Total isolation as a part of the total war
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The Kurdish people have announced that they take Ocalan as the symbol of their own will through numerous actions and activities and campaigns of declaration of will, all with the participation of hundreds of thousands of people. PKK and the representatives of the Kurdish national freedom movement at the legal and democratic fields of struggle have continuously shown Ocalan as the interlocutor for the solution of the question. The Turkish colonialist fascist state is very well aware of this fact. In this sense, the policy of total isolation of A. Ocalan is a policy of total war.

 

01 February 2012 /International Bulletin / Issue 113

 

 

The total isolation of the Kurdish national leader Abdullah Ocalan is continuing for 6 months. He has not seen his lawyers since July 27 at all and among his relatives, he has seen his brother Mehmet Ocalan only once during all this period. Recently, Mehmet Ocalan went to Imrali to see him; however he only received a note of the PKK leader saying "Here the situation is very touchy. It is not convenient for us to receive visitors". This form of protesting against the ongoing total isolation by Ocalan shows the degree of seriousness of the situation.
The isolation torture goes on in the F Type prisons for 11 years. Since the massacre of December 19 , 2000 , the isolation torture continues to be even aggravated through prohibitions on communication and visitation, hindering the prisoners from receiving periodic publications, disciplinary punishments, hindering of the right to get medical care, sudden and unexpected transportation of prisoners to different prisons, torture and arbitrary measures. The attack of isolation is a comprehensive attack aiming at the surrender of all the society, and of the prisoners at the first place.
Within the framework of the total war against the Kurdish freedom movement, the Turkish bourgeois state implements this state policy on the Kurdish national leader A. Ocalan with special goals and at a special level of intensity. The total isolation of Ocalan means insisting in not accepting the Kurdish freedom movement of millions of people as a side to address to. Ocalan has been leading the struggle that the Kurdish nation has been carrying out for tens of years for their national democratic rights. He is the accepted leader of an oppressed people struggling for its freedom and in that sense a symbol of that resistance. The Kurdish people have announced that they take Ocalan as the symbol of their own will through numerous actions and activities and campaigns of declaration of will, all with the participation of hundreds of thousands of people. PKK and the representatives of the Kurdish national freedom movement at the legal and democratic fields of struggle have continuously shown Ocalan as the interlocutor for the solution of the question. The Turkish colonialist fascist state is very well aware of this fact. In this sense, the policy of total isolation of A. Ocalan is a policy of total war. It is another aspect of the traditional policy of annihilation and negation, of civil massacres like recently in Roboski and like the political genocide with thousands of detentions. The Kurdish liberation movement and its armed forces have proved clearly since Ocalan has been kidnapped and been imprisoned as a hostage in 1999, that it is able to not only continue its struggle, lead it successfully but also to even develop it further even with its leadership being imprisoned. Thus, the measure of total isolation is not a move of the bourgeois Turkish state in order to weaken the movement by hindering Ocalan from intervening in the struggle and sending directives, as the Turkish state claims, but an open declaration of war, of sharpening the level of confrontation even more. It is the very open message that the bourgeois Turkish state and its AKP government are not interested in any attempt of dialogue concerning the Kurdish question in this process. Their one and only answer remains liquidation.
The draft law on the total isolation is the attempt of legalising this policy and carrying it at out at a higher level. On January 17, the AKP proposed to take the Law No.136 on Criminal Execution and Security Measures on the agenda of the parliament. That means that they are aiming at making a change to the law in order to create a legal base for the total isolation of Ocalan. This initiative was commented on January 22, by the president of the Executive Board of KCK Murat Karayılan, who stated: "That is a law developed within the context of the total war. It is an attempt to cut off all the external communication of the Leadership of a people and to leave him in an apolitical situation. To approve this law means the domination of law mentality forever. Let them do it, and they will have to face the consequences". At the annual meeting of the PKK Assembly, it was said: "It is seen that the AKP state, who has rejected all the proposals of our Leadership and our movement for a democratic solution and preferred to get results through the forces of violence of the state, wants to hinder all possible peaceful solutions by the new law of isolation that aims at leaving our Leadership totally out of the process. For this reason, our meeting has defined that the mentioned law of isolation is essentially a law of war and has decided on what to do against it."
It is obvious that this policy of the colonialist fascist regime has never been successful and will neither be in future.
The Kurdish people already starts to increase it resistance against this new act of war at different fronts. Also in the prisons itself, the resistance is growing. The 8000 prisoners of PKK and PAJK in the Turkish prisons made a statement that they decided not to accept visitors from January 28 to February 5 in order to protest against the ongoing total isolation of their leader Ocalan. Furthermore, Kurdish prisoners have started indefinite and non-alternate hunger strikes in different prisons.
In this situation of sharpening of the attack against the national Kurdish movement, it is the duty of the revolutionary and communist movement of Turkey to clearly side with this freedom struggle. The Kurdish freedom movement and its guerrilla forces are playing a revolutionary role against the colonialist fascist dictatorship and being an important stronghold in the Middle East against imperialism. To actively support the Kurdish struggle for the freedom of its leader and against the colonialist yoke is not only a necessary act of solidarity but urgently necessary for the interest of all democratic, revolutionary and communist forces in Turkey, themselves.
 

