We have also given Feride Harman as a martyr
dhkc - 25.12.2002 01:33
Patient and resolute like on the first day!
For three and a half months the flag of resistance
waved in the middle of Ýstanbul
From the day she started the Death Fast, July 28,
2001, to her martyrdom on December 16, 2002, the red
headband she wore was the banner of her willpower.
Her name was Feride Harman.
And her resistance was a place that was a
threshing-floor of resistance (note: threshing-floor
is “harman” in Turkish), a place where the ripe ears
of corn were separated from the chaff.
They were the ripest among the people of Turkey, they
showed responsibility and stood up to tyranny, and, in
love for their people and homeland, in their courage
and self-sacrifice, they were the foremost. Yes, there
is the tyranny of oppression but there are also our
Ferides.
In the face of the policies of imperialism and its
politicians, in the face of fascist tyranny, our
heroes exist. For this reason tyranny cannot triumph.
It can kill, it can imprison, it can put people in
isolation but it cannot triumph.
They are the heroes of our people from the Turkish and
the Kurdish nations.
They are heroes who used their own lives and were able
to build a barricade barring the way to tyranny.
Do not suppose that they are just a handful of people.
Do not suppose that there are just a hundred or two
hundred of them. Over 32 years, despite countless
massacres, torture, executions, disappearances and
imprisonment, their numbers are such as to be
infinite. They are prolific and when they fall to the
ground as seed, a multitude springs up. They are
called Feride Harman.
We announce once again at the head of our comrade
Feride Harman’s funeral bier that those who think they
can finish us and destroy us are taking no account of
realism, coherence or possibility of success.
Once again we are teaching a lesson to those who come
along and know nothing of the plans previous
governments made to destroy us, and what came of these
plans.
THE RESISTANCE IS SHOWING THE TRUE FACE OF
GOVERNMENTS!
Feride Harman is the 102rd martyr of the resistance to
the F-Type prisons and isolation which began on
October 20, 2002. These are two years in which the
tyranny of Turkey’s oligarchy and fascism was made
concrete by December 19 and the F-Type prisons that
followed it.
The democracy camouflage the oligarchy’s governments
use when they talk about harmony with EU requirements
is being scattered and dissolved by the reality of the
tyranny practised in the F-Type prisons. Everyone
knows and accepts that if tyranny is on the loose in
the prisons of the country, if coffins exit from these
prisons every day, and human beings lay down to die,
both inside and outside the prisons, as a way of
calling on tyranny to stop, then in that country
democracy is just an empty word.
No government, no political force has been able to
flee from the test that this resistance has set them,
nor will they be able to.
Is the AKP a continuation of the tyranny of
imperialism and fascism, or is it Muslim and
democratic? The attitude taken to the resistance is
one of the most basic issues in which an answer to
this question may be found.
No manoeuvre just for appearance’s sake can cause
their attitude to the resistance to be forgotten.
Instead of trying to solve the problems of the F-Type
prisons and of various sections of the people, the AKP
government is trying to complete the work that the
Ecevit-Bahceli-Yilmaz government left half-completed.
And one of the things the AKP government is trying to
finish is a draft legitimising intervention in Death
Fasts. The Justice Minister in the Ecevit government,
Sami Turk, wanted this very much but could not make it
into law, and now if the AKP intends to do it, it
shouldn’t try it because it’s not worth it.
You only need to read the things that were said on the
morning of December 19, 2000 by Ecevit, Sami Turk,
Tantan and people like them.
A massacre never before seen in Turkey’s history was
carried out in order to intervene in the Death Fasts
and put a stop to them. And these people were so sure
that they had put a stop to the Death Fasts that they
even said it openly in statements. But they were
forced to eat their own words.
The revolutionary prisoners who did not give in, the
Death Fast resisters both inside and outside the
prisons and finally the masses at the ballot box
forced them to eat their words.
Yet again we warn the AKP: those who say that if they
bring out a law and do this or that the resistance can
be broken should not live in a fantasy. You cannot
escape the test that the resistance sets you. The
degree to which you are democratic will be marked,
based on your attitude to the resistance! We are
patient and resolute. This is a certainty.
THEHEROISM SHOWN INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE PRISONS IS A
FORCE THAT CANNOT BE DEFEATED OR DESTROYED!
Feride Harman was a guerrilla in the mountains of
Dersim. She opposed tyranny with gun in hand. She was
captured. The oligarchy’s system took away her weapon.
But did it really? Was Feride really unarmed?
No, she sought out the greatest weapon that comes
naturally to every victim of oppression who resists
tyranny, and she embraced that weapon. This is one of
the statements she made in one of her last letters
addressed to our Front: “The Death Fast period in
particular has been a great turning point for me. It
was a period in which I saw my own strength. In
particular I drew strength from the way that heroes
were created when they were put in cells, and also
both inside and the prisons...
Their strength came from this: they experienced the
December 19 massacre, but they never gave in to
tyranny.
They were thrown in the cells; again they did not bow
down to tyranny.
While Feride was on the Death Fast, she was released
on August 23, 2002. She did not give in to the state’s
attempt at bribery; on the contrary she rejected the
bribery, tied on the headband and turned it into a
resistance banner waving in the middle of Istanbul.
Those who come and do not see the banner or the
willpower are doomed to be erased from politics,
irrespective of whether they are in power or in the
opposition. Because politics is formed by the war
between the tyrants and the oppressed. Feride is a
heroine of the poor, the oppressed, our people. She
resisted imperialism and fascism; that point is clear;
Those who killed Feride are the representatives of
imperialism and fascism; Those who remain silent about
the murder of Feride are servants of the imperialist
and fascist system, in one form or another.
Our comrade Feride Harman was born in September 1973
in Akcadag, Malatya Province. She finished high school
at Kurecik. Her father is a retired teacher, her
mother a housewife. She had eight brothers and
sisters. Hers was like any one of the tens of millions
of families that you would encounter in any part of
Anatolia. Condemned to poverty, their national honour
trampled on, experiencing repression, bans and
punishments starting from primary school, suffering
from tyranny like tens of millions of our young
people, she became a revolutionary. In 1991 she became
acquainted with our Front. In 1992 she became more
active in the struggle. In 1993 she joined the Dersim
Ibrahim Erdogan Rural SPB (Armed Propaganda Unit). She
was a guerrilla for about four years. Then she was
taken prisoner. During six years of captivity she did
not give in to tyranny, when the system tried to
intimidate her she developed and strengthened herself
further.
As a resister in the 6th Death Fast Team she bore this
strength for a year and a half, writing “victory or
death!” on her banner of resistance.
Her last request was to be buried with a handful of
soil from Dersim.
We will carry out this request but we will do one
other thing. We will go to the cemetery and announce
the good news of the resistance’s victory. This is our
promise to our heroes who have represented our
willpower and our determination.
Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Cephesi
(Revolutionary People’s Liberation Front)
 E-Mail: dhkc@post.com  Website: http://www.dhkc.info
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