With the new anti-terror law launched in June last year, the fascist dictatorship thought that it could create a deep silence in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan. This law seems to be insufficient, so that a new law giving the police much more rights was introduced quickly. The dictatorship's aim is the oppression of the Kurdish national struggle by using its denial and annihilation policy and the liquidation of the revolutionary and communist movement. In order to reach this aim, it continuously created new "concepts" but never got any success.

With the crisis of the presidential election the bourgeoisie's crisis of not being able to reign was displayed openly. The developments show that the bourgeoisie is not only experiencing a political crisis but in general a crisis of its regime. Directed by the army, the aim is also to divide the society into two reactionary camps such as "secular and anti-secular". It is obvious that some steps towards this aim have yet been undertaken. The army that needed to leave some posts during the period of negotiations on the EU-membership accuses the AKP government of destroying "secularism" and making the principles of the republic, which according to the constitution are not to be discussed, a discussion point. In order to stop this, the army aims to finally settle old scores with the "anti-secular" front and by directing the presidential elections just as it desires to. The army shows its determination to direct the early elections for its own interests by using this period of setting old scores until the end. To reach this aim, it mobilizes huge masses to join its rallies.
The early elections on July 22, if they are really going to happen, will happen under conditions such as military operations in South Kurdistan (Iraqi Kurdistan), the annihilation of Kurdish patriotic forces which is increasing more and more within the country and the liquidation of revolutionary and communist forces. It is very obvious that these elections under the directive of the army will be very dubious.

While on the one hand the fascist dictatorship continues with its attacks on our party and revolutionary organisations, socialist newspapers and writers, on the other hand it tries to take the communists, revolutionary and socialist journalists and writers, imprisoned since September 10, 2006, to court using fake "indictments" in order to sentence them. The verdicts until now were not what it had expected. In Diyarbakir and some other towns, the arrested were released. On April 13, a group of the imprisoned in Istanbul was released while for the rest of the group, the trial was postponed to August 7. Now it's time for the trial of the 23 revolutionaries and communists who have been imprisoned after the attacks on 8-12 September. They have been behind bars without knowing with what being charged. Their files are closed for their lawyers, but open for the police, so that the police are free to create "evidence".

In the indictment, the fascist dictatorship demands several times lifelong for 13 people and different sentences between 10.5 and 45 years prison for 10 people.

These are the names of the prisoners charged with several times lifelong according to the indictment:
- Ibrahim Cicek, chief editor of the newspaper Atilim
- Sedat Senoglu, news coordinator of the newspaper Atilim
- Ziya Ulusoy and Bayram Namaz, journalists of the newspaper Atilim
- Fusun Erdogan, chief coordinator of the radio channel Ozgür Radyo
-and the prisoners: Naci Guner, Arif Celebi, Sultan Ulusoy, Adem Serkan Gündogdu, Ali Hidir Polat, Seyfi Polat, Mehmet Ali Polat and Erkan Özdemir.

The names of those charged with sentences of 10.5 and 45 years prison:
Erkan Salduz, Turac Solak, Elif Almakca, Hatice Bolat, Fatma Siner, Hasan Ozan, Arzu Torun, Soner Cicek, Fethiye Ok and Bilgi Tagac.

The fascist dictatorship tries to blame these prisoners for altogether 296 actions that happened between 1994 and 2006.

These kinds of indictments and courts have not been rare in the history of the international revolutionary and communist movements. In order to maintain and sustain its system, the bourgeoisie tortured, killed or imprisoned the revolutionaries and communists, who do not demand anything apart from freedom, democracy and socialism and who therefore struggle for that. But every time, it was the bourgeoisie itself that was sentenced because of its actions. It was the bourgeoisie that was demanded to be sentenced. At the Leipzig Trial, it was Dimitrov who sentenced German fascism. In South Africa, the release of Mandela, who was imprisoned for 27 years by the Apartheid system, does not have any other meaning than the sentence of this racist system.

Either the Abu Ghraib camps, nor the Guantanamo camps and the mobile torture centres of the CIA could hinder the resistance in Iraq and Afghanistan. The killing of 15 communists at the Black Sea, among them also TKP (Communist Party Turkey) general president Mustafa Suphi and the general secretary Ethem Nejat, who had come from Baku to Turkey to join the national liberation movement, by the Turkish national bourgeoisie did not manage to hinder the growth of the revolutionary movement under the leaders Deniz, Mahir and Ibrahim in the beginning of the 70ies. The killing of these revolutionary leaders could not manage to end the revolutionary struggle in Turkey. The fascist military coup on September 12, 1980, massacres and torture did not manage to stop the development of the revolutionary and communist movement.

Now the bourgeoisie tries to sentence these 23 prisoners by fake "indictments". The bourgeoisie thinks that it can liquidate the communist forces by putting journalists and writers with a revolutionary and socialist identity behind bars.

In Vain!

You are not strong enough to beat us communists. And the evidence for that is clear. Our struggle and the struggle of setting old scores with the fascist dictatorship will continue by all its force. We have not left any posts because of the bourgeoisie's attacks and the wave of arrest; on the contrary, our struggle goes beyond just defending ourselves and is therefore at the same time an attack.

Your penalty of 3000 years will not hinder the communists` struggle for the revolution and socialism by destroying your ancient system. Your wish to sentence these 23 revolutionaries and communists is based on your desire to sentence the working class and the labourer masses to make them slaves of your system.

These 23 revolutionaries and communists struggle from their own post against the fascist dictatorship in theory and practice. You might want to sentence them, you can put them behind bars for many years, but each of them will sentence you, your system and fascism at court. While judging, you will be judged; while sentencing, you will be sentenced. You won't be able to hinder the struggle for freedom, democracy and socialism.

MLCP
Turkey/Northern Kurdistan
International Bureau