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Since the delivery of
A. Öcalan to the Turkish authorities through a conspiracy led by the US
imperialists, the fascist Turkish state has prepared for "a trial" of the
Kurdish nation through the trial of Öcalan’s person. Since the beginning of
Öcalan’s trial in Imralý, the Turkish state has attempted to legitimise its
fascist character and to put the Kurdish nation on "trial". The Turkish ruling
classes are calculating on accomplishing many achievements through this "trial".
Firstly; they
attempt to present the Turkish state as "a democratic state" to the world public
by concealing its fascist, genocidal and murderous face behind the facade of
what they call a "just trial".
Secondly; and
most importantly, they are calculating to seize the Kurdish national struggle
and make this their reserve force.
Thirdly; they try
hard to prove that Kurds are not subjected to oppression, that genocide does not
take place and a Kurdish problem does not exist in the country.
Fourthly; they
hope to prove that the Kurdish nation’s national revolutionary struggle for
their national democratic rights is "terrorism".
Fifthly; they
hope to suppress more violently the people of Turkey including Kurds, Turks and
other national minorities by projecting the idea to the masses that "the state
is strong". And that therefore, the national and the class struggles carried out
on a revolutionary basis against the fascist Turkish state and their imperialist
masters cannot succeed.
Sixthly; they aim
to distract the attention of the oppressed and exploited masses away from their
economic-social-political problems through further popularising Turkish
chauvinism.
Seventhly; they
hope to "prove" that the Kurdish national struggle was not born and developed in
the country, on the contrary, that there is no Kurdish problem in the country
and therefore, that this is a foreign conspiracy, etc., etc.
Öcalan trial is a totally anti-democratic and fascist trial !
The delivery of
Öcalan by the US imperialists and its servants to Turkey, the fact that he has
been kept incommunicado in Imralý and also that the fascist bourgeois media
coverage has been actively biased against Ocalan throughout the trial, are even
in the bourgeois sense, in breach of the norms of international law.
While the fascist
criminal laws of the Turkish state ban "written or verbal commentary on the
trial before the sentencing", most official statements have already declared
that the verdict has long been predetermined. On the other hand, the fascist
media have launched an intensive exposure and character assassination campaign.
The presence or the
absence of the military judge in the DGM’s does not change the essence of the
problem at all. No matter how well they may present the fascist judiciary as an
"independent judiciary", it is a fact that all the sentences passed on
communists, revolutionaries, democrats and Kurdish patriots are determined by
the National Security Council (MGK) and by those institutions controlled by the
MGK.
Consequently, the
verdict of Öcalan has long been reached. The court is only performing a legal
formality. The aim is to use the court for the above mentioned "goals" of the
fascist state and to turn the trial into a "legitimisation operation" of the
fascist Turkish state.
Not
the Kurdish nation but the fascist Turkish state and imperialism should be put
on trial in Ïmrali!
The Turkish state is
trying hard to turn the "Ïmrali court’ into an arena of the trial of the Kurdish
nation. The fascist state through all the printed and visual means of the press
declares that the PKK is "terrorist", PKK chairman A. Öcalan is "the head of
terrorists" and the Turkish state is a "democratic just state", thus carrying
its propaganda to the world.
The fascist state
attempts above all to terrorise the Kurdish nation’s just national democratic
struggle. Because of this it tries hard to conceal the massacres and genocide
carried out against Kurdish people and to illegitimatise the rightful and just
struggle of the Kurdish nation. On the other hand, it is the very fascist
Turkish state that denies the existence of the Kurdish nation, that robs them of
all forms of national rights, and that never flinches from committing genocide
against the Kurdish nation and other minorities.
Ever since its
formation, the fascist Turkish state has always brutally suppressed the Kurdish
national movements. In Koçgiri, in the Sheikh Sait rebellion, and in the Dersim
uprising of 1938, tens of thousands of Kurds have been murdered, and under the
banner of the "Law of Compulsory Residence" hundreds of thousands of them were
forcibly exiled from their land.
In the recent 15
years, over 20 thousand Kurdish patriots and intellectuals who fought against
the denial of the Kurdish nation have been murdered and almost 5 million Kurdish
people have been forced to evacuate their home at gun point.
In Ïmrali, the
Turkish state seeks to hide its massacres from history. As it had tried in the
past to cover up the massacre of one and a half million Armenians in 1915; as it
had tried to cover the 1925 Kurdish genocide and massacres with ashes by the
Independence Courts; as it had tried to cover up the massacre of over 60
thousand Kurds in the 1938 Dersim uprising, today in Ýmralý it is trying to bury
the unprecedented massacre and persecution of the Kurdish people that it has
committed for the last 15 years.
When the history of
the Kurdish nation and other national minorities in Turkey is studied, the
oppression, massacre and genocide that the Turkish state conducted come under
the light. The fascist state, despite its efforts to misinform and deceive the
masses through the bourgeois press, cannot erase its massacres, oppression,
torture, exiles, burning down villages and ... from the pages of history and the
collective memory.
The Turkish state,
the most fascistic and paramilitary force of imperialism in the region should
first of all account for its denial of the Kurdish nation! It should account for
its denial of the Kurdish nation’s national democratic rights, that is, the
Kurdish nation’s right to self determination! It should account for tens of
thousands of Kurds massacred in Koqgiri, in the Sheikh Sait rebellion, and in
the Dersim uprising!
