TMY Terror Intensifies
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The state-terror, of which its legal borders are being widened by the TMY (Anti-Terror Law), immediately begun to show its consequences after the adoption of the law in the parliament. The law, which means the seizure of the workers' and labourers' rights on freedom of speech, action and organisation, makes easier the repression and censor on the oppositional press, at first on the Kurdish national press, and the closure of political parties and democratic institutions. It gives to the police the right to shoot, clears the way for arbitrary arrests, paves the ground for increase of torture in prisons and hardens the try of counter-guerrillas and torturers.

The Kurdish national press, which is among the first targets of the law, immediately came across with the offence of stopping the publication and distribution of their newspaper. On 4 August, a daily "Ulkede Ozgur Gundem" newspaper has been penalised for 15 days under the pretext of "making terrorist organisation propaganda everyday". Later the closure decision is lifted due to the influence of the attitude of various democratic mass organisations and revolutionary press and the president's decision to send the law back to the Constitutional Court because of TMY's articles concerning the press. The "Ulkede Ozgur Gundem" newspaper, which heard 550 court cases against them, has been targeted many times by the generals and government bodies. Also the monthly "Ozgur Halk" magazine has also received one month of closure ban under similar pretexts.

On 12 August, the police fired bullets to two young people in Adana under the pretext of that they were distributing leaflets about the 15th of August, the day when PKK started armed struggle. While one of them wounded from his back, the other one, 15 years-old Fevzi Abik, who was wounded from his head, lost his life four days later. Thus the statement made by the Prime Minister Erdogan at the period of Amed uprising, "the security forces will do what is necessary against the ones even if they are child or women", once more put in practice as the mentality where the TMY also found its grounds. The massacre of children during the uprising was legally insured through the adoption of TMY. The extra-judicial killing of 12 August has become a product of legitimizing the police shooting and recognition of freedom to massacre.

The directors and members of the Limeter-Is Union, those who protested the killings due to unsafe working conditions in the Tuzla district of Istanbul and the dismissals, have suffered from many police attacks and detentions. And there is an evidential increase of court cases against intellectuals, artists and writers since TMY has been put in force. People have been experiencing police blockades and arbitrary ID checks at the press conferences and meetings, at first in the press conferences organised against the extra-judicial killing of Fevzi Abik. 60 people, for instance, are taken into police custody as a result of gendarmerie raid against the summer camp organised by TAYAD and lynch attempts supported by civil-fascists.

Some of the solidarity actions with Palestine and Lebanon came face to face with police attacks. The solidarity tends opened by ESP have suffered from police raids for two days. While the actions organised regarding the start of armed struggle by the PKK have responded with police terror, the demonstrators in Istanbul Gazi District were fired bullets. The participants of the summer camp organised by EKD (Labourer Women Association) were searched arbitrarily for about 8 hours under the pretext of that there are members of terrorist organisation among them.

On the other hand, the revolutionary, democratic and patriotic organisations were not silent on the TMY's such practices. Ulkede Ozgur Gundem newspaper was defended by Atilim (Surge) Newspaper, ESP, SGD and Kurdish national organisations through selling of the newspaper on the streets. The people protested the killing of Fevzi Abik through press meetings in various cities and demanded that the perpetrators should be brought to justice.

As it happened in the resistance attitude shown by ESP and TAYAD during police attacks to their actions and summer camp and the show of commitment by Limter-Is Union by retaking the streets following every attack and arrest, the de facto resistance to the practices of the law, defence of freedom of speech and action on the street and the ineffectivation of the law in practice is forming an important dimension of the struggle against the TMY.
 

 

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The state-terror, of which its legal borders are being widened by the TMY (Anti-Terror Law), immediately begun to show its consequences after the adoption of the law in the parliament. The law, which means the seizure of the workers' and labourers' rights on freedom of speech, action and organisation, makes easier the repression and censor on the oppositional press, at first on the Kurdish national press, and the closure of political parties and democratic institutions. It gives to the police the right to shoot, clears the way for arbitrary arrests, paves the ground for increase of torture in prisons and hardens the try of counter-guerrillas and torturers.

The Kurdish national press, which is among the first targets of the law, immediately came across with the offence of stopping the publication and distribution of their newspaper. On 4 August, a daily "Ulkede Ozgur Gundem" newspaper has been penalised for 15 days under the pretext of "making terrorist organisation propaganda everyday". Later the closure decision is lifted due to the influence of the attitude of various democratic mass organisations and revolutionary press and the president's decision to send the law back to the Constitutional Court because of TMY's articles concerning the press. The "Ulkede Ozgur Gundem" newspaper, which heard 550 court cases against them, has been targeted many times by the generals and government bodies. Also the monthly "Ozgur Halk" magazine has also received one month of closure ban under similar pretexts.

On 12 August, the police fired bullets to two young people in Adana under the pretext of that they were distributing leaflets about the 15th of August, the day when PKK started armed struggle. While one of them wounded from his back, the other one, 15 years-old Fevzi Abik, who was wounded from his head, lost his life four days later. Thus the statement made by the Prime Minister Erdogan at the period of Amed uprising, "the security forces will do what is necessary against the ones even if they are child or women", once more put in practice as the mentality where the TMY also found its grounds. The massacre of children during the uprising was legally insured through the adoption of TMY. The extra-judicial killing of 12 August has become a product of legitimizing the police shooting and recognition of freedom to massacre.

The directors and members of the Limeter-Is Union, those who protested the killings due to unsafe working conditions in the Tuzla district of Istanbul and the dismissals, have suffered from many police attacks and detentions. And there is an evidential increase of court cases against intellectuals, artists and writers since TMY has been put in force. People have been experiencing police blockades and arbitrary ID checks at the press conferences and meetings, at first in the press conferences organised against the extra-judicial killing of Fevzi Abik. 60 people, for instance, are taken into police custody as a result of gendarmerie raid against the summer camp organised by TAYAD and lynch attempts supported by civil-fascists.

Some of the solidarity actions with Palestine and Lebanon came face to face with police attacks. The solidarity tends opened by ESP have suffered from police raids for two days. While the actions organised regarding the start of armed struggle by the PKK have responded with police terror, the demonstrators in Istanbul Gazi District were fired bullets. The participants of the summer camp organised by EKD (Labourer Women Association) were searched arbitrarily for about 8 hours under the pretext of that there are members of terrorist organisation among them.

On the other hand, the revolutionary, democratic and patriotic organisations were not silent on the TMY's such practices. Ulkede Ozgur Gundem newspaper was defended by Atilim (Surge) Newspaper, ESP, SGD and Kurdish national organisations through selling of the newspaper on the streets. The people protested the killing of Fevzi Abik through press meetings in various cities and demanded that the perpetrators should be brought to justice.

As it happened in the resistance attitude shown by ESP and TAYAD during police attacks to their actions and summer camp and the show of commitment by Limter-Is Union by retaking the streets following every attack and arrest, the de facto resistance to the practices of the law, defence of freedom of speech and action on the street and the ineffectivation of the law in practice is forming an important dimension of the struggle against the TMY.