DEVRİMCİ HALK KURTULUŞ CEPHESİ

Date: November 19 | 2002 Statement: 283

Those who claim to be on the side of the poor, to be democrats and who claim that they will not trample on basic rights and freedoms;
DO YOU NOT HEAR THE CRIES OF THE DYING?
The 99th martyr of resistance that has lasted 25 months: Imdat Bulut
Imdat Bulut who was in the 5th Death Fast Team, became a martyr on November 19 in Bayrampasa hospital, where he had been put a long time before.

The corpse of the latest resister to die confronted the new Justice Minister on the very day he took office.
We had declared that the martyrdom on November 8 of Serdar Karabulut, just four days after the elections, was a warning to the new AKP government.

Imdat Bulut, on the very day that the AKP government took up its posts, announced loud and clear with his death what the new government’s most urgent problem is:

What more urgent problem has your three-day old government to deal with than these two coffins?
Our deaths, 99 of them so far, ask what you will do about the F-Type Coffins.
This question, this very urgent question is one that the AKP government cannot flee from.
What could be more urgent and important than human life?

Financial adjustments can wait.
Tax reforms can wait.
Twin-track roads can wait a while longer.
Tourist cities with special status can wait.
Opening up the energy market to free competition can wait.
Providing fresh blood for the real sector through higher commission rates can also wait.

Here it is a matter of lives disappearing one after the other.

Here there is death.

Here people march to death, worn down cell by cell.

They say isolation must be ended;

They say tyranny aimed at changing our beliefs must be ended.

ARE YOU LISTENING?

This voice cannot be ignored.
Only fascists and Nazi remnants can ignore it.
Didn’t you say that measures must be taken immediately to prevent torture? So take them!
Isolation cells mean death by torture.

Only by putting an end to using isolation cells can it be said that torture has been ended.
As soon as the AKP government too declared, This is state policy, it is a decision by the MGK (National Security Council), we can’t do anything about it, as soon as it said, Europe also approves of the F-Type prisons it said in practice that it would not be able to do any of the things it said it would do. It claims to be different and democratic would be shown to be so many lies.

Are you democrats? We will see.

Do you defend freedom of belief and freedom of thought? We will see.
If not, is your conception of freedom only a matter of freedom to wear Islamic headgear? We will see.

WE REMIND THE AKP GOVERNMENT:

This resistance has gone on for 25 months, continuing despite all massacres, torture, isolation and force feeding.
We remind you that so far 99 revolutionary prisoners have been martyred in this resistance. The resistance never faltered. We continued the resistance with the same resolve as at the start, and as long as the attempts to change our beliefs by using solitary confinement continue, nobody should have any doubt that the resistance will also continue. Our 99 martyrs are the proof of this.

If there are those who exult in counting our dead like the Ecevit government or Sami Turk (former Justice Minister) did, they should abandon this error.  Each of our deaths will strike a blow at you. It was hunger and oppression that buried the last government in the ballot box. Those who think nothing of the resistance are condemned to become nothing.

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Imdat Bulut; For me, within the resistance there is no such thing as death.

Our comrade Imdat Bulut was born in Kars-Akyaka (in north-eastern Turkey) in 1966. He belonged to the Terekeme nationality (a numerically small Turkmen group found in eastern Anatolia, especially near Kars). He was one of the people. He was a people’s liberation fighter. He got to know the oppressors and exploiters in his home village. He went to the big cities to work and there he became even more closely acquainted with exploitation and tyranny. He was only able to go to primary school; in his teenage years he worked as a tailor for some of the time, and then as a house painter. He was angry with the system but still had not found the right way to oppose it. He did his military service when he reached the statutory age. He did his military service in the Tekirdag Province Central Prison in the gendarmerie command associated with it. After the military he went back to working as a labourer.

Although he never went past primary school he had become familiar with life, the road of liberation, and found the way to put an end to poverty and injustice.

He read the magazine Mucadele (Struggle), sold the magazine in his own village and peddled in order to help the movement. He got to know the revolutionary movement in Kars in 1994. Shortly afterwards he said he wanted to join the guerrillas. A short time later he had his wish, and was a guerrilla in the Black Sea mountains. He waged the struggle in the mountains for a free country.

He was taken prisoner in March 2000. From then on he had to make his dreams and beliefs live on in the prisons and had to defend them there. His attitude to the movement was expressed in the following way:

“I see our movement as a spotless indicator of the way to follow because of its trust and love of our people as shown in practice. In short, I see it as my own identity.”

That is, his identity was revolutionary beliefs, people’s power, independence, democracy and the ideal of socialism. He joined the Death Fast because of his belief. And he was martyred for his identity.

Saying, We will live with our beliefs, he joined the 5th Death Fast Team, tied on the red headband and lay down to die. He did not give in to tyranny. He became immortal, retaining his beliefs.

Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Cephesi

(Revolutionary People’s Liberation Front)

2002.11.19