The oppressive and
exploitative classes cannot try the oppressed and persecuted classes! Those who
committed all forms of oppression, massacre and genocide cannot try the victims
of such oppressions, massacres and genocides. Exploiting classes have no right
to try the oppressed peoples and nations. Human history is witness to the fact
that those who have to be put on trial and who have to offer accounts before
history and humanity are the exploiting dominant classes.
Ïmrali should not be the place for calling to “peace” but the place to try the
fascist Turkish state!
Öcalan is trying to
present to the people his proposals under the name of "The Manifesto of the 21st
Century" which he formulated as "a democraticratic republic" as was developed by
the "Second Rebublicanists". This proposal which bares the claim to being ‘the
most democratic peace plan" does not scare the "Sublime Turkish State", but
legitimises it! This is nothing but the packaged "solution to the Kurdish
question" proposed by the US and Western imperialists.
The attitude of all
the leading circles of the PKK, who after rapidly forgetting all their
statements of yesterday have suddenly steered the wheel towards a "peace" based
on surrender, who prepared themselves for this process by theorising the
situation and who are engaged in efforts to justify Öcalan’s position in the
court, etc., demonstrates the theorisation of the demands of the bourgeoisie of
the oppressed nation for a "reconciliation" at all costs and their efforts to
spread this theory to their base of support.
Even when taken at a
very general level, Öcalan’s defence is not a defence which charges imperialism
and the Turkish state, but on the contrary a "manifesto" of how PKK should
reconcile with the state at this stage, how a transition from the national
revolutionary line to a national reformist line should be initiated and more
clearly, how should the Kurdish people give up their struggle for their most
natural rights of a national democratic nature.
Unless a qualitative
transformation takes place in this line, given the level that the struggle had
reached this trial will find its place in Kurdish history as the most negative
example,. While the Turkish state attempts to charge and interrogate the Kurdish
nation, the Kurdish national struggle and their just and progressive war through
the person of Öcalan, it is not acceptable that Öcalan does not mention any of
these and he does not try to demonstrate the real face of the fascist Turkish
state and imperialism.
This is opening the
doors unilaterally to the worst "consensus" in the name of "peace" and
"reconciliation"! This is an affirmation of the Turkish state’s trial of Öcalan
as an ordinary "terrorist’s trial"! But in the name of what is all this being
done? In the name of a "brotherhood" that is based on homage and surrender to
the Turkish state! In the name of a very bad "consensus" that would lead as far
as to surrender and betrayal! In the name of saving the "Sublime Turkish State"
by legitimising it!
If there is to be
peace, it has to be a dignified one. An honourable "peace" for the Kurdish
people can only be based on an unconditional recognition of the
self-determination and the national rights of the Kurdish nation by the Turkish
state . The aim of the Turkish state is to subdue the Kurdish national struggle,
lead it to betrayal and to suppress the conditions of a renewed national
resistance.
Given the fascist
character of the Turkish state a possible agreement that does not take place
before the masses or deals for a solution reached in secret discussions behind
closed doors, cannot be lasting! In the past, such deals did not bring about
freedom to the Kurdish nation but slavery and dependency. Despite some certain
differences in quantity, in case this route is to be taken, the same outcome,
that is, the chains of slavery and dependency, should be expected!
The Turkish state,
being aware of the collaborationist tendency of the Kurdish bourgeoisie, would
demand, through certain deceptions, the disarmament of the PKK and following
their farewell to arms it would launch heavier oppression and humiliation
campaigns. There is no need to go too far back on this subject.
The real emancipation
of the Kurdish people and the national liberation of the Kurdish nation should
not be confused. The real emancipation of the Kurdish people can only be
achieved through a struggle in unity with Turkish people and other minorities
against the fascist Turkish state and imperialism, by joining the ranks of the
TKP/ML who lead the revolutionary struggle in Turkey and Turkish Kurdistan and
follows the principles of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and upholds the perspective of
a world without classes and borders.
This path finds its
expression in the People’s Democratic Revolution and Socialism under the
leadership of the proletariat of Turkey, consisting of Kurds, Turks and other
national minorities. The interests of the Kurdish people can never be sacrificed
for the interests of the Kurdish bourgeoisie!
The attitude that
Kemal Pir, Haki Karer, Mazlum Doðan and many other heroic sons and daughters of
the Kurdish nation, in the courts of the Turkish state, before being murdered in
its dungeons and torture chambers, is very clear. They never paid homage to,
surrendered to or asked for amnesty from the state in the courts; on the
contrary they brought the Turkish state to trial, hence raising the banner of
rebellion and resistance!
They fell martyrs in
this honourable fight, they were murdered brutally by fascism, they set
themselves to fire to flare up the flames of Newroz, but they never surrendered!
They believed in revolutionary resistance and war in order to reverse the
negative aspects of the Kurdish history which is full of betrayals! This noble
national revolutionary tradition should never be abandoned for the sake of a
spoonful of soup!
COMMUNIST PARTY OF
TURKEY / MARXIST- LENINIST
International
Relations Bureau
June 10th 1999
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