letter received by PCm Italy
Dear Italian Comrades,
We have a request concerning
international solidarity with the Taksim Prisoners in our country and we hope
that you will also join the initiative of an International Day of Solidarity on
September 12.
As you know, an uprising took place in
our country and the movement still continues although not at the same level.
After the June uprising the movement withdrew in an organized way and continues
today in the laboring districts, first of all in the form of forums.
Despite the brutal repression of the
bourgeois Turkish state, the people lost their fear and bravely resisted against
the police attack like on 31st
May and 1st
June, when the police attacked Gezi Park and the occupied Taksim Square with
tear-gas and bulldozers.
From May 31 to June 27, more than 8
thousand people have been wounded by the police terror. Among them at least 60
people are wounded heavily and 11 people lost their eyes. 5 people were
assassinated by the state forces, among them the young revolutionary Mehmet Ethem Sarısülük, who was killed by police bullets in
Ankara.
During the June Uprising,
the revolutionary and communist forces played a significant role, therefore it
is very natural that they were the first target of the attacks of the fascist
dictatorship and its AKP government.
In order to get revenge of Taksim and
to weaken the revolutionary and progressive forces, the AKP has attacked many
political parties and organizations such as ESP (Socialist Party of the
Oppressed), SDP (Socialist Democracy Party), Atilim Newspaper, Partizan, Ozgur
Radio, Etkin News Agency, SGD (Socialist Youth Associations), New Democratic
Women, Halkevleri and others, and imprisoned dozens of people. They raided the
party buildings, newspaper offices and radios by breaking their doors, seizing
or destroying the technical equipments.
Still today, dozens of
revolutionaries and communists are in prison. The files are secret and eve the
date of the trial is still not fixed.
We are calling upon all progressive,
revolutionary and communist forces to join the struggle for the freedom of the
Taksim Prisoners! The struggle for the freedom of the Taksim Prisoners is the
struggle for new uprisings, for a strong revolutionary movement advancing
towards revolution. As the resisters have cried out several times in the
squares, barricades and in prison “this is only the
beginning!”.
On September 12, the anniversary of
the military coup in Turkey, a Day of International Solidarity
with the Taksim Prisoners will take place in order to
strengthen international solidarity and pressure on the regime in Turkey.
Dear Comrades,
We invite you to join the
international actions demanding freedom for the Taksim Prisoners organizing
protest meetings in front of the Turkish embassies, informing the people in your
country about the resistance in Turkey/Northern Kurdistan, sending solidarity
statements, making wall writings and expressing your solidarity in many creative
and practical ways.
If you organize any kind of
solidarity action, please inform us shortly via email about it so we can publish
the results of the International Day of Solidarity with the Taksim
Prisoners.
With revolutionary
greetings,
MLCP
Turkey/Northern
Kurdistan
International
Bureau
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