Our comrade Erol Ispir, born in Elbistan, Kurdistan, was killed on July 1 in the German city of Cologne by Turkish fascists. Erol, who was the son of a poor Kurdish family, joined the ranks of our party to fight against fascism, colonialism and poverty. Erol, who migrated from Kurdistan to Germany, continued to support the struggle as a political refugee. As someone known and respected for his labourer characteristic, he worked for a migrant mass organisation in Cologne. He was killed on July 1st in an attack for by Turkish fascist gangs when he was alone in the association he worked for. Comrade Erol Ispir was 33 years old when he was killed. His body was sent from with a huge ceremony reaching from the city to the airport Cologne-Bonn to Kurdistan at which the comrades promised to demand an account.
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