr =FB ber=EE Koye damezra.
>H=EAze pelemarderekan le saet=EE 6.30 beyan=EE roj=EE 28 J=FB=EEye be xest=
=EE topbaran=EE=20
>binkekan=EE H=EEzb =FB ord=FBgay kurde aware =EAraniyekan=EE dest p=EA kir=
dewe ke ta =EAsta=20
>berdewam e =FB le saet 10 ser le beyan=EE ew rojewe pelemar=EE zem=EEn=EE =
dest p=EA kirdewe=20
>=FB =EAsta sher=EAk=EE qurs le n=EAwan Pasdaran=EE koneperest=EE =CAran =
=FB P=EAshmergekan=EE H=EEzb=20
>berdewam e.
>=CAme le kat=EAk da em pelemare dirindaneye ashkera dekeyn, le hem=FB=20
>hawn=EEshtimanan, le t=EAkray h=EEzb =FB r=EAkxirawe siyasiyekan =FB le gi=
sht kor =FB komele=20
>n=EAwneteweyiyekan dawa dekeyn, be her r=EAgayek da boyan dekr=EA bo ragir=
tin=EE=20
>h=EArish=EE rij=EAm=EE =CAran t=EAbikoshin =FB neh=EAlin ew tawane dij=EE =
=EEnsaniyey be ser da t=EA per=EA.
>
>Defter=EE Siyas=EE H=EEzb=EE D=EAmokrat=EE Kurdistan=EE =CAran
>
>1996-07-28
>1357-05-07

(ATS Note: Thanks to the comrade who sent us this statement. As none of us
in ATS are Kurdish we hope that the text in Surani and Kurmanji is
readable...)

 ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++
   ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++
     ++++ see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm ++++

+++=3D=3D=3D+++=3D=3D=3D+++=3D=3D=3D+++=3D=3D=3D+++=3D=3D=3D+++=3D=3D=3D+++=
=3D=3D=3D+++=3D=3D=3D+++=3D=3D=3D+++=3D=3D=3D+++=3D=3D
Arm The Spirit is an autonomist/anti-imperialist information
collective based in Toronto, Canada. Our focus includes a wide=20
variety of material, including political prisoners, national=20
liberation struggles, armed communist resistance, anti-fascism,=20
the fight against patriarchy, and more. We regularly publish our=20
writings, research, and translation materials in our magazine and
bulletins called Arm The Spirit. For more information, contact:

Arm The Spirit
P.O. Box 6326, Stn. A
Toronto, Ontario
M5W 1P7 Canada

E-mail: ats at etext.org
WWW: http://burn.ucsd.edu/~ats
FTP: ftp.etext.org --> /pub/Politics/Arm.The.Spirit
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+++=3D=3D=3D+++=3D=3D=3D+++=3D=3D=3D+++=3D=3D=3D+++=3D=3D=3D+++=3D=3D=3D+++=
=3D=3D=3D+++=3D=3D=3D+++=3D=3D=3D+++=3D=3D=3D+++=3D=3D=20



From train at gn.apc.org  Tue Jul 30 16:41:24 1996
From: train at gn.apc.org (train at gn.apc.org)
Date: 30 Jul 1996 15:41:24 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: RADICAL VIDEO FOOTAGE WANTED!!!
Message-ID: <APC.2.0.4a152690.a58@gn.apc.org>

From: train (Ted Oakes)

RADICAL VIDEO FOOTAGE WANTED!!!

I am looking for radical video footage from environmental and social
justice campaigns for possible use on our alternative video news magazine
and for a new BBC television series. This is a great opportunity to draw
attention to your group's activities and concerns.

Please send VHS copies of your material, explanatory information, contact
details or your questions to:

Ted Oakes
Undercurrents
16B Cherwell St.,
Oxford, OX4 1BG
England
Tel.  +44 1865 68750,  Fax +44 1865 243562
Train at gn.apc.org



From train at gn.apc.org  Tue Jul 30 20:10:28 1996
From: train at gn.apc.org (train at gn.apc.org)
Date: 30 Jul 1996 19:10:28 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: RADICAL VIDEO FOOTAGE WANTED!!!
References: <APC.2.0.4a152690.a58@gn.apc.org>
Message-ID: <APC.2.0.4a152691.29c@gn.apc.org>

From: train (Ted Oakes)

RADICAL VIDEO FOOTAGE WANTED!!!

