arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

ARRESTS IN LONDON AS A FRIENDLY GESTURE TO THE MURDEROUS REGIME OF TURKEY

On December 11, 2002, seven people were detained in London by British police who entered various residences. All of those detained were from Turkey, with the exception of one person.
So far no charges have been tabled, but at one place the police claimed that their operation was under Britain's Terrorism Act. On the evening of the 12th the police applied for an extension to questioning until the afternoon of Saturday the 14th, and this was granted.
The arrests are a gesture by the authorities in Britain aiming to help the existing regime in Turkey, a fascist state guilty of torture, murder, rape and other atrocities. Despite much talk of attention to human rights, the authorities in Britain are seeking to aid Turkey's government in its attempts to enter the European Union, despite the appalling human rights record of the state in Turkey.
We draw the attention of Britain's people to what their government and police forces are doing, and protest Britain and America's complicity in crimes against humanity by the torturing and immoral regime in Turkey. Britain's government should not be an accomplice in such crimes against humanity, nor should it seek to import torturers and murderers into the EU.
The government in Turkey is not a legitimate one, it is the people who have legitimacy, including those of the people who actively oppose the regime and organise to that effect.
By its actions, the British government is attacking the democratic right to organise, and all democratic institutions should actively support that right.
We call for the release of those who have been detained and for an end to Britain's support of the fascist regime in Turkey.

DHKC
(Revolutionary People's Liberation Front)
London Information Bureau

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