Documentation: DHKC on Amnesty International

[DHKC Informationbureau Amsterdam]

DOCUMENTATION:

To Amnesty International,

In your report about the violations of human rights in Turkey, the
punishment of Özdemir Sabanci by the DHKP-C is mentioned as well. We
believe you either do not know the Sabanci family, or you do not know
the DHKP-C. Therefore we see it as our duty to inform you about all
which concerns our Party and about what is happening in our country.

Who are the Sabanci's? What role do they play?

A quote: "All analyses of the economic situation in Turkey begin with
the words "the Koc family, the Sabanci family"
.
All political developments in Turkey are judged by the opinion of the
Koc or Sabanci families. For all new formations of government, laws or
treaties with other countries, it is of decisive importance whether
the Koc and Sabanci families support them or not.

So far, so good. But who are these families? Are they presidents of
the Turkish Republic? Are they prime ministers or ministers? Do they
hold some kind of office within the state?

No, they are no officials, "officially they do not hold any office",
but nevertheless they decide everything because they do not need any
official title, they are the "owners".

The Sabanci family is one of the largest exploiters. Every drop of
blood which is spilled in our country is only spilled so the
exploiters can continue their way.

Torture and murder only have this reason.

The disappeared people, you mention in your report, have only
disappeared so they wouldn't threaten their empire. They do not spare
youngsters, nor the elderly. All the violations of human rights which
are listed in your report where committed by these exploiters.

As long as there are such persons, violations of human rights will
continue in Turkey.

That's why we have punished the Sabanci family. A Sabanci is not a
civilian. A Sabanci is more responsible than hundreds of
contra-guerrilla chiefs.

They were punished to satisfy justice.

Where there is no justice, there are no human rights.
Justice is a natural and human feeling. Demanding justice is a natural
right of all people.

Well, what is the DHKP-C?

The DHKP-C (Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front) is an
organisation which has been struggling for the last 26 years. In its
history of struggle, there is not one single action which has harmed
the people or violated human rights.

The Party-Front fights against a immoral enemy, an enemy without
honour. The Party-Front represents ethics and honour, even in this
struggle, and it does not apply inhuman methods in punishing its
enemies.

The DHKP-C represents the people's justice against the regime which
you mention in your report, and which is responsible for the hundreds
of massacres, the torture and the disappearances.

The DHKP-C is the hope for liberation of the people which wants to
free itself from this regime. Based on this legitimacy, the DHKP-C
convicted Sabanci who carried the responsibility for the exploitation
of tens of thousands of people, the murder of thousands of people, the
torture and the overcrowded prisons. The DHKP-C helped satisfying
justice.

The convictions, the punishments and justice of the DHKP-C are legitimate.
Your judgement of the punishment of Sabanci as a "violation of human
rights" overshadows all your other positions against violations of
human rights.

You should not overlook that the Sabanci's and the thieving regime of
oppression are actually responsible for these violations of human
rights and that the rulers of these holdings profit most of this
regime.

It is impossible and useless to resist violations of human rights
without standing up.

When you look at the human rights from the viewpoint of the USA or
according to the Yokohama Declaration, which copies the views of the
USA, things look quite different of course. When we follow their view,
resistance - the most legitimate and natural right of the peoples - is
not accepted when we speak of human rights. All peoples who are
exploited and oppressed have the right to resist. They have the right
to hold the oppressor accountable.

These rights should never be separated from human rights.
Imperialism tries to condemn the national and social liberation
movements and the people's struggles for independence with their
demagogy of "terror" to hide and cover their own crimes against the
peoples and world public opinion.

The fact that AI judges the people's justice, which is a part of the
liberation struggle and a consequence of the legitimate resistance and
the right of the people to demand accountability, as a "violation of
human rights" is a conduct which strengthens the terror demagogy of
the criminal-states, it is - at least - an attitude which sustains
this demagogy.

AI is an institution for the human rights struggle which can not be
overlooked. AI could be an institution, a supporting force for the
democratic struggle, with its dynamics, stemming from the way it is
organised. AI should keep loyal to this role.

With a notion that resistance of all kinds (including the armed
struggle) by the oppressed peoples is not legitimate, we can not get
rid of the regimes who violate the human rights..
.
With this notion we can not get rid of the human rights violations in
the world.

AI views the punishment of Sabanci, one of the parasites who changed
the life of the people in numerous countries into a nightmare, who is
directly responsible for the massacres and torture in our country, a
exploiter and oppressor, as a violation of human rights. You should
correct this mistaken view as soon as possible.

We think you should correct the appropriate part of your report.
This is what we call for, in the name of the resistance and the right
of our peoples to ask for accountability.

In the name of the legitimacy of our struggle,
In the name of the legitimacy of our Party-Front.
In the name of the revolutionary line of our Party-Front which takes
utmost care that the people are not harmed in any way.

The peoples, who constantly witness the most horrible violations of
human rights, call upon you.

The people who want to live in freedom and dignity, call upon you.,

If we want a free world and a dignified life, human kind has to be
liberated from the Sabanci's and their systems of exploitation and
oppression.

DHKC European Representation

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DOCUMENTATION

To Amnesty International

We heard about your report about the human rights situation in Turkey
through the press and television. We follow your campaign. In your
report we see a false evaluation. The punishment of Sabanci,
responsible for the murders, the disappeared, the torture and all
repression, by the DHKP-C is seen by you as a violation of human
rights. With such an evaluation, one does either not know the reality
of the people who live in our country, or one has not understood this
reality. That's why we will try again to explain the reasons and the
reality in our country.

