"Revolutionens martyrer är odödliga - Suzan Zengin lever!"

Idag publicerar vi en rapport, från turkiska kamrater, om Suzan Zengins begravning. Vi är övertygade om att minnet av kamrat Zengin kommer att leva vidare och att hennes exempel kommer att inspirera många, även i Sverige.

Revolutionens martyrer är odödliga - Suzan Zengin lever!

Suzan Zengin was bid fare welled to immortality on the shoulders of her woman comrades in struggle!

16 October 2011
TURKEY | 16 – 10 – 2011 | As a result of a conspiracy filed against the journalist Suzan Zengin she was imprisoned in 2009 and send to the Bakirkoy woman Prison in Istanbul. She was working for the progressive-revolutionary paper Ozgur Gelecek (Free Future) after… she was released from prison she had to undergo a heart surgery but she did not recover and died on October 12th 2011. On October 14th 2011 Suzan Zengin was bid fare walled by her comrades, friends and her family..

The funeral ceremony took place at the Cemevi (Place oft he Alevits to pray and gather) in Tuzla Aydinli. Many press institutions and individuals joined the ceremony. Also a representative of ATIK, CHD (Contemporary Laywer’s Association), Ozgur Gelecek (the paper she worked for), DDSB (Revolutionary Democrat Trade Union), BDSP, Partizan, IHD (the human rights association), Yeni Demokrat Kadin (New Democrat Woman Organisation), DHF, TGDP, ESP and many other representatives of political parties and democratic mass organisations. Her woman comrades carried her coffin, they were marching next to the masses who were chanting slogans and who carried posters and banners. Banners writing „The Martyr’s oft he Revolution are Immortal- Suzan Zengin is Alive!“ was signed by the Magazine Partizan and another banner said, „Isolation-tretman policies continue to kill“. In front oft he banners there were wreathes from ATIK, Partizan and Ozgur Gelecek.

During the march slogans like “Human Honur will defeat Torture!”, “ The Socialist Press cannot be Silenced!”, “Long Live Revolutionary Solidarity!”, “Not to Isolation-Isolation Kills!” were chanted besides this, posters of communist leader Ibrahim Kaypakkaya were seen too.

A representative of Partizan said: „comrade Suzan was always shoulder on shoulder with her press identity her photo camera and her pen on the side with the striking and resisting workers and toiling masses. She wrote about their hopes and aspirations, she became the voice of those that struggle and demand a better tomorrow. Of course this situation was also „noticed“ by the state. On August 28th 2009 in the early morning hours the police special team forces raided her house and took her under arrest in front oft her sons eyes. During her imprisonment she was not allowed to get a regular check up from a doctor. After she was released she started to get heart pains, which she didn’t before entering prison. Suzan we will never forget you and will not let you be forgotten, we pledge.” Also it was said that the “real murder of Suzan was the state because he did provide the need health care for her.“

Also the husband of Suzan Bekir Zengin said that Suzan was arrested as a result of conspiracy and he said, „when my wife was imprisoned she had some health problems but not that big as it became during her imprisonment and the state did not allow her to get the needed treatment. Her health conditions got worse. When she came out from prison it was already to late. My wife was besides being a journalist a great human rights activist. What ever there was in live she became concerned with it, she had morality and ideals, we lost her to early“

Musician Pinar Sag also said that „revolutionaries are the travellers of the very superior tradition oft he idiom ‚don’t’ breath a word about it’ the struggle and resistance given by Suzan will be carried by the next generation under the name of a better tomorrow of a free future“.

After the ceremony she was brought tot he cemetery of Aydinli.
AHM-ATIK News Center