Turkey: DHKC statement number 60

Sat Feb 7 10:07:17 GMT 1998

REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S LIBERATION FRONT
Press Agency
Press Statement Nr. 60
February 4, 1998

THE SUSURLUK STATE CONTINUES ITS ACTIVITIES
THREE REVOLUTIONARIES WERE MURDERED IN ADANA

On January 28, 1998, at 8.45 p.m., the police murdered, without any
warning, three revolutionaries in the neighbourhood of Kiremithane,
Adana, in front of the eyes of the people and the relatives of Mehmet
Topaloglu. The police had surrounded the whole neighbourhood before.
Three relatives of Mehmet Topaloglu were locked up in a room on the
lower floor of the house the massacre took place in. Then the police
used a trick to get access to the top floor of the house and murdered
those who were present: Mehmet Topaloglu, Besat Ayyildiz and Buelent
Dil. An investigation after the events showed the police started
shooting without warning and that there had been no fire-fight. The
police had the door opened in one way or the other and then they
opened fire upon everybody who was in the house. 

Mehmet Topaloglu: representative of the Kurtulus magazine. He had
nothing to do with armed or illegal activities whatsoever. Mehmet
carried valid identification papers and was known to everybody in the
neighbourhood. Besat Ayyildiz and Buelent Dil on the other hand were
members of a Armed Propaganda Rural Unit of the Revolutionary People's
Liberation Front, a unit which was part of the Mediterranean Command.
Because of a problem which occurred, they had been forced to go down
into the city, with their weapons and equipment. The claim, published
in a police statement, that they had come from Sivas to carry out an
action is a complete lie. They had not come to carry out an action,
none. 

Besat Ayyildiz (Nazmi)

Born in 1966, in Bogazliyan-Yozgat, of Turkish nationality. The son of
a poor peasant family. His childhood and youth were characterised by
poverty. Because his family is poor, he had to do several jobs. His
revolutionary views, his opposition towards the system, began to take
shape during these years in which he saw the oppression of the people.
During his time at the gymnasium, he got to know Devrimci Sol. But
this did not lead to him becoming organised before he went to
university. Between 1988 and 1989, while he studied at the Faculty for
Languages and History, he took on himself some tasks in the youth
organisation. Later he accepted responsibility for several tasks in
the Revolutionary Youth in Ankara and Anatolia. He was arrested
several times. He spent some time in prison. He did not succumb to the
repression of the enemy. The resistance of Besat under torture and
against the repression of the court was impressive and exemplary. In
1994, Besat was sent abroad for the time being. During that time he
was in prison twice for a brief period. But all these imprisonments
and all the torture could not change his revolutionary enthusiasm and
his wish to fight the enemy. He was always enthusiastic to fight the
enemy with a weapon in his hand. Before he went into the mountains in
1997, he said: "... We've learned that the road to achieve our highest
goals, to achieve our greatest victories, begins - and in fact also
ends - with carrying out the most simple tasks. From this side of the
war, we learned the determination and the perseverance of a fighter.
We've learned that one needs to be hardened to cope with the reality
of this fight of the will in all fields, that we do not know ourselves
well enough, that we've not really overcome known or unknown
weaknesses, when our will, our bodies or our knees give in, when we
give the enemy the opportunity to achieve a victory, or when we are
forced to reward them... We've learned that we have to be successful
in order to expand the war. We've learned that we first have to finish
the struggle against ourselves, that we first have to finish our
renewal, before we can achieve freedom..." Besat remained loyal to
these words. He never forgot the responsibility he took from the time
his feet touched the mountains, despite all the negative experiences
and all the treason. Even under the most difficult circumstances, his
beliefs and his bond with the Party-Front never trembled. Together
with Buelent, he did everything to prevent that even a single bullet
would fell into enemy hands. He did not fear death. When he fell on
January 28, 1998, he left behind a heritage, fill with his bond to the
revolution, the people and the Party-Front, filled with years of
willingness to sacrifice and struggle. The struggle on the way Besat
and his friends opened in Amanos and Torros will expand and they will
live on as fighters of the Mediterranean Armed Propaganda Rural Unit. 

