Statement from DHKP-C prisoners in the Canakkale prison (Turkey)

[ozgurluk at xs4all.nl]

Canakkale Prison
January 1999

WE DO NOT LET FASCISTS  EXIST  WHEREVER WE ARE

Like all in other areas,  the oligarchy is trying to use their civic
fascist forces against revolutionaries in the prisons, too. The most
recent examples of this were the developments in the Bergama and Sakarya
prisons. The enemy opened fire on our comrades in the Bergama prison.
These comrades were taking part in an action in response to the attack
on our comrades in the Ceyhan prison. When our comrades beat off this
attack, they rsponded by sending the fascist criminals in with iron bars
and sticks in their hands. This attack was also beaten off by our
comrades with the same determination. Again the developments in the
Sakarya prison show that the enemy will use their civic fascist forces
in the prisons for many purposes. They have tried to attack the
revolutionary prisoners once they had created an opportunity through
provocation by using the fascists. But the response they got  was
resistance, the solidarity actions of the revolutionary prisoners in the
other prisons and their determination for revenge. Of course, their
attempts are not limited to this couple of examples. 

Similar provocations and attacks have been continuously tried in the
prisons where revolutionaries and the non-political prisoners share
the same location. This has happened.  The developments during the
last month in the Canakkale prison, give an indication of the
continuity of this policy of fascist attacks and murders. A while ago,
during the Death Fast Resistance, the efforts of the fascist chief
prosecutor, Cemal Sahir Gurcay who is also the general director of
prisons, to incite the non-political prisoners against the
revolutionary inmates were abandoned without success because of the
vigilance and early intervention of the revolutionary
prisoners. During the same period, the representatives of the Susurluk
state in Canakkale were working on different ways of carrying out
murders and provocation. 
They tried to get two non- political prisoners to kill the DHKP-C
representative and at the same time, they began the efforts with
organised and institutionalised fascists. A group of fascist mobsters
who were institutionalised in the isolation section, began with a
typical method of organising; the distribution of drugs and
hashish. At the same time, by using the opportunities created by the
enemy, they had tried to establish their hegemony in four wards of the
non-political prisoners. Of course, this attempt to establish their
hegemony was firstly by making these prisoners dependent on them
through drug addiction and then, they through residing in these
wards. All these developments have been taking place before the eyes
of the administration of the prison. 

These fascists had permission to do what they wanted. We have
uncovered that the fascist mobsters Tekin Yilmaz, Ramazan Yasar, Oktay
Koca and former turncoat-policeman Ibrahim… who were staying in the
isolation section of the prison, led this organisation and drug
trafficking. While we were establishing our programme to smash this
rotten fascist core, a delegation representing all the non-political
prisoners requested a meeting with the DHKP-C representation. Their
demands were: "If we can live in the prison with dignity without being
subjected to oppression and torture, this is because of the
DHKP-C. This is because of your martyr, IDIL. With your permission, we
would like to intervene on this occasion and talk to both the
administration and fascists. Let us tell the fascists that we don't
want them here and kick them out". We accepted their demands. We said
that it is very positive to act collectively and to have the
responsibility to act in the right way.  When the prison
administration insisted that we met only once. During this meeting we
said: "Those who even think of harming any of the DHKP- C captives
will face the consequences and be punished. Under these circumstances
we have nothing to talk about, in this place, where the body of our
martyr of revolution, IDIL, had stayed with us for one day, none of
fascists will even be allowed to breathe. Not only will we prevent the
fascists from organising themselves, but in addition we will smash
them just to teach a lesson to the others. We will hang those fascists
from the windows of this area and their dead bodies will remain there
until the every last one of the fascist mobsters in the prisons have
found out that the rotten bodies of their colleagues were displayed in
the place where IDIL rested. We will tell you our last words after the
meeting of non-political prisoners. 

The same day (8/1/99) the delegation began their meeting. Just before
they had a meeting with the administration, we informed them about our
meeting with enemy and warned them that the enemy will most probably
tell lies, try to split your unity and tell you stories as if they
have come out of our mouths. When the developments took place as we
had foreseen, the delegation of non- political prisoners terminated
the meeting and left them by saying "You want to spill blood, this is
obvious now. Everything the DHKP-C representative said has came
true". They also said that they take our side on the ejection of
fascists. As soon as the delegation left the isolation section and
came to let us know their decisions, we noticed that the enemy would
intervene, attack, expell…the non-political prisoners because of their
attitude against them. Straight away, the necessary initiative was
taken and we announced that unless they evict the fascists within 10
minutes, we would punish them. They asked for 20 minutes. We replied,
either they would be evicted in ten minutes or we will punish
them. And as we demanded, the fascists were evicted straight
away. 
They stayed in the administration building for two days and were then
sent to another prison. We are revolutionaries. We are from the
Party-Front. Wherever we are, fascists cannot even exist. Those who
spill the blood of our people, our dear comrades and who murder them,
cannot breathe the same air we do, andnor can their collaborators.
Fascists have no rights. They are not human. They are the enemies of
humanity. Murder, massacres, torture, drugs, prostitution,… all kind
of indignity and immorality are their business. Fascist have no right
to exist wherever we are. It is the duty of everyone who considers
themselves human to punish them and not to let them survive on earth.
The policies of the Susurluk state of organising fascists and
launching offensives in all the prisons (including Canakkale) are not
the first, nor will they be the last. We are aware of this. We will
crush their new attempts at fascist organisation and murderss through
our revolutionary determination and desire for revenge.  

We will not let any fascist exist in the Canakkale prison where the
memories and vision of our IDIL continue to give us power.

DHKP-C Prisoners

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