Turkey junta teps u terror
Socialist Organiser1982 1982-04-01Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 1 →
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LL 1-DAY STRIKE. Lobby the TUC-April 5! THE terrorists who took power in Turkey two years ago are spreading the net of repression even wider than before. Having arrested members of revolutionary organisations anú banned leaders of all the pre-coup parties from again participating in political life, they are now unreatenme coral members of the mass centre party, the Republican People's Party.
At the same time 52 members of the left-wing trade union . federation, DISK, face trial on charges that could lead to the death penalty..
In this country, the tour of speakers representing Turkish trade unions has already held meetings in many towns up and down the country.
At an opening meeting, in the House of Commons, Dursun Akcam, publisher of "Democrat" ", the sixth largest paper in Turkey before the coup, summed up the present situation under the Evren Junta.
"Today in Turkey there are no trade union organisations - except one. And while trade unions across Europe are campaigning against the Junta, this one, TURK-IS, is actively collaborating with the Junta. That is why it cannot be considered a genuine trade union organisation.
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If it was a genuine trade union organisation, it would strongly defend the interests of Turkish workers. But in Turkey it is impossible to truly defend the interests of Turkish workers without firmly condemning a Junta which has sentenced 100,000 people to prison; summoned 47,000 before martial law courts; demanded the death penalty for 3,954 trade union activists, socialists and members of national minorities; murdered 488 people in manhunts; tortured 101 to death; and hung 13 by the neck until the last breath expired from them.
The real trade union confederation which represents workers interests in Turkey is DISK. But DISK has refused to collaborate with the Junta, and so it has been branded a terrorist organisation. Now 52 of its lead. ers are on trial for their very lives.
But the junta's terror has not stopped there. It has even imprisoned old people, authors, artists and intellectuals. Two days ago in Cont'd back
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