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The class character of the annihilation and denial politics against the Kurdish nation and of the dirty war is a fact that became clear in the suspicious soldier deaths.  

01 May 2010 /International Bulletin / No: 93 

On May 27, 7 soldiers died as a result of a mine explosion belonging to the Turkish Armed Forces at Cukurca and 7 soldiers were injured. The explosion happened right the day before Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and DTP co-president Ahmet Turk were going to meet concerning the Kurdish initiative. The PKK was blamed to be responsible for the explosion which became the main means for the chauvinist provocation campaign. Following the explosion Tayyip Erdogan postponed the meeting with the DTP and said: "Right when we decided to go a step ahead, bombs are exploding."
One year after the explosion, just recently, it became clear that the mine belonged to the Turkish Armed Forces. The tape recording between division commander major general Gurbuz Kaya, 20th gendarmerie border brigade commander brigadier general Zeki Es and Van gendarmerie corps public order commander Yurdaer Olcan discussing to hide the truth on this explosion got into the hands of the public. Zeki Es tells the commanders that the mine belongs to the Turkish Armed Forces and discussions are heard saying that the PKK should be blamed for the explosion. And it also became clear after the explosion that the inspection team wrote its report at their desk without going to the place of the explosion.
With the explosion in Cukurca, suspicious soldier deaths became an important topic on the political agenda. The number of suspicious soldier deaths in the racist militarist Turkish army has quickly risen in recent time. Since 1991 15 companies of soldiers died in a suspicious way. For the first 10 months of 2009, it was reported that 30-37 soldiers died. According to official figures, there were 1,248 soldiers who tried to commit suicide between 1991 and 2001. 815 of them lost their live. It is quite interesting that the soldiers who died in a suspicious way were often known with their left or democratic identity, or they were Kurds or Alevites.
For the fascist dictatorship that insists on its dirty war concept of 25 years, annihilation is a state tradition. The tradition to silence the opposition mainly became revealed with the politics of forced disappearance under arrest. After long years of struggle and martyrs, the state had to go a step backwards in its politics of forced disappearance and the number of disappeared decreased. However, the politics to annihilate continued in different forms. The suspicious soldier deaths within the Turkish Armed Forces have frequently continued in another form of the extra-judicial murders.
The Turkish Armed Forces didn't only hide the truth on the Cukurca explosion, but also didn't start any conviction against the responsible commanders and won‘t do so. Chief of general staff Ilker Basbug made the statement that "the people totally believe in the Turkish Armed Forces". Either murders planned and realised on conscious or "accidents" such as Cukurca that are the result of the fact that no importance is given to the life of youth that are taken to war, any murder and massacre happening within the Turkish Armed Forces remains a secret within the army.
The numerous murders and massacres of the Turkish Armed Forces realised by JITEM or any other force affiliated to the army were covered up in a similar way and the PKK or revolutionary organisations were blamed. The massacre of Guclukonak in 1995 of which it became clear that it was realised by village guards is just one of these examples.
If it's an "accident" or a murder realised on conscious, defending the generals and authorised elements, denial, calumniation and hiding are state tradition. Besides the denial of the Armenian genocide, the denial of the Kurdish people and revolutionaries and communists, workers and labourers were killed in numerous bombings and massacres realised by the counter-guerrilla and the revolutionaries and Kurdish-Patriots were blamed for these bloody actions. The conviction and punishment of the putschists, the torturing policemen and the counter-guerrilla personal of JITEM was prevented even when the crimes were totally clear.
The class character of the annihilation and denial politics against the Kurdish nation and of the dirty war is a fact that became clear in the suspicious soldier deaths. All soldiers drifted to the dirty war to kill their brothers are the children of labourers, such as the ones dying in a suspicious way.
After the suspicious deaths the families were always told lies such as that the soldiers "had committed suicide", that "an accident" had happened etc. The dead bodies of the soldiers weren't given to the families but quickly buried. The autopsy report wasn't waited for or was wanted to be hidden. The death of Serhat Yildiz was another example for this. Serhat Yildiz was a young man known for being progressive and socialist. In last February, when he had been a soldier for 6 months, it was said that he had committed suicide at Gazi antep Hayrat Gendarmerie Village Police Station. However, the hospital report revealed the suspicious death. The report proved that Serhat Yildiz had been shot with a G-3. His family and friends started a campaign to make the responsible forces become arrested and punished. The Socialist Party of the Oppressed also started actions and demanded the conviction of those responsible for the death of Serhat Yildiz.
Like the suspicious suicides in prisons and the suspicious deaths at police stations and under arrest, suspicious soldier deaths are no longer single proceedings but became a social question. The deaths can't be hidden anymore. The families have understood this.
The progressive, democratic and socialist youth have made use of the alternative of consciousness objection and this point to an important opportunity in this sense. The number of the youth declaring consciousness objection is slowly rising. The youth is widely propagating not to go to the army and to kill their brothers. The members of the Platform of Consciousness Objection For Peace who set of from different cities in Turkey, mainly Istanbul, met with the Kurdish youth at Amed on Newroz.
The state that tries to evoke hatred and rage among the Turkish people against the Kurds through the bourgeois media can't hide the suspicious deaths anymore. The number of those saying "Long live our land" and those rejecting a state ceremony is slowly rising. The demand for peace is raised everywhere. The image of the holy army has started to change. The families handing over their children to the army demand their children to come back healthy. The human values that have been terrorised through the media for years have become clear, prejudices have gone and the borders between the nations have been removed.
Now it's time for the soldiers' families to break with chauvinism and organise themselves in the ranks of a just peace and democratic solution. It's time for the labourer children to reject to kill their brothers and go to the army. Our party MLCP calls on the Turkish and Kurdish labourers, the labourer women and youth to break with chauvinism and to struggle to find and convict the responsible forces of suspicious soldier deaths and all extra-judicial killings.