At first we have to make this clear: The system in our country is a
system of exploitation and oppression. A fascist government rules our
people. The people of the Kurdish, the Turkish, Arab, Laz,
Chercessian, Georgian and many other nations and of many religious
creeds are far remote from freedom, far remote from a humanly
dignified life. The workers and toilers are being exploited, robbed
from the fruits of their labour, their rights are being denied to
them. The workers, civil servants, small merchants, the poor and
landless peasants are oppressed daily by this system of exploitation
and repression.

The monopoly bourgeoisie, the speculators, big traders and the owners
of the large estates who collaborate with the imperialist capital are
the rulers of this system and the steal the wealth of our people. The
monopolist like Sabanci and Koc, who collaborate with imperialism, do
not hold any official position, but because of their capital the play
the most influential role in controlling our country.

These facts are only one side of the reality in our country. On the
other side they oppress and terrorise our people to uphold the
exploitation and their position. The state is the source of
repression. The state fights our people with its military, its police,
courts, prisons and parliaments. All those who demand their rights,
who want to live in freedom, have become the targets of state
repression and state violence. Because the Kurdish people demands its
freedom, it is slaughtered, they are tortured and driven into
exile. Our people are executed in their houses, on the streets, and
they are made "disappeared". All the police stations and military
barracks have become centres of torture. Thousands of people are
tortured every year. Our friends are locked up in prisons. Speaking
about the basic democratic rights means being attacked by the police
and the military with their batons and tanks. This system is a system
of massacres, of disappearances and torture.

The prisons are used by the fascist state to oppress our people. The
state, which wants to destroy our people's hope, tortures the
revolutionaries, patriots and progressive people, and it incarcerates
them. Today there are some 10.000 people in prison because they
participated in the struggle of our people, or supported it.

The state wants to destroy our people's hope for liberation by keeping
people imprisoned and by trying to change the views of the patriots
and revolutionaries by violence. To achieve this, they use all kinds
of torture and deny all possible rights.

On September 21, 1995, the DHKP-C prisoners Turan Kilic, Yusuf Bag and
Ugur Sariaslan were murdered in an attack of the police and the
military against the prisoners in Buca. They were beaten to death by
the policemen and soldiers with iron bars and wooden clubs. Dozens of
prisoners were severely wounded. On January 4, 1996, the state
perpetrated another massacre in the prison of Umraniye/Istanbul. The
DHKP-C prisoners Abdulmecit Seckin, Orhan Ozen, Riza Boybas and
Gultekin Beyhan were murdered in this attack. Again dozens of
prisoners were severely wounded. On May 20, 1996, 1.500 prisoners in
several prisons began a hunger strike. On June 3, 1996, this hunger
strike was expanded into a death fast. The revolutionary prisoners
Aygun Ugur, Altan Berdan Kerimgiller, Ilginc Ozkeskin, Huseyin
Demircioglu, Ali Ayata, Mujdat Yanat, Tahsin Yilmaz, Ayce Idil Erkmen,
Hicabi Kucuk, Osman Akgun and Hayata Can fell in this death
fast. Dozens of prisoners will remain disabled because the state
refuses them medical treatment. Many are still in danger of there
lives.

These are only a few examples of the oppression against our
people. All of the people have become the target of the attacks by the
state. Nobody who has not lost his dignity already, wants to live in
such a system. Our people do not want to live in this unjust
system. To resist such a system, is a legitimate right of all people.

People like Sabanci or Koc, the rulers of this system of exploitation
and oppression, are responsible for all violations of the human rights
in our country. They are guilty.

That's why Sabanci was punished. He was punished to deal with this
unjust system.

There is a struggle going on in our country, a struggle between
Sabanci, Koc, the other rulers of this regime and its guardians, the
security forces and the army on the one side, and the working masses
of the people and all those who want to protect their dignity on the
other. It's a struggle between the rulers and our people.

The DHKP-C fights to destroy the system of exploitation and oppression
of the imperialists and their collaborators, to end starvation, misery
and poverty; for a life in brotherhood between all nations and
nationalities in our country.

The DHKP-C constitutes the hope for liberation of our working people
and the dignified people who live in poverty, a liberation from this
regime.

The DHKP-C is the organised strength of our people.

In March, 1995, the state attacked the people in Gazi/Istanbul. The
people answered this attack by rising up. In this uprising, the DHKP-C
played an important role.

In July of that same year, the DHKP-C realised an action of punishment
to demand justice for the disappeared. During this action, Sibel
Yalcin was killed in a fight with the police. The state then refused
for a week to hand out the body to her family. Thereupon, 10.000
people took to the streets. They built barricades and resisted the
police. The fact that 10.000 people defended Sibel Yalcin, who had
punished a policemen, shows that the people defend the justice and the
struggle of the DHKP-C.

On MayDay, 1996, more than 30.000 people marched under the banners and
flags of the DHKP-C. Our people resisted the attacks by the police and
the army with wooden clubs and handguns, they celebrated MayDay as a
day of struggle.

Our people are behind the liberation fight and the DHKP-C, the
organised force of the struggle for liberation.

