[fse-esf] Draft Resolution for the EPA in Frankfurt

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Dear friends,

The following text is a draft resolution which will be presented to the 
Frankfurt EPA. It will also be distributed separately to the representatives 
of organisations and individuals to sign on behalf of their organisations. 
So please read it through and, if you accept it, sign it during the 
Frankfurt EPA.

Regards

RESOLUTION

End the State Terror in Turkey, Abolish the TMY

State terror is being escalated with the use of the Anti-terror Law (TMY) in 
Turkey against democratic rights and institutions.

On 12th September, 20 socialists were arrested. Among them Ibrahim Cicek, 
the Chief Editor of Atilim newspaper, former Chief Editor Ziya Ulusoy, 
Coordiator Sedat Senoglu, journalist Bayram Namaz and Ozgur Radio 
Coordinator Fusun Erdogan. On 14th September, Atilim newspaper was banned 
because of carrying into its pages the news about the state terror.

However, the Turkish State has broadened arrest operations against 
socialists, leftists, democrats and progressives. On the 21st of September, 
over 20 democratic and socialist institutions in 21 cities were raided by 
the Turkish police accompanied by Special Forces. These included the 
Istanbul Central Office, provisional offices and the editorial office of 
Atilim Newspaper, Kadikoy office of Ozgur Radio, BEKSAV cultural centre, 
Taksim bureaus and provisional bureaus of the Socialist Platform of the 
Oppressed (ESP), Mustafa Kemal Neighbourhood Association, many branches of 
Labourer Women’s Association (EKD), the Textile Workers Union, Limter-Is 
Union, the offices of the Socialist Youth Association (SGD) and the houses 
of the people who are working for these institutions.

As result of the recent offensive, another 40 were sent to prison including 
Atilim journalists, ESP representative Figen Yuksekdag, Ozgur Radio’s News 
Editor Halil Dinc; the President of Textile Workers Union Ayse Yumli Yeter, 
the President of Limter-Is Union Cem Dinc and General Secretary Zafer 
Tektas; the Chairwoman of Labourer Women’s Association Cicek Otlu.

We as the organisations and individuals, who came together on 3-5 November 
2006 in Frankfurt-Germany during the 1st European Preparatory Assembly for 
the 5th European Social Forum, strongly condemn the Turkish State’s recent 
attacks on the democratic and socialist institutions, and demand immediate 
release of all the people those who have been imprisoned.

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