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The 23 communists who had been imprisoned due to an operation called "Gaye" carried out against our party MLCP in September last year were taken to court after 14 months finally on October 26, 2007.
The imprisoned communists shouted the slogan "Long live the fraternity of the people" when they entered the court building.
The trial started at 12 p.m.with a large number of police and gendarmery in the court hall and continued until the late evening hours. The police also occupied the area around the court and searched everyone entering this zone.
The prisoners who had not been able to study their files because first they had been banned for "security" and later the arbitrary ban of the prison administration did not defend themselves according to the charge.
The detained communists defended the fraternity of the people, the revolution and socialism as well as the communist ideals.
Seyfi Polat of the detained communists started his words to defend himself as follows: It is the MLCP and the world view represented by the MLCP that are wanted to be convicted today and here. It is time and our people who will decide on this case." Polat said that it is an honour for him to defend the MLCP.
Ali Hidir Polat emphasized that the trial was organised during a period in which nationalist, racist and fascist actions organised by the ruling forces were happening and defended socialism in his speech. As the trial was set on the same date as the anniversary of the operations and detentions in 1951, Polat also said: "The names of those intellectuals who had been tortured and imprisoned at that time are still known nowadays. These people are still commemorated and their thoufgts are still defended. Though history had already deleted those, who wanted to convict the intellectals."
Arif Celebi started his speech with the words: "I am a communist and atheist. I belong to the Kurdish nation, I am an Alevite and my mother tongue is Kurdish." He exposed the fascist system in different aspects. Celebi said that the "system that had realised a genocide against the Armenians and tried to annihilate the Kurdish people as well as the Greeks living in Turkey with assimilation and genocide attacks" has yet been over and emphasized the need for socialism.
Chief editor of the newspaper Atilim Ibrahim Cicek noted that he is a socialist journalist and exposed the repression of the Antiterror Law on the society and press.
Zuya Ulusoy talked about the racist and nationalist attacks and the cross-border aggression and stressed the democratic solution of the Kurdish question. He called on the Turkish people to raise their voice against the cross-border operation. In his speech Ulusoy explained the socialist system.
Bayram Namaz hold a speech exposing the incidents happening in the F type isolation prisons.
In their common defense speech the lawyers drew attention to the contradicting decisions and practice during the investigation period and exposed the anti-terror law. They also emphasized that the investigations had not been realised on an appropriate basis but with an ideological approach.
The court decided on the continuing imprisonment of the detained communists and set the date for the next hearing for February 28 and 29, 2008.
13 out of the 23 communists are charged with the claim to "have initiated to change the constitutional order by violence and be leaders of the organisations" and are wanted to be sentenced to several times lifelong. For 10 of them the charge considers prison sentences between 10,5 and 45 years. The 23 communists are wanted to be sentenced to altogether 3000 prison.
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