Amnesty International's view as the punishment of Sabanci as a
violation of human rights, thus constitutes a condemnation of the
social and national liberation struggle of our people. This view
covers the crimes of imperialism and its collaborators, it at least
supports the "terror" demagogy of the people's enemies. That's way we
expect Amnesty International to change this part of its view about the
DHKP-C and that it corrects this substantial mistake.

We demand this as prisoners from the DHKP-C, in the name of the people
who want freedom and dignity, in the name of the revolutionary line of
action of the DHKP-C. Ola Tabe, nog een brief aan Amnesty. Alweer met
het verzoek te wachten met publicatie.

October 3, 1996

The DHKP-C prisoners in all the prisons of Turkey
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The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, the DHKP-C, is a
people's movement which wages the struggle for liberation. Our history
of struggle began in 1971 with the THKP-C and it continues through the
history of Devrimci Sol (from 1978) and the foundation of the DHKP-C
in 1994 until today.

The DHKP-C is the voice and the organised force of the peasants, the
people in the Gecekondus, the youth and the civil servants, the small
merchants. The DHKP-C wages its struggle in the cities, in the rural
areas, as well as in the mountains.

OUR PARTY-FRONT FIGHTS FOR INDEPENDENCE, FOR DEMOCRACY AND SOCIALISM.

We approach the people quite different from the government. The basis
of the DHKP-C is patience, trust and the willingness to sacrifice. The
DHKP-C defends the cultural and moral values of the people with
respect, it protects all positive values and it defends their
development. The DHKP-C develops itself with the notion that backward
values most be overcome and that this is matter of time. The DHKP-C
tries to achieve a consciousness among the people that immorality and
bad values are products of capitalism in our country.

Fascism is the form of the state in our country. The DHKP-C has become
the flag of the common fight for liberation of the Turkish, Kurdish,
Arab, Laz, Georgian, Cherkessian, Azeri, Syrian, Alewite and Sunni
people, the liberation struggle of people of all kinds of religious
persuasion and nations in our country. We are a movement which has
organised broad resistance's of the people in the last 20 years
against the fascist attacks in our country. For example, in March
1995, more than 20.000 people in Gazi, together with the DHKP-C,
answered the massacre by fascism with an uprising. Six of the 21
people who were murdered by fascism in Gazi, were fighters of the
DHKP-C. From the 100.000 people who occupied the streets of Istanbul
on MayDay, 30.000 marched under the banners of the DHKP-C.

In thousands of actions of resistance, strikes, manifestations,
battles against fascists, in the struggle for the independence of our
country and in the struggle for liberation of our people, we have
given thousands of martyrs, wounded and prisoners.

THE PARASITE SABANCI

At the top of the terror regime in Turkey are the owners of the
Turkish holdings, they are the headquarters of the
contra-revolution. The oligarchy in our country, consisting of
monopolists, large landowners, money brokers and merchant capitalists,
does not even constitute five percent of the people in our country,
but they own 70-80% of the national income.

The 7 largest holdings possess more than 60% of the national
income. The largest three are the holdings of the Sabanci, Kos and
Isbankasi.

The Sabanci empire holds more than 50 monopoly enterprises, the most
important are Lassa, Bossa, Olmuksa, Sasa, Susa, Aksa, Kordsa, Brisa,
Pilsa, Akcimento, Sapeksa, Marsa and Toyotasa. Furthermore there are
more than 20 loaning institutes, insurance companies and banks, 5 huge
agricultural estates and several hotel chains, of which Hiltonsa is
the best known. In 1994, the Sabanci empire made a profit of 18
trillion Turkish lira, of which 41% resulted from pure finance deals.

They are responsible for the misery and the poverty the people lives
in. The people are taken hostage in the hospitals because they can not
afford to pay the high costs.

They are the guardians of the torturers, the execution teams and the
anti-terror units. The Sabanci empire annually donates hundreds of
cars to the police for its security and the sustenance of its
system. The cars which are used by the contra-guerrilla for their
manhunt in the big cities are a gift of the Sabanci empire. The best
students at the police academies are rewarded with golden watches by
Sabanci.

The Sabanci empire is responsible for every drop of blood which is
being spilled. The people and the revolutionaries are murdered by
their servants with the weapons they provided. The Sabanci empire are
torturers and murderers of the people. They themselves are far away
from the fights, they hide behind their guards, in their villas and
their centres, but their hands are covered with the blood of the
murdered revolutionaries and our people. They are guilty. They are the
mainly responsible for the cruelties in Turkey, responsible for the
fact that people are being tortured, executed and taken away,
responsible for the fact that the Kurdish people are not acknowledged,
responsible for the bannings, for the misery, for the dependency of
the country from imperialism, responsible for the injustice.

There is a inseparable bond between the generals, the chiefs of
police, and the Sabanci empire. The pensioned commander of the navy
and prime-minister of the military junta of 1980, Bulent Ulusu, for
example, was given a high post in the Sabanci firm AKSA. It is quite
remarkable that so many generals are in their service for such huge
wages, although they do not have the necessary qualifications for
managing a firm.

