Friday, August 30, 2013

support international solidarity day with the Taksim Prisoners in Turkey

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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