Solidarity Action in Ankara
On Oct. 22, the Ankara Anarchist Collective demonstrated in front of the Serbian Embassy to demand the release of the Belgrade 6. The comrades read statements in Turkish and Serbian languages and sung “A Las Barricadas” during the protest.
The protestors also criticized the role of the state and explained why they are really the terrorists and oppressors. In the end they concluded “Long live solidarity, freedom and anarchy!”
October 25th, 2009 at 01:12
The comrades from Ankara wrote a protest letter which I was trying to understand with our comrades, pooling together our (practically) non-existant Turkish language skills. In the end, I didn’t attempt it – but the Croatian comrades have what seems to be a more or less good translation of the letter, so here goes a translation of a translation:
Protest letter
To the Government of the Republic of Serbia
In your country, members the AnarchoSyndicalist Initiative were arrested at the beginning of last month. This is a routine method used by the state in order to suppress the expression and implementation of the ideas of those in opposition.
Sanja Dojkić, Ratibor Trivunac, Tadej Kurepa, Ivan Vulović, Ivan Mitrovic and Nikola Savic were arrested for their alleged involvement in a symbolic attack on the Greece embassy in Belgrade. This act, which occurred at 3 AM, when the building was completely empty (which is sufficient to prove that theparticipants had no intention of hurting anyone) are treated as international terrorism. In fact it is the state that creates and promotes terrorism. You are the ones who develop, sell and promote the use of weapons. You build the borders, keep them, and create an army. You isolate and suppress homosexuality, bisexuality, transexuality and travestism. Women and children are closed in homes and schools. Institutions which create and sell us rotten products such as religion, morality and tradition.
Our comrades who you accuse of international terrorism and hold in custody are fighters raising awareness in the wider framework about who you are, and what you are actually doing with people around the world. We demand their immediate release and an end to the political process that is carried out against them.
Long live solidarity, freedom and anarchy!