The junta of September 12, 1980, carried out the execution of
revolutionaries for the welfare of the Sabanci empire. It's Sabanci
who had the trade unions of the workers banned for years, who
incarcerated its members in the dungeons, who had them tortured. The
contra-guerrilla kidnapped Duzgun Tekin, an active member of the DISK
union, and made him disappear. The workers, who take to the streets
for their rights, are beaten up by the police, ordered by
Sabanci. It's Sabanci who sacks those workers who stand up for their
rights.

The armoured cars which are used against the workers and the students,
are a gift from the Koc family. The tires of these vehicles are
produced by the Sabanci firms Bridgestone/Turkey and Lassa.

Turkey has become the country with the most disappearances and
kidnappings. Torture has become incessant. It has become exceptional
to be arrested without being tortured. Tens of thousands of people are
in jail.

Thousands of villages were burned in Kurdistan, their inhabitants were
driven away. Almost three million people are unemployed, they starve
or are on the run.

Murders have become habitual as well. The people are not only murdered
in the mountains, on the streets, or in their houses, murder has
become usual in the prisons as well.

TURKEY AND KURDISTAN ARE COLOURED WITH BLOOD.

The offices of the opposition press, for example the Kurtulus, are
sometimes raided twice a day by the police. Turkey has become a
country where the rules of the contra-guerrilla reign.

Of course, there are also forces which oppose these massacres and this
exploitation.

The people will stand up for their rights, resist injustice, and fight
oppression.

When the revolutionaries of the Revolutionary People's Liberation
Front punished Sabanci, one mother said: "These heroes deserve to be
kissed. Should only the mothers of the poor cry? From now on, the
mothers of the rich will cry as well." "Their houses should burn",
they said. To understand this anger of the people, one has to live in
Turkey.

Istanbul has two faces. A big city face with its sky scrapers and a
face of poverty with its slums.

The streets in the slums are covered with holes, and there are landing
places for helicopters on the sky scrapers of the rich. The police
only serves to protect the sky scrapers and to oppress the poor.

Between these two faces, between the wealth and the injustice of the
sky scrapers and the face of poverty, the slums and justice, a war is
going on.

When the police used its tanks against the people of Kucuk
Armutlu/Istanbul, in 1992, they crushed the seven year old
Sevcan. Kucuk Armutlu can be seen from the Sabanci Centre.

The history of the Sabanci empire is a history of exploitation and
oppression of the people. The Sabanci justice crushes seven year old
children with tanks, it destroys the dwellings of the poor to
illegally put palaces for the super rich in their place.

There are millions of people in our country who would like to grab a
Sabanci at his throat.

Turkey is a country where daily people loose their lives in accidents
at work, where deadly explosions occur of waste which is not properly
disposed, where thousands of people die in earthquakes and
floods. Thousands of children are killed by starvation or communicable
diseases.

On the other hand, people like Sabanci swim in their bloody dollars.

For the freedom of the people and the independence of our country, the
contra-guerrilla government of the Sabanci empire has to be destroyed.

FROM POLICE CHIEF TO MINISTER OF JUSTICE

Mehmet Agar is still a torturer. The name of the former chief of police and
later minister of justice, nowadays minister of the interior, is inseparably
connected with torture, murder, massacres, collaboration with the mafia,
extortion and oppression.

The blood of many people is on the filthy hands of Mehmet Agar. A few
examples suffice to clarify the measure of his cruelties.

During his time as chief of police in Ankara, in 1992, he said about
Nevroz Turkdogan, who lost her child because of torture, "this women
has lost her child because of the cold or because of
undernourishment. Our police officers are very careful in this
respect, and they are experienced."

Mehmet Agar ordered the police operation of July 12, 1991, in which 10
fighters of Devrimci Sol fell. He gave the order not to take them
alive. When he was asked about this by a journalist, he replied that
such an opportunity would not arise again.

On February 16, 1991, the Devrimci Sol sympathiser Ali Riza Agdogan
was thrown from the 4. floor of the police station in Beyoglu/Istanbul
and murdered. The order came from Mehmet Agar.

SABANCI, KOC AND THE OTHER FAMILIES, TOGETHER CONSTITUTING THE
OLIGARCHY IN OUR COUNTRY, HAVE A VESTED INTEREST IN THE WAR WHICH IS
BEING WAGED IN KURDISTAN.

They are mainly responsible for the poverty, the starvation and the
cruelties which our people have to endure since half a century. The
Sabanci family is among those in the world who pay the least taxes and
simultaneously it again and again receives loans, ordered by the
highest levels of the state. Turkey is a country in which Sabanci, who
exploits tens of thousands of workers, pays less taxes as his
workers. To ensure he doesn't loose his sweet profits, Sabanci
supports and legitimises the henchmen of Turkey who massacre people in
the age of seven till seventy. "Our police is always right", "it's
important to show our support for the police", with statements like
this he permits the massacres. The wheels of exploitation work for the
Sabanci's. The oil for this machinery, that's the blood of our workers
and revolutionaries. For their life in wealth and luxury, they spill
the blood of others. When the fascists burned 37 people in Sivas, on
July 2, 1993, none of these gentlemen made a statement. For them it
was just a matter of "individual perpetrators". The Death fast of
1996, in which 12 people fell, didn't concern someone like Sabanci. He
didn't even ask the government for a solution. When a journalist asked
Sabanci about his opinion about the Death fast, he received the
answer: "Things like that do not happen in our country! In other
countries things like that happen in strained situations. We pray
that nothing, or not much, will happen." In the banks and monopolies
of Sabanci, money is laundered. Hundreds of thousands of workers are
exploited in his factories, each year thousands of workers loose their
lives or their health in accidents at their work. Many remain disabled
for the rest of their lives. Sabanci bribes and cheats. An accountant
was able to proof that from each bag of cement from the cement factory
of the Sabanci's, 4-5 kilos are missing. Houses which are built with
this cement could collapse at any earthquake. Sabanci is guilty of
many crimes. But there has not been a charge against him once. Sabanci
is responsible for the collapse of houses, for accidents at work, for
the misery of the people who lost their home. He is responsible for
torture, wounded people, executions, the destruction of villages, the
driving away of people, oppression and exploitation. He is responsible
for all crimes against our people.

