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HPG: We don't have any association with the blast in Hakkari

HPG Main Quarters Commandership stated that they don't have any association with the blast taking place in Hakkari.

The blast in Hakkari

It was stated that '' We don't have any association with this blast and methods and kind of action of HPG is known by public.'' Total 21 person including 11 students and 8 soldiers were injured in the blast occuring yesterday in Hakkari.

Ocalan: They want to destroy me

January 19 2006 (hpg-online.com) - Kurdish National Leader Mr. Abdullah Ocalan said ''Turkish Government will be responsible if I will be destroyed in Imrali Prison''. The lawyer of Mr. Ocalan, Ibrahim Bilmez gave explanations to ANF, after the yesterdays 1 hour interview with Mr. Ocalan in prison. He said that; Mr. Ocalan is straining to a death like suicide in Imrali and he is under pressure.

Bilmez also said that, except 20 days cabin punishment also 7 days cabin punishment was applied de facto.

Mr. Abdullah Ocalan commented to his lawyers. Mr. Ocalan explained that except 20 days cabin punishment also 7 days cabin punishment was applied de facto. Also he said that he is straining to a death like suicide. He said that he knows the bad results of this, and also he knows that Kurdish People don't want this and because of this he won't make an action like this. But Turkish Government will be responsible, not him, if there will be a death.

3000 people made a march against cabin punishment in Yuksekova

January 19 2006 (hpg-online.com) - The cabin punishment which was given to Kurdish National Leader Abdullah Ocalan had been protested in Yuksekova by a march in which there were approximately 3 thousand people.

Approximately 3 thousand people from Yuksekova People Initiative came together in front of earlier DEHAP district building and walked towards Oslo Hotel. There were grand pancartes on which written "PKK is the castle of resurrection and boycott, burrow of martries", "Kurdish National Leader is my political willpower" and also slogans like; "Biji Serok Apo (Long live leader Apo)", "Ocalan is our political willpower", "We will destroy the world which is without Ocalan", "AKP don't be surprise, don't cascade us to mountains", "Tooth for tooth, blood for blood, we are with you Ocalan". The mayor of Yuksekova M.Salih Yildiz, earlier mayor of Yuksekova Hetem Ike, representatives of DTP and demarches also support the march.

Young people who made an action clashed with police

January 11 2006 (hpg-online.com) - The young people who wanted to protest the 20 days cabin punishment which was given to Kurdish National Leader Mr. Abdullah Öcalan in Adana's Sakirpasa parish clashed with police.

Approximately 100 young men who came together in Adana's Sakirpasa parish in Newroz Street, made a march to protest the 20 days cabin punishment which was given to Kurdish National Leader Mr. Abdullah Öcalan.

They had got a grand poster of Mr. Abdullah Ocalan and also a placard on which written as "We don't want to live without honour, our honour Rêber (Pioneer) Apo"

20 day cell confinement penalty to Öcalan

January 11 2006 (hpg-online.com) - Mehmet Öcalan and Havva Keser went to Gemlik this morning to see the Kurdish National Leader Mr. Abdullah Öcalan. However permission to see Mr. Öcalan was denied due to a cell confinement penalty. One of his lawyers Mr. Bekir Kaya said that Our client is already being kept at the Imrali island as the sole inmate. This is why there is no reason to receive such a penalty.

Mehmet Öcalan and Havva Keser were refused entrance to Imrali Island when they arrived at the Gemlik Gendarmerie Station. The soldiers informed them that they have a court decision and that Mr. Öcalan has been given a penalty of 20 day cell confinement.

On the occasion of the unexpected and painful death of commander Ramona

January 9 2006 (hpg-online.com) - We are in deep mourning about the death of the Zapatista freedom-fighter Ramona. As Kurdish women we would pronounce our condolences to all freedom-loving people and in particular the Chiapas Community.

Ramona is a symbol for the women’s liberation struggle of suppressed peoples. Her guiding role in the uprising of San Cristobal has made clear to the world that women of all nations take their destiny in own hand and do not surrender to injustice. The determination, the courage and strength which commander Ramona - in spite of her sever illness - has emanated in her struggle for freedom and human dignity have shown that the desire for independence of women can be detained by nothing. Her insisting efforts for the draft and the implementation the "revolutionary women's laws" of the EZLN shows that the organized women’s struggle can create a revolution within the revolution. As Kurdish women we know from the experience of our own liberation struggle only too well how much strength and perseverance this requires. (Kurdistan Free Women's Movement)

Weather opposition to meeting Ocalan

December 28 2005 (hpg-online.com) - Lawyers who went to Gemlik in order to see their client Öcalan were not taken to İmralı because of weather opposition. Mustafa Eraslan, one of the lawyers, saying that the attitude towards their client have become an administrative practice, said: 'He is not allowed to see his family and not given enough time to see his lawyers. In the days to come, some matters concerning these will be the subject matter of new cases.'

Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan's lawyers Ibrahim Bilmez, Ayse Batumlu and Mustafa Eraslan went to Gemlik in the morning to see him in İmralı for weekly meeting. The lawyers who applied to Gemlik Gendarmerie Communication Office were said by the authorities that they could not go to İmralı because of the weather opposition.

Captured Turkish police officer: I see them as armed resistance fighters

The Kurdish news agency ANF spoke to the Turkish police officer Hasan Açil who is the prisoner of HPG guerrillas in an undisclosed location in the Kurdish mountains. Hasan Açil was captured on Oct. 9 by Kurdish HPG guerrillas on the Midyat-Idil Freeway in northern Kurdistan.

