Our Party MLCP is living the sadness of loosing one of its militants, Sefer Senturk. Because of the cancer disease, he died in Manheim, Germany on 31 July 2007.
A ceremony was hold in the Manheim Mesopotamia Culture Centre for the MLCP militant, who was a soldier of the revolution, the voice of the immigrant labourers and the rebel heart of Kurdistan. His relatives and nearly 300 comrades from various cities of Europe joint the ceremony in Manheim.
The ceremony started with a minute of silence for all the martyrs of freedom and revolution in the name of Sefer Senturk. It was expressed that to raise the revolution struggle and strengthen the struggle means at the same time to stand up for him and his struggle. His attitudes towards difficult duties without hesitation and his modest character were mentioned in the ceremony. After reading out a poem written by comrade Sefer, a speech was delivered in the name of the MLCP Europe Committee.
The speech ended with these words: “We experience an early dead. Comrade Sefer, there is no other way: We will win… The army of the hope is fighting by shooting the hopelessness…”
Comrade Sefer became acquainted with the revolution struggle while he was young. He joined the activities of the predecessors of our party. After the foundation of our party MLCP on 10 September 1994, he continued his revolutionary struggle in the ranks of our party. He immigrated to Europe. While he was a worker in Germany, he was part of the organised struggle as a soldier of the struggle for revolution and. As an immigrant worker he was a defender of the idea to found a new world without war and exploitation. In spite of the atmosphere of degeneration in Europe, he continued to live as a revolutionary worker. In spite of all his mistakes and insufficiency, he lived with his party, defended the revolutionary and party values and the revolutionary culture.
Comrade Sefer was among the founding members and one of long-lasting leaders of the Immigrant Workers Federation in Germany (AGIF) and of the Manheim International Friendship and Solidarity Association.
At the ceremony, the messages of AGIF, Young Struggle Youth Camp 2007, MLPD Manheim Organization and Manheim Courage were read out. After the messages his brother, wife and son made short speeches by greeting the participants of the ceremony. They thanked the participants and told that they feel that they are not alone and saw that comrade Sefer united all people on his ceremony. Then, the comrades, who knew comrade Sefer personally, shared their emotions with the participants. By speaking about his revolutionary character they said that “We will not forget you. We will keep alive your memories with respect”.
After the ceremony for comrade Sefer, his dead body was sent to be buried in Malatya in Kurdistan. On 2 August his funeral was hold in the Tatarusagi village of Akcadag, Malatya. Comrade Sefer was sent to the eternity with the slogans and speeches of his comrades and friends.
MLCP Europe Committee published a statement saying: “Comrade Sefer dedicated himself to the fight of revolution and socialism. He was courageous, altruistic, and full of love for his people and his comrades. While sending him to the eternity we will transform our sadness, anger and pain into desire and power for revolution and communism against the imperialist capitalist system and colonist fascist regime”.