Revolution. That is why thousands of workers. One small example is the recent blocking of the $58 million loan Turkey's military authorities have announced that Fikri died on Saturday, 4 May. military communique claimed he died from a beart attack. Yet, in spite of requests from his family and Amnesty International for a postmortem, authorities burial the very next day.
Sonmez, who had been detained since the military September 1980, was in the last two months put once more into soltary confinement and subjected to torture. his dealn, nke lose ol Wally Oniels who have died in the hands of the torturers is highly suspicious.
It was in the municipal elections of October 1979 that Fikri Sonmez, a tailor, was elected mayor of Fatsa, a small town on the Black Sea coast of Turkey. He was instrumental in implementing with the active support of the inhabitants of Fatsa a radical programme of civil works.
This popular movement in the tiny town of Fatsa could not be tolerated by the military, who before the coup on 13 July moved into Fatsa and dissolved the municipal council. One thousand people were arrested on that day.
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The the military enforced a rapid face brutal prisons, coup of Town Campaign, St Helens, Hackney, Fatsa, Torture is still widespread in Turkish jails When the military seized power, Fatsa was again a prime target. Today 740 people are standing trial, 691 of whom are in custody, 261 are being tried with the death penalty, 416 for sentences between 5-iS years and the rest for 2-5 years. The rights of the accused to defend themselves are severely curtailed and they are having to conditions in military subjected to torture and councils throughout Western Europe have already passed resolanons condemnile the Fatsa trial in an international campaign for the defence of the prisoners. In Bri. tain, through the Solidarity the councils of Barnsley, West Yorkshire County Council and the London boroughs of Camden have added their voice and Islington, Haringey international outcry The death of Fikri Sonmez is pro of of the necessity to maintain and ex tend the campaign for the defence of political prisoners victims military repression in Turkey . Next to the 740 in tens more throughout Turkey face the inhuman conditions and brutal methods