When the Devrimci Sol fighter Esma Polat was raped while she was in
custody, Mehmet Agar was the responsible chief of police. Mehmet Agar
said: "I don't want any more interrogations, we will kill them
wherever we catch them." When a house of revolutionaries was
surrounded, he encouraged his policemen: "Shoot, my lions, aim at
their heads, not the legs." When the policemen told him the operation
had come to an end - 10 revolutionaries had been murdered -, he told
them: "I congratulate and kiss you." The hands of this child murderer,
this Mafia collaborator, torturer and chief of the contra-guerrilla
Mehmet Agar are dripping with the blood of the revolutionaries which
he had killed inside the prisons. The Sabanci family supported him in
killing the 4 DHKP-C prisoners in the Umraniye-prison on January 4,
1996. On July 16, 1996, (during the Death fast) Selma Turkdogan and
Kemal Yaziciaglu were tortured at the political department of the
police station in the Vatan Caddesi in Istanbul. Selma stated that the
minister of the interior and the chief of police in Istanbul were
present themselves during the interrogations. During the
interrogations, under torture, both participated in the torture. The
name of the chief of police: Kemal Yazicioglu. The name of the
minister of the interior: Mehmet Agar.

During the interrogation, Mehmet Agar offered Selma Turkdogan: "When
you state on television your orders came from the prisons, we will
send you abroad, and we will give you a car, a house and a job."

When Selma rejected, he became furious, he hit her head with his fists
and ordered the Palestinian hook ( a method of torture in which a
person is hanged by his wrists, bound together at the back).

TORTURE IN MANISA

When 16 pupils in Manisa were arrested and tortured by the police in
December 1995, this did not remain hidden for the public by
coincidence. The 16 children and youngsters were tortured for days,
accused of being members of the DHKP-C. Despite medical reports and
eye-witness accounts, the chief of police wants to cover the
torture. He tries to cover the torture by claiming that the pupils
wanted to attack the police. That policemen are convicted of torture,
is an utmost exception. In Turkey, every police station is a torture
centre. Suleyman Demirel, president of the Republic of Turkey,
protects the torturers when he states: "We must not hinder our police
in their work." Vice-prime minister and minister of Foreign Affairs
Tansu Ciller encourages the contra-guerrilla when she says: "They want
to grind our police." Because this oral help is obviously not
sufficient, they passed a new law which grants the contra-guerrilla
impunity. In this war, which has been going on for years, our people
are murdered by the contra-guerrilla and the village guards, the crown
witness-traitors and the police, our villages are burned down, the old
and the young are tortured and raped. Ears and noses are cut off from
the killed guerrilla's. The perpetrators have their pictures taken
with the cut off ears and noses. That the police and their commanders
earned themselves the hatred of the people is just the normal
consequence. In the eyes of the state, showing its "strength" against
these pupils, the pupils are "criminals", "terrorists" and "members of
a terrorist organisation". Because these young people cross the line,
drawn for them by the Sabanci regime. Their crime: they raised their
voices against the reactionary and fascist regime.
They wanted a free country, without exploitation. This was enough to
get arrested and tortured.

THE MURDER OF IRFAN, SENEM AND MUHAMMED:

In the morning of August 20, 1996, two people, both distributors of
the Kurtulus magazine, where shot in there Gececondu-home.

Although nothing else was found in the house, except for the Kurtulus,
the murderers claimed that same day in their press releases that there
had been an exchange of fire in the house and that many weapons had
been secured.

More than 300 policemen stormed the house and murdered Senem Adali and
Muhammed Kaya. Then they left the house again and yelled:
"Surrender!". After this they opened fire on the house to cover their
murders and to suggest a fight. To give this fake fight some credence,
they ordered reinforcements by their radios. The operation appeared to
have lasted 30 minutes. In reality it took, according to
eye-witnesses, no more than 5-10 minutes.

Muhammed had witnessed such an execution on the street on May 13,
1996, himself. He had been present when Irfan Agdas, a 17 year old
pupil who sold the Kurtulus, was murdered by the police on the
street. Muhammed had been distributing the paper together with
Irfan. He said: "We are all IRFAN", and each Monday, together with the
"new" Irfans, he put white flowers on the spot where Irfan fell.

After Irfan had been murdered, Muhammed said: "We will be the children
of the revolution, we will grow in numbers after every murder."

Senem and Muhammed... Both were readers of the Kurtulus and they
volunteered to distribute the paper. Both participated as well in the
activities of the democratic associations TIYAD (support association
for the relatives of prisoners) and Ozgur-Der (Association for
Freedom). Both were known in democratic circles. After the massacre
against Senem and Muhammed, the chief of police in Istanbul, Kemal
Yaziogly, stated: "I announced they would feel it, that we would
revenge our dead policemen."

