Serdar Karabulut:
“We took a decision, we swore an oath, we put it into practice, we defeated and were defeated. And now they are no more. Following them is a matter of honour, dignity and conscience.”
Serdar Karabulut was a prisoner since 1992. That is, he was a prisoner for about 10 years and in the oligarchy’s prisons he experienced all manner of tyranny. He was in Buca when there was a massacre on September 21, 1995. His comrades were massacred before him. And in the 1996 Death Fast he watched his comrades die. In all the time he was in prison nearly all the pro-system parties were in government at one time or other. The Justice Ministers were Oltan Sungurlu, Mehmet Agar, Sevket Kazan, Sami Türk, and Aysel Celikel. They came and went. None of them could change the beliefs that Serdar Karabulut held since the age of 17.
Our comrade Serdar was born in the village of Alisar in Merzifon/Amasya. He was 32 when he was martyred. He went to middle school in Istanbul/Alibeyköy and to Plevne high school. In 1987 he matriculated at the engineering faculty of Denizli. There he began to take part in the academic-democratic struggle. In the 3rd class at high school he joined Dev-Genc (Revolutionary Youth). On dozens of occasions he was detained, tortured and expelled from school. The system wanted school to be a place where he would change his views, but he persisted in holding revolutionary beliefs while at school and persisted in trying to change the fascist education system. In Izmir he was no longer allowed to attend school, in Usak he started to work for revolutionary magazines. In about 1991 he took on other tasks and participated in work for the illegal part of the organisation. He carried on the struggle against the enemy in the most varied ways. After a time he joined the rural guerrillas in the Aegean mountains. While he was continuing his revolutionary activities to liberate the people of the mountains, he was arrested in September 1992. In prison he was a responsible official and representative and took on various tasks. His last task was to tie the red headband on and use his body as a barricade against an attack aimed at turning the entire country into an F-Type prison. He fulfilled this weighty and honourable duty in full.
