20 June 2010 /International Bureau / Statement No:53

The Turkish bourgeois state is increasing its attacks on the Kurdish national freedom movement led by PKK .
In face of the "Kurdish initiative" of the government of AKP that gave its colour to the year before, the Kurdish freedom movement and the progressive and revolutionary forces had developed a struggle with the demand for peace on its centre. The AKP government responded every step within the context of the struggle in this process with attacks of imprisonment, repression and military operations.
Since April 14, 2009, hundreds of Kurdish politicians were imprisoned. Operations of arrest and imprisonment go on. Likewise, hundreds of Kurdish children in prisons who are known as "the children who threw stones" have not been set free despite all the struggles given for this goal.
Since March, the military operations of the Turkish state have been accelerated. Not only the HPG guerrillas are targeted in the operations but also the Kurdish villages and allocation units are shot. Gardens and farms are destroyed. Warcrafts of the Turkish army have passed the border of South Kurdistan many times and committed attacks. Despite all the contradictions among the USA and Iran, the operations organised on the base of the military intelligence given by the USA to the Turkish colonialist fascism are being carried out together by Iran and Turkey.
Life sentences are demanded for the elected mayors of the Kurdish provinces and other Kurdish politicians who were handcuffed while being arrested. The Iranian state executed many Kurdish freedom fighters.
The voluntaries for peace, who had departed from the Mount Quandil and from Maxmur and reached the border of the Turkish Republic on October 19, 2009, have also been the target of the Turkish bourgeois state's attacks. First the spokesperson of the Peace Group was arrested. Later, 10 voluntaries were put behind bars on June 17 and an arrest bench has been issued for 3 of them. The members of the Peace Group repeated in the court that they do not regret their actions and they do not apply to the Repentance Law.
HPG put an end to the process of inactivity on June 1 as a result of the increase in the attacks and the fact that the Turkish colonialist fascism wages another attack in respond to every kind of peace demand and peace attempt. After this decision, HPG continues with responding the attacks of the Turkish bourgeois state with effective actions. The Turkish Armed Forces have lost approximately 50 soldiers as a result of these actions, putting the Turkish colonialist fascist state and army in a difficult situation. Lately, 11 soldiers of the Turkish Armed Forces have died in an attack by 250 guerrillas in Semdinli . This has deepened the concerns that appear even among the bourgeois circles about the possibility of defeating the Kurdish freedom movement through military siege.
The government of the AKP, which is on the agenda of the international politics with its claim to defend Palestine against Israeli Zionism, continues its massacres with Israeli methods, Israeli weapons and Israeli intelligence in its own Palestine; in Kurdistan. In fact, the policies of the Israeli Zionism and the Turkish colonialist fascism are the same: just as the fact that the struggles for the liberation of Palestine and Kurdistan, as the most fundamental questions of the Middle East, are identical struggles.
It is a duty of all progressive, revolutionary and communist forces to raise international solidarity against these attacks and sieges against the Kurdish people. All the oppressed peoples that fight for their freedom and the working class and the labourers whose emancipations is lies in revolution and socialism should know that that the fight of the Kurdish people is their own fight. MLCP calls upon all progressive, revolutionary and communist forces to raise solidarity through actions in front of the Turkish embassies to stand against the siege against the Kurdish nation.
Freedom to the Kurdish nation! Down with the fascist dictatorship!
Long live the brotherhood of the peoples! Long live international solidarity!