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The Committee of the
Revolutionary Internationalist Movement is grief-stricken and angered by the
vicious killing of General Secretary Cafer Cangöz and 16 other comrades of the
Maoist Communist Party [Turkey-North Kurdistan] (MKP) at the hands of the
reactionary Turkish army.
Three attack
helicopters and over a thousand soldiers participated in what was really just an
airborne massacre completely disproportionate to the small guerrilla contingent
defending the leading comrades. The helicopter gunships and bombs that struck
down comrade Cangöz and the other comrades and other electronic devices used to
locate them are among the most advanced weaponry in the world. This shows how
low the ruling classes in Turkey are ready to go in dealing with the peoples of
Turkey and their best daughters and sons. These brutal reactionaries and their
imperialist masters have real fears because they know they are deeply hated by
the workers, peasants, oppressed nationalities and revolutionary intellectuals
and democratic forces throughout the country. Without the all-around support of
world imperialism, especially the US and its military arsenal, the Turkish
ruling class could not survive a single day.
General Secretary
Cafer Cangöz and comrade Aydn Hanbayat, the Deputy General Secretary, along with
the other comrades Okan Unsal, Ali Riza Sabur, Alattin Ates, Cemal Cakmak, Berna
Sagili Unsal, Kenan Cakici, Okkes Karaoglu, Taylan Yildiz, Ibrahim Akdeniz,
Binali Guler, Dursun Turgut, Gulnaz Yildiz, Cagdas Can, Ahmet Perktas and Ersin
Kantar were on their way to the location where the second Congress of the MKP
was to be convened when they were encircled and attacked by the Turkish army
from land and air.
Comrade Cangöz was
well known to the enemy. He struggled for decades for the liberation of the
peoples of Turkey as part of the world proletarian revolution. He spent more
than ten years in the Turkish dungeons. In prison he was a daring and inspiring
model of resistance and defiance and was loved by the imprisoned revolutionaries
and hated by the prison authorities. Even while imprisoned, this comrade paid a
great deal of attention to the problems of the communist movement in Turkey and
internationally. After his release from prison in 2002 he played a key role in
organising the founding congress of the MKP and in forging the political line
adopted at that congress, an historic event which fought to consolidate a
Marxist-Leninist-Maoist understanding in the party. Since the first Congress,
comrade Cangöz had been fighting to reorganise and strengthen the party and
bring about a breakthrough in waging people’s war.
Comrade Cangöz was a
firm supporter of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement. Under his
leadership the party strengthened its ties with the Movement even more and
played a more vigorous role in the international movement.
The loss of comrade
Cangöz and the other senior comrades and fighters is a tragic loss to the
revolution in Turkey and worldwide. But they did not die in vain. The fruits of
their sacrifice
and struggle will
emerge from the seeds of proletarian revolution, which have been sown widely and
deeply among the masses of all nationalities in Turkey and live on in their
hearts and minds.
The enemy hoped to
crush the MKP but the party, surrounded by the masses supporting it
wholeheartedly, has begun the hard task of transforming grief and anger into
scientific revolutionary plan. The enemy hoped to strike fear into the masses in
Turkey, but already thousands are defying them by honouring the fallen comrades,
in Dersim, Istanbul, Ankara and other cities in Turkey and Europe.
We call on all of the
proletarian revolutionaries in Turkey to rally around the MKP in this time of
great grief and difficulty, rise to the new challenges, take on new
responsibilities and carry forward the work that our fallen comrades had begun.
The comrades in
Turkey played an important role in forging RIM as the embryonic centre of the
world’s Maoist forces. One of the tasks of this centre is to help strengthen the
Maoist parties and organisations. The Committee of RIM pledges to stand shoulder
to shoulder with the MKP as the party struggles to overcome this loss step by
step and achieve as soon as possible the breakthroughs in revolutionary struggle
that the masses in Turkey so desperately need.
As Mao Tsetung put
it, "Fight, fail, fight again, fail again, fight again... till their victory;
that is the logic of the people." No matter how great the enemy’s military
might, the strength of the tens of millions of the oppressed and exploited
masses in Turkey, once they are fully unleashed and organised in revolutionary
struggle, will prove to be stronger. The ugly, vicious ruling classes of Turkey
and their imperialist masters will ultimately be swept away by people’s war,
opening the door to a beautiful future in Turkey and all over the world, the
communist world that comrade Cafer Cangöz and the other fallen heroes gave their
lives to bring about.
The CoRIM
June 24, 2005
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