TIKKO/TKP-ML Commemorates Tekoşer Piling/Lorenzo Orsetti

A video was released by International TIKKO fighters to commemorate Tekoşer Piling. The video starts with an image released by Tekoşer Piling. “Comrades, comrades hello. I am Tekoşer” in Italian, followed by a video of Tekoşer Piling saying in his last letter “All storms start with a simple drop. Try to be that drop”. Then there are images of fighters drawing a silhouette of Tekoşer Piling and writing “A Partisan never dies” next to it. Then, in the speech made on behalf of TIKKO, “Today, we commemorate our comrade Martyr Tekoşer. He became immortal 5 years ago in the war against ISIS in Deir-ez Zor. Lorenzo Orsetti participated in the anti-fascist struggle in Rojava and contributed to internationalism not only with weapons but also with his comradeship and fighting sensitivity. His warmth and sympathy was the last thing he left to many people around him.”

Pointing out that the attacks against Rojava continue, the speech said, “The Turkish state continues to attack Rojava on a daily basis. It threatens to destroy the revolution with its wide-scale attacks. It targets revolutionaries and civilian living spaces with reconnaissance terror. It condemns the people to hunger, thirst and death. They occupied Efrîn, Serêkaniyê and Girê Spî with mercenaries and terrorized the people there. But they cannot break the will of the people who resist for the victory of the revolution and their lands. The immortals from Kobanê to Afrin, from Serêkaniyê and Girê Spî to Palestine are our inspiration. We will defend the revolution against fascism as our immortals have shown.”

The speech, in which it is stated that the resistance against the rising wave of imperialist aggression and fascism cannot be broken, concludes: “We will destroy imperialism and barbarism with the unity of oppressed peoples. Internationalism is the weapon of the proletariat. And Lorenzo Orsetti, Barbara Anna Kistler and Nubar Ozanyan taught us how to use that weapon. Lorenzo Orsetti left Italy and joined the liberation struggle of the peoples of the Middle East. Feeling the internationalism of the proletariat, he joined the armed struggle and the struggle for the liberation of the people in the geographies where the imperialist contradictions are the most severe. We promise to him and all our immortalized ones; we will continue their struggle, we will overthrow imperialism, fascism and all forms of reaction. Long live proletarian internationalism, long live the Rojava revolution”.

Finally, the video includes one of Tekoşer Piling’s images. In this video, Tekoşer Piling says “If you are watching this video, the news is probably not good. I’m probably dead. But there is nothing wrong with that. I know I made the right choice. I would have made this choice a thousand times because it’s the right one.”

The video can be seen here: