No one is born as a soldier!*
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The fact that there are one million youth who were drafted but didn't go or ran away from the army is an expression for the youth being tired of this dirty war and for these spontaneous actions that still haven't turned into a influential power because of the chauvinist provocation. It is very important to make this potential become a power against colonial fascism. 

01 February/ International Bulletin/ Issue: 90

The members of the Federations of the Socialist Youth Association organised an action at Galatasaray Square in November 2009 and demanded a solution to the Kurdish question. They called on the youth not to go to the army so that the killings would end in this dirty war. They made the start of an important period by saying "Our conscious, too, doesn't accept this war".
For the first time the socialist youth participated in the struggle of conscientious objection in Turkey and gathered with anti-militarists, anti-war activists, anarchists and feminists to organise the Conscientious Objection For Peace Conference. For the first time, apart from anti-militarists and anti-war activists, socialists actively participated in politics for conscientious objection and became part of this struggle. For a just, honoured and democratic peace, they stressed that the Turkish people must reach out their hand to catch the Kurdish people's hand for brotherhood. The socialist youth called to support conscientious objection so that there won't be young men killed anymore in this dirty war and to fight against the fascist Turkish state's efforts to make the people become enemies.
On December 25, 7 young men and women declared to be conscientious objectors at the Conscientious Objection For Peace Conference organised at Bogazici University, Istanbul. By that, they took side of the oppressed people and became a voice from the front of the Turkish people's youth against the dirty war carried out in Kurdistan. A woman, who was a member of the Socialist Woman Assembly, declared to be a conscientious objector. She reminded the participants of the fact that it is the women who are mainly affected as a result of the wars and stressed that they face attacks such as violence, sexual abuse and rape. She also said that because of this reason, one has to take side, and that especially women must declare to be conscientious objectors. Altogether 87 people, among them 16 women, in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan have declared to be conscientious objectors so far (Turkey doesn't accept the right to conscientious objection).
Conscientious objector Enver Aydemir, who came to Istanbul to participate in the conference, had been arrested and had to face torture. Enver Aydemir started a hunger strike to protest the uncoloured clothes he had to carry in the military prison he was taken to and the torture he faced. The "Initiative for the Solidarity with Enver Aydemir", among them also the socialist youth, has carried out actions since last December for the release of Enver Aydemir and for the approval of conscientious objection. The "Initiative for the Solidarity with Enver Aydemir" that made a statement at one of the solidarity actions in Ankara was attacked by the police. 19 young men and women were arrested dragged on the floor and put on plastic handcuffs. The Chief Public Prosecutor's Office started a trial against the 19. They were accused of "estranging the people from the army" and wanted to be imprisoned up to 10 years. Among those arrested, there is also the conscientious objector Volkan Sevinc. Despite all attacks and oppression, the youth showed with their actions that they are determined and won't let their brothers get killed. The spark kindled in Istanbul spread and found a basis in Izmir, Ankara, Eskisehir and Amed.
This soil that has cherished soldiers' and guerrilla's corpses for years has still not had enough of blood. The body of 10,000s of workers' and labourers' children was forced to take part in the war for the fascist Turkish state's profit. The fact that there are one million youth who were drafted but didn't go or ran away from the army is an expression for the youth being tired of this dirty war and for these spontaneous actions that still haven't turned into a influential power because of the chauvinist provocation. It is very important to make this potential become a power against colonial fascism.
The socialist youth defended the outcry of the soldiers' families "I won't say that's for our homeland" and stressed that these sparks kindled will be spread by them for peace, brotherhood and freedom. Corresponding to the serhildan s in Kurdistan, they have started to struggle for the labourer solution in the Kurdish question in Turkey. They clearly pointed out that they won't accept the hostility between youth of the same age, kill those people they have known as brothers only for the Turkish bourgeois state's profit and that their consciousnesses won't accept such a war. The socialist youth have especially emphasized that besides acting politically together with pacifist groups who had organised this kind of actions so far, they aren't struggling against any war, but the Turkish bourgeois state's dirty war carried out in Kurdistan. The socialist youth' action for conscientious objection is an important step in the struggle to organise the Turkish workers and labourers on the basis of the labourer solution in the Kurdish question against Turkish colonial fascism.


*This is the slogan adopted by the Conscientious Objection For Peace Conference as a counterpart to the colonial fascist Turkish bourgeois state driving the youth to the dirty war with the slogan "Every Turk is born as a soldier".

