ANKARA:Mass arrests of ESP demonstrators*
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46 people who were taken under custody from the anti-isolation demonstration organized by the Socialist Platform of the Oppressed ( ESP ) were imprisoned with the claim of "Terrorism".

The AKP (Justice and Development Party) government is trying to legislate a new law of penal execution, which is deepening isolation in the prisons and trying to make the revolutionary prisoners surrender.

Many actions, activities and demonstrations were made against this new penal execution law. With the AKP government bringing the draft of the law to the Parliament, the opposition against the law accelerated.

As a part of this movement, the Socialist Platform of the Oppressed organized a demonstration in the capital city, Ankara. Over 200 people of the ESP began to march towards the Parliament building to demand the withdrawal of the new penal execution law.

The marchers shouted the slogans; "Destroy the cells- Inside and outside!", "The Law of Penal Execution should be withdrawn!", "Revolutionary prisoners are our honour", "Revolutionary prisoners cannot be surrendered!"

The police, imposed the demonstrators not to march to the Parliament, and in a point nearby the center of Ankara, Kizilay, a clash broke up between the ESP members and the police.

ESP answered the attack of the police with molotov cocktails, rods, stones and barricades. The police, paralyzed for a period of time, attacked with gas bombs to the demonstrators.

The clashes continued for more than one hour and 47 people were taken under custody.

In the current period, mass violence of the oppressed is a phenomena in our country frequently seen in the massive demonstrations led by revolutionary, communist, antiimperialist sectors of the people. The student protest on the 13th of March (2004), anti-NATO demonstrations in this June, in a resistance of labourers defending their housing right against demolition, in a lourer district of Istanbul called Aydos, and again another student protest on the 6th of November (2004) witnessed the legitimate violence of the militant sectors of masses, against the oppressors. Molotovs, rods, stone and barricades are the main tools used in mass violence. This violence is legitimate; because it rises from the demands of ample masses (abolishment of isolation in prisons, a free, democratic and autonomous university, universal right of free education and health, right of housing etc.) And mostly it is the result of the pressures over the right of demonstration imposed to our peoples by the fascist regime.

The fascist regime wanted to suppress this trend of mass violence by a massive arrest of socialists. The courts of fascism arrested 46 of the 47, who were taken under custody from the demo.

The custodies, who were taken to the court on the morning of the 10th of December, shouted the slogans "ESP will never be intimidated", "We will win by Resistance", "Arrests, imprisonments will not intimidate us!", "New Penal Execution Law should be withdrawn!".

The special Main Criminal Court (which is the transformed form of the ex-State Security Courts) instead of the normal application that the people arrested from demonstrations are judged from the demonstration law, imprisoned 46 of the ESP members as members of illegal Marxist Leninist Communist Party (MLCP) which is considered as 'terrorist' by the Turkish state. The court claimed that ESP, which is a legitimate socialist institution, is in fact "the legal branch of the MLCP", so the demonstrators who were using their legal right of demonstration are in fact "terrorists".

The imprisonments include Ankara Representative of the ESP, Deniz Bakir; president of the Istanbul Socialist Youth Association, Basak Sahin, five journalists from our newspaper Atilim, Selver Orman (our Ankara Representative), Burcu Gumus (our Bursa Representative), Nuray Kesik (our Eskisehir Representative), Ufuk Han and Seda Aktepe.

We call for all the antiimperialist, antifascists of the world to raise solidarity with our comrades imprisoned arbitrarily and illegitemately.

As a sign of solidarity, we call you to make demos in front of the Turkish embassies in your countries, and send cards to the imprisoned comrades. Every protest against these imprisonments and every card coming from you will be a stone against the isolation walls of the Turkish fascist state.

Here are addresses of two of the imprisoned 46:

* This Article is taken from Atilim Online (www.atilim.org). The headline was changed by us.
 

 

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46 people who were taken under custody from the anti-isolation demonstration organized by the Socialist Platform of the Oppressed ( ESP ) were imprisoned with the claim of "Terrorism".

The AKP (Justice and Development Party) government is trying to legislate a new law of penal execution, which is deepening isolation in the prisons and trying to make the revolutionary prisoners surrender.

Many actions, activities and demonstrations were made against this new penal execution law. With the AKP government bringing the draft of the law to the Parliament, the opposition against the law accelerated.

As a part of this movement, the Socialist Platform of the Oppressed organized a demonstration in the capital city, Ankara. Over 200 people of the ESP began to march towards the Parliament building to demand the withdrawal of the new penal execution law.

The marchers shouted the slogans; "Destroy the cells- Inside and outside!", "The Law of Penal Execution should be withdrawn!", "Revolutionary prisoners are our honour", "Revolutionary prisoners cannot be surrendered!"

The police, imposed the demonstrators not to march to the Parliament, and in a point nearby the center of Ankara, Kizilay, a clash broke up between the ESP members and the police.

ESP answered the attack of the police with molotov cocktails, rods, stones and barricades. The police, paralyzed for a period of time, attacked with gas bombs to the demonstrators.

The clashes continued for more than one hour and 47 people were taken under custody.

In the current period, mass violence of the oppressed is a phenomena in our country frequently seen in the massive demonstrations led by revolutionary, communist, antiimperialist sectors of the people. The student protest on the 13th of March (2004), anti-NATO demonstrations in this June, in a resistance of labourers defending their housing right against demolition, in a lourer district of Istanbul called Aydos, and again another student protest on the 6th of November (2004) witnessed the legitimate violence of the militant sectors of masses, against the oppressors. Molotovs, rods, stone and barricades are the main tools used in mass violence. This violence is legitimate; because it rises from the demands of ample masses (abolishment of isolation in prisons, a free, democratic and autonomous university, universal right of free education and health, right of housing etc.) And mostly it is the result of the pressures over the right of demonstration imposed to our peoples by the fascist regime.

The fascist regime wanted to suppress this trend of mass violence by a massive arrest of socialists. The courts of fascism arrested 46 of the 47, who were taken under custody from the demo.

The custodies, who were taken to the court on the morning of the 10th of December, shouted the slogans "ESP will never be intimidated", "We will win by Resistance", "Arrests, imprisonments will not intimidate us!", "New Penal Execution Law should be withdrawn!".

The special Main Criminal Court (which is the transformed form of the ex-State Security Courts) instead of the normal application that the people arrested from demonstrations are judged from the demonstration law, imprisoned 46 of the ESP members as members of illegal Marxist Leninist Communist Party (MLCP) which is considered as 'terrorist' by the Turkish state. The court claimed that ESP, which is a legitimate socialist institution, is in fact "the legal branch of the MLCP", so the demonstrators who were using their legal right of demonstration are in fact "terrorists".

The imprisonments include Ankara Representative of the ESP, Deniz Bakir; president of the Istanbul Socialist Youth Association, Basak Sahin, five journalists from our newspaper Atilim, Selver Orman (our Ankara Representative), Burcu Gumus (our Bursa Representative), Nuray Kesik (our Eskisehir Representative), Ufuk Han and Seda Aktepe.

We call for all the antiimperialist, antifascists of the world to raise solidarity with our comrades imprisoned arbitrarily and illegitemately.

As a sign of solidarity, we call you to make demos in front of the Turkish embassies in your countries, and send cards to the imprisoned comrades. Every protest against these imprisonments and every card coming from you will be a stone against the isolation walls of the Turkish fascist state.

Here are addresses of two of the imprisoned 46:

* This Article is taken from Atilim Online (www.atilim.org). The headline was changed by us.