Communist Party, Turkey (KP) released a statement on the bomb attack at the İstanbul Atatürk Airport that killed 41 and injured 239 people. Originally posted on ICP, June 29.
“No power but our own will liberate us! Rise up!”
No people is by nature predisposed to take massacres for granted, to kneel before tyranny, and to keep silent against fundamentalism, against injustices. Anyone who does so loses their humanity. We reject getting used to massacres, bomb attacks, and political murders.
We reject putting up with a government that always tries to present massacres, bomb attacks, and political murders as ordinary events.
We reject keeping silent against a government that interferes in other countries’ internal affairs, that instigates terrorists to attack those lands, and that backs those same terrorists in the name of “sacred values” in its own country.
We reject recognizing the law of those who pass new bills in the parliament while tens die due to the indifference, hypocrisy, sinister plans, and ineptitude of the government.
We reject putting up with the bourgeoisie and moneybags who think the sun rises and sets on their profits in this bloodbath. We reject tolerating those enemies of humanity, the so-called “experts” of the mass media who mock the grief of people and threaten them.
We reject leaving the Turkish Airlines administration in peace, as they employ ISIS sympathizers in the most critical positions.We reject accepting a Prime Minister who claims that “there was no security flaw in the airport” and those officials who left the surviving passengers without any assistance in Taksim square in the middle of the night.
We will not tolerate those cab drivers, who only care about money, who overcharged people in desperate need of help, while tarnishing their colleagues’ reputation who rushed the injured to the hospital free of charge.
As the people, it is not in our nature to become hardened to these massacres, to succumb to tyranny and to keep silent in the face of fundamentalism and injustice. Ones who do so lose their humanity and they do not deserve to be called the “people.”
The solution will not come from heavens! This country will not see bright days without the struggle for it!
Do not simply complain, get organized! While our people are being massacred, the bosses are grumbling about “country’s reputation” and “loss of revenues in tourism.”
Stand up and fight those bosses and the reactionary government that they have installed in our country like a curse. Do not leave that task to others.
Rise up!
Communist Party, Turkey (KP)