FROM THE THKP-C TO DEVRIMCI SOL, FROM DEVRIMCI SOL TO THE DHKP-C, ALMOST 400
COMRADES FELL IN OUR HISTORY.

We fell in ambushes, in attacks with bombs and weapons, under torture,
in executions, and in massacres. We are kidnapped and
"disappeared". We fell in the resistance against the destruction of
the Gecekondus. We were thrown out of the windows in police
stations. We fell in the resistance in the prisons, in the death fasts
and as pickets in strikes.

Hundreds of us, workers, peasants, students, civil servants,
inhabitants of the slums, journalists, lawyers, doctors, union
members, relatives, Kurds, Turks, Arabs, Laz, Cherkessians, Georgians,
Alewite and Sunni, fell in the struggle or became permanently
disabled. Tens of thousands of DHKP-C sympathisers were tortured and
prosecuted.

THE NUMBER OF THOSE WHO FELL:

The number of murdered and executed people: 246
Killed under torture: 11
Killed or "disappeared" in police custody: 12

Murdered in the prisons:
In the death fast of 1984: 3, in 1996: 5
In the attack against the Buca-prison: 3, in the Umraniye-prison: 4
As a result of no medical treatment in the prisons: 7
Murdered by the Grey Wolves: 46
Other unnatural causes of death: 56

The list of our martyrs is a long one:

OUR MARTYRS

Date: Names:

June 1, 1971 Hueseyin Cevahir

February 19, 1972 Ulas Bardakcy
March 30, 1972
Mahir Cayan, Sabahattin Kurt, Nihat Yylmaz,
Saffet Alp, Sinan Kazym OEzuedodru, Ertan
Saruhan, Huedai Arykan, Ahmet Atasoy, OEmer
Ayna, Cihan Alptekin

Juli 24, 1973 Hatice Alankus

February, 1976 OEzer Elmas

February, 1977 Ali Necip Bozaliodlu
April 4, 1977 Hasan Ates
April, 1977 Kemal Karaca
April 24, 1977 Ciddem Yyldyr
Augustt, 1977 Ahmet Erekli
December 22, 1977 Fevzi Azyrcy
December, 1977 Abduelkadir Adanur

January, 1978 Mehmet Tepe
February, 1978 Fikret Kara
February, 1978 Cadlar Coskuner, Ercuement Aksoy
March 16, 1978 Hatice OEzen
April, 1978 Fehime OEztuerk
May 9, 1978 Hasan Okut, Renan Eris, Muejdat Celikyay
July, 1978 Ferhan Peker
November, 1978 Turgut Ypciodlu
November 4, 1978 Numan Kaygusuz
December 19, 1978 Asaf Tunc
December 2, 1978 Nurettin Gueler

January 2, 1979 Yueksel Erol
February 1, 1979 Musa OEznur
February 1, 1979 Mehmet Maras
March 8, 1979 senol sener
June 19, 1979 Mehmet Bueckuen
June, 1979 Hamit Kaya
July, 1979 Kenan Aydemir
July, 1979 Ylhami Cavusodlu
July 1,1979 A. Ali UEnver
July 14, 1979 Hueseyin Aksoy
July, 1979 Muammer Karan
August , 1979 OEmer Ermis
August , 1979 M. Ali Balodlu
August, 1979 Hueseyin Tas
September 12, 1979 Mehmet Soylu
September 12, 1979 Yueksel Kasykcy
October 1, 1979 F. Yylmaz Gueven
October 2, 1979 OEmer Faruk Bayraktar
November, 1979 Kubilay Yesilkaya, Enver Er
November, 1979 Hikmet Kuru, Alaattin Genc, Ahmet Coban, Kadir
Dodan December 23, 1979 Nadir OElmez
Dezember 26, 1979 Zeki OEztuerk
December,1979 Mehmet Mart
December, 1979 Hueseyin Ulu
December,1979 OEmer Demir
December, 1979 Guezel Duendar
December, 1979 Cahit senyuez

January 12, 1980 Mustafa Erol
January 19, 1980 Bahri Mutlu, Cemal Karapynar
February 29, 1980 Cemal OErek
March,1980 Mehmet Ali Karasu
March 26, 1980 Hasan Buelbuel
March, 1980 Kadri Gueldue
March, 1980 Mevluet Cynar
April 16, 1980 Adil Can
April 23, 1980 Yusuf Topallar
April 28, 1980 Hasan Karagoez
May 1, 1980 Sadettin Emir Cynarodlu
May 6, 1980 Serap simsek
May 6, 1980 Ercan Guendoddu
May 16, 1980 Mustafa Albayrak
May 19, 1980 Aykut Kaynar
June 11, 1980 Kemal Camekan
June 24, 1980 Recep Sinan
July 2, 1980 Talip Gueldal, Ybrahim Karakus, Yueksel Karan
July 7, 1980 Osman Korkmaz, Udur Korkmazgil
July 7, 1980 Aynur Ceylan
July, 1980 H. Ybrahim Bayraktar
July, 1980 A. Turgut Yymaz
July 27, 1980 Osman Suembuel
Juli 29, 1980 Salih Bademci
July 31, 1980 Yusuf Tecim, Adem Tecim, Fatma OEzcelik
August, 1980 Mehmet Akser
Augustt 12, 1980 Nuri Aslan, Metin Koese
August 28, 1980 Sadrettin Udurlu
August, 1980 suekran Kuru
August, 1980 Barbaros Kadyodlu
September 25, 1980 Aydyn Yalcynkaya, Vedat OEzdemir
September 28, 1980 Yueksel Genc
October 12, 1980 Ahmet Karlangac
October, 1980 Ayhan Pektas
October, 1980 Rydvan Sancar
November 20, 1980 Hayrettin Eren

