Statement by the Press Office of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Front:
AND GÜRKAN CRIED OUT ONCE AGAIN:
THOSE WHO ACT AS THOUGH WE DO NOT EXIST,
THOSE WHO DISREGARD US, MUST KNOW:
WE ARE EVERYTHING!
WE ARE EVERYTHING, BECAUSE WE RESIST AND DO NOT SURRENDER!
THE WORLD NOW CONSISTS OF TWO WORDS:
TO RESIST
AND
NOT TO SURRENDER!
THE WORLD NOW REVOLVES AROUND THESE TWO WORDS.
NIGHT TURNS INTO DAY WITH THESE TWO WORDS.
WINTER MEETS SPRING WITH THESE TWO WORDS.
Today, there is only one law:
TO RESIST until final liberation and the establishment of the people’s power!
THERE IS NO RESISTANCE WITHOUT AN ACHIEVEMENT, because
every resistance becomes STRENGTH FOR THE NEXT RESISTANCE.
WE ARE EVERYTHING, BECAUSE WE POSSESS THE SECRET OF HISTORY!
WE HAVE MADE THIS SECRET OUR PATH. THE SECRET OF HISTORY IS OUR HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS.
This is the secret of history: the people’s power to resist.
THOSE WHO DO NOT SURRENDER DO NOT DIE; THOSE WHO RESIST CANNOT BE DEFEATED!
WE ARE EVERYTHING, BECAUSE WE RESIST AND DO NOT SURRENDER.
WE POSSESS THE SECRET OF HISTORY
SINCE KIZILDERE, WE HAVE EMERGED FROM ONE RESISTANCE AND ENTERED ANOTHER.
WE HAVE EMERGED FROM ONE VICTORY AND RUN TOWARDS ANOTHER.
AGAINST INJUSTICE AND THEFT,
AGAINST LIES AND SNAKES,
WE RESIST AND WE FIGHT!
“THE END OF HISTORY HAS COME; IDEOLOGIES ARE DEAD,” SAID FUKUYAMA, THE BOURGEOISIE’S GUARD DOG.
Gürkan made history,
and history thus took our revenge upon Fukuyama.
HISTORY IS THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN CLASSES,
and Gürkan won this struggle. He resisted and did not surrender.
RESISTANCE HAS PROVED ITSELF.
WHEREVER OPPRESSION STRIKES AND WHEREVER THE PEOPLE EXIST, THAT PLACE WILL BECOME OUR POSITION OF RESISTANCE, SAID GÜRKAN.
A STAR IS ALWAYS FASTENED TO THE CENTRE OF OUR FOREHEADS…
WE DEFEND OUR HOMELAND AGAINST INJUSTICE AND THEFT.
Together with the coffin and the documents inside it, Gürkan Türkoğlu’s funeral weighed 78 KILOGRAMS.
Think about the weight of a coffin. This means that Gürkan’s body weighed only around 25 kilograms. He was virtually a skeleton…
HE RESISTED DEATH CELL BY CELL AND CONTINUED ONWARD,
AND HE WON VICTORY!
DROP BY DROP, HE CLUNG TO LIFE; BUT THEY MURDERED GÜRKAN THROUGH FORCED INTERVENTION.
TO THOSE CAUGHT IN BETWEEN, TO THOSE WHO FLEE, TO THOSE WHO ROT WHILE STILL ALIVE,
THE STRONGEST ANSWER IS THOSE WHO CONTINUE FORWARD, FIGHTING…
THOSE WHO, WITH THEIR 25-KILOGRAM BODIES, FORCE THE ENEMY TO ITS KNEES…
THOSE WHO CARRY LIFE UPON THEIR SHOULDERS IN THEIR DREAMS AND IN THEIR WORK CONTINUE ALONG THEIR PATH…
And let it be known:
YOU CANNOT FORCE THOSE WHO PAY THE PRICE TO BOW DOWN!
Gürkan Türkoğlu left university during the third year of the French-language Public Administration Department at Marmara University.
“They taught us English, French and Spanish, but we will establish and govern our homeland in the language of Mahir and Dayı,” Gürkan said.
IN OUR LANGUAGE, THERE ARE TWO WORDS: TO RESIST AND NOT TO SURRENDER!
WE WILL UNTIE THE BOUND TONGUE OF OUR PEOPLE AND ORGANISE OUR PEOPLE’S STRUGGLE!
GÜRKAN TÜRKOĞLU:
Born in 1989, from Erzincan.
Head of the FRONT’s Security Organisation…
The punishment of Asuman Akça, the thief and would-be mafioso,
and the punishment of the perverted, lying lawyer Taylan Tanay represent his morality and his anger.
