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Erol Daşdelen, a member of HDP Youth Assembly who was subjected to heavy attacks by the police of the AKP fascism in Heskîf, stated that the attacks were directed towards the leadership role of the youth and said, “Despite the attacks, we fired the first spark here. We will not give up this spark until it turns into a torch.”
Assumption policies against the youth and attacks by the state forces are being aggravated day by day with the concept of total war initiated by AKP fascism in 2015. Young people who have been kidnapped and forced to be agitated by the attacks have increased in the last two years; they are also beaten and attacked by the AKP police.
In spite of all the dirty assimilation policies and attacks of AKP fascism, the young people who were organized and strengthened were attacked on 12 June in the protest they wanted to carry out in the district, against the decision to submerge the historic Heskîf district of îlîh.
The fact that 33 young people were beaten by fascist policemen and detained and tortured became the last link of the attacks of AKP fascism. Erol Daşdelen, a member of the Youth Assembly of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) was subjected to the assault and torture of fascist policemen. He evaluated the state’s attacks on young people and said that the state’s aggressive policies could not yield results and the organized power of the youth grew.
YOUNG PEOPLE ARE SOLID IN RESISTANCE
Daşdelen stated that they had been attacked when they wanted to appeal to the conscience against the genocide of the historical Heskîf district and said, “We see that there is isolation in Hasankeyf on history, culture and existence. This isolation was performed on teenagers everywhere. They practised brutal isolation. The Hasankeyf attack on young people like us has never been experienced before. We faced heavy weapons, batons, hate. And we resolutely stood by the resistance of the youth against all these.”
WE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ATTACKED IF WE WERE TAKING DRUGS
Stating that the attack on young people in Heskîf was directed towards the leadership role of young people, Daşdelen said, “They made heavy attacks because they knew that young people were a force to renew society. If the youth had used substances in Hasankeyf’s caves, we would not have been subjected to heavy attacks like this. On the contrary, they would support us and create space.
Despite the attacks, we fired the first spark here. Until we turn this spark into a torch we need to support this spark of resistance among our people. If we produce sound, the sparks turn into torches”
Criticising the silence against Heskîf’s being submerged Daşdelen said, “There has been silence for 6 years. But that doesn’t mean we are going to be quiet from now on. Regardless, if we make a sound, the spark will turn into a torch.”
‘THEY ARE WORKING TO BUILD BIOPOLITICS ON YOUNG PEOPLE’
Pointing out that the attacks were not the first and started with the establishment of the HDP Youth Assembly, Daşdelen said: “Wherever two young people come together, they face attacks. In this way, they try to agitate the youth, and they try to build their biopolitics on the youth.
They want to leave young people without alternatives. They want to create an alternative on the basis of their own existence. However, as young people want to organize and become free, they are exposed to all kinds of attacks.
We experienced this during the dungeon resistance process. When young people went out on the streets to solidarity with white headscarved mothers, they were subjected to the most severe, brutal and inhuman attacks.”
‘ATTACKS STRENGTHENED US’
Daşdelen underlined that the state did not get results with the attacks against the youth and said, “These attacks strengthened us more. After the release of our friends who were detained for no reason, they came to this party for the first time and these attacks were frustrated when they continued their works. ”
’COMMUNITY PRIORITY’
Reminding that the HDP Youth Assembly has a mission of leading the society, Daşdelen concluded that “Young people are organized in line with the demands of the society in politics, economy and culture and arts, especially in isolation.”
