Threat against workers, toilers, the oppressed, the Kurdish people, and friends of Palestine in the person of the revolutionary attorney Şiar Rişvanoğlu!
We the undersigned stand in solidarity with Şiar Rişvanoğlu, an attorney who has spent decades systematically defending the exploited and the oppressed and a member of the Revolutionary Workers Party of Turkey (DIP), against the explicit death menace he has received from the so-called “Turkish Vengeance Brigade”, a band of assassins that in the past has killed hundreds of leftists, which is simply an extension of the mainstream fascist movement of Turkey, sometimes identified as the “Grey Wolves”.
The death menace was directed to Şiar Rişvanoğlu as a reaction to the speech he made at the General Assembly of the Bar Association of Adana, an industrial hub where he works and lives and has run as a candidate in the past in municipal elections, welding the indignation of the workers and the determination of the oppressed Kurds and women. Rişvanoğlu simply defended fighting workers all over Turkey, in particular the meat factory workers of Polonez in the Istanbul region, who have been fighting for the last three months the brazen violation of their right to unionization, as well as the oppressed Kurdish people and women, and the Palestinian people against Zionism and imperialism.
We demand that the Turkish authorities make sure that the source of the threat is identified and the danger on his life is averted so that Rişvanoğlu continues his work of defending the exploited and the oppressed unharmed.
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