February 12, 1981 OEmer Aydodmus
March 18, 1981 Abdullah Goezalan
April 3, 1981 Mehmet Selim Yuecel
April 3, 1981 Mustafa Isyk
April 7, 1981 Selcuk Kuecuekciftci
November 5, 1981 Necdet Pismisler

March 1982 Mazlum Gueder
June 1, 1982 Tahsin Elvan

February 26, 1983 Cemal OEzdemir
August 30, 1983 C. Kemal Altun

February 14, 1984 Ali Hueseyin Avcy
June, 1984 Abdullah Meral, Haydar Basbad, Hasan Telci

July, 1986 Ali Kalkan

May 11, 1987 Hueseyin Soyuudur
May 12, 1987 Ali Haydar sahin
September 29, 1987 Hasan Veli Asykcy
October, 1987 Ali Demiralp

March 19, 1988 Ylhan Yylhan
March 30, 1988 Yueksel Parylty
April 30, 1988 OEztuerk Acari, Salih Kul
July 6, 1988 Ahmet Koeksal
July 16, 1988 Bahattin Yscan
October 1988 Dervis savgat

May 1, 1989 Mehmet Akif Dalcy
July 8, 1989 Metin Topal
October 25, 1989 Mustafa Kamacy

June 28, 1990 Sait Erol
Juli 23, 1990 Huesnue Yseri
July 25, 1990 Mehmet Tayanc
September 8, 1990 Zeynep Esra Bolayyr
December, 1990 Ferit Eliuygun, Hamdi Ayguel

January 16, 1991 Birtan Altunbas
February 8, 1991 Ali Ynan
February 16, 1991 Ali Ryza Addodan
March, 1991 Kahraman Altun
March 17, 1991 Yusuf Eristi
April 9, 1991 Faruk Bayrakcy, Olcay Uzun
June 28, 1991 Perihan Demirer
July 12, 1991 Niyazi Aydyn, Ybrahim Erdodan, Ybrahim Ylci,
OEmer Coskunyrmak, Yuecel simsek, Nazmi
Tuerkcan, Bilal Karakaya, Zeynep Eda Berk,
Cavit OEzkaya, Hasan Eliuygun
July 14, 1991 Fintoez Dikme, Buluthan Kangalgil
August, 1991 November Yilmaz
September 7, 1991 Dursun Isik
September 8, 1991 Seher sahin
October 10, 1991 Hayri Koc
October 26, 1991 Burhan Remzi Kafadenk
October, 1991 Hueseyin Koese
December 18, 1991 Saban Sen

February 6, 1992 Ali Ayguel
March 17, 1992 Hasan Erkus, Sabit Ertuerk, Tuncay Geyik,
Serafettin Sirin, Mustafa Kemal Ynan
March 15, 1992 Erbil Sary
March 31, 1992 Buelent UElkue
April 9, 1992 Hamiyet Yildiz
April 16/17, 1992 Sabahat Karatas, Sinan Kukul, Ahmet Fazyl
ErcuementOEzdemir, Eda Yueksel, Taskyn Usta,
Saty Tas, Hueseyin Kilic, Arif OEngel, Sadan
OEngel, Ayse Nil Ergen, Ayse Guelen
April 20, 1992 OEnder OEzdodan
April 30, 1992 Syddyk OEzcelik, Gueven Keskin, Esma Polat
May 4, 1992 Halil Ates, Ali Yylmaz, Solmaz Karabulut, Fikri Keles
May 4, 1992 Soner Guel, Huesamettin Yaman
July 14, 1992 Nurten Demir, Ysmail Akarcesme
July 25, 1992 Ali Ekber Tural
August 13, 1992 Vehbi Melek, Nurten Acar
August 13, 1992 Arslan Ary, Nurhayat Beyhan, Eyuephan Polat
August 31, 1992 Ekrem Akyn Savas
September 1, 1992 Ali Ryza Karagoez
September 27, 1992 Nurettin Topal, Ahmet Bascavus
September 29, 1992 Kayhan Tazeodlu, Fatma Suezen
September 28, 1992 Makbule Suermeli
October 6, 1992 Ayhan Efeodlu
October 10, 1992 Sultan Cenik

January 10, 1993 Cemal Ucan
February 28, 1993 Ali Topalodlu
March 24, 1993 Recai Dincel, Ybrahim Yalcyn Arykan, Avni Turan
April 1, 1993 Hakky Karahan, Ferda Civelek, Veysel Beysueren

