On July 18, the communist intellectual Kutsiye Bozoklar (Isik Kutlu), who lost her life on July 16, at Baskent Hospital, Ankara was passed to eternity at the Karsiyaka Cemetery in Ankara, at the side of the revolutionary leaders Deniz Gezmis, Mahir Cayan and Ulas Bardakci, who were killed in the 1970s. Comrade Isik (which means "Light") was one of the young vanguard revolutionaries of the 1970s. At the age of 20, she was hit by a police bullet and condemned to sit in a wheelchair, however she was a revolutionary who dedicated every minute of her life to the struggle for revolution and socialism carrying hope to friends and comrades with her pen.{divide}
1500 comrades, friends and readers, representatives of revolutionary and democratic parties, organisations and trade-unions from many cities made their way with buses to Ankara and met in front of the Karsiyaka Cemetery in Ankara in order to send comrade Isik to eternity. The masses said farewell to Isik on her way to eternity opening a banner saying "You are always with us, we are always with you" and with wild flowers. The people wore t-shirts with the pictures of Kutsiye Bozoklar, the revolutionary leaders Deniz Gezmis, Mahir Cayan, Ibrahim Kaypakkaya and the leader of the Kurdish freedom struggle Mazlum Dogan at the march and shouted frequently slogans like "The Light of the struggle won't stop burning", "The Light of revolution won't stop burning", "Kutsiye Bozoklar is immortal" and "The martyrs of revolution are immortal". Isik was buried with poems, songs she loved and the oath of revolution was read. Wild flowers, soil, brought from the graves of Che Guevara, the communards of Paris, the revolutionary artist and film director Yilmaz Guney and from the grave of the mother of comrade Kutsiye were put together into her grave. In the end of the ceremony of farewell, our party MLCP opened a banner and left in on the grave of Kutsiye Bozoklar. The brother of Kutsiye Bozoklar and her comrades made speeches talking of her life and struggle; they gave Kutsiye the promise of revolution. Her brother Kaya Bozoklar said: "she fought with a not ending energy in order to fulfil our dreams. When she could walk, she walked in the very centre of the struggle. She acted courageously. When she could not walk anymore, she lived the deepest pain. She did not surrender but continued her struggle by writing with her pen. When I see her and friends like her, I do not doubt at all that one day free people and happy children will play in the streets, avenues, factories and fields of this country."
Among the words spoken by friends and comrades, the following has been said: We will keep alive this brave and intellectual woman, this revolutionary comrade, this beauty of humanity. The consciousness and will she has shown in order to live and produce will now be our consciousness and will. First, we will turn her works and her life into the revolutionary flag of our lives, and later it will become the revolutionary flag of the lives of thousands, tens and hundreds of thousands. In the march towards revolution and socialism, Kutsiye Bozoklar, as a wise intellectual, as a militant revolutionary and as consequent socialist, will continue to be the teacher of all of us. She will always be with us; we will always be with her. This is an oath." Comrade Kutsiye was passed to eternity with promises of struggle and slogans of revolution and socialism. Her memory will enlighten our path.
|