Turkey: Nobody can stay neutral towards fascism!

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Nobody can stay neutral towards fascism!

The true face of the fascist contra-guerrilla state in Turkey came
into the open once again. In recent days a lot of weapons were
discussed in the turkish media. Those weapons had been "lost" earlier
by the Turkish security forces. One of the weapons was found in the
Mercedes of the MP Sedat Bucakin the accident at Susurluk last
November. Now it was discovered that the weapons obviously were used
by the special, secret and illegal contra- guerrilla forces of
Turkey. The leaders and progenitors of these "special operation teams"
are the well-known Mehmet Agar, a former police chief, former minister
of justice and minister for internal affairs; Korkut Eken, a general
in the Turkish army, and Ibrahim Sahin, former police chief of
Turkey. It was discovered that under the leadership of Eken and Sahin,
the special forceswere trained in Turkey's Adana region.

The characteristics of the "lost" weapons are well-suited to murdering
revolutionaries and the people: long distance rifles and Magnum 300 as
well as Baretta pistols, which are hard to detect even without
silencers. The last weapon is well known for being used in "murders by
unknown perpetrators".

The fascist contra-guerrilla state in Turkey is using every dirty and
cruel method in its war against the revolutionaries and the
people. Whereas open crimes took a back seat in recent months to
methods of economic warfare such as enormous inflation and price rises
by the new government of Mesut Yilmaz- a government that didn't gain
power in legal elections but in negotiations among the ruling classes
of the country - recent developments are promoting the politics of
murder and massacres once again.

The fascist regime of Turkey cannot extend its life without
openterror. The peaceful road and even the methods of "democracy" on
the official political stage are exhausted. The attacks against the
"Peace Train" [from Europe to Kurdistan] must have opened the eyes of
the last people who still believed that negotiations with this regime
will lead to a result. Agar, Sahin and Eken,the mass murderers and
perpetrators of unbelievable massacres, weren't even charged in the
Turkish courts. The fascist regime in Turkey shows openly it's
understanding of "democracy". There is no other way for the
imperialists and their collaborators, the ruling oligarchy, to keep
hold of the country but to try to silence the growing protests of the
people with blood and terror.

This is a time when everybody has to choose a side in this war. The
governments in Europe have already chosen to side with the Turkish
fascist system. Attacks against revolutionaries and people who support
the struggle for an independent, democratic and free Turkey are on the
agenda in almost every European country. The latest events in Paris,
where more than 150 people from Turkey were arrested, having committed
no crime but to be revolutionaries or sympathisers with revolution in
the liberation struggle in Turkey, as well as the attacks in Germany
against the socialist newspaper Kurtulus, are only isolated examples
in a long list of terror against the friends of the peoples in
Turkey. Nobody can stay neutral in this war.  On September 30th, the
event "One minute of darkness for eternal light"will start once
again. Every evening at 2100 Istanbul time, the lights will be turned
off for one minute. After the events in Susurluk, hundreds of
thousands of people participated in that campaign. The campaign was
accompanied by demonstrations by thousands of angry people on the
streets who united under the slogan "Susurluk is the state" and "Let's
hold them accountable!".

It is the task of every democrat and progressive human being to join
the side of the people in this fight. It is the duty of the
revolutionaries to lead the protest of the people towards the demand
of calling the guilty to account. It is the duty of the
revolutionaries to unite the people in the struggle for an
independent, democratic and free country, in the struggle for the
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE PEOPLE.

These aims will only be reached by realising the revolution in Turkey
and by establishing the power of the people. We, the DHKC, are calling
on every friend and everyone among the peoples in Turkey to organise
and take part in this revolution.


Susurluk is the state, let's hold them accountable!

For an independent, democratic and free country: let us establish the
power of the people!

We are right, we will win!

DHKC Press Deapartment
19 september 1997


-- 
Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Cephesi (Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Front)
DHKC Informationbureau Amsterdam
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