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Socialist Organiser1982 1982-04-01Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 16 →
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Sirned articles do not necessarily represent the views of tho SOA Diyarbakir four people were shot for trying to relay messages from inside the prisons.
Indeed, the Junta's repression seems to know no depths. The Turkish Peace Organisation's leaders have been thrown into jail and, believe it or not, Orhan Apaydın, the President of the Istanbul Bar Association.
The bloody face of the fascist junta is now being finally exposed, and all humanists must make a principled stand against the curse it has placed upon my country.
Yusuf Ziyah Bahadınli a former Turkish Workers' Party MP, was critical of the failure of British Labour MPs to pay attention to what is happening in Turkey.
"Perhaps you believe that if we wait long enough, and bear the terror with patience and fortitude, there will be an inevitable return to democracy," he said.
The meeting learned. however, that the Labour Party's representative on a recent fact-finding tour of Turkey. Tom Urwin. had stated publicly that he thought Evren did intend to guide Turkey back to democracy.
The Turkish working class are hardly going to be satisfied with the explanation supplied at the meeting by Sid Bidwell MP: "Nobody takes any notice of Urwin" . They needesolidarity now.
Contact: Turkey Solidarity Campaign. BM BON 5965, London WCIN 3XX.