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Volume 6, No. 8,
August 2005
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People’s March Strongly Condemns the Massacre of
Maoists in Turkey
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Between Thursday
16 th June and Friday the 17th
June 2005 the fascist state in Turkey cold bloodedly
killed 17 Maoists of the Maoist Communist Party and injured three others, in
Mercan, a region of Dersim in Turkey-Kurdistan. Those martyred include
six members of the Central Committee of the MCP, including its general
secretary. It was stated that they started the attack during the ‘Expanded
meeting of the MCP Central Committee’. At first the state didn’t make any
statement about this, then the news was shown on television that 17 guerilla’s
were murdered and 3 three injured and held by the state, who refuses to announce
their names. The names of the martyred are:
Comrades Cafer Cangöz (MCP CC member), Aydın
Hanbayat (MCP CC member), Ali Riza Sabur (MCP CC member), Cemal Çakmak (MCP
CC.member), Ökkeş Karaoğlu (MCP CC.member), Gülnaz Yıldız (MCP CC member), Okan
Ünsal (Conference Security Unity Commander), Berna Ünsal, Alaattin Ataş, Kenan
Çakıcı, Taylan Yıldız, İbrahim Akdeniz, Binali Güler, Dursun Turgut, Ahmet
Bektaş ,Cagdas Can ve Ersin Kantar.
Funerals were held
for the martyred guerillas, whose mutilated bodies have been released from state
mortuaries. Photographs of the bodies of the martyrs clearly indicate that the
military counter-terrorist troops tortured the militants and then killed them.
The Maoist
Communist Party was formed in November 2003; earlier it used to be called
the TKP(ML). This attack is nothing but a continuation of the massive repression
unleashed on the Maoists of Turkey, particularly since last winter. Last winter
there were many encounters between military forces of the fascist state and the
People’s armies TIKKO (which is under the leadership of the other Maoist
Party in Turkey, the TKP/ML) and the PLA (People’s Liberation Army
led by the MCP) especially in Dersim in Turkey-Kurdistan. The MCP
lost more then 20 guerillas. The Communist Party from Turkey / Marxist
Leninist (TKP/ML) also lost three of their guerillas, Comrades Cafer Kara,
Aşkın Günel and Muharem Yiğitsoy during these encounters in Dersim. Through the
whole winter there were many operations all over Turkey-Kurdistan including
Dersim Şırnak, Van and Muş. In Hakari many guerillas of the PKK were also
murdered.
People’s March
strongly condemns these massacres in Turkey and calls on the people of India to
mourn the death of these heroic martyrs of Turkey and strongly register their
protest against the Turkish government. We extend our deepest sympathies to the
Maoist Parties, the families of the bereaved and people of Turkey for the loss
of their slain brothers. We shall always stand firmly in solidarity with the
people of Turkey in their heroic battle against their fascist state.
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