Turkey/DHKC: The Susurluk state is responsible for disappearances

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DEVRIMCI HALK KURTULUS CEPHESI

Press Office 
Date: November 17, 1998

Declaration No. 77

THE SUSURLUK STATE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR DISAPPEARANCES

The state's policy of making people disappear while they are in police
custody, which has been developed in the 1990s for use against
revolutionary democrats, especially us, pursues the aim of
intimidating the people and the revolutionaries. The implementation of
this policy of terror has seen the disappearance of hundreds of
revolutionary democrats while they were in police custody.

We have stopped asking who has caused disappearances, and how. For the
answer to this question is very obvious: the Susurluk state, that is,
the army, the governments, the police, the MIT (National Intelligence
Organisation). All the institutions of the state and all those who
serve the state bear responsibility for the disappeared.

Neither disappearances, massacres, arrests; not a single act of terror
could intimidate the people or prevent us from waging our
revolutionary struggle.  Nor will it be prevented. The repellent
character of the Susurluk state, its oppression and exploitation
cannot be concealed by any policy of repression.  We will expose the
disgraceful acts of the Susurluk state which they are trying to
conceal with terror. In the course of time we will tear off the masks
they are seeking to wear in front of the people. Neither our friends
nor our enemies should have any doubt on this point. Our history is
the best proof of that.

This is the first time in our country's history that four
revolutionaries were made to disappear at the same time. This is what
happened on March 31, 1998 in Izmir. The message from the Susurluk
state is clear. This message is an even wider-ranging declaration of
war on the people and the revolutionaries. The disappearances of our
comrades Neslihan Uslu, Hasan Aydogan, Metin Andac and Mehmet Ali
Mandal were a first step towards that.  But their disappearances are
also a barricade erected in front of this policy. The proof of this is
the way our people have come out in support of our four disappeared
comrades, the continuation of the revolutionary struggle and our
actions.

Not a single crime carried out against the people and the
revolutionaries can go unavenged. Sooner or later a reckoning will be
demanded. The state is the culprit - all institutions of the state and
its servants. The state cannot escape being called to account. In this
way we will continue to demand to know where the disappeared are, and
we will demand a reckoning for them.

We want a reckoning for our hundreds of disappeared, for our thousands
of murdered people. Sooner or later the state will give an answer to
the question, "WHERE ARE OUR DISAPPEARED?" There is no alternative.
To demand a reckoning for Neslihan, Hasan, Metin and Mehmet Ali, on
November 16, 1998, at 2000, the Avcilar tax office in Istanbul, one of
the institutions of the state, which exploits the people and murders
the revolutionaries and the people through its depredations, was
bombed and laid waste by our fighters.

We will continue our reprisal measures until the fate of the
disappeared is made known.

REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S LIBERATION FRONT

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