ISTANBUL, Turkey, — Kurdish female political prisoners held in Baqrkoy prison wrote a letter to their families urging them to stand up for the Kurdish struggle and help to mount it.
Addressing their families the letter remarked; “Despite the imposed high pressure and all the difficulties involved for years, you have stood up for your youths who are imprisoned carrying out their valuable national struggle. When initiated our struggle and paved the way toward freedom, we took strength from you. Together we resisted to the oppression of the Turkish fascist regime. We have not bowed. None kind of tortures has managed to make us take a single step back. Not even a single day we screamed Ah…”
Kurdish Struggle is Unique
In the letter the Kurdish female prisoner pointed to the oppression of Turkish ruling party AKP noting; “The values we believe in which are the legacy of the Kurdish struggle is lighting up our way like a torch. The Kurdish struggle for freedom and democracy is the most legitimate case in the world. Although we are a grand nation, our language is prohibited. We are stripped of the right to preserve our mother tongue. We are stripped of assembly and political rights. This is shame for Turkey. Against us, there is assimilation, denying, pressure and fascism incapable of tolerating pluralism which reflects the affluence of society, because they are against the natural wealth of civilization.”
Continuing on the oppression of Kurdish people from the outset of the formation of Turkish Republic the letters reads, “From the outset of Turkish Republic, deaths, exiles and tortures have been foisted on our destiny. The Kurdish resistance movement led by respectful Abdullah Ocalan has been struggling for years in order to change history of the Kurds. Our nation has for years been struggling in the streets, districts, and the prisons against these oppressions.”
“They have always tried,” the letter continues, “To liquidate the struggle of Kurdish people. The Turkish ruling party government has done all it can from genocidal policies to cunning approaches with the purpose of liquidating it.”
In the letter the female prisoners call upon the Kurdish people and their families to stand up for their national struggle for freedom and democracy.
“Our only assertion and call upon our nation and families is to stand up for our struggle,” read the letter and continues, “We no longer do visit. But you should be in front of the prisons representing our voice and our tongues. We endeavour to worth your struggle. We also want you to present an organised stance.”
At the end of the letter the prisoners stressed that, “The time is not for seating at home; the time is for struggle and resistance. Our hands and legs might be fettered. But our minds and thoughts are free and our willpowers are prevailing. The freedom of our leader and our people is close. We struggle to the very end, we resist to the very end.”