[News] Massive security sweep across five countries

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Forwarded message from DHKC sympathisers.


REVOLUTIONARY, ANTI-IMPERIALIST LEFT TARGETTED BY "ANTI-TERRORISM" CAMPAIGN

Today in the early morning hours, so-called lightning "anti-terrorism" 
operations were conducted in various European countries against alleged 
members of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C).

It has been stated that 41 members of the DHKP-C have been detained in 
Italy, Germany, Belgium, Holland and Turkey.

In Italy, in the course of this "internationally" coordinated operation, 
one or two alleged DHKP-C activists as well as members of the 
Anti-Imperialist Camp (Campo Antiimperialista) were detained - the latter 
has been targeted by a media campaign for some time there because of its 
anti-imperialist activities, above all against the war and occupation of Iraq.

In Belgium, a lawyer has stated that this morning six people were detained 
in the course of an alleged operation against the DHKP-C. All have been 
released in the meantime, except for one.

And in Turkey, more than 20 people have been detained, on the pretext that 
they are supporte rs of the DHKP-C.

More exact information about the detentions and charges are not available 
at present. Presumably the operations are still continuing.

The DHKP-C is a revolutionary people's movement in Turkey has fought for 
more than 30 years for that country's democracy and independence. Its 
anti-imperialist attitude and countless examples of international 
solidarity, as with the Palestinian people, and its opposition to the wars 
in Afghanistan and Iraq have made it a particular target of imperialist 
states, especially the USA, which seek to protect their interests in Turkey.

The DHKP-C was placed by the USA on a list of organisations "to be 
destroyed" because it had criticised the war on Afghanistan, and on May 2, 
2002 it was put on the EU "Black List" following pressure from the USA.

Despite 110 dead, both in and outside the prisons, the torture of forced 
feeding and every kind of repression, the DHKP-C continues its Death Fast 
resistance to the F-Type is olation cell prisons at all levels.

The F-Type cells are directed against the entire opposition in Turkey and 
are meant destroy resistance and organisation by the people.

The lies about the democratisation of Turkey are more obvious with every 
coffin that leaves Turkey's prisons. But the state's myrmidons seek to pull 
up the smallest flowering of opposition.

And in Europe, too, little has been said about the 110 people who have lost 
their lives since the introduction of the F-Type isolation prisons in the 
year 2000.

Instead, Turkey is praised for its progress on democracy and the entry of a 
torture state into the EU is applauded.

So what will the EU achieve with this kind of terrorist attack on 
progressive left-wing people from Turkey? This question can clearly be 
answered: it wants to remove anything that stands in the way of its 
interests as an imperial power. To do that it will even trample on its own 
laws.

We protest most strongly against the arbi trary "terrorism" operations 
conducted against our friends and demand the immediate release of all those 
who have been detained.

End the virulent "anti-terrorism" campaign!

Stop collaborating with the torture regime in Turkey!

DHKC Sympathisers

April 1, 2004



Scores held in Europe security sweep

Thursday 01 April 2004 9:08 PM GMT

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Fifty-three suspected members of a Turkish armed group have been arrested 
in a massive security sweep across five countries of Europe.

A Turkish interior ministry official on Thursday said 37 people were 
detained in Turkey and 16 more were held in police raids in Italy, Germany, 
Belgium and the Netherlands, targeting Turkey's Revolutionary People's 
Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C).

Greece has also arrested another man suspected of links with the organisation.

Security forces in the Philippines also arrested four Turkish nationals 
suspected of having ties with international "terror groups," but a military 
spokesman said there was no link with the European crackdown.

Radical group

The DHKP-C is against the United States, NATO and the Turkish establishment 
and has said it was responsible for bomb attacks in Turkey.

Prosecutors in the central Italian city of Perugia said they coordinated an 
early morning, pan-European operation against the organization after an 
18-month investigation. Five people were arrested in Italy two Turks and 
three Italians - and further arrest warrants were issued for suspects 
living elsewhere.

"As far as we know there are no connections with Islamic terrorism, but 
this is only the beginning of the investigation and we have a lot to 
learn," prosecutor Nicola Miriano said.

Dutch raids

Dutch authorities said police mounted five separate raids in Amsterdam and 
the southern towns of Ettenleur and Maassluis and seized material such as 
computers and mobile phones on suspicion that some people were running 
communications for an armed group.

Greek police said they separately arrested a German citizen of Kurdish 
origin on suspicion of links to the same group.

They said the 30-year-old Sinan Buzkurt was wanted in Germany, which had 
issued an international warrant for his arrest.



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