We will not forget the revolutionary prisoners who were brutally massacred on December 19th 2000 in the prisons in Turkey!

ISCWPP | 05-12-2013 | On December 2000 the security forces of the fascist Turkish state started a parallel bloody operation in 22 prison, resulting in the killing of 28 revolutionary prisoners.  The directive of this bloody operation was given by the coalition government at that time DSP, ANAP and MHP, during the operation hundreds of prisoners were injured. In prisons like the ones in the provinces of Diyarbakir, Buca, Ümraniye and Ulucanlar the F-type prison system (Isolation system) -which had been in plan for a long time- started to be implemented following December 19th. With the outcome of the F-type prison system until this day the repression against revolutionary prisoners still continues. 

The F-type prisons mean; isolation, tredman practice,  a policy control the thoughts and minds of the revolutionary prisoners and to make them surrender. The F-type system was not just a policy against the prisons it was a policy against the entire society. It was especially a product of a long-term strategy of the imperialist politics to control and suppress the society. Despite all the oppression and massacres the revolutionary prisoners did not bow down to the isolation system. Even if they lost gained rights they showed a determined attitude in their resistances, despite all difficulties and disadvantages. After the massacre of December 19^th, 122 people died in the death fasting inside and outside the prisons, hundreds became permanently disabled due to forced intervention.

The period of the F-type prisons which started with the massacre of December 19^th continues until this day. The fascist AKP government-since 11 years in power- practices and imposes the F-type prison system, isolation, visitation prohibition, books and journals ban, letters prohibition, prisoners are under camera surveillance, arbitrary transfers to other prisons without informing relatives or their lawyers and exiles. Political prisoners are facing all kinds of inhuman treatment and torture. Also many prisoners have received life sentence since the AKP has come to power. As a result of these oppressive and suppressive policies, 162 prisoners are suffering terminal diseases and 544 are ill due . Due to this arbitrary treatment the ministry of justice and the prison administrations are blocking the urgent treatments of the ill prisoners.  

While starvation, poverty, misery and unemployment is increasing every day in the country, the AKP government comes forward with lies such as the “democratic package” to impose it on society but continues with new massacres. On the 13^th anniversary of the massacre of December 19^th we once more condemn the fascist, racist and oppressive policies of the AKP government. We call upon all revolutionary and democratic organizations and institutions to be responsive against the repression in the prisons.  

• An Immediate release of all ill Prisoners and their Treatment should be commenced immediately!
• An End to Disciplinary Punishments in the cells!
• End to Torture and Ill treatment!

 An End of the F-Type Cell System- Freedom for All Political Prisoners!

We Have Not and Will Not Forget the Massacre of December 19^th!