arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

REVOLUTIONARY, ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEFT TARGETTED BY "ANTI-TERRORISM" CAMPAIGN

Today in the early morning hours, so-called lightning "anti-terrorism" operations were conducted in various European countries against alleged members of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C).
It has been stated that 41 members of the DHKP-C have been detained in Italy, Germany, Belgium, Holland and Turkey.
In Italy, in the course of this "internationally" coordinated operation, one or two alleged DHKP-C activists as well as members of the Anti-Imperialist Camp (Campo Antiimperialista) were detained - the latter has been targeted by a media campaign for some time there because of its anti-imperialist activities, above all against the war and occupation of Iraq.
According to a cooperator of the DHKC Information Bureau in Brussels, their office was squalled at around 5.30 a.m by
masked and armed units of the Anti-Terror police. They had broken open the doors and forced all persons to lay on the
ground for several hours. Six people were detained during this raid. Another person was detained elsewhere. All have been released in the evening hours, except for one.
In Turkey, more than 20 people have been detained, on the pretext that they are supporters of the DHKP-C.
More exact information about the detentions and charges are not available at present.
The DHKP-C is a revolutionary people's movement in Turkey has fought for more than 30 years for that country's democracy and independence. Its anti-imperialist attitude and countless examples of international solidarity, as with the Palestinian people, and its opposition to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have made it a particular target of imperialist states, especially the USA, which seek to protect their interests in Turkey. The DHKP-C was placed by the USA on a list of organisations "to be destroyed" because it had criticised the war on Afghanistan, and on May 2, 2002 it was put on the EU "Black List" following pressure from the USA.
Despite 110 dead, both in and outside the prisons, the torture of forced feeding and every kind of repression, the DHKP-C continues its Death Fast resistance to the F-Type is olation cell prisons at all levels.
The F-Type cells are directed against the entire opposition in Turkey and are meant destroy resistance and organisation by the people.
The lies about the democratisation of Turkey are more obvious with every coffin that leaves Turkey's prisons. But the state's myrmidons seek to pull up the smallest flowering of opposition.
And in Europe, too, little has been said about the 110 people who have lost their lives since the introduction of the F-Type isolation prisons in the year 2000.
Instead, Turkey is praised for its progress on democracy and the entry of a torture state into the EU is applauded.
So what will the EU achieve with this kind of terrorist attack on progressive left-wing people from Turkey? This question can clearly be answered: it wants to remove anything that stands in the way of its interests as an imperial power. To do that it will even trample on its
own laws.

We protest most strongly against the arbi trary "terrorism" operations conducted against our friends and demand the immediate release of all those who have been detained.
End the virulent "anti-terrorism" campaign!
Stop collaborating with the torture regime in Turkey!


DHKC Sympathisers
April 1, 2004