BLACK ROSE ANARCHIST FEDERATION / FEDERACION ANARQUISTA ROSA NEGRA (USA)

July 20, 2015

#‎Rojava‬ ‪#‎SurucBomb‬ ‪#‎SuruçtaKatliamVar‬

Statement on the Recent Massacre in Suruc, Turkey

Today we mourn the loss of friends and comrades and renewing our commitment to an international revolutionary struggle in their memory.

At noon, in the border town of Suruç in Turkish Kurdistan, a bomb ripped through the bodies of communists, socialists, and anarchists who were on their way to assist in the rebuilding of Kobane. Tens of people were killed, many more injured. One Black Rose member was present assisting in preparations for a campaign to support the rebuilding of Kobane and Rojava, but was uninjured in the blast.

A half an hour after the bombing, the city of Suruc shook once more as a second massive bomb hit the border in Kobane. News reports indicate that this was a car bomb attack that was stopped by self-defense forces which minimized causalties.

The trip to Kobane was organized by the Marxist-Leninist organization Sosyalist Gençlik Dernekleri Federasyonunun (SGDF). They brought together youth–entire families–from across Turkey and beyond to give revolutionary support to the developing social revolution in Syrian Kurdistan. Up to 300 people were preparing to cross the embargoed border to help rebuild the city, learn about its political developments, and link the struggles of the Turkish left with the Kurdish movement.

After the bombing, the first to respond was armored military vehicles of the occupying Turkish state that rolled down the street in front of the Amara Cultural Center to block the street and point their guns at the recently injured and trauma-ridden revolutionaries. It took ambulances so long to arrive on the scene that private cars had to be organized to take the injured to the hospital. The military and police were on the scene in minutes, managing to form a line of riot police before the first ambulances arrived. Their alertness should come as no surprise since they had been actively harassing the bus loads of revolutionaries coming to Suruc that morning, monitoring many of them, and had made calls to their families telling them that their young relative was going to join terrorists in Rojava.

This demonstrates the attitude of the state and is indicative of a sad reality: Turkey is continuing its murderous policy towards the Kurds and this attack can be seen as a fulfillment of Erdogan’s promise to stop Rojava by any means necessary. In the coming months, Black Rose will continue to broaden the scope in organizing committees and networks in solidarity with Rojava. We hope for your support.

Biji Rojava! Rojava Lives!

-International Secertary, Black Rose Anarchist Federation / Federación Anarquista Rosa Negra (BRRN)

BLACK ROSE ANARCHIST FEDERATION / FEDERACION ANARQUISTA ROSA NEGRA (USA)

http://www.blackrosefed.org/statement-on-bombing-turkey-suruc/

OUR SADNESS WILL BE OUR ANGER, KOBANÊ WILL REBUILD

#‎Rojava‬ #Kobane ‪#‎SurucBomb‬ ‪#‎SuruçtaKatliamVar‬

We re-post this statement by comrades in Revolutionary Anarchist Action in Turkey on the recent bombing, likely by supporters of ISIS, that maimed and killed dozens of mostly young activists organizing to support the revolutionary efforts underway in Rojava. It has been heavily edited for clarity and issues of translation.

Yesterday nearly three hundred people set off from different cities with the call of the Socialist Youth Associations Federation (SGDF) in order to rebuilt Kobanê which ISIS has been attacking and looting. Stopping in Suruç, Turkey across the border before leaving for Kobane, these young people made a press release in front of the Amara Culture Center in Suruç (Pîrsus). At the end of their statement a bomb exploded in the middle of the crowd, silencing many hearts which had been beating with the hope of reconstruction.

According to current information 31 people died and hundreds are wounded in the explosion.

After this explosion we hear the names of the fallen ones from the hospitals of Suruç (Pîrsus). The ones who set off from many different cities, the ones with great hopes in their hearts, are now the fallen ones, by the actions of the murderers. The people who are going out to the streets in order to call them to account for the fallen ones, who are waiting in front of the hospitals, are now threatened with arrest as the police who arrived at Amara Cultural Center sooner than the ambulance. In Mersin in İstanbul, the people who go out to the streets are wanted to be massacred by murdereous state and by the collaborators of the murderers.

The ones who have assacred numerous lives, starting from the first day of the Kobanê Resistance, are now trying to discourage us by murdering our siblings.

We are trying to reconstruct a new life against the ISIS, against the state collaborating with ISIS, against the war politics of the state which never end. Whatever it costs, we are going to put on our sorrow, as our rage, we are going to reconstruct Kobanê and recreate a life on this looted geography!

(Two of our anarchist friends named Alper Sapan from Anarchy Initiative Eskişehir and Evrim Deniz Erol from Urfa were murdered in the attack.)

Bijî Berxwedana Kobanê! / Long Live Kobanê Resistance!
Bıjî Şoreşa Rojava! / Long Live Rovaja Revolution!

Revolutionary Anarchist Action

OUR SADNESS WILL BE OUR ANGER, KOBANÊ WILL REBUILD - Black Rose Anarchist Federation

‎Rojava‬ #Kobane ‪#‎SurucBomb‬ ‪#‎SuruçtaKatliamVar‬ We re-post this statement by comrades in Revolutionary Anarchist Action in Turkey on the recent bombing, likely by supporters o...

http://www.blackrosefed.org/our-sadness-will-be-our-anger-kobane-will-rebuild/