On Tuesday, January 3rd, the combatants of MLKP, Ahmet Şoreş (nom de guerre in Kurdistan, family name, Zeki Gürbüz) and Firat Neval, (Özgür Namoğlu) were murdered by a turkish drone attack in Rojava. Comrade Ahmet Şoreş was a member of the Central Committee of MLKP and its representative in Rojava. Comrade Firat Neval was his nephew. Both were on an official external mission at a village north of Hesekê, when they received the blow of a targeted attack.
HBDH: We will avenge Ahmet Şoreş and Firat Neval
The Executive Committee of HBDH (United Popular Revolutionary Movement, the common front of turkish revolutionary organizations with the PKK) called the two Martyrs,
“important cadres and commanders of our united revolution” who were immortalised in an attack by the fascist AKP/MHP government. Their struggle for revolution and socialism will be carried on by the working class, women, youth and all the oppressed.
Regarding Ahmet Şoreş, born in 1966, the HBDH said that he took on important tasks in the revolutionary struggle and withstood torture by the Turkish state for days as a young man. In captivity, in tasks assigned to him and in the mountains of Kurdistan, he proved to be a leading comrade in many moments and areas of the struggle. “Comrade Ahmet Şoreş always advanced himself and the struggle ideologically and practically. The academies he played a leading role in founding have increased the legacy of the revolution and socialism with military-political actions. Every place he entered became more revolutionary because of him. In the countryside and in the mountains, in the Medya Defense Zones, in Rojava and in all areas of life, he organized revolutionary education and action in the most beautiful form. He stands for stormy marches, the heaviest moments and revolutionary will.” Firat Neval was practically born into the revolutionary struggle in 1994 and joined the military-political resistance in 2016. Due to his responsible, disciplined and determined behaviour, he became a commander and at the same time was responsible for Ahmet Şoreş’s security.
“AKP/MHP fascism is attacking all parts of Kurdistan with full force. However, the fascist rulers are mistaken if they think they can stop our just struggle in Turkey and Kurdistan with murders of leaders of the united revolution. We will hold the fascist government accountable for the massacre of our immortal comrades Ahmet and Firat,” said the HBDH Executive Committee.
(source: ANF)
PKK: Zeki Gürbüz and Özgür Namoğlu will live on in our struggle
Helin Ümit issued a statement on behalf of the Central Committee of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) regarding the death of Zeki Gürbüz (Ahmet Şoreş) and Özgür Namoğlu (Firat Neval) in Rojava.
“We have learned to our great regret that our companion Zeki Gürbüz, member of the Central Committee of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP), has fallen in the revolutionary region of Rojava. We declare that we share with revolutionary feelings the mourning of the members of the Central Committee and our friends of MLKP for our comrade Zeki, and Özgür Namoğlu who fell together with him. As PKK, we communicate that we will avenge the fallen revolutionaries and continue to bring the enemies of the revolution to justice.
Comrade Zeki was one of the first of our revolutionary friends to come to the mountains of Kurdistan. At that time, the historical alliance between the revolutionaries of Turkey and Kurdistan did not exist. At the same time, Zeki’s way to the mountains made the formation of the United Peoples’ Revolutionary Movement (HBDH) possible. He was one of the first to pave the way for the HBDH and he was one of the most active pioneers in its practical implementation. This applies both to his practice in the Medya Defence Zones and to his subsequent revolutionary practice in the metropolises in Turkey.
We remember comrades Zeki Gürbüz and Özgür Namoğlu, who fell in Hesekê on 3 January, with revolutionary feelings of love, respect and gratitude. We declare that their memory will live on in our revolutionary struggle.”
(source ANF)
Taking the critical responsibility, knowing that it is a minefield.
Comrade Zeki was not the first commander of MLKP in the revolutionary ground of Rojava, to be killed in a targeted attack. Before him was commander Baran, a few years ago. The colonial regime has a particular hatred for its citizens who stand by the side of the colonized, it is hurt deeply by active internationalism, it struggles to cut the joints of the revolutionary alliance of the Kurdish and Turkish people. MLKP knows that the most important peak of the social revolution is the internationalist alliance. This is why, despite the fact that all the weapons of the class-political enemy are aiming at the internationalist roots in the revolutionary grounds of N.E.Syria, at this peak will always stand the best material of popular evolution. To take on the critical responsibility, knowing that it is a minefield, means that you are free to make socialism reality today.
I convey the call of HBDH:
“We invite you to participate in the street barricades, in the civil guard in the city and in the guerrilla army in the mountains.”
For the revolutionary unity of popular battle in the greek, the turkish and the kurdish teritory.
Dimitirs Chatzivasileiadis
Domokos Prison
Original post in Greek: Indymedia
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