I am looking for radical video footage from environmental and social
justice campaigns for possible use on our alternative video news magazine
and for a new BBC television series. This is a great opportunity to draw
attention to your group's activities and concerns. For more information
contact me at:

Train at gn.apc.org

Please send VHS copies of your material, explanatory information and
contact details to:

Ted Oakes
Undercurrents
16B Cherwell St.,
Oxford, OX4 1BG
England
Tel.  +44 1865 68750,  Fax +44 1865 243562



From kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu  Wed Jul 31 17:52:30 1996
From: kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu (kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu)
Date: 31 Jul 1996 17:52:30
Subject: DHKC: Victory For The Prisoners And
Message-ID: <bac1c849.199607311605.MAA12053@l>

From: Arm The Spirit <ats at etext.org>
Subject: DHKC: Victory For The Prisoners And Their Families!

"Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Cephesi" (DHKC)

The Death-Fast Has Ended After 69 Days!
The Turkish Government Has Agreed To The Prisoners' Demands!

        The resistance of the last 69 days has ended. The murderour maffia
government (DYP and REFAH parties) has agreed to the prisoners' demands:

        - plans for opening new special prisons and introducing solitary
confinement and forced relocation of prisoners have been scrapped;
        - there will be no further attacks on prisoners or their families;
        - medical care will no longer be denied to prisoners;
        - current trials against sick prisoners will be delayed until their
health improves.

        During the 69 days of resistance, 11 revolutionary prisoners fell.
Another prisoner died in hospital on July 28, 4 others are in critical
condition. The fascist government took 12 lives in exchange for 4 prisoner
demands. For the political prisoners, this was a struggle which weakened
their bodies with each passing day. For their families, it was a struggle
which saw them behind the barricades with each passing day. The families
and friends of the prisoners were threatened every day, they were beaten,
arrested, and tortured. The police stations became filled with people who
waged resistance. A 60-year-old mother and father and leading trade
unionists launched death-fasts on the outside.
        This struggle strengthened peoples' will. The people won this
struggle. The 12 martyrs used their bodies as a barricade against the most
brutal regime which we have faced to date. Those responsible in the
government and the media tried all forms of threats and propaganda they
could. The state lied, threatened, beat people with clubs, arrested
demonstrators, tortured and shot people. But to no avail. The voice of the
resistance from the prisons was heard across the country and around the
world.
        They could not jail the spirits of free prisoners. They could not
dampen the will of the families. Democracy, freedom, and love of humanity
were victorious. This victory belongs to all of us, the prisoners, their
families, our people, and our friends across the world who were with us
always.

        12 martyrs fell in the struggle:

Aygun Ugur - TKP(ML)
Altan Berdan Kerimgiller - DHKP-C
Ilginc Ozkeskin - DHKP-C
Huseyin Demircioglu - MLKP
Ali Ayata - TKP(ML)
Mujdat Yanat - DHKP-C
Tahsin Yilmaz - TIKB
Ayse Idil Erkmen - DHKP-C
Hicabi Kucuk - TIKB
Yemliha Kaya - DHKP-C
Osman Akgul - TIKB
Hayati Can - TKP(ML)

        They will live on in our struggle...

Revolutionary People's Liberation Front (DHKC)
Information Office, Vienna
July 28, 1996


(Translated by Arm The Spirit)

 ++++ stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal ++++
   ++++ if you agree copy these lines to your sig ++++
     ++++ see http://www.xs4all.nl/~tank/spg-l/sigaction.htm ++++

_________________________________________________________________
Arm The Spirit is an autonomist/anti-imperialist information
collective based in Toronto, Canada. Our focus includes a wide 
variety of material, including political prisoners, national 
liberation struggles, armed communist resistance, anti-fascism, 
the fight against patriarchy, and more. We regularly publish our 
writings, research, and translation materials in our magazine and
bulletins called Arm The Spirit. For more information, contact:

Arm The Spirit
P.O. Box 6326, Stn. A
Toronto, Ontario
M5W 1P7 Canada

E-mail: ats at etext.org
WWW: http://burn.ucsd.edu/~ats
FTP: ftp.etext.org --> /pub/Politics/Arm.The.Spirit
ATS-L Archives: http://burn.ucsd.edu/~archive/ats-l
_________________________________________________________________