ATIK | Confederation of Workers from Turkey in Europe | AHM-ATIK News Center
ISTANBUL | 11-03-2014 | Berkin Elvan, 15, who was shot with a gas cannister shot by the police during the Gezi protests on June 16 2013 has died this morning in Istanbul/ Turkey. Berkin had been in a comatose state since 269 days.
Police have cracked down the gathering of hundreds of people at the hospital in support of the family. The crowd was chanting “ The murdered state will pay for this”, “Berkin Elvan is immortal” . In many cities in Turkey spontaneous protests emerge.
Berkin Elvan’s funeral will be on 12th March at the Ferikoy Cemetary at 15:00.
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As the ATIK News Centre we are also sharing the statement by Partizan on Berkin Elvan (AHM)
… Your smile will be with us forever!
Berkin Elvan will live in our struggle!
Today we are very furious!
Today we are very sad!
And today we are filled with struggle!
Because after 269 days we have lost our Berkin in the early hours of the day, Berkin the name of hope.
Actually we have not lost him!
He will live on in us, his resisting heart and his childlike smile that were fighting for 296 days!
He will live on in us, as the revolutionaries who have been fighting against the unjust systems in this country and in the world with all our might and as the Gezi protestors, the Gezi protest that have set the streets on fire since 27 May 2013!
He will live on in the caravan of the immortals in our sturggle together with Mehmet, Abdocan, Ethem, Ali İsmail, Medeni and Ahmet!
He will live on in our resistance against the fascist TR state that deems repression and massacre appropriate for the Kurdish people, that killed 34 people in Roboskî and 2 in Gewer!
He will live on in the struggle against those that loot our labor and suck our blood! In the struggle against this father-son thieves and against this system of exploitation and fascism!
We will call this state to account, for the 1.5 years old Muharrem who died in Wan of illness ignored by the state, and a promise to you Berkin, who made you put you through this pain of 269 of coma, those who pulled the trigger and those who called the police heroes! We will call them to account!
This is a promiss to you Berkin!
PARTİZAN