 
 

 

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The fact that there are one million youth who were drafted but didn't go or ran away from the army is an expression for the youth being tired of this dirty war and for these spontaneous actions that still haven't turned into a influential power because of the chauvinist provocation. It is very important to make this potential become a power against colonial fascism. 

01 February/ International Bulletin/ Issue: 90

The members of the Federations of the Socialist Youth Association organised an action at Galatasaray Square in November 2009 and demanded a solution to the Kurdish question. They called on the youth not to go to the army so that the killings would end in this dirty war. They made the start of an important period by saying "Our conscious, too, doesn't accept this war".
For the first time the socialist youth participated in the struggle of conscientious objection in Turkey and gathered with anti-militarists, anti-war activists, anarchists and feminists to organise the Conscientious Objection For Peace Conference. For the first time, apart from anti-militarists and anti-war activists, socialists actively participated in politics for conscientious objection and became part of this struggle. For a just, honoured and democratic peace, they stressed that the Turkish people must reach out their hand to catch the Kurdish people's hand for brotherhood. The socialist youth called to support conscientious objection so that there won't be young men killed anymore in this dirty war and to fight against the fascist Turkish state's efforts to make the people become enemies.
On December 25, 7 young men and women declared to be conscientious objectors at the Conscientious Objection For Peace Conference organised at Bogazici University, Istanbul. By that, they took side of the oppressed people and became a voice from the front of the Turkish people's youth against the dirty war carried out in Kurdistan. A woman, who was a member of the Socialist Woman Assembly, declared to be a conscientious objector. She reminded the participants of the fact that it is the women who are mainly affected as a result of the wars and stressed that they face attacks such as violence, sexual abuse and rape. She also said that because of this reason, one has to take side, and that especially women must declare to be conscientious objectors. Altogether 87 people, among them 16 women, in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan have declared to be conscientious objectors so far (Turkey doesn't accept the right to conscientious objection).
Conscientious objector Enver Aydemir, who came to Istanbul to participate in the conference, had been arrested and had to face torture. Enver Aydemir started a hunger strike to protest the uncoloured clothes he had to carry in the military prison he was taken to and the torture he faced. The "Initiative for the Solidarity with Enver Aydemir", among them also the socialist youth, has carried out actions since last December for the release of Enver Aydemir and for the approval of conscientious objection. The "Initiative for the Solidarity with Enver Aydemir" that made a statement at one of the solidarity actions in Ankara was attacked by the police. 19 young men and women were arrested dragged on the floor and put on plastic handcuffs. The Chief Public Prosecutor's Office started a trial against the 19. They were accused of "estranging the people from the army" and wanted to be imprisoned up to 10 years. Among those arrested, there is also the conscientious objector Volkan Sevinc. Despite all attacks and oppression, the youth showed with their actions that they are determined and won't let their brothers get killed. The spark kindled in Istanbul spread and found a basis in Izmir, Ankara, Eskisehir and Amed.
This soil that has cherished soldiers' and guerrilla's corpses for years has still not had enough of blood. The body of 10,000s of workers' and labourers' children was forced to take part in the war for the fascist Turkish state's profit. The fact that there are one million youth who were drafted but didn't go or ran away from the army is an expression for the youth being tired of this dirty war and for these spontaneous actions that still haven't turned into a influential power because of the chauvinist provocation. It is very important to make this potential become a power against colonial fascism.
The socialist youth defended the outcry of the soldiers' families "I won't say that's for our homeland" and stressed that these sparks kindled will be spread by them for peace, brotherhood and freedom. Corresponding to the serhildan s in Kurdistan, they have started to struggle for the labourer solution in the Kurdish question in Turkey. They clearly pointed out that they won't accept the hostility between youth of the same age, kill those people they have known as brothers only for the Turkish bourgeois state's profit and that their consciousnesses won't accept such a war. The socialist youth have especially emphasized that besides acting politically together with pacifist groups who had organised this kind of actions so far, they aren't struggling against any war, but the Turkish bourgeois state's dirty war carried out in Kurdistan. The socialist youth' action for conscientious objection is an important step in the struggle to organise the Turkish workers and labourers on the basis of the labourer solution in the Kurdish question against Turkish colonial fascism.


*This is the slogan adopted by the Conscientious Objection For Peace Conference as a counterpart to the colonial fascist Turkish bourgeois state driving the youth to the dirty war with the slogan "Every Turk is born as a soldier".