Date: April 30, 2002 Statement: 252

Nobody can conceal massacres with demagogy about the "terror list"!

We invite everyone to see the truth about Turkey.

Giving in to the demagogy of the murderous General Staff means
approving the tyranny of fascism and the American empire.

For several days now the newspapers and TV have been conducting a
campaign, almost frantic in its accusations and shot through and
through with lies, to have the DHKP-C placed on the European Union's
"list of terrorist organisations". This campaign has included
headlines like "Terrorism has also waved its flag in Brussels They
hung out their flag Terrorists also have diplomatic status" as
though the DHKC Brussels Information Bureau had only been opened
recently when in fact it has existed for years. With lies like that
piled upon each other and suchlike drivel, they are screaming, "Put
them on the list!" This chorus has finally been joined by the
General Staff of Turkey's armed forces, who earlier merely acted
as chorus conductor. "The terror organisation which has committed
more than 350 murders is being protected by Europe," the Chief of
the General Staff Kivrikoglu said, adding, "What further proof is
needed that Europe is being insincere towards Turkey?"

It is the guilty who are talking! The General Staff and its government
are frantically concealing their massacres. These accusations are
in line with the USA's demagogy about terrorism. But the General
Staff is responsible in the first degree for massacres, murders,
torture, the emptying of villages by force, burning people to death,
rape, pushing people into poverty and hunger indeed, every kind of
tyranny. Throughout the history of the Republic of Turkey, the
General Staff has been responsible for all massacres and has drowned
in blood every search for justice, every search for rights and
freedoms. The General Staff has been the planner, instigator and
practitioner. If there is a terrorist in Turkey, throughout the
Republic's history it is this General Staff and the governments
under its thumb which are the terrorists. Besides, there must be
few people in the world who do not know the role the General Staff
plays in politics in Turkey, and there must be few people who do
not know the army's role in government.

This is why the General Staff is frantically sounding off about
the "DHKP-C and terrorism". Its frantic noises spring from this
urge to conceal its guilt. After all, the Ariel Sharon way in
which it destroyed its own prisons on December 19, 2000, the way
it burned people alive, has been documented and presented to the
world. Yes, it is the DHKP-C that supplied the proof to the whole
world. And the General Staff will not be able to say a single word
in reply. The General Staff is responsible for murdering tens of
thousands of our people, revolutionaries and patriots. And the
world knows this. The General Staff is afraid that its authority
will decline. It could not live and breathe for a second without
America. It owes its existence, life and power to America. Even
its mind is on sale to America, along with everything else. And
all the executions, massacres and torture in Turkey are done under
the direction of the General Staff. And this too has been documented
by the DHKC for the whole world's benefit.

Now Kivrikoglu talks of "350 murders" by the DHKC. This is the
General Staff that for decades has run governments, created juntas,
put up gallows, created provocations, carried out executions and
massacres, and used such people as Islamists and the civilian
fascist MHP (Nationalist Movement Party) to carry out massacres
and provocations. This is the General Staff that distributed leaflets
in the mountains with verses from the Koran, leaflets calling for
jihad against the communists. This is the General Staff that used
Hizbullah against revolutionaries. This is the General Staff that
has worked in collaboration with both the tarikats (Islamic religious
orders) and the mafia. And all this was done to destroy the
revolutionaries. And everything was and is done in the interests
of America. And these generals are the real government in Turkey.
When they retire, for purely selfish reasons they obtain posts as
directors of banks and holding companies. There are few exceptions
to that rule. But these generals who are still in power have no
abilities other than committing massacres and acting as collaborators.
And these are the generals who have reduced our people to poverty,
collaborate with America and engage in demagogy about terrorism.
These are the generals who cannot be without America for a second,
but who use nationalist demagogy. These are the generals who commit
murder but call others terrorists.

The General Staff and the government want freedom to massacre: It
wants everyone to be "just like me"! The whole world must know this
characteristic feature of Turkey's General Staff. And now this
General Staff has learned by heart the terrorism demagogy that
America has taught, namely, "either you are with me or against me"
and so it rushes about destroying any opposition. It sees no
guarantees of its own existence. So it has to tell lies. It is
afraid that one day it will be judged. It is afraid of being judged
by the people. Take note: throughout history you have not seen this
General Staff talking of rights and freedoms. Not once have you
seen it defending democracy and justice. Not once has it defended
the interests of the people. If the interests of the people come
onto the agenda, it either stages a coup or threatens to do so.
What it wants, treating it as a command from the USA, is to destroy
all the revolutionaries. And then it and America would be all that
is left on the stage. And it would stay in power forever. It wants
no-one to think, no-one to have freedom of speech, no-one to be an
opponent. Just as it is known that America is the creator of tyranny
and poverty in the world, the General Staff is the creator of
tyranny and poverty in Turkey, and it knows that where there is no
justice, sooner or later there will be a people's rebellion. Its
guilt leads it into every kind of unbalanced behaviour, lies and
massacres. It is afraid of losing power. For this reason, it has
a phobia towards the DHKP-C. It has resorted to threats, blackmail
and pressure against many institutions and the media in Turkey in
order to control them. It lies when it wants and commits provocations
when it wants. This is what the General Staff is skilled in.

Never mind what it has done against revolutionaries; you will see
the truth when you examine what it has done against the bourgeois
opposition in Turkey. In Turkey there is no freedom of thought or
freedom to oppose. There is no way of seeking democratic rights.
Parties, associations, trade unions, the media are all repressed
and kept in a form that suits the General Staff. Those who do not
conform risk being murdered, tortured or jailed; this is the
unchanging reality of Turkey. The General Staff says, "Give me
money, give me weaponry, train me in massacres, give me technology
but don't meddle in my other work." Its allies America and Europe
want this.

Who is defending democracy? Who is defending justice, equality and
freedom? Now it is being put to the test. We will see. We will see
whether or not European democracy has at least a minimum understanding
of rights and freedoms and whether it will defend them. For if it
calls the DHKP-C or any other organisation struggling in Turkey
"terrorist" at the behest of the General Staff, then that means it
approves of the General Staff remaining in power indefinitely. It
means it approves of all the massacres, torture and tyranny committed
by the General Staff throughout the history of the Republic of
Turkey. It means democracy and justice mean nothing to it. It means
that the struggle for rights and freedoms means nothing to it.

Who is a democrat, who sides with democracy, and who supports
fascism? We will see!

Ignoring massacres in Turkey while calling the struggle against
its tyrannical system "terror" is nothing but hypocrisy. It means
saying to the government of Turkey's oligarchy: "Continue your
terrorism, continue ignoring rights and freedoms.": it means that
rights and freedoms are not important, what is important is
establishing the US empire.

Yes, we are continuing the struggle for rights and freedoms in
Turkey. We wonder what struggle it is that the General Staff is
continuing? What does the state mean to the General Staff, and who
is this state for? The General Staff cannot answer such questions.
Now the world can put that to the test. Everyone being tested can
say, "I am on the side of democracy and justice." But will those
being tested give in to the demagogy of a murderous General Staff
or will they take a proper look at the General Staff? We invite
the whole world to see the truth. We invite the whole world to see
the truth about Turkey. How many thousands have been slain by a
General Staff which shouts, "Terrorist!" How is it continuing with
its massacres? And who is helping it? How are these policies being
pursued? We invite everyone to look at this truth in all its
nakedness. It is also this General Staff which works to prevent
the truth being seen by giving instructions to the media and telling
them to write lies. It cannot endure even the smallest freedom of
thought, or even the search for rights. It cannot even bear
representational offices being set up. It cannot bear the thought
of some people telling the truth about Turkey. All it knows is:
"Hang, cut, close down" Nothing else! Its frantic accusations must
be seen. Its true face is one of unconcealed fear. And they want
the whole world to be like Turkey. If you revealed your beliefs,
immediately you are punished as "someone who is a member of an
(illegal) organisation or aided an organisation", if you set up an
association or a party, they will concoct the lie that you formed
an "illegal association", and if that fails they will hatch a
conspiracy to have you closed down. This is what they want. They
have done this for decades. And all these lies have come to this.

The DHKP-C, which struggles against fascism, is waging a just and
legitimate struggle. Those who use demagogy about "terrorism" are
engaging in every kind of exploitation and tyranny. This is the
truth summed up in two sentences. Everybody will determine their
own position from this.


*** Supplement: Something known to our people and to the press:
they are using the same demagogy again to steal prefabricated
accommodation from people who have been left hungry, without water
and homeless or who have been left dead in the ruins of earthquakes:

The Minister of Public Works, the MHP member Abdulkadir Akcan,
issued a statement that after the August 17, 1999 earthquake, some
of the prefabs put up after the earthquake had "fallen into the
hands of PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) and DHKP-C sympathisers",
so it was decided to empty the prefabs. This claim was completely
false. They have left the people without shelter, hungry and without
water and are now trying to cover up their thieving role with this
type of demagogy. Every word he said was an invention; but on the
other hand, look at the fascist mentality: what right does a
sympathiser of this or that revolutionary organisation have to
possess a roof over his or her head following an earthquake?

Isn't this the mentality of Ariel Sharon?

This MHP ministerial statement is clear proof of how in our country
for years, every kind of tyranny or injustice has been concealed
or justified using the cover of "terrorism" and "terror organisations".
They will throw people who have been tormented by an earthquake
out onto the streets by forcing them out of their prefabs, and then
use this same demagogy, the demagogy of "terrorism"!

Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Cephesi (Revolutionary People's Liberation
Front-DHKC)