 

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The Kurdish people have announced that they take Ocalan as the symbol of their own will through numerous actions and activities and campaigns of declaration of will, all with the participation of hundreds of thousands of people. PKK and the representatives of the Kurdish national freedom movement at the legal and democratic fields of struggle have continuously shown Ocalan as the interlocutor for the solution of the question. The Turkish colonialist fascist state is very well aware of this fact. In this sense, the policy of total isolation of A. Ocalan is a policy of total war.

 

01 February 2012 /International Bulletin / Issue 113

 

 

The total isolation of the Kurdish national leader Abdullah Ocalan is continuing for 6 months. He has not seen his lawyers since July 27 at all and among his relatives, he has seen his brother Mehmet Ocalan only once during all this period. Recently, Mehmet Ocalan went to Imrali to see him; however he only received a note of the PKK leader saying "Here the situation is very touchy. It is not convenient for us to receive visitors". This form of protesting against the ongoing total isolation by Ocalan shows the degree of seriousness of the situation.
The isolation torture goes on in the F Type prisons for 11 years. Since the massacre of December 19 , 2000 , the isolation torture continues to be even aggravated through prohibitions on communication and visitation, hindering the prisoners from receiving periodic publications, disciplinary punishments, hindering of the right to get medical care, sudden and unexpected transportation of prisoners to different prisons, torture and arbitrary measures. The attack of isolation is a comprehensive attack aiming at the surrender of all the society, and of the prisoners at the first place.
Within the framework of the total war against the Kurdish freedom movement, the Turkish bourgeois state implements this state policy on the Kurdish national leader A. Ocalan with special goals and at a special level of intensity. The total isolation of Ocalan means insisting in not accepting the Kurdish freedom movement of millions of people as a side to address to. Ocalan has been leading the struggle that the Kurdish nation has been carrying out for tens of years for their national democratic rights. He is the accepted leader of an oppressed people struggling for its freedom and in that sense a symbol of that resistance. The Kurdish people have announced that they take Ocalan as the symbol of their own will through numerous actions and activities and campaigns of declaration of will, all with the participation of hundreds of thousands of people. PKK and the representatives of the Kurdish national freedom movement at the legal and democratic fields of struggle have continuously shown Ocalan as the interlocutor for the solution of the question. The Turkish colonialist fascist state is very well aware of this fact. In this sense, the policy of total isolation of A. Ocalan is a policy of total war. It is another aspect of the traditional policy of annihilation and negation, of civil massacres like recently in Roboski and like the political genocide with thousands of detentions. The Kurdish liberation movement and its armed forces have proved clearly since Ocalan has been kidnapped and been imprisoned as a hostage in 1999, that it is able to not only continue its struggle, lead it successfully but also to even develop it further even with its leadership being imprisoned. Thus, the measure of total isolation is not a move of the bourgeois Turkish state in order to weaken the movement by hindering Ocalan from intervening in the struggle and sending directives, as the Turkish state claims, but an open declaration of war, of sharpening the level of confrontation even more. It is the very open message that the bourgeois Turkish state and its AKP government are not interested in any attempt of dialogue concerning the Kurdish question in this process. Their one and only answer remains liquidation.
The draft law on the total isolation is the attempt of legalising this policy and carrying it at out at a higher level. On January 17, the AKP proposed to take the Law No.136 on Criminal Execution and Security Measures on the agenda of the parliament. That means that they are aiming at making a change to the law in order to create a legal base for the total isolation of Ocalan. This initiative was commented on January 22, by the president of the Executive Board of KCK Murat Karayılan, who stated: "That is a law developed within the context of the total war. It is an attempt to cut off all the external communication of the Leadership of a people and to leave him in an apolitical situation. To approve this law means the domination of law mentality forever. Let them do it, and they will have to face the consequences". At the annual meeting of the PKK Assembly, it was said: "It is seen that the AKP state, who has rejected all the proposals of our Leadership and our movement for a democratic solution and preferred to get results through the forces of violence of the state, wants to hinder all possible peaceful solutions by the new law of isolation that aims at leaving our Leadership totally out of the process. For this reason, our meeting has defined that the mentioned law of isolation is essentially a law of war and has decided on what to do against it."
It is obvious that this policy of the colonialist fascist regime has never been successful and will neither be in future.
The Kurdish people already starts to increase it resistance against this new act of war at different fronts. Also in the prisons itself, the resistance is growing. The 8000 prisoners of PKK and PAJK in the Turkish prisons made a statement that they decided not to accept visitors from January 28 to February 5 in order to protest against the ongoing total isolation of their leader Ocalan. Furthermore, Kurdish prisoners have started indefinite and non-alternate hunger strikes in different prisons.
In this situation of sharpening of the attack against the national Kurdish movement, it is the duty of the revolutionary and communist movement of Turkey to clearly side with this freedom struggle. The Kurdish freedom movement and its guerrilla forces are playing a revolutionary role against the colonialist fascist dictatorship and being an important stronghold in the Middle East against imperialism. To actively support the Kurdish struggle for the freedom of its leader and against the colonialist yoke is not only a necessary act of solidarity but urgently necessary for the interest of all democratic, revolutionary and communist forces in Turkey, themselves.