Determent fight against the counter-guerrilla state
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In terms of the class struggle, the month of March bears special importance in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan. While the 8th March Labourer Women's Day and Newroz (21 March), the festival of brotherhood for the Kurdish people and the peoples of Middle East and Central Asia, choke March with mobilisations full of enthusiasm as two important days of struggle, the aggression of the ruling classes would increase and the struggle would accelerate.

March is also full with anniversaries of the most bloodshed massacres in our geography's history and for which the people whet their anger over the fascist regime. The 12th March 1995 Gazi [1] massacre and the killing of our comrade Hasan Ocak, the Gazi Commander, after his kidnapping, the 16 March 1977 Beyazit Massacre [2], the 15 March 1988 Halepce massacre [3], the 30 March 1972 Kizildere Massacre [4] would turn into days where the people will ask account from the counter-guerrilla regime. The killing of our comrade Suleyman Yeter, communist leader of workers, under torture on 7 March 1999, represents another massacre of the state against the working class.

The Turkish state is founded on the basis of one nation, one language and one religion in the territories of Turkey and Northern Kurdistan where two nations and many national minorities, religions and languages live together. The colonialist Turkish fascist state has always used different contradictions within the population in order to divert the struggles that would target the existence of the state and to let workers and labourers strangle each other. It has therefore provoked tens of massacres and conflicts. The actions in March have always had special importance in terms of putting in vain such attempts by the state.

The counter-guerrilla actions in Semdinli and Yuksekova [5], the counter-guerrilla massacre in September of last year in Diyarbakir [6], where 10 people, 7 of them children, lost their lives, and lastly the killing of Armenian intellectual, Hrant Dink, and the increased anti-fascist mass movement after his massacre, made this year's anniversaries of the Gazi uprising and all other massacres in March especially important.

The anniversary of the Gazi massacre became an occasion to ask account from the counter-guerrilla gangs and to increase peoples' brotherhood against chauvinist provocations.

As during the days of the Gazi uprising, our party MLCP acted to put in vain the state's attempts to provoke reactionary conflicts among the labourers on the basis of religious and national differences, and tried to deepen the contradiction between the state and people at the anniversary of the massacre too. It has denounced the counter-guerrilla gangs and the fascist character of the state.

Thousands of labourers, who came together in the Gazi cemetery and various cities of Turkey and Northern Kurdistan after a call by revolutionary organisations, asked account from the counter-guerrilla state. Through demonstrations with petrol-bombs and banners in many cities and districts, our party MLCP has said: "The Counter-Guerrilla state is the perpetrator of Gazi. We will smash it".

On the anniversary of 16 March massacre, students carried the slogan of peoples' brotherhood against chauvinism to the streets.

While the 1st of May is getting close, the actions in March showed that the anti-fascist mass movement against the counter-guerrilla massacres and chauvinist provocations is continuing to develop.

1- On 12 March 1995 in Gazi, a labourers' district in Istanbul, the counter-guerrilla forces committed an armed attack against a café where usually Allevite people used to go. This attack had the objective of creating a conflict between the Allevite and Sunnite labourers, but on the contrary, the labourers started a march towards the police station under the leadership of revolutionary forces, with the slogan "The murderers are at the police station; the murderer is the state!". Thus, a one-week-uprising began in Gazi, where 23 labourers would be killed by the state forces.
2- On 16 March 1977, the counter-guerrilla forces put a bomb in front of the University of Istanbul, which exploded while the revolutionary and leftist students were leaving the school. At the bombed attack, 7 students lost their life. The anniversary of the massacre has turned into a symbol of the anti-fascist struggle of the students.
3-On 15 March 1988, Saddam's forces committed a massacre in Halepce in South Kurdistan (Iraqi Kurdistan) where eight thousand Kurds were killed with napalm bombs.
4- After the military coup on 12 March 1970, with the aim of stopping the execution of Deniz Gezmis -leader of THKO (Popular Liberation Army of Turkey) - and of his friends, 10 revolutionaries from THKP-C (Popular Liberation Front-Party of Turkey) and THKO had kidnapped two English and one Canadian radar technician from the military base of NATO. They were surrounded by the state forces in Kizildere where they were together with the hostages and they turned into martyrs on 30 March 1972 after resisting until their last bullet. This resistance of Mahir Çayan, Cihan Alptekin, Ömer Ayna, Sabahattin Kurt, Nihat Yilmaz, Saffet Alp, Sinan Kazim Özüdogru, Ertan Saruhan, Hüdai Arikan, Ahmet Atasoy has left a great inheritance of comradeship-in-arms to the revolutionary movement.
5-On 9 November 2005, the counter-guerrilla forces were caught red-handed by the Kurdish people while they were carrying out a bombing in Semdinli town of N. Kurdistan. Thereafter, the Kurdish people entered into a process of huge actions that almost reached to a level of uprising in many cities and towns of N. Kurdistan, while a process of intense actions to ask account from the counter-guerrilla followed this both in Turkey and in N. Kurdistan.
6-On 12 September 2006, the counter-guerrilla forces committed a massacre in Diyarbakir (Amed) by putting a bomb at a bus stop in front of Kosuyolu Park which is a very common place where hundreds of people come and go everyday. 10 people were killed as a result of the bombing, 7 of whom were children under the age of 12 who were playing at the park at that moment, among them two babies; one was 6-month-old and the 9-month-old.
 