 

 

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The class character of the annihilation and denial politics against the Kurdish nation and of the dirty war is a fact that became clear in the suspicious soldier deaths.  

01 May 2010 /International Bulletin / No: 93 

On May 27, 7 soldiers died as a result of a mine explosion belonging to the Turkish Armed Forces at Cukurca and 7 soldiers were injured. The explosion happened right the day before Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and DTP co-president Ahmet Turk were going to meet concerning the Kurdish initiative. The PKK was blamed to be responsible for the explosion which became the main means for the chauvinist provocation campaign. Following the explosion Tayyip Erdogan postponed the meeting with the DTP and said: "Right when we decided to go a step ahead, bombs are exploding."
One year after the explosion, just recently, it became clear that the mine belonged to the Turkish Armed Forces. The tape recording between division commander major general Gurbuz Kaya, 20th gendarmerie border brigade commander brigadier general Zeki Es and Van gendarmerie corps public order commander Yurdaer Olcan discussing to hide the truth on this explosion got into the hands of the public. Zeki Es tells the commanders that the mine belongs to the Turkish Armed Forces and discussions are heard saying that the PKK should be blamed for the explosion. And it also became clear after the explosion that the inspection team wrote its report at their desk without going to the place of the explosion.
With the explosion in Cukurca, suspicious soldier deaths became an important topic on the political agenda. The number of suspicious soldier deaths in the racist militarist Turkish army has quickly risen in recent time. Since 1991 15 companies of soldiers died in a suspicious way. For the first 10 months of 2009, it was reported that 30-37 soldiers died. According to official figures, there were 1,248 soldiers who tried to commit suicide between 1991 and 2001. 815 of them lost their live. It is quite interesting that the soldiers who died in a suspicious way were often known with their left or democratic identity, or they were Kurds or Alevites.
For the fascist dictatorship that insists on its dirty war concept of 25 years, annihilation is a state tradition. The tradition to silence the opposition mainly became revealed with the politics of forced disappearance under arrest. After long years of struggle and martyrs, the state had to go a step backwards in its politics of forced disappearance and the number of disappeared decreased. However, the politics to annihilate continued in different forms. The suspicious soldier deaths within the Turkish Armed Forces have frequently continued in another form of the extra-judicial murders.
The Turkish Armed Forces didn't only hide the truth on the Cukurca explosion, but also didn't start any conviction against the responsible commanders and won‘t do so. Chief of general staff Ilker Basbug made the statement that "the people totally believe in the Turkish Armed Forces". Either murders planned and realised on conscious or "accidents" such as Cukurca that are the result of the fact that no importance is given to the life of youth that are taken to war, any murder and massacre happening within the Turkish Armed Forces remains a secret within the army.
The numerous murders and massacres of the Turkish Armed Forces realised by JITEM or any other force affiliated to the army were covered up in a similar way and the PKK or revolutionary organisations were blamed. The massacre of Guclukonak in 1995 of which it became clear that it was realised by village guards is just one of these examples.
