An Open Letter From May Day Anarchist Prisoners in Turkey to the Public

May 28, 2012 Infoshop News

As known, there had been attack to some banks and companies which are
around the MecidiyekÃy-ÅiÅli by some anarchists who are within the
Anarchist block on 1st of May 2012. We, as 9 of the 60 people who had been
taken to the custody with the blames of the Police Department. We, as 9
anarchist prisoners whom were arrested by the decision of the 9th Criminal
Court and had been put in to the Metris - Type T prison writing this
letter.

Most of us got under custody by the Counter-Terror Squads on 14th of may,
5 a.m. in the morning, and some on the following day. Our computers,
telephones, flash drives, books and many other personal stuffs' got seized
by the the police which were around 10-20 who came to our home. The claim
that have been by the police department to us was the "damaging public
property in the name of terror organization".

While, The individuals which have the pretty much different points of the
anarchist ideas and also who have seen the first time each other while
under surveillance were blaming for creating terrorist organisation, and
some of them was forced to make them agree on being the leader of the
terrorist organisation by the police during the interrogating.

Even though the leadership is totally contradictory to the anarchist idea
and thus is impossible that was the the claim by the police which is
tragic-comic imprudence, and also with that claim which is "being member
of the same terror organisation" makes things more comic. The people which
are claimed by the police of being a member of the terrorist organisation
had no arms or amuniton in their home. However, the books which can be
find on the every bookstore -for example books of the writers like
Kropotkin- had been claimed as an organisational documention on the
interrogation by the police. The articles which they had read and the
videos that they shared on social media were claimed as evidences to the
court by the police.

The membership of the people to a legal association which is working on
animal liberation, human rights and ecology issues also claimed as an
evidence by the police. All the pyschological pressures used over the
people who were under custody for 4 days and were not allowed to see their
family members, also were not allowed to call anyone -even their lawyers.
On of our LGBT friend had been attacked by "hate speeches". All the people
forced to agree the existence of the terrorist organisation and also
forced to give the fake speeches about the other people. However two
people who had been scared by the threats of 15-20 years of prison
sentence beacuse of the membership on the terrorist organisation declared
misstatements about the people that they never know anything about.

By the pressure of the police, they have blamed some people which the
police had no evidence over telephone, internet or any other communication
with each other, as leader of the organisation, and "identified" them as
attackers. Most of our friends got arrested just because of they have the
close model and coloured bag, shoes, belt etc. as millions of people can
have the same close type of with the people who are video taped on the
attack. Of course it is not proved that an anarchist terror rganisation
exists with that lacking and irrational evidences. Because of that we got
blamed by damage to the public property. We want to clear out that, we, as
anarchists who reject all the laws and authories and see all the states as
murderers, we don't care that if the state tells us we are terrorists or
not. We don't care that the state's mass killing of tens of people in
"Roboski", killing 11 year old UÄur Kaymaz with 13 bullets and giving no
punishment for that ones, than judging us. The state that had killed 34
people in 1977, did not even take any people to the custody. But had no
problem for taking 60 people to the custody and arresting 9 of them for
just 3-5 broken bank windows.

Two of the arrested friends couldn't enter the final exams on their
university, there's a possibility of that there can be an investigation by
their universities and they can get a punishment of suspension or
dismission. One of our friends is preparing for the general exam for the
entrance of the university, it's pretty clear that it's not possible to
study enough on the prison. One of friend who is studying M.A/M.S on
university would not continue on the thesis of very own. We got news that
3 friend got sacked after they got arrested. Since we're taken to the
custody we've experienced the legal system which the states always tells
what great it is, actually is no more than a pressure and normalizing tool
and notions like justice, right is just on the theory. We want to be out
now. But let us explain that neither we ask to anyone nor we beg to
anyone. We know that we're in prison just because of our policial ideas.
Because of that, we are not regretfull for the anything we did or we did
not. The reason is for writing that letter is just telling truths to the
public to know and to help them to learn what is going on.

We know the purpose of the ones who arrested us, is not just fearing us
for joining an action, they also like to turn us into the ones who are
scared of to resist for their very own rights. But the thing that they do
not know is that the prisons of their disgusting civilization will not be
able to suppress our ideas and we feel stronger than ever before.

We see all the anarchists in the world as our fellows and sending our
greetings, loves and solidarity call to all the insurrectionarists of the
world who has freedom fire on their hearts and who are from Athens, Amed,
Chiapas, Gazze, Toronto or Seattle... Let you know that you are not alone
and there are people in that lands who is struggling too. We thank every
one of them, for the solidarity and for the actions that support us. It's
not possible to define our feelings for to describe the local anarchists
who are supporting and made actions for us, as the rest of the world,
-these pages are very limited for our thank to them. We hug them all with
our very dearly greetings. Let them know that we know that they are with
us, and we are never feeling alone, even a moment. With wishes of us for
many long days with insurrection and solidarity.

Anarchist Prisoners:

Beyhan ÃaÄrÄ TuzcuoÄlu
Burak Ercan
Deniz
Emirhan Yavuz
Murat GÃmÃÅkaya
OÄuz Topal
Sinan GÃmÃÅ
Ãnal Can TÃzÃner
Yenal YaÄcÄ