Newroz, the revival and liberation festival of Kurdish and Middle Eastern peoples was celebrated in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan. The Newroz celebration with mass participation of recent years was celebrated in 33 cities such as Istanbul, Izmir, Ankara, Canakkale, Eskisehir, Adana, Mersin, Amed, Van, Antep, Malatya and Dersim. Against the denial and annihilation of Kurdish people and the intensifying massacres millions of Kurds, workers and labourers flooded the celebration areas. The Kurdish people displayed a show of strength against the colonialist Turkish fascism by carrying flags and placards representing their national struggle and legitimately forcing the regime and enthusiastically celebrated the Newroz which went beyond colonialist borders.
Hundred thousand people gathered in Istanbul to celebrate the Newroz. The Newroz demonstration in Istanbul was organised by DEHAP , ESP , EMEP , SDP and IHD . In the talks given at the mass participated demonstration, it was said that the 2005 Newroz is a response to the annihilations and denials. The Socialist Platform of the Oppressed (ESP) with a block of 400 people, enthusiasm and display was the centre of attraction. The ESP carried banners saying "Long live Newroz", "The Middle East will be a grave for USA", "Long Live Freedom, Long Live Socialism / SGD ". Slogans such as "Freedom to the Kurdish Nation, Down with Fascist dictatorship", "Again Again Uprising, Free-dom to Kurdistan", "Tuncay Yildirim is Immortal", "Only path is revolu-tion","Guerrilla is our honour, we will defend them" were chanted. Trade Unions such as Limter-Is and Tekstil-Sen where the vanguard workers are organised displayed their placards and banners in the field and this represented a good example of desire to meet with the Kurdish people.
On the other hand the MLCP militants, who had conducted agitation and invitations in labourers quarters for weeks, opened the banner of "MLCP" in the crowd, chanted slogans and marched for long periods. MLCP militants ended their march with the party pledge and received greetings from Kurdish People.
The celebration organised by DEHAP in Amed province was the largest celebration attended by hundreds of thousands of people. The celebration, which took place in the fair ground, started in the morning and continued up to the late hours of the evening. The ESP supporters who participated in the Newroz celebration with flags, marched in the celebration field by chanting slogans such as "Newroz, Freedom, Uprising", "Kurdistan will be a grave for Fascism", "Newroz is Uprisings, Freedom to Kurdistan". The people heading towards the Newroz ground have taken ESP's flags and accompanied its slogans. Following their entrance into the celebration ground, the ESP people displayed the banner headed "Newroz, Freedom, Uprising", waved their flags and handed out thousands of leaflets titled "Newroz, Freedom, Uprising" and "To the Revolution and Socialism on the 10th Anniversary of the Party".
More than 30 thousand people attended to the celebration in Adana, more than 25 thousand people in Izmir and more than 10 thousand people attended in Antep. MLCP militants opened banners and flags in the celebrations in Adana and Izmir, and made calls upon Kurdish and Tukish peoples to struggle against colonialism and imperialist occupation. In Antep, after their were denied to attand the Newroz celebration with their flags, the ESP people organised an independent Newroz celebration in the city centre.
Prior to and during the Newroz, not only in Antep but also in Amed and Malatya, DEHAP showed prohibiting attitudes against ESP. But, Kurdish people showed sympathy to the Marxist Leninist Communists despite all provocation attempts.
Mobilising all its forces both prior to and during the Newroz in all regions where they are organised, our party MLCP continues with the active struggle against the annihilation and denial politics carried out by the colonialist fascist dictatorship, and defends the self-determination right of the Kurdish nation. Having a critical approach to the reformist peace politics developed by the leadership of the Kurdish National Movement, our party MLCP believes that the real peace will be an honoured, fair and democratic peace.
Turkish state did not show endurance to the Kurdish people who participated in Newroz in masses and communicated their national desires and demands. When a Turkish flag found in the hands of two children in Mersin, the State used this excuse to launch a campaign of aggression against the Kurdish people. After the chauvinist and racist incitement by the State and media, in all over the country demonstrations for flag were organised and lynching attacks were carried out against Kurds.
MLCP calls upon workers and labourers for brotherhood against these attacks and Kurd-Turk enmity that is tried to be created by the fascist State.
MLCP in its activities, protests the State's attacks on Kurdish people, and states that it will not allow these tricks that were used by the State in the past.
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