Antimilitarist Solidarity Network / Turkey

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by Antimilitarist Solidarity Network / Turkey

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The common statement of our friends who will stand declare their anti-war

stance through 'conscience objection' and 'total objection' on Friday:

We will declare our personal statements at the Human Rights Association
(IHD) in Istanbul on Friday, 24 January 2003 at 11:00 AM. We appreciate your
presence and solidarity!

Address: Insan Haklarý Dernegi (Human Rights Association)
Beyoglu/ Istanbul

Tel: +90-212 / 2513526 - 2444423

"WE SHALL NOT BE ANYONE'S SOLDIERS!"