KJK Coordination Member stated that ISIS gangs and the perpetrators of the Sivas Massacre share the same mentality, and argued that future attacks on language, culture, ethics and politics could be repelled by a strong and serious resistance.
KJK Coordination Member Ayten Dersim stated that ISIS gangs and the perpetrators of the Sivas Massacre share the same mentality, and argued that future attacks on language, culture, ethics and politics could be repelled by a strong and serious resistance. Dersim commemorated the civilians massacred in Sivas, and called for a joint resistance.
Dersim criticized the Sivas attack targeting Alevi faith and culture, and said those who died in Sivas were the martyrs of Alevi people, Kurdish people, women, and progressive humans. Dersim said that what happened in Madımak is being repeated in Rojava, which makes the joint struggle of people inevitable.
‘ISIS CONTINUES THE MENTALITY OF MADIMAK’
Dersim pointed out that denial and assimilation policies targeting peoples, faiths, and religious and ethnic groups emerged as a nation-state policy well before 1993, but have taken new shapes and forms since 1993. Dersim said that people resisted these oppressive policies with their identities, will and consciousness, as the construction of democratic modernity continues. Dersim stated that ISIS gangs in Rojava continue the mentality of denial and assimilation that were prevalent in Sivas in 1993.
'WE WILL SUCCEED BY COMING TOGETHER'
Dersim stated that people, women and Alevis could only repel the attacks on their language, culture, ethics and politics through a strong and serious resistance, and said that their conscious struggle grows everyday. Dersim mentioned the June 7 elections and said that Alevis have the chance to represent themselves and resist policies of denial and assimilation more effectively. Dersim stated that women and Alevi people have seen the oppressive state power of AKP and resisted AKP hegemony through increasing their level of bottom-up mobilization and consciousness.
'THEY COULD NOT DESTROY THROUGH MASSACRES AND WILL NEVER SUCCEED’
Dersim emphasized that peoples and cultures could not and would not be destroyed through such massacres, and said that the state is trying to weaken Alevi self-organization by providing Alevis small political incentives for their participation in state mechanisms. Dersim stated that the state could not destroy Alevis in 1938, and is now using ‘white massacre’ methods against this community just like it has been doing with regards to other groups across Kurdistan.
