Funeral of Cigdem Yilmaz
[TIKKO is an acronym for the “Türkiye Isci Köylü Kurtulus Ordusu” (Liberation Army of the Workers and Peasants from Turkey). It is the military wing of the Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist (TKP/ML).
SİVAS/TOKAT | 06 – 07 – 2010 | The two guerilla fighters who were killed on June 29th 2010 in the mountains of Dersim/Ovacik by the Turkish state forces, have been released from the morgue. The funeral of Cigdem Yilmaz was held in Sivas and the one of Ferdi Karacan in Tokat.
During the funeral of Cigdem Yilmaz slogans like “Guerillas don’t die, “Long live people’s war” and “Comrade Cigdem is immortal” were chanted. Cigdem Yilmaz was born in Zara, Sivas in 1983.
The family of Ferdi Karacan brought him to the same Cemevi in Elazig as Cigdem Yilmaz. (Cemevi is the place in where Alevites gather and pray.) From there he was brought to his hometown in Zile/Tokat.
The police tried to drive away the family who were waiting in front of the Cemevi. The police told the family “don’t bring your child to the Cemevi, we can take care of your needs, send him to Tokat, take him away from here, these people will chant slogans”. This information has been provided by close family relatives.
Funeral of Ferdi Karacen Cenaze
The body of Karacan showed many bullet wounds and it can be seen clearly that he was shot from close distance, not from far away as the police claimed in their statement.
Afterwards a commemoration on behalf of the martyrs was held. Representatives from different revolutionary organizations came and participated.
It was also recorded that during the funerals in their hometowns, intense police presence was all around the villages.
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