Once again, we declare:
- Asuman Akça and those who, after her, consider stealing from the people;
- Those who attempt to establish immoral relationships by exploiting the strength of our martyrs and our resistance;
- Do not forget that when Gürkan was detained, a list of Tayyip’s close-protection security team was found on his computer…
Do not forget the limitless creativity of revolutionaries, the limitless organised power that has united with the people, their faith and their burning determination to ensure justice and demand accountability!
Those who murdered GÜRKAN through forced intervention,
the Counter-Terrorism Branch police officers who entered his room,
those who stuffed his immortalised body, covered in blood, into the coffin,
the torturers who came to the cemetery and attempted to provoke his family,
and those who wrote that his “cause of death was a non-communicable disease”:
look carefully at GÜRKAN’S photographs…
Do not forget, BECAUSE WE WILL NOT FORGET!
Know this: the Gürkans of the Front will never be exhausted!
If you are lucky, the mildest consequence you will face will be confinement to a wheelchair!
But victory belongs to the GÜRKANS!
Gürkan had told his organisation:
“I want to say this: I want to live with honour under all circumstances. I see carrying out revolutionary work as the one and only way of doing so. I consider myself responsible for filling the void left by Elif and Şafak. I am ready to learn everything I need in order to do this…”
THE CAUSE OF ALL DEFEATS IS IDEOLOGICAL AND IS SEPARATION FROM THE PEOPLE.
THE SOURCE OF ALL VICTORIES IS IDEOLOGICAL CLARITY AND RELIANCE UPON THE PEOPLE.
WHETHER IN THE POOR NEIGHBOURHOODS OF ISTANBUL,
OR AT THE UNIVERSITIES OF ANATOLIA,
OR IN THE STREETS OF GAZA THAT HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO RUBBLE,
OR UNDER THE BOMBS IN IRAN,
OR IN THE S-, R- AND Y-TYPE WELL-TYPE PRISONS…
WHEREVER WE MAY BE, RESISTANCE IS A RIGHT WHEREVER THERE IS OPPRESSION!
THE VICTORS ARE THE ORGANISED PEOPLES WHO RESIST WITH HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL JUSTIFICATION!
GÜRKAN BECAME THE FIRST MARTYR OF THE INDEFINITE HUNGER STRIKE THAT HAS CONTINUED UNINTERRUPTEDLY FOR THREE YEARS AGAINST THE WELL-TYPE PRISONS!
TO RESIST IS A FORM OF PRODUCING POLITICS.
This is our greatest revolutionary policy against imperialism’s policy of taking control of our minds and our institutions.
WE WILL RESIST TOGETHER WITH OUR PEOPLE, UNITE ALL RESISTANCE AND NEVER SURRENDER!
EVERYONE CAN RESIST, BUT ONLY MARXIST-LENINISTS CAN ACHIEVE VICTORY!
BECAUSE EVEN WHEN THEY ARE PHYSICALLY ANNIHILATED, THEY RECREATE THEMSELVES IDEOLOGICALLY!
WE WILL RESIST, WE WILL FIGHT, WE WILL WIN!
GÜRKAN,
THE FIRST MARTYR OF OUR RESISTANCE AGAINST THE WELL-TYPE PRISONS,
WE GIVE YOU OUR WORD:
WE WILL TURN YOUR VICTORY INTO A CALL TO RESIST THE OPPRESSION OF THE COLLABORATIONIST OLIGARCHY!
WE WILL TURN YOUR VICTORY INTO OUR CALL TO UNITE THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD AGAINST IMPERIALISM AND FASCISM!
WE WILL TURN YOUR VICTORY INTO OUR CALL FOR THE PEOPLES OF ALL NEO-COLONIAL COUNTRIES TO FIGHT WITH PASS!
WE GIVE YOU OUR WORD:
JUST AS WE DEFEATED THE ISOLATION DECISIONS TAKEN AT NATO HEADQUARTERS AND THE WELL-TYPE PRISONS OF AKP FASCISM, WE WILL DEFEAT IMPERIALISM IN THE SAME WAY!
Our eyes, our minds and our hearts will not forget these photographs.
We will see him everywhere we look.
The F-Type and wire-fenced S-, R- and Y-Type well prisons that you constructed in order to destroy our hope for revolution
have created a master of hope.
A thousand expressions of respect and a thousand salutations to the master…
We declare to the entire world:
We will not forget, we will not compromise and we will not forgive!
You are our minds, our eyes and our hearts, Gürkan…
FORCED INTERVENTION IS MASSACRE!
GÜRKAN TÜRKOĞLU IS IMMORTAL!
LONG LIVE RESISTANCE, LONG LIVE VICTORY!
Revolutionary People’s Liberation Front
Press Office
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