April 23, 1993 Cihan Taciildiz, Cengiz Kala, Haydar Aydyn,
Abidin Yildiz, Behiye Canik, Abdi seker, Eylem
Yildiz, Hasan Aktas, Selvi Uzun, OEzguer
Kilic, Ali OEzbakyr, Mehmet Colak
April 23, 1993 Ibrahim Yalcin
April 30, 1993 Udur Yasar Kylyc, senguel Yyldyran
May 2, 1993 Mehdi Alkan
June 5, 1993 Murat Guel
June 26, 1993 Devrim Mehmet Erodlu, Yueksel Gueneysel
July, 1993 Ryza Gueneser
July 16, 1993 Kemal Ayguel
July 31, 1993 Ali Taryk Kocodlu, Mustafa Sefer
August 4, 1993 Ali Kacar
August 13, 1993 Mehmet Salgyn, Hakan Kasa, Nebi Akyuerek,
Selma Cytlak, Sabri Atylmys
August 22, 1993 Baki Erdodan
October, 1993 Tayyar Turhan Sayar, Yasar Yylmaz
November 13, 1993 Kiymet Hanodlu
November 26, 1993 Erol Yalcin, Selma Dodan

January 5, 1994 Ali Efeodlu
February 1, 1994 Ysmail Kandemir
February 9, 1994 Bahattin Anyk
March 12, 1994 Yuecel Maral, Yavuz Yazly, Ali Faik OEzkan,
Barys Atalay, Irfan Yenilmez
March 19, 1994 Muersel Goeleli, Nazym Karaca, Feride Karaca
April, 1994 Recep Gueler
May 4, 1994 Serpil Yylmaz, Ayten Yueksel Keles
May 16, 1994 Mete Nazym Doelek
May 17, 1994 Maksut Polat
July, 1994 Nihat sahin, Guelnaz Saryodlu, Murat Kaymak,
Osman Soenmez
August 4, 1994 Hueseyin Aslan, Guener sar, OEzlem Kylyc
September 3-4, 1994 Aydemir sahin, Nurhan Azak, Asuman Koc, Huelya Ates,
Orhan Korkut
September 15, 1994 Ryfat OEzguengoer
September 25, 1994 Bedii Cengiz
September 28, 1994 Elmas Yalcyn, Fuat Erdodan, Ysmet Erdodan
October 8, 1994 Gueler Ceylan, Ybis Demir
October 20, 1994 Yueksel Babacan
October 9,1994 Halil Ybrahim Ekicibil, Yalcyn Cakmak, Mehmet
Ali Aidin, Pinar Guengoer, Aidin Bulmak,
Hatice Yildiz, Adnan Berber, Zeynel Kizilkaya,
Necla Cavusmirza, Adalet Yer, Tuncay Karaman,
Ali Celik, Murat Er
October 26, 1994 Ahmet OEztuerk, Zeynep Gueltekin
November 6, 1994 Cetin Gencdodan
December 6, 1994 Kemal Askeri, Ahmet Gueder, Nihat Kaya, Erkan
Akcaly, Huesniye Aydyn, Guelseren Beyaz, senay
Sonar, Mikail Gueven, Murat OEzbay, M. Ali
OEztuerk
December 24, 1994 Ysmail Bahceci

January 12, 1995 Reyhan Havva Ypek, Selim Yesilova, Hueseyin
Deniz, Refik Horoz
January 24, 1995 Aysenur simsek
February 14, 1995 Irfan Barlyk
March 12, 1995 Sezgin Engin, Fadime Bingoel, Hasan Guergen,
Ali Yildirim, Mehmet Guenduez, Dincer Yilmaz
April 4, 1995 Hueseyin Coskun, Demet Taner
April 12, 1995 Mustafa Selcuk, Seyhan Ayyyldyz, sirin Erol
April 20, 1995 Suat Alkan, Zeliha Guedenodlu, Duran Akbas
June 9, 1995 Sibel Yalcin
June 23, 1995 Ali Yuecel
June 25, 1995 Kenan Guerz, Zehra OEncue, Dodan Genc, Figen
Yalcynodlu, Cem Gueler
July 27, 1995 Ali Ryza Kurt
September 21, 1995 Turan Kylyc, Yusuf Bad, Udur Saryaslan
October 21, 1995 Duezguen Tekin
November 1995 UEmit Dodan Goenuel

January 3, 1996 Kalender Kayapynar
Januar 4, 1996 Abduelmecit Seckin, Orhan OEzen, Ryza Boybas,
Gueltekin Beyhan
January 18, 1996 Ercan OEzceken
January 30, 1996 Mete Nezihi Altynay, Coemert OEzen, Mustafa
Aktas, Teyfik Durdemir, Muharrem OEzdemir,
Ymran Ayhan, Ali Duran Erodlu
February 9, 1996 Ayten Korkulu, Meral Akpynar, Fuat Perk
March 21, 1996 Yasar Devrim Aslan
April 10, 1996 Mustafa Bektas, Muharrem Karakus
May 13, 1996 Yrfan Addas
June 22, 1996 Adalet Yildirim
July 15, 1996 Guelizar simsek, Ali Ertuerk, Hasan Hueseyin
Onat, Emine Tuncal
July 19, 1996 Levent Dodan
July, 1996 Hanym Guel
July 23, 1996 Altan Berdan Kerimgiller
July 24, 1996 Ylginc OEzkeskin
July 25, 1996 Muejdat Yanat
July 26, 1996 Ayce Ydil Erkmen
July 27, 1996 Yemliha Kaya
August 20, 1996 Muhamed Kaya, Senem Adaly

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