The counter-guerrilla forces, which came to the agenda once more with the Ergenekon operations, committed a new massacre against the people.
On July 27 the bombs of the counter-guerrilla exploded in Istanbul Gungoren and 18 labouring people, among them also children, lost their lives.
The massacre of Gungoren is one of the mass massacres committed by the counter-guerrilla, like the one of Mayday 1977 in Istanbul Taksim, in 1978 in Maras , 1980 in Corum , 1993 in Sivas, 1996 in Istanbul Gazi and many others.
Immediately after the massacres, all the forces of the state from the Prime Minister to the Chief of the general Staff and the bourgeois opposition parties showed their wrong tears and condemned terror. The bourgeois media tried hard to turn the tragedy of the labouring people loosing their lives into a means for provocation. It was claimed that the PKK was responsible for the bomb attack. 8 Kurdish patriots were imprisoned in great haste and announced as the "bombers of Gungoren". The bourgeois media claimed that Huseyin Gureli, one of the prisoners, "was educated in Kandil and arrived 3 month before" and published also other wrong statements in the name of Gureli and put titles in the newspapers like "I put the bomb and watched everything". However, only a few days later it came out that Gureli, who was said to come from Kandil, is working in a registered work for 7 years in Istanbul and that all the 8 prisoners have not even interrogated concerning the bomb attack, that all of them were detained claiming to have supported the PKK by providing help and accommodation.
The PKK announced from the first day on that it has nothing to do with the bombing and the Kurdish patriotic forces participated in the actions against the massacre.
The aim of the counter-guerrilla state was to put the blame for the Gungoren massacre on the PKK and thus to stir up the hostility against the Kurds and to orientate the interest of the public opinion, which concentrated on the counter-guerrilla organisations in the last time, to chauvinist conflicts.
The revolutionaries, progressive people, patriots and communists rapidly exposed that the massacre was made by the counter-guerrilla and started actions. By organising actions in dozens of cities and squares, separate or united, they announced that the counter-guerrilla state is responsible for the massacre of Gungoren and tried to put the dirty game of the state in vain.
The massacre of Gungoren is a new item of the black list of crimes of the counter-guerrilla comprising dozens of mass massacres, assassinations of intellectuals, forced disappearances in police custody, burning of villages, torture and extra-legal executions on the street. Exactly in the situation, in which the regime organised the Ergenekon operations in order to bring to order their own forces and imprisoned some exposed elements of the counter-guerrilla organisation, first of all the AKP and some other circles try to create the impression that they settle accounts with the counter-guerrilla and to profit from this impression, the bombs of Gungoren exploded and proofed once again that the counter-guerrilla is not a part of the state but the state itself. The regime imprisons with its left hand the parts of the counter-guerrilla over which it lost control and liquidates them and with its right hand it organizes counterguerrilla massacres.
The reaction of the revolutionary and progressive forces against the massacre was positive, however in order to demand on the occasion of the Ergenekon trial to clear the mass massacres from Maras to Gazi, the assassinations of intellectuals and the cases of forced disappearances and to ask for account, it is necessary to organise the pressure of the masses and to grow the struggle.