ANF: How did the guerrillas capture you?

Hasan Açil: We were on our way to Cizre. The road had been blocked by some I mistook were Village Guards. I thought there had been a traffic accident and I wanted to help, so I presented myself as a police officer. They aimed their weapons at me and asked me to step out of the vehicle. 'Are you armed, hand over your weapon' they said. I told them that I wasn't. My girlfriend was with me and I didn't want her to be harmed. I had to go with the guerrillas.

25,000 signatures collected for Ocalan in Adana

November 28 2005 (hpg-online.com) - Over 25,000 signatures were collected in the last three months for the Kurdish national leader Abdullah Ocalan by Kurdish activists in the city of Adana. The signature campaign "Abdullah Ocalan is my political volition" is being carried out by Kurdish activists from different NGOs all over Turkey and northern Kurdistan.

The activists in Adana aims to collect 125,000 signatures in the city. Posters will be put up in different areas of the city and leaflets will be handed out in the next phase, campaign activists said. The number of activists will also be increased. Until now, 56 City Mayors all over Turkey and northern Kurdistan have signed the campaign petitions.

War Report from Kurdistan

November 28 2005 (hpg-online.com) - Clashes between Kurdish HPG and Iranian military forces, sabotage attacks on a Turkish military train in Hakkari and Turkish military telecommunication access points in Osmaniye and hot clashes between Turkish military and HPG guerrillas all over Botan, were reported by the HPG Press and Liaison Office (BIM) in communiques between Nov. 16 and Nov. 26.

Nov. 16, 2005 - A sabotage attack was carried out by HPG guerrillas on a Turkish military transport train in the Hakkari province close to the border with eastern Kurdistan (northwestern Iran). One carriage was totally destroyed and the train was derailed. There were no human casualties.

Nov. 16, 2005 - A clash between Turkish troops and HPG guerrillas on the 'Shehid Cilo' hill at 07:00 (7 a.m. EET) resulted in one Turkish soldiers being killed and another one wounded.

527 Kurdish human shields joined the ranks of HPG

November 27 2005 (hpg-online.com) - 527 Kurdish human shield from the activist group 'Peace and Freedom Brigades' declared on Sunday that all their calls to the Turkish state have been unanswered and the activists have now decided to join the ranks of the Kurdish HPG guerrillas.

The decision was taken collectively by the activists on Saturday. Serdar Mete, talking on behalf of the activists declared on Sunday that all 527 activists will now be joining the HPG.

"We tried to struggle in every democratic way in Turkey. But we were met with repression every single time. As a result of that, we decided to come to the Medya Defense Zones. Here, we were met with an open and democratic attitude and we could continue our struggle. All our requests were evaluated by the Kurdistan Democratic Confederation and we got positive feedback.

'Accomplice List' from the Car in Semdinli

November 23 2005 (hpg-online.com) - A list titled as 'Who helped us' came out of the car that was used by the security members claimed to commit the bombings at Umut Bookstore in Semdinli, Hakkari. The names on the list belonged to those in collaboration with JITEM (Gendarmerie Intelligence) and there were names and phone numbers.

A list of names to be pursued in the region, names in collaboration with the JITEM, maps of a few shops and houses, was found in the car that belonged to officers named A.K and Ö.I. They were said to commit the bombings in Semdinli on 9th November. There are names of firm managers, village headmen, and members of political parties and common people.

10,000 in Demir's burial ceremony in Mersin

November 23 2005 (hpg-online.com) - On Monday, over 10,000 people in Mersin joined the burial ceremony of Murat Demir, a Kurdish protester who was gunned down by Turkish security forces during a demonstration in the Çilek district of the city on Nov. 20.

The body of Demir was taken to the Eyup mosque in the Çilek district to be prepared for burial. Demir's coffin was wrapped in the Kurdish colors of red, green and yellow.

A speech was held by the former Mersin province chairman of the pro-Kurdish party DEHAP, lawyer Muzaffer Akad, before starting the march to the cemetery.

Lawyers not allowed to visit Ocalan, isolation enters its 26th week

November 23 2005 (hpg-online.com) - The isolation of the Kurdish national leader Abdullah Ocalan continues. Lawyers of Ocalan were once again stopped by Turkish military authorities at the military harbor port at Gemlik in western Turkey on Wednesday.

Ocalan's lawyers Ibrahim Bilmez, Rainer Ahues and the translator Ali Mesut Önen and Ocalan's sister Fatma Ocalan, were stopped by Turkish gendarmerie soldiers at Gemlik on the grounds that the lawyer's ferryboat 'Imrali-9' was broken.

The ferryboat 'Imrali-9' has for 26 weeks frequently been 'broken'. Particularly on Wednesdays, the only day when Ocalan's lawyers and family members are allowed to visit their client.

Clashes between Kurdish demonstrators and Turkish security forces in Cizre: 5 wounded

November 19 2005 (hpg-online.com) - Kurdish demonstrators in the town of Cizre in the Sirnak province of northern Kurdistan, protesting the bomb attack against a Kurdish bookstore by a Turkish military intelligence unit, clashed with Turkish security forces yesterday when the demonstrators refused to obey calls made by the security forces to end the demonstration.

The Kurdish demonstrators had gathered at the 'Idil Street' and closed the traffic with burning tires. Security forces that arrived at the scene demanded that the demonstrators should cease their protest and go home. The Kurds then answered by throwing stones and Molotov ‘censored’ tails on the Turkish police armored vehicles, wounding two Turkish police officers. Three protesters were wounded in the clash that followed.