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Everywhere, the actions in defence of Abdullah Ocalan turned into protests against the AKP government and the colonialist fascist regime itself.

01 November 2008 / International Bulletin / No: 75

On 17 October, the lawyers of Abdullah Ocalan announced, that the leader of the Kurdish national movement, who is imprisoned in solitary confinement at the isle of Imrali since 9 years, has been attacked physically and was threatened to be killed. Together with the lynch attacks on Kurdish people like the one in the end of September in Altinova, the ongoing military operations by the Turkish army in Northern Kurdistan, the decision of the parliament on October 10 to extend the decision of military intervention in Southern Kurdistan, the increasing imprisonments of Kurdish patriots and the banning of Kurdish newspapers, this is an expression of the continuation of the state policy of negation and annihilation of the colonialist fascist regime. The attack on Abdullah Ocalan means not only an attack on any Kurdish prisoner, but an attack on the national Kurdish movement. As it is one fundamental demand of the Kurdish nation to have the right to make policy with its own identity, Ocalan, as the one who is considered by this movement as its political will, has turned into a symbol of the national movement. If the fascist regime attacks him this means nothing else than an attack against the national Kurdish movement and its legitimate democratic and national demands.
Therefore, it was no surprise that all over Turkey and Kurdistan as well as in Europe many protests took place starting immediately after the announcement of the attack. However, the level of mass participation reached and the militant character of this response to the attacks were enormous and really terrified the colonialist fascist dictatorship. In some cities, first of all in Amed, the protests turned into mass uprisings, called serhildan in Kurdish. In Amed, the protests against the attack on Ocalan merged with the protests against a visit of Prime Minister Erdogan, who is on the hunt for votes in Kurdistan for the local elections and the Kurdish people did not leave any doubt on which side they are on. Shops were closed, schools boycotted, the rubbish not collected and the people of Amed was on the streets lightening the serhildan fires and constructing barricades against the police attacks. The police did not manage to enter the quarters because of the resistances of the people with Molotov cocktails.
The guerrilla actions on the one hand and the serhildans on the other hand made the Turkish state worry this much that one summit after another has been organised. Chief of general staff Ilker Basbug attended the cabinet. The budget for the dirty war in Kurdistan has been increased, and it is talked about forming a new organisation and taking precautions that are not openly explained. While all this display the weakness of the Turkish state against the Kurdish resistance, it is also shown that concerning the Kurdish question the state is insisting on continuing with the dirty war.
Everywhere, the actions in defence of Abdullah Ocalan turned into protests against the AKP government and the colonialist fascist regime itself. Furthermore, the protests were not limited to meetings, demonstrations and boycotts of schools during the day, but included also very militant means of struggle like hour-lasting street fights, setting on fire offices of the AKP and burning of dozens of cars in the big cities of Turkey. In spite of all the repression with gas bombs, tanks and arms by the Turkish bourgeois state, including the assassination of 20-year old Ahmet Ozhan on October 20th in Dogubeyazit and the brutal attack of the police at his funeral on October 22nd joined by tens of thousands, during which Ramazan Aktas was run over by a police tank and became severely injured, the Kurdish patriots did not step back but proved their determination in continuing their legitimate struggle with all means necessary. Moreover, despite all its efforts the regime was not able to divide the movement into legal and illegal, into legal mass movement and democratic parties on the one hand and the armed guerrilla forces on the other hand. On the contrary, from MPs and mayors, democratic mass organisations to guerrilla commanders the Kurdish people stood like one front against the attacks ready to defend their just cause and their political will, represented by Ocalan.
Many other political forces, also in the Turkish cities, expressed their solidarity with the oppressed Kurdish nation and organised joint protest actions, like on 26th October in Izmir. In spite of the fact that the meeting was banned by the governor, 5000 people demonstrated for the brotherhood of the peoples and democracy. However, despite those examples, the attempts to spread the serhildans from Kurdistan also to the Turkish cities were not as successful as necessary. Today, it is one of the most urgent tasks of the revolutionary and communist movement in Turkey to fight shoulder on shoulder with the Kurdish people against the common enemy, the colonialist fascist dictatorship. While our party is protesting with different actions against the attacks of the fascist dictatorship on Ocalan and the Kurdish people on the one hand, it calls on the Turkish workers and labourers to defend the Kurdish people's demands on the other hand.

