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DHKC:To the NATO Secretary-General DHKC - 25.05.2002 01:57
On May 22 a piece of journalistic provocation appeared in the newspaper Milliyet, which is published in Turkey. DHKC:To the NATO Secretary-General To the publicity department of NATO On May 22 a piece of journalistic provocation appeared in the newspaper Milliyet, which is published in Turkey. NATO is named as a source. The source is said to be CONFIDENTIAL. Since this news is about us, we are a Party and our institution would like to have a public statement clarifying to what extent this news is true or false. For news that appears in the press is no longer confidential. From that point on it must also be regarded as in the public domain. The subject covered in the news is completely untrue. This kind of mendacious news is an attempt to discriminate against people. An attempt is being made to create a basis for repression and massacres. If NATO which is given as the source really is the originator of this news, NATO must comment upon it. If it is not true, if NATO did not issue such information, if it is an invention by Turkey?s contra-guerrillas as a part of their psychological warfare, then NATO should make public that the news item does not stem from it. Once again. Every word of the item in Milliyet is a lie and has no connection with the truth. We are adding for your better understanding: the news published by Milliyet; the official comment from our organisation on this incident; and another declaration made by our organisation in this connection over the past two weeks. We await a comment from your institution on this matter. The public has the right to learn the truth. ====================================================================================================================================================================================================================================== ate: May 16, 2002 Statement: 254 Yet more news about a suicide attacker.... Just wait for the police raids and plots that will follow! The TV news of May 15 spent all day repeating that there are three DHKP-C suicide bombers (?living bombs?). All the news readers recited the police warnings almost too frantically to pause for breath. That?s the way it was. The police had come up with very important (!) information. There could be a suicide attack at any second. The living bombs, that is, the suicide attackers, are supposed to be from the DHKP-C. And it is precisely the DHKP-C which was put in the EU?s list of terrorist groups last week. Either all the news bulletins were written by the same person, or else the police press release had the following note attached to it: ?Mention at every opportunity that the DHKP-C was put on the terrorist list last week.? That is how the lie is multiplied! And isn?t that what the information about living bombs is? How many statements have we issued on this subject? Remember, dig around in the archives a little. And on every occasion it turned out that the police lie without shame simply to create grounds for fomenting plots and carrying out raids. Here are some examples from the series of police lies about ?living bombs?: LIE... February 13, 2001... The newspapers wrote that 10 women were preparing to carry out a suicide attack. Once again the Istanbul police headquarters did brilliant investigative work. It turned out that some of them were in fact in prison, others were working quite legally? LIE: October 19-20, 2001... It was announced that Yunus Guzel was allegedly a living bomb. He was then tortured to death while he was being detained in investigative custody. It is quite clear what their purpose was in calling him a living bomb. LIE: November 21, 2001...In our statement numbered 227, we denied the veracity of news being put out about a living bomb. The title of our statement made clear what the purpose of such news was: ?Put out false news items? Destroy the opposition? The lie factory of the Interior Ministry and the police is hard at work?? THEY ARE CONTINUING TO DISSEMINATE LIES February 8, 2002... Again the same heading: ?Suicide attack alarm?: This time Fatma Kozupinar was described as a living bomb. She had recently been released from prison, was being treated at the TIHV * and was living with her family. LIE: March 8, 2002...The police headquarters put out a statement that according to their information, the newly released Halil Aksu was going to carry out a suicide attack. Halil Aksu was not even able to walk unaided. LIE: April 10, 2002 ?The Istanbul police published a new list of ?living bombs?. According to the news, the police had uncovered 10 living bombs. And then? There was no ?then?. In this way it became clear that they are lying. LIES... LIES? LIES... Alongside the demagogy about terrorism lists they will continue attacks such as these, resorting more and more to lies like these. With great detective work (!) they have turned up the names of three living bombs! Just wait. They will be the names of uninvolved people or people they want to imprison by means of a plot. Various legal and democratic institutions can be raided on the pretext of preventing suicide attacks (!) The demagogy about living bombs will be counter-productive for those who spread it. Together with the USA and the EU they can continue demagogy about terrorism. The bourgeois media can continue to put out news dictated to them by the police, and even though it has turned out on dozens of occasions that the contra news were lies, they can present them to the public as though they were the truth. But this demagogy will rebound on those who disseminate it. Everybody can draw their own lessons from the demagogy of terrorism put out by the USA and Israel. Lessons can be drawn from the reality of our country. If the police put more news about suicide attacks into circulation, everyone can ask themselves: what plots are they up to, what internal power struggles are going on, what filth are they now trying to cover up? The same goes for the media. If they publish police press releases, treating them as if they were government statements, everyone can see that this or that media group is after a government contract or has other interests at stake. So just keep it up! Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Cephesi Revolutionary People?s Liberation Front *TIHV(Turkiye Insan Haklari Vakfi, Turkish Human Rights Foundation). Helps give medical care to seriously ill prisoners who have been released. ======================================================================================================================================================================================================================================Date May 23, 2002 Statement: 255 The American and Turkish contra-guerrillas are continuing psychological warfare by using misinformation. In the May 22 newspapers, the headline could be found: ?NATO has issued a warning?. In fact this article served to firm up the lies that had been on the table for days. Apart from that, it contained nothing new. May 15: It was stated that there were ?three living bombs? of the DHKP-C. This information ?stemmed from the Turkish police?. The whole day through this news was read out and there were still isolated mentions the next day. But to tell the truth, nobody took the news seriously. The lying news items put out by the police in Turkey failed to produce the desired effect. Because they had issued news about suicide actions previously, which turned out to be false. May 19: To give the news some credibility, the CIA and MOSSAD got involved. The same news about the ?three living bombs of the DHKP-C? was spread by MOSSAD, who moreover said they had learned from the CIA that three DHKP-C living bombs ** had arrived in Turkey or would arrive there. The news was presented in the following way: ?the terrorists would hijack a plane and hit American targets by May 22? (Hurriyet, May 19, 2002). So first a lie was sent out into the world. But when it was not credible, the name of MOSSAD was put to use. And when that didn?t work, NATO was brought in. Whoever wants to believe it can say MOSSAD. Others who are into psychological warfare say, ?No, no, it?s the CIA?, or ?it?s NATO?. But no, that too is not enough. The US president now must say it personally. Now, if Bush wanted to confirm the news about the ?three living bombs of the DHKP-C?, there would also have been some people who believed it. The contra-guerrillas? psychological warfare is carried out on many levels. Such news items bring the oligarchy many benefits. They offer the necessary excuse to unleash plots and police raids. They offer arguments for repressing the people and coming up with repressive new laws. They want to send a message to the revolutionary organisations that ?we know everything?. But they know nothing. Up to the present they could neither investigate nor prevent the actions of the revolutionary movement. Revolutionary actions and our revolutionary struggle will come about as a matter of course. When and where will only be learned by everyone when the action is carried out, as was always the case up to now. With regard to such news, we would like to say the following to our people and to the press: whether it came from MIT (the civilian as opposed to the military intelligence service of the state in Turkey), the police, MOSSAD or the CIA, these news items were never true. Nor will they be. These news items merely pursue an aim. That aim is, more repression, more bans. This should be known. This should be known and nobody should pay any heed to these news items. These news items were concocted to set conspiracies in motion, and nobody should let themselves be used. As was once said by Zekai Okte, who is one of the founders of the contra-guerrillas and was one of the first to practise psychological warfare in Turkey: ?Ozel Harp *...psychological agitation ... such things come to the fore where the state is weak.? That the state is in such a condition is proved by the lying news items. PS: On May 22 someone came under fire because it was assumed he was a living bomb. ** The person who was shot at has not the slightest connection to our organisation. It turned out that he was ill. He had no bombs, merely his medication. It is not improbable that those who whip not only the police but the entire population into a paranoia about ?living bombs? will shoot dead dozens of innocent people. They are panicking as a reaction to their own lies. Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Cephesi (Revolutionary People?s Liberation Front) *Ozel Harp = ?Special Warfare?: special killer units in the service of the state in Turkey. Officially these units do not exist. **Living bomb; suicide bomber ====================================================================================================================================================================================================================================== Newspaper article from Milliyet, May 22, 2002 After the news from American Vice-President Dick Cheney about actions by Osama Bin Laden put Ankara in a high state of alertness, this time information came from NATO, which stated that the DHKP-C in Europe and in Turkey will carry out actions against embassies and consulates. The information, from the Interior Ministry, contained the heading ?NATO SECRET? which is only used for news of the highest importance, and says that, after the DHKP-C was put in the EU terror list, it prepared actions aimed at freeing its militants in the prisons. The news, which contains information about the DHKP-C, also reports on certain activities in Georgia and Iraq. This written message was sent to all governors. The target groups The warning, signed by Emin Arslan, of the police headquarters, stated that it would disturb the DHKP-C to be on the terror list and to free the prisoners it was preparing attacks on diplomatic representations and international institutions. Reference was made to it carrying out new armed actions. The item stated that the organisation particularly sought to target security officials, employees, buildings and installations of the Justice Ministry. E-Mail: dhkc@post.com Website: http://www.dhkc.net |
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