 

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In terms of the class struggle, the month of March bears special importance in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan. While the 8th March Labourer Women's Day and Newroz (21 March), the festival of brotherhood for the Kurdish people and the peoples of Middle East and Central Asia, choke March with mobilisations full of enthusiasm as two important days of struggle, the aggression of the ruling classes would increase and the struggle would accelerate.

March is also full with anniversaries of the most bloodshed massacres in our geography's history and for which the people whet their anger over the fascist regime. The 12th March 1995 Gazi [1] massacre and the killing of our comrade Hasan Ocak, the Gazi Commander, after his kidnapping, the 16 March 1977 Beyazit Massacre [2], the 15 March 1988 Halepce massacre [3], the 30 March 1972 Kizildere Massacre [4] would turn into days where the people will ask account from the counter-guerrilla regime. The killing of our comrade Suleyman Yeter, communist leader of workers, under torture on 7 March 1999, represents another massacre of the state against the working class.

The Turkish state is founded on the basis of one nation, one language and one religion in the territories of Turkey and Northern Kurdistan where two nations and many national minorities, religions and languages live together. The colonialist Turkish fascist state has always used different contradictions within the population in order to divert the struggles that would target the existence of the state and to let workers and labourers strangle each other. It has therefore provoked tens of massacres and conflicts. The actions in March have always had special importance in terms of putting in vain such attempts by the state.

The counter-guerrilla actions in Semdinli and Yuksekova [5], the counter-guerrilla massacre in September of last year in Diyarbakir [6], where 10 people, 7 of them children, lost their lives, and lastly the killing of Armenian intellectual, Hrant Dink, and the increased anti-fascist mass movement after his massacre, made this year's anniversaries of the Gazi uprising and all other massacres in March especially important.

The anniversary of the Gazi massacre became an occasion to ask account from the counter-guerrilla gangs and to increase peoples' brotherhood against chauvinist provocations.

As during the days of the Gazi uprising, our party MLCP acted to put in vain the state's attempts to provoke reactionary conflicts among the labourers on the basis of religious and national differences, and tried to deepen the contradiction between the state and people at the anniversary of the massacre too. It has denounced the counter-guerrilla gangs and the fascist character of the state.

Thousands of labourers, who came together in the Gazi cemetery and various cities of Turkey and Northern Kurdistan after a call by revolutionary organisations, asked account from the counter-guerrilla state. Through demonstrations with petrol-bombs and banners in many cities and districts, our party MLCP has said: "The Counter-Guerrilla state is the perpetrator of Gazi. We will smash it".

On the anniversary of 16 March massacre, students carried the slogan of peoples' brotherhood against chauvinism to the streets.

While the 1st of May is getting close, the actions in March showed that the anti-fascist mass movement against the counter-guerrilla massacres and chauvinist provocations is continuing to develop.

1- On 12 March 1995 in Gazi, a labourers' district in Istanbul, the counter-guerrilla forces committed an armed attack against a café where usually Allevite people used to go. This attack had the objective of creating a conflict between the Allevite and Sunnite labourers, but on the contrary, the labourers started a march towards the police station under the leadership of revolutionary forces, with the slogan "The murderers are at the police station; the murderer is the state!". Thus, a one-week-uprising began in Gazi, where 23 labourers would be killed by the state forces.
2- On 16 March 1977, the counter-guerrilla forces put a bomb in front of the University of Istanbul, which exploded while the revolutionary and leftist students were leaving the school. At the bombed attack, 7 students lost their life. The anniversary of the massacre has turned into a symbol of the anti-fascist struggle of the students.
3-On 15 March 1988, Saddam's forces committed a massacre in Halepce in South Kurdistan (Iraqi Kurdistan) where eight thousand Kurds were killed with napalm bombs.
4- After the military coup on 12 March 1970, with the aim of stopping the execution of Deniz Gezmis -leader of THKO (Popular Liberation Army of Turkey) - and of his friends, 10 revolutionaries from THKP-C (Popular Liberation Front-Party of Turkey) and THKO had kidnapped two English and one Canadian radar technician from the military base of NATO. They were surrounded by the state forces in Kizildere where they were together with the hostages and they turned into martyrs on 30 March 1972 after resisting until their last bullet. This resistance of Mahir Çayan, Cihan Alptekin, Ömer Ayna, Sabahattin Kurt, Nihat Yilmaz, Saffet Alp, Sinan Kazim Özüdogru, Ertan Saruhan, Hüdai Arikan, Ahmet Atasoy has left a great inheritance of comradeship-in-arms to the revolutionary movement.
5-On 9 November 2005, the counter-guerrilla forces were caught red-handed by the Kurdish people while they were carrying out a bombing in Semdinli town of N. Kurdistan. Thereafter, the Kurdish people entered into a process of huge actions that almost reached to a level of uprising in many cities and towns of N. Kurdistan, while a process of intense actions to ask account from the counter-guerrilla followed this both in Turkey and in N. Kurdistan.
6-On 12 September 2006, the counter-guerrilla forces committed a massacre in Diyarbakir (Amed) by putting a bomb at a bus stop in front of Kosuyolu Park which is a very common place where hundreds of people come and go everyday. 10 people were killed as a result of the bombing, 7 of whom were children under the age of 12 who were playing at the park at that moment, among them two babies; one was 6-month-old and the 9-month-old.