[fse-esf] URGENT CALL FOR SOLIDARITY

[Alp Altinors]

Dear friends,
After these attacks, the Turkish police yesterday raided over 20 democratic 
institutions, in 7 cities, including our newspaper ATILIM, Socialist 
Platform of the Oppressed (ESP)(4 branches), Textile Workers Union (3 
branches), Radio Free, Dockyards Workers Union, Labourer Women's Union, 
Socialist Youth Association, BEKSAV cultural center. Over 20 people are 
arrested. The arrested include ESP Representative Figen Yuksekdag, Radio 
Free News Editor Halil Dinc, Atilim journalists Onder Oner, Ozge Kelekci, 
Songul Akbay, Yilmaz Koruk, Ilden Dirini, Kadir Aktas; Textile Workers Union 
President Ayse Yeter, Dockyard's Workers Union President Cem Dinc-General 
Secretary Zafer Tektas. The police is trying to put all these people into 
prison, and protests all around the world can help these people be released. 
The police had taken all the computers in the offices raided.

The police claims that these raids are 'struggle against terror' but it is 
obvious that this is State Terror. The Government who passed the decree for 
sending troops to Lebanon is now applying terror over the institutions 
opposing the collaboration with the US imperialism. The government, who 
tries to smash the Kurdish national democratic movement is now applying 
terror against the friends of the Kurdish people.

As an editor of the ATILIM newspaper, I call all the democratic forces 
around Europe, all the participants or the ESF, to give a loud voice against 
this state terror. While talking about 'democratisation' the Turkish state 
is becoming more fascistic. Let us make actions in front of the Turkish 
embassies. Let us declare protest letters to the press in our country. Let 
us carry this repression to the European Parliament. Let us mobilize union 
confederations against the repression over unionists. Let us mobilize 
journalists' organizations against the repression over ATILIM newspaper. 
(Our Chief Editor and Vice Chief Editor imprisoned, our newspaper banned for 
15 days, our 5 offices raided, our 6 employees under custody.)

ALP ALTINORS
22.09.2006-Istanbul.

>From: Dave Stockton <stockton.dave at btopenworld.com>
>To: ESF - FSE <fse-esf at lists.fse-esf.org>
>Subject: [fse-esf] MLKP arrests in Turkey
>Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:43:30 +0100
>
>
>
>The League for the Fifth International has received the following  press
>release and appeal from the MLKP, a prominent participant in the
>anti-imperialist space at the Athens European Social Forum. The MLKP have
>been extremely active in  opposing Turkey's support for the US-Israeli
>atrocities in Lebanon and Palestine. These courageous actions have brought
>down the wrath of the Turkish state.
>
>The record of tortures and murders by the Turkish state, including ah gaint
>the MLKP,  give us the gravest concern for the lives and physical safety of
>those detained.  It is the plain duty of all anti-capitalist and
>anti-imperialist to protest this repression. Such publicity can at least
>make the regime acutely aware that "the whole world is watching" what they
>do to them. Of course we should demand the immediate and unconditional
>release of all these prisoners and the establishment of full freedom of the
>press, public assembly and demonstration.
>
>Given the Turkish government's ardent desire to enter the EU  and the EU's
>pretext for endless delays in considering its application - Turkey's bad
>human rights record - it is vulnerable to a serious and sustained protest
>against this most recent repression.
>
>Therefore the League for the Fifth International calls for  all
>organisations and individuals to protest to the Turkish government and 
>mount
>pickets of local representatives (Turkish embassies and consulates).
>
>
>Full Solidarity with the 23
>
>Dave Stockton
>
>For the  LFI
>
>For more information see
>http://mlkp.info/oldindex.php?view=news&lang=2
>
>
>
>
>
>Turkish state lash out against Marxist Leninist Communist Party (MLKP)
>
>23 revolutionaries arrested
>
>On 8-9 September, 23 people known by their revolutionary and socialist
>identities, including Ibrahim Cicek, the Chief Editor of weekly
>revolutionary socialist newspaper, Sedat Senoglu, the Vice Chief Editor,
>Bayram Namaz, one of the writers of newspaper, Ziya Ulusoy, the former 
>Chief
>Editor, and Fusun Erdogan, the Chief Coordinator of Ozgur Radio, have been
>taken into police custody in various cities.
>
>While detainees are being kept in the Vatan Anti-Terror Branch in Istanbul,
>the workers of the Atilim Newspaper have organized a press meeting in
>Istanbul-Galatasaray Square on 10 September. The meeting was also supported
>by different revolutionary and democratic organizations and individuals 
>such
>as Human Rights Association, Solidarity Platform with Imprisoned
>Journalists, ILPS, ESP, Partizan, Isci Koylu Newspaper, Tekstil-Sen Union,
>FHDD (Solidarity Association with the Palestinian People), DISK/Limter-Is
>Union, SGD and Ozgur Radio.
>
>In the press meeting which was attended by 100 people, together with Atilim
>Newspaper and placards writing "You are not strong to defeat us!", "Ibrahim
>Cicek Must Be Released!", "Detainees Must Be Released!" in their hands, it
>was said "Yesterday, our Chief Editor, Ibrahim Cicek, has been taken into
>police custody while traveling in a car that he had hitchhiked in Manisa. 
>He
>is now being kept in Istanbul Anti-Terror Branch". It was also stressed 
>that
>the detained revolutionaries, except Ibrahim Cicek, are not allowed to 
>speak
>with their relatives and solicitors.
>
>The Atilim Newspaper workers, who touched on the connection between the
>attacks and the "Terror Summits" organized by AKP (Justice and Development
>Party) and Generals, and with the new Anti-Terror Laws, have demanded the
>immediate release of detained revolutionaries by saying "You are not strong
>to defeat us!".
>Lawyer Eren Keskin also made a statement in the press meeting and said that
>Arzu Torun, together with someone else, is also kidnapped by the police in
>Adana airport. She said Torun had asked for help at the time of kidnapping
>by shouting "Call my Lawyer, Eren Keskin, they want to disappear me" and
>added that the eye-witnesses had informed her about the incident.
>
>The representative of Solidarity Platform with Imprisoned Solicitors (TGDP)
>also made a statement and said that they demand immediate release of the
>ones who are detained. He ask on duty the national and international press
>institutions of profession, the organizations which are sensitive about
>human rights for the release of detainees.
>On the other hand, International Committee against Disappearances (ICAD)
>also protested the police detentions and stated that they worry about the
>life of Arzu Torun who had been kidnapped by the police. ICAD demanded the
>release of Arzu Torun and all other detainees.
>
>September 11, 2006
>
>
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