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The oppression and the attacks of the Turkish bourgeois state on the revolutionary, communist and Kurdish patriotic forces have continued in the same way.{divide}
-A final decision was taken in the trial against Atilim newspaper correspondent Hasan Cosar and Semra Yalcinkaya, a member of the Socialist Youth Association, who both had been arrested and imprisoned after the raids on revolutionary newspapers, unions and associations' offices carried out on September 21, 2006 against our party MLCP in 21 towns. At the trial on March 18 at the 11th Heavy Penalty Court, Hasan Cosar was sentenced to 10 years and 10 months of prison and Semra Yalcinkaya 7 years and 1 month.
-On the same day, Dicle News Agency correspondent Murat Kolca was sentenced to 1 year and 8 months prison by the 8th Heavy Penalty Court accused of having "made propaganda of an illegal organisation" while he was watching an action in the province Tarsus, Mersin. Seyithan Akyuz, Cukurova region's representative of Azadiya Welat newpaper, was sentenced to 6 years and 3 months of prison by the 7th Heavy Penalty Court
- The youth movement has also been effected by the state terror. On March 16, 11 members of the Socialist Youth Association, among them also correspondents of Ozgur Genclik magazine, were arrested in Trabzon and Erzincan accused of "the Socialist Youth Association that has a relation with an illegal organisation". 6 of them were imprisoned. The Socialist Youth Associations protested the attack with actions in Ankara, Malatya, Canakkale, Adana and different towns.
- The ESP activists Deniz Oner and Eren Erocagi were arrested on the evening of March 6 in the middle of the street in the quarter Yakacik of Istanbul by the police with heavy weapons for having supported the TEKEL workers with actions. Oner and Erocagi had to face systematical torture at Yakacik police station where they were taken to. The 2 ESP activists were beaten, their face was covered with bags and they were threatened to face sexual assault and rape. After being released, they told the public about what they had to face.
- Ali Yetkin, reader of Isci Koylu newspaper, disappeared on March 8. The family of Yetkin, who had been called by the police the day before, searched at police stations and hospitals for him, but in vain. The revolutionaries and democratic organisations and first of all the Union of Partizan Martyr and Prisoners' Families started actions to find Ali Yetkin. The actions took place at Galatasaray Square, a place that is identified with the struggle against forced disappearance under arrest. When more and more actions were realised, the police that had said before that they don't have him called Yetkin's family and said that he is imprisoned at Metris prison. As Yetkin wasn't registered at the police for one week and then suddenly appeared a Metris prison, the revolutionary and democratic organisations have continued with their actions against new approaches of forced disappearance.
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