 
 

 

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Everywhere, the actions in defence of Abdullah Ocalan turned into protests against the AKP government and the colonialist fascist regime itself.

01 November 2008 / International Bulletin / No: 75

On 17 October, the lawyers of Abdullah Ocalan announced, that the leader of the Kurdish national movement, who is imprisoned in solitary confinement at the isle of Imrali since 9 years, has been attacked physically and was threatened to be killed. Together with the lynch attacks on Kurdish people like the one in the end of September in Altinova, the ongoing military operations by the Turkish army in Northern Kurdistan, the decision of the parliament on October 10 to extend the decision of military intervention in Southern Kurdistan, the increasing imprisonments of Kurdish patriots and the banning of Kurdish newspapers, this is an expression of the continuation of the state policy of negation and annihilation of the colonialist fascist regime. The attack on Abdullah Ocalan means not only an attack on any Kurdish prisoner, but an attack on the national Kurdish movement. As it is one fundamental demand of the Kurdish nation to have the right to make policy with its own identity, Ocalan, as the one who is considered by this movement as its political will, has turned into a symbol of the national movement. If the fascist regime attacks him this means nothing else than an attack against the national Kurdish movement and its legitimate democratic and national demands.
Therefore, it was no surprise that all over Turkey and Kurdistan as well as in Europe many protests took place starting immediately after the announcement of the attack. However, the level of mass participation reached and the militant character of this response to the attacks were enormous and really terrified the colonialist fascist dictatorship. In some cities, first of all in Amed, the protests turned into mass uprisings, called serhildan in Kurdish. In Amed, the protests against the attack on Ocalan merged with the protests against a visit of Prime Minister Erdogan, who is on the hunt for votes in Kurdistan for the local elections and the Kurdish people did not leave any doubt on which side they are on. Shops were closed, schools boycotted, the rubbish not collected and the people of Amed was on the streets lightening the serhildan fires and constructing barricades against the police attacks. The police did not manage to enter the quarters because of the resistances of the people with Molotov cocktails.
The guerrilla actions on the one hand and the serhildans on the other hand made the Turkish state worry this much that one summit after another has been organised. Chief of general staff Ilker Basbug attended the cabinet. The budget for the dirty war in Kurdistan has been increased, and it is talked about forming a new organisation and taking precautions that are not openly explained. While all this display the weakness of the Turkish state against the Kurdish resistance, it is also shown that concerning the Kurdish question the state is insisting on continuing with the dirty war.
Everywhere, the actions in defence of Abdullah Ocalan turned into protests against the AKP government and the colonialist fascist regime itself. Furthermore, the protests were not limited to meetings, demonstrations and boycotts of schools during the day, but included also very militant means of struggle like hour-lasting street fights, setting on fire offices of the AKP and burning of dozens of cars in the big cities of Turkey. In spite of all the repression with gas bombs, tanks and arms by the Turkish bourgeois state, including the assassination of 20-year old Ahmet Ozhan on October 20th in Dogubeyazit and the brutal attack of the police at his funeral on October 22nd joined by tens of thousands, during which Ramazan Aktas was run over by a police tank and became severely injured, the Kurdish patriots did not step back but proved their determination in continuing their legitimate struggle with all means necessary. Moreover, despite all its efforts the regime was not able to divide the movement into legal and illegal, into legal mass movement and democratic parties on the one hand and the armed guerrilla forces on the other hand. On the contrary, from MPs and mayors, democratic mass organisations to guerrilla commanders the Kurdish people stood like one front against the attacks ready to defend their just cause and their political will, represented by Ocalan.
Many other political forces, also in the Turkish cities, expressed their solidarity with the oppressed Kurdish nation and organised joint protest actions, like on 26th October in Izmir. In spite of the fact that the meeting was banned by the governor, 5000 people demonstrated for the brotherhood of the peoples and democracy. However, despite those examples, the attempts to spread the serhildans from Kurdistan also to the Turkish cities were not as successful as necessary. Today, it is one of the most urgent tasks of the revolutionary and communist movement in Turkey to fight shoulder on shoulder with the Kurdish people against the common enemy, the colonialist fascist dictatorship. While our party is protesting with different actions against the attacks of the fascist dictatorship on Ocalan and the Kurdish people on the one hand, it calls on the Turkish workers and labourers to defend the Kurdish people's demands on the other hand.