The strategy of the general staff to mobilize the "NGOs"-the "disarmed forces"
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The army did not mobilize the "NGOs" neither for the military coups on 27 May 1960 and 12 March 1971 nor for the one in 12 September 1980 for the purpose of the military coups. Using its planes, tanks, arms and through the occupation of some institutions (radio channel, TV stations, etc.), from where the coup was declared, the army took over the political hegemony.
Although the army has not realized a fourth coup so far after the fascist military coup on 12 September 1980, it announced memoranda which reached their aim. Both the memorandum on 28 February 1997 and the one on 27 April 2007 had the same topic, "the danger of the political (Islamist) reaction".
Both memoranda first dealt with the "danger of Sharia" and the society was tried to be split into two by letting the people decide on the slogan "You are either for the Sharia or for secularism". From the parties and the trade unions to the unions, universities and associations, the society, organized in this or that way, and its not-organized parts were forced under the direction of the army to choose between the fronts of "secular and non-secular". The clash among the cliques of the bourgeoisie made the society pay attention for a reactionary polarization.
At both memoranda, the aim was tried to be achieved through the help of the "NGOs". As the "Rallies for the Republic" showed, that were organized before and after the memorandum of 27 April by these organizations lead by the army, millions of people filled the streets.
The army declared at both memoranda that the main aim is the fight against the danger of a Sharia. However, the declarations and the developments have shown that this was a demagogy and that the real aim of the army was the fight against the Kurdish national independence struggle and the revolutionary movement.
The army, that did not manage to mobilize the masses during the period of the coups or was not interested in mobilizing them, succeeded in getting the masses on the streets, lead by the "NGOs", during the memorandum periods by openly showing the government as target. By that, the army decreased the accumulated rage of the society against the system on the one hand, and on the other hand, made efforts, by inciting chauvinism, to win a broad basis for its real aim, the concept of liquidating the revolutionary and communist movement and annihilating the national Kurdish movement. To realize its dark aims, the army applied the strategy of using the masses.
As after the "Rallies for the Republic" understood from the statements of the general staff on 8 June 2007 that "The expectations of the Turkish armed forces are that the holy Turkish nation displays a mass reaction against these kinds of terror events", it was time for the rallies of hostility against the Kurdish nation. The army now tries to mobilize the masses, which it managed to get on the streets before and after the memorandum of 27 April, for the war against the Kurdish nation.
The commander of the army, general Ilker Basbug, tried to explain in his speech of June 27 what the general staff understands by "mass reaction": "Appropriate to the democratic measures, "far away from any kind of violence", "respecting the laws", "not heading for any political aim", "to become a part of the sadness and the hate felt towards terrorism", such a "mass reaction"! Moreover it was said: "The Turkish never ever may have a will for a social conflict". All these words are nothing but demagogy. Those, who apply violence against those, who are searching for their "democratic" rights within the framework of the laws, against those, who are against repression and exploitation and take care of their national identity, are above all the state and its army. It is the state and its army, who provokes the violence and carries it out, who violate the laws. For this reason, the demanded "reaction" cannot be without political content. Against who the social stratums poisoned with chauvinism or the whole "holy Turkish nation" may show a "mass reaction"? Whoever the fascist dictatorship considers as an enemy, against this one it demands the „mass reaction". So, in this situation the targets are, as already expressed in the memorandum, the national Kurdish movement and the revolutionary communist movement. This target has already been expressed in the speech of the general staff: "Everybody, who is against the understanding "I am proud to be a Turk" is an enemy of the Turkish Republic and this will always be this way". By calling for a "mass reaction", the army called for a mass lynches. The army tries to make the masses, whom it leads in Northern Kurdistan and Turkey, partly responsible for creating the "deathly silence" with this slogan. The directive is: "Wherever you see a revolutionary, communist or hear somebody talking of the national Kurdish struggle for independency, attack him in the name of the "mass reaction"." One can easily say, that this call found an expression in the lynch attack against a Kurdish guerilla-fighter, who has been brought to hospital injured.
The front of the fascist army tries with its legal and illegal methods of struggle, with its mass pressure and provocations, using the civil and military forms and means of struggle in coordination with each other, one the one hand to win the clash among the cliques and on the other hand to achieve the goals mentioned in the memorandum.
The memorandum was supported by the "Rallies for the Republic"; one summit on terror after the other was hold; in order to intensify the anger of the society, they organised "Rallies against the terror" and they demanded the "mass reaction". The army does all that not with its soldiers, canons, rifles, but wit the "NGOs". It only directs. We properly go through a period of "two powers": The government is not able to act. The general staff issues statements much more frequent than ever before. It finds a pretext for every statement and thus practically makes politics by in actually putting the government out of order. Today, apart from the will of the government, also another will, the will of the army counts. After February 28, such a period of "two powers" continued until the army had reached its aim. Now, we live the same again end even in a more intense than before.
The fascist dictatorship prepares its mass bases, its soldiers and its police by holding one rally after the other and by all the terror summits, by the additional authority given to the police, for the socially organized state terror. The fascist dictatorship already made its final decision how to create the "deathly silence" in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan: total war against the Kurdish nation and the revolutionary and communist forces.
 

 

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The army did not mobilize the "NGOs" neither for the military coups on 27 May 1960 and 12 March 1971 nor for the one in 12 September 1980 for the purpose of the military coups. Using its planes, tanks, arms and through the occupation of some institutions (radio channel, TV stations, etc.), from where the coup was declared, the army took over the political hegemony.
Although the army has not realized a fourth coup so far after the fascist military coup on 12 September 1980, it announced memoranda which reached their aim. Both the memorandum on 28 February 1997 and the one on 27 April 2007 had the same topic, "the danger of the political (Islamist) reaction".
Both memoranda first dealt with the "danger of Sharia" and the society was tried to be split into two by letting the people decide on the slogan "You are either for the Sharia or for secularism". From the parties and the trade unions to the unions, universities and associations, the society, organized in this or that way, and its not-organized parts were forced under the direction of the army to choose between the fronts of "secular and non-secular". The clash among the cliques of the bourgeoisie made the society pay attention for a reactionary polarization.
At both memoranda, the aim was tried to be achieved through the help of the "NGOs". As the "Rallies for the Republic" showed, that were organized before and after the memorandum of 27 April by these organizations lead by the army, millions of people filled the streets.
The army declared at both memoranda that the main aim is the fight against the danger of a Sharia. However, the declarations and the developments have shown that this was a demagogy and that the real aim of the army was the fight against the Kurdish national independence struggle and the revolutionary movement.
The army, that did not manage to mobilize the masses during the period of the coups or was not interested in mobilizing them, succeeded in getting the masses on the streets, lead by the "NGOs", during the memorandum periods by openly showing the government as target. By that, the army decreased the accumulated rage of the society against the system on the one hand, and on the other hand, made efforts, by inciting chauvinism, to win a broad basis for its real aim, the concept of liquidating the revolutionary and communist movement and annihilating the national Kurdish movement. To realize its dark aims, the army applied the strategy of using the masses.
As after the "Rallies for the Republic" understood from the statements of the general staff on 8 June 2007 that "The expectations of the Turkish armed forces are that the holy Turkish nation displays a mass reaction against these kinds of terror events", it was time for the rallies of hostility against the Kurdish nation. The army now tries to mobilize the masses, which it managed to get on the streets before and after the memorandum of 27 April, for the war against the Kurdish nation.
The commander of the army, general Ilker Basbug, tried to explain in his speech of June 27 what the general staff understands by "mass reaction": "Appropriate to the democratic measures, "far away from any kind of violence", "respecting the laws", "not heading for any political aim", "to become a part of the sadness and the hate felt towards terrorism", such a "mass reaction"! Moreover it was said: "The Turkish never ever may have a will for a social conflict". All these words are nothing but demagogy. Those, who apply violence against those, who are searching for their "democratic" rights within the framework of the laws, against those, who are against repression and exploitation and take care of their national identity, are above all the state and its army. It is the state and its army, who provokes the violence and carries it out, who violate the laws. For this reason, the demanded "reaction" cannot be without political content. Against who the social stratums poisoned with chauvinism or the whole "holy Turkish nation" may show a "mass reaction"? Whoever the fascist dictatorship considers as an enemy, against this one it demands the „mass reaction". So, in this situation the targets are, as already expressed in the memorandum, the national Kurdish movement and the revolutionary communist movement. This target has already been expressed in the speech of the general staff: "Everybody, who is against the understanding "I am proud to be a Turk" is an enemy of the Turkish Republic and this will always be this way". By calling for a "mass reaction", the army called for a mass lynches. The army tries to make the masses, whom it leads in Northern Kurdistan and Turkey, partly responsible for creating the "deathly silence" with this slogan. The directive is: "Wherever you see a revolutionary, communist or hear somebody talking of the national Kurdish struggle for independency, attack him in the name of the "mass reaction"." One can easily say, that this call found an expression in the lynch attack against a Kurdish guerilla-fighter, who has been brought to hospital injured.
The front of the fascist army tries with its legal and illegal methods of struggle, with its mass pressure and provocations, using the civil and military forms and means of struggle in coordination with each other, one the one hand to win the clash among the cliques and on the other hand to achieve the goals mentioned in the memorandum.
The memorandum was supported by the "Rallies for the Republic"; one summit on terror after the other was hold; in order to intensify the anger of the society, they organised "Rallies against the terror" and they demanded the "mass reaction". The army does all that not with its soldiers, canons, rifles, but wit the "NGOs". It only directs. We properly go through a period of "two powers": The government is not able to act. The general staff issues statements much more frequent than ever before. It finds a pretext for every statement and thus practically makes politics by in actually putting the government out of order. Today, apart from the will of the government, also another will, the will of the army counts. After February 28, such a period of "two powers" continued until the army had reached its aim. Now, we live the same again end even in a more intense than before.
The fascist dictatorship prepares its mass bases, its soldiers and its police by holding one rally after the other and by all the terror summits, by the additional authority given to the police, for the socially organized state terror. The fascist dictatorship already made its final decision how to create the "deathly silence" in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan: total war against the Kurdish nation and the revolutionary and communist forces.