Deniz Aytaç, who was detained after an armed attack on 28 October 2015 in İzmir and then arrested on 31 October, was sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment in the trial, where he made a political defense at the court. Some important part of his defense is the following:
"The process we are going through is a historical process in which the revolution and the counter-revolution are advancing by triggering each other in a communicative way. {divide}Well, if today there is a political-islamist, bourgeois nationalist, counter-revolution front which is formed with a nationalist fascist character, led by the fascist palace leader Erdoğan and if the public-enemy policy of regional cooperation is being carried out even more violently abroad; this is directly related with the progress and development of the united revolutionary movement and the revolutionary front. It doesn't matter how loudly the fascist chief shout, he can as much as he likes, but this is the last cry of his nonacceptance of this inevitable end and painful death. Whatever they do is just in vain."
"What is real is that the political capabilities and maneuvering areas of the fascist regime narrowed, stumbled and ended. What is real is that the objective conditions in the country and in the region have become increasingly revolutionary, that our Saturday's mothers, young people, women, lgbti+ individuals, workers, laborers and peasants have recently increased their quest for justice and freedom with a louder voice. And what is real and what is imminent is the Kurdistan revolution having the potential to rapidly gain new positions along with the developments in Syria and Rojava and as a result of these development, also with the social fluctuations that can be created by the revolts against the reactionary dictators of the region in Iran and Iraq. It is clear that this situation will create important steps regarding unified revolution of Turkey and Kurdistan. This is what already causes fear in fascism, this is why they are shouting around that much. The phony dictator can say "crisis, i have none" as much he likes, the truth is the existential crisis swamp is increasingly pulling them down, and consequently Turkey's economy is increasingly driven more to the crisis."
"The fact is that they try to overcome this crisis whether through the IMF prescriptions oriented by the imperialist interests or through the collaborative capitalist economy policies, in the end, they will try to foist the bill of this financial-economic crisis created by their own hands, lading over the shoulders of workers and all the masses who live by with their own labor. Yet, with their vanguard action and resistance, the workers at the construction of the 3rd airport of Istanbul showed that they were not helpless and would not submit to this order of exploitation. This resistance was the herald of the development of new and more widespread resistance on the workers' front, as we have seen on this day."
"We see that direct and indirect reserves of the united revolution of Turkey and Kurdistan accumulate day by day. This shows that we need to undertake more responsibility as revolutionaries and communists. The presence of our party in Rojava, our party's effort to spread and grow the Rojava revolution in every aspect is the trademark of its determination, responsibility consciousness and consistency in the unity of word and action. The most concrete example of this is especially the Martyr Alişer Deniz Brigade, whose foundation was recently announced. But the most fundamental question of our strategy, as mentioned in our party's strategy and tactics document, is the alliance question of the Kurdish national movement with the workers' movement. The victory of our revolution essentially depends on this alliance. To achieve this, the working class needs to rise a revolutionary quality suitable for its pioneering position, it must reach a level where the revolutionary workers' movement can unite with the Kurdish national movement. In this sense, in accordance with the primary target of the strategy, we have entered a period which bares the potential to rapidly solve the problem of becoming a center of attraction within the working class and the creation of a revolutionary labor movement. Although, in the name of our party, Turkish workers and laborers represents the weak wing of the current struggle of the united revolution of Turkey and Kurdistan, this phenomenon is temporary and we will see that in the period ahead this gap will rapidly narrow. We know that every strong step in this direction has the capability to shake the existing order radically. This is not only us, but our enemy knows this very well."
"In order to protect its power, Erdoğan fascism has made his eyes dark enough to take on all kinds of craze, including civil war, so the coming period requires a much more patient and long-term struggle, although it is much more complicated and challenging both internally and externally. Right now, the question is not how fast it will progress, but where to go. The question is not whether the workers are ready or not, it is how and for what workers should prepare for. Our party, MLKP has all the practical and mental equipment that will be able to pioneer and pave the way for this process, and it will well-deservedly fulfill this historical task."
"Finally, I would like to point out that I do not accept, and I condemn and return to its owners the statement of terrorist organization used for our party MLKP in the bill of indictment. As stated in the anti-imperialist democratic revolution program, which is the minimum program of our party, gaining various rights of political freedom, such as the complete equality of rights of peoples and national communities, the liberation of all oppressed sexual identities, particularly the women, the right to organize, the right of free speech, free press and free meetings and the right to action of the workers'-laborers' class and all oppressed, as well as the establishment of a Union of Workers'-Laborers' Soviet Republics on this basis, are among the goals of this program. Our party MLKP will continue to pay all kinds of prices for this cause and will continue to be the voice and breath of the oppressed with all kinds of actions and will continue to be with the same stubbornness. The revolutionary violence for the sake of the justice of the oppressed, workers and laborers is legitimate. While dozens of workers, laborers, women and lgbti+ individuals are murdered every day and the killers are acquitted, we know exactly who is a terrorist. While schools, universities, factories, fields, workplaces and prisons are being turned into torture centers, we know exactly who is a terrorist. While uniformity is imposed on national and religious communities through assimilation policies, we know who is a terrorist. At this point, there were no section left without getting blow from the fascist palace regime. Solution is not in the reforms, in the European Union or not in any other place, the solution is on the street, the solution is new Gezi's, the new Kobanê's and more Rojava's. In the end, I will say, I am a revolutionary militant of our party MLKP, I am a dedicated urban, city guerrilla of FESK, the armed forces of the poor and oppressed. As I was yesterday, I can only be honored to be able to walk on this road with my party today. With this consciousness, I will welcome any decision to be made about me. Let us not forget that our struggle is a historical confrontation and we will win, we will destroy the reign of the Harami! For the triumph of the revolution, long live our party MLKP, long live the revolution and socialism."