Buelent Dil (Nidal)

Born in 1976, in Pinarbasi, Kayseri. Of Kurdish nationality. Child of
a poor peasant family. Like Besat, Buelent spent his childhood and
youth in poverty. He tried to earn his living as a tea-waiter, a
dish-washer, and in textile factories. In 1993, he got to know some
people of Devrimci Sol when he came to Istanbul to prepare for his
exams to enter university. However, these acquaintances were still
very new and he tried to build up a life within the system. He didn't
see that the solution for oppression and poverty lies in the
revolution. And so he went to relatives abroad in 1995, where he tried
to build up a new life. But he saw that the solution was not abroad,
on the contrary, oppression and discrimination even increased. Again
he sought contact with the Party-Front, he wanted to fight. He took on
some tasks in the organisation in England. In 1997, he was sent as a
fighter to an Armed Propaganda Rural Unit of the Mediterranean
Command. It was a passion for Buelent to fight in the mountains. He
said: "... I have always felt a love for the mountains. After I got to
know the Party-Front, this love even grew, it became a longing. I'm
very happy the Party-Front has given me the opportunity to become a
guerrilla in the mountains. I will use this chance as best I can till
the end..." The love of Buelent and Besat for the mountains will even
become bigger, the massacres by the enemy will not change this, on the
contrary, our enthusiasm for victory will increase more and more. 

Mehmet Topaloglu

Born in Adana, in 1972. Of Turkish nationality. Mehmet grew up in a
poor neighbourhood of Adana. Although his original job was
mowing-machine driver, he worked in several jobs. Because his family
was poor, he had to end his education after primary school. During his
struggle for survival, caused by the poverty, he was accused of having
wounded somebody. In prison, he got to know the revolutionaries. He
was able to compare the lives of the social prisoners with the lives
of the  revolutionary prisoners. The life of the revolutionaries was a
new reality, which he had tried to imagine in the past, but was unable
to see. He witnessed and recognised the small wars and the egoism of
the social prisoners, formed by the system, prisoners he belonged to
himself, and this caused him to criticise himself. He strengthened his
contacts with the revolutionaries. During his time in prison, Mehmet
witnessed the resistance of the hungerstrike till death in 1996 and
the and the struggle of will-power by the revolutionaries. This gave
Mehmet a new perspective of life and he decided to become a
revolutionary. Because will-power can be that strong, he believed he
could become a revolutionary himself and he began to combat the
customs of his previous life. When he was released again, he was a
revolutionary. He was a person, not of the normal struggle in the
neighbourhoods, he was a person of the revolution. He knew who was a
friend, and he knew who was the enemy. He knew that is was beneficiary
to the enemy when the people fight among each other, that it is
necessary to fight the enemy instead. He had to stand up, considering
the repression of the enemy against the distribution of the Kurtulus
in Adana, against the fact that the office was raided again and again,
that the Kurtulus readers were threatened. He was arrested dozens of
times. But nobody could force him to leave the struggle. The person
who was executed on January 28, 1998, by the contra-guerrilla was a
human being who had started to look at the world with different eyes,
who tried to learn everything anew. He was not guilty of violating any
law of the system. He didn't have any task in armed or illegal
activities. His only guilt was being connected with the Kurtulus and
being a revolutionary.

The Susurluk state tries to send a message with these massacres:
"don't stand up against the Susurluk state. Don't become
revolutionaries, because you'll die". If necessary, we'll die by the
thousands. We will crush this Susurluk state. We are fighting,
conscious that the massacres will not stop before this state, the
enemy of all the people, has been destroyed. 

We will never forget Besat, Buelent and Mehmet. And we will never
pardon the murderers. 

Revolutionary People's Liberation Front 

-- 
Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Cephesi (Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Front)
DHKC Informationbureau Amsterdam
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