Struggle against police murders is growing
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With its newly launched anti-terror law (TMY) and the Law on Police Duties and Authorities (PVSK), introduced in the name of "ensuring safety", the Turkish state, following the tracks of the imperialist masters, strengthened the fascist laws and its practice and gave the police unlimited authority.

01 December 2008 /International Bulletin / Issue 76

 

There has recently been a remarkable increase of the number of killings by the police of the fascist Turkish state whose history is full of genocides, massacres and violations of rights. Despite threats by the police and all efforts to hinder, police murders have been started to be frequently discussed by media. It has become more and more obvious that the police, known for its raids of houses and executions on the streets of mainly communists, revolutionaries, progressive forces and Kurds, torture under arrest, killing and forced disappearances, attacks on protests, marches, rallies and actions with press statements, is actually a killer gang being able to kill anyone on the street.
With its newly launched anti-terror law (TMY) and the Law on Police Duties and Authorities (PVSK), introduced in the name of "ensuring safety", the Turkish state, following the tracks of the imperialist masters, strengthened the fascist laws and its practice and gave the police unlimited authority. While with these laws it is tried to make the police attacks, murders and massacres on the social opposition, including the communist, revolutionary and Kurdish-patriotic movement, gain a 'legal status', for now revolutionaries such as Ferhat Gercek who was selling the magazine Yuruyus or the people on the street can be shot for reasons of not having obeyed the police's order to stop or to have resisted against the police, and by that become the target of this unlimited authority that has been given to the police.
However, it is a fact that the real aim of this law is to legitimate the attacks on the revolutionary and communist forces. For this purpose, they attack on people who are not organised as a beginning, because they think that there will not be developing a political defence against these murders. These attacks are essentially not different from the practice applied against the Kurds during the 90ies such as the killing of ten thousands of Kurdish patriots during the dirty war, the forced disappearances or killing of thousands of people at home and on the street or at the torture centres as part of the attacks on communists and revolutionaries. Festus Okey, Baran Tursun, Feyzullah Ete, Engin Ceber, Cagdas Gemik, Serkan Cedik, Ahmet Yildirim and dozens more have been killed after Suleyman Yeter and Hasan Ocak killed through torture and under arrest.
The police having killed dozens of our people defends itself with these laws saying that 'I used my authority' and is also getting the necessary defence by the state. While the state's courts acquit the murderer police, the ruling forces approve and foster the police terror through the words of AKP Yozgat deputy Abdulkadir Akgul 'I will enjoy killing those who object to my state and my nation'.
The frequency of the police murders, which are a state policy and the practice of it, have been brought on the agenda of the public through the efforts of the communist and revolutionary forces and were started to be discussed. When the protests showed against the police massacres united with the courageous stance of some families, an important struggle basis was founded. By that, the state's police chief, governor and other authorities' efforts to acquit the police by covering the murders were all exposed. The fake handling of the trials started against the murderer police after the criminal complaints and the release of the murderer police made the victims lose confidence in the justice of the state.
The families of the victims have understood that the only way to stop these attacks and massacres of the police that increase more and more have now started to organise themselves to struggle together. These families defend each other, share their pain and put forward their demand for justice and a common struggle. When the families protested against the murder of their children and made statements, this was enough to make them face the state's threats and attacks. A trial was started against Baran Tursun's father Mehmet Tursun on the basis of Art. No. 301 of the Turkish Penalty Law, and Adil Ete, the brother of Feyzullah Ete, was arrested and imprisoned for 15 months when he shouted 'Is this your justice' to the court who acquitted the murderer police of his brother. Some families were threatened not to make any statement. Despite these threats, the struggle of the families to organise themselves is continuing. The families are planning a meeting for 2 days for families of police victims and are about to found the Baran Tursun Foundation in order to create a network for legal, financial and psychological help. There has also been established a website to make the families give a voice to their struggle.
This struggle led by the family of Baran Tursun is an important struggle to be supported in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan as well as on the international level. The way to smash back this attack of the state is the organised counter-attack. Families and victims have played a big role in the experiences of the struggle against forces disappearances under arrest and sexual assault and rape during arrest in the past. We as communists must act with this conscious and gather all the families of victims, create different means on the legitimated struggle's basis and aim at fighting off this developing attack of the fascist dictatorship.

 
 

 

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With its newly launched anti-terror law (TMY) and the Law on Police Duties and Authorities (PVSK), introduced in the name of "ensuring safety", the Turkish state, following the tracks of the imperialist masters, strengthened the fascist laws and its practice and gave the police unlimited authority.

01 December 2008 /International Bulletin / Issue 76

 

There has recently been a remarkable increase of the number of killings by the police of the fascist Turkish state whose history is full of genocides, massacres and violations of rights. Despite threats by the police and all efforts to hinder, police murders have been started to be frequently discussed by media. It has become more and more obvious that the police, known for its raids of houses and executions on the streets of mainly communists, revolutionaries, progressive forces and Kurds, torture under arrest, killing and forced disappearances, attacks on protests, marches, rallies and actions with press statements, is actually a killer gang being able to kill anyone on the street.
With its newly launched anti-terror law (TMY) and the Law on Police Duties and Authorities (PVSK), introduced in the name of "ensuring safety", the Turkish state, following the tracks of the imperialist masters, strengthened the fascist laws and its practice and gave the police unlimited authority. While with these laws it is tried to make the police attacks, murders and massacres on the social opposition, including the communist, revolutionary and Kurdish-patriotic movement, gain a 'legal status', for now revolutionaries such as Ferhat Gercek who was selling the magazine Yuruyus or the people on the street can be shot for reasons of not having obeyed the police's order to stop or to have resisted against the police, and by that become the target of this unlimited authority that has been given to the police.
However, it is a fact that the real aim of this law is to legitimate the attacks on the revolutionary and communist forces. For this purpose, they attack on people who are not organised as a beginning, because they think that there will not be developing a political defence against these murders. These attacks are essentially not different from the practice applied against the Kurds during the 90ies such as the killing of ten thousands of Kurdish patriots during the dirty war, the forced disappearances or killing of thousands of people at home and on the street or at the torture centres as part of the attacks on communists and revolutionaries. Festus Okey, Baran Tursun, Feyzullah Ete, Engin Ceber, Cagdas Gemik, Serkan Cedik, Ahmet Yildirim and dozens more have been killed after Suleyman Yeter and Hasan Ocak killed through torture and under arrest.
The police having killed dozens of our people defends itself with these laws saying that 'I used my authority' and is also getting the necessary defence by the state. While the state's courts acquit the murderer police, the ruling forces approve and foster the police terror through the words of AKP Yozgat deputy Abdulkadir Akgul 'I will enjoy killing those who object to my state and my nation'.
The frequency of the police murders, which are a state policy and the practice of it, have been brought on the agenda of the public through the efforts of the communist and revolutionary forces and were started to be discussed. When the protests showed against the police massacres united with the courageous stance of some families, an important struggle basis was founded. By that, the state's police chief, governor and other authorities' efforts to acquit the police by covering the murders were all exposed. The fake handling of the trials started against the murderer police after the criminal complaints and the release of the murderer police made the victims lose confidence in the justice of the state.
The families of the victims have understood that the only way to stop these attacks and massacres of the police that increase more and more have now started to organise themselves to struggle together. These families defend each other, share their pain and put forward their demand for justice and a common struggle. When the families protested against the murder of their children and made statements, this was enough to make them face the state's threats and attacks. A trial was started against Baran Tursun's father Mehmet Tursun on the basis of Art. No. 301 of the Turkish Penalty Law, and Adil Ete, the brother of Feyzullah Ete, was arrested and imprisoned for 15 months when he shouted 'Is this your justice' to the court who acquitted the murderer police of his brother. Some families were threatened not to make any statement. Despite these threats, the struggle of the families to organise themselves is continuing. The families are planning a meeting for 2 days for families of police victims and are about to found the Baran Tursun Foundation in order to create a network for legal, financial and psychological help. There has also been established a website to make the families give a voice to their struggle.
This struggle led by the family of Baran Tursun is an important struggle to be supported in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan as well as on the international level. The way to smash back this attack of the state is the organised counter-attack. Families and victims have played a big role in the experiences of the struggle against forces disappearances under arrest and sexual assault and rape during arrest in the past. We as communists must act with this conscious and gather all the families of victims, create different means on the legitimated struggle's basis and aim at fighting off this developing attack of the fascist dictatorship.