The funeral of the two TIKKO Guerillas’s was held in Tokat and in Sivas

SİVAS/TOKAT | 08 – 07 – 2010 | The two guerilla fighters who were killed on June 29^th 2010 in the mountains of Dersim/Ovacik by the Turkish state forces, have beenreleased from the morgue. The funeral of Cigdem Yilmaz was held in Sivas and the one of Ferdi Karacan in Tokat.

During the funeral of Cigdem Yilmaz slogans like “Guerillas don’t die, long live people’s war” and “comrade Cigdem is immortal” were chanted. Cigdem Yilmaz was born in Zara, Sivas in 1983.

The family of Ferdi Karacan brought him to the same Cemevi in Elazig as Cigdem Yilmaz (Cemevi is the place in where the Alevits gather and pray). From there he was brought to his hometown in Zile/Tokat.

The police suppressed the family who was waiting in front of the Cemevi. The police told the family “don’t bring your child to the Cemevi, we can take care of your needs and send him to Tokat, take him away from here these people will chant slogans”. This information has been given by close family relatives.

The body of Karacan showed many bullet wounds and it can be seen clearly that he was shot from close distance not from far away as the police claimed in their statement.

Afterwards a commemoration in behalf of the martyr’s was held. Representatives from different revolutionary organizations came and participated.

It was also recorded that during the funerals in the hometown from both of them intense police presence was all around the village.