If it's an "accident" or a murder realised on conscious, defending the generals and authorised elements, denial, calumniation and hiding are state tradition. Besides the denial of the Armenian genocide, the denial of the Kurdish people and revolutionaries and communists, workers and labourers were killed in numerous bombings and massacres realised by the counter-guerrilla and the revolutionaries and Kurdish-Patriots were blamed for these bloody actions. The conviction and punishment of the putschists, the torturing policemen and the counter-guerrilla personal of JITEM was prevented even when the crimes were totally clear.
The class character of the annihilation and denial politics against the Kurdish nation and of the dirty war is a fact that became clear in the suspicious soldier deaths. All soldiers drifted to the dirty war to kill their brothers are the children of labourers, such as the ones dying in a suspicious way.
After the suspicious deaths the families were always told lies such as that the soldiers "had committed suicide", that "an accident" had happened etc. The dead bodies of the soldiers weren't given to the families but quickly buried. The autopsy report wasn't waited for or was wanted to be hidden. The death of Serhat Yildiz was another example for this. Serhat Yildiz was a young man known for being progressive and socialist. In last February, when he had been a soldier for 6 months, it was said that he had committed suicide at Gazi antep Hayrat Gendarmerie Village Police Station. However, the hospital report revealed the suspicious death. The report proved that Serhat Yildiz had been shot with a G-3. His family and friends started a campaign to make the responsible forces become arrested and punished. The Socialist Party of the Oppressed also started actions and demanded the conviction of those responsible for the death of Serhat Yildiz.
Like the suspicious suicides in prisons and the suspicious deaths at police stations and under arrest, suspicious soldier deaths are no longer single proceedings but became a social question. The deaths can't be hidden anymore. The families have understood this.
The progressive, democratic and socialist youth have made use of the alternative of consciousness objection and this point to an important opportunity in this sense. The number of the youth declaring consciousness objection is slowly rising. The youth is widely propagating not to go to the army and to kill their brothers. The members of the Platform of Consciousness Objection For Peace who set of from different cities in Turkey, mainly Istanbul, met with the Kurdish youth at Amed on Newroz.
The state that tries to evoke hatred and rage among the Turkish people against the Kurds through the bourgeois media can't hide the suspicious deaths anymore. The number of those saying "Long live our land" and those rejecting a state ceremony is slowly rising. The demand for peace is raised everywhere. The image of the holy army has started to change. The families handing over their children to the army demand their children to come back healthy. The human values that have been terrorised through the media for years have become clear, prejudices have gone and the borders between the nations have been removed.
Now it's time for the soldiers' families to break with chauvinism and organise themselves in the ranks of a just peace and democratic solution. It's time for the labourer children to reject to kill their brothers and go to the army. Our party MLCP calls on the Turkish and Kurdish labourers, the labourer women and youth to break with chauvinism and to struggle to find and convict the responsible forces of suspicious soldier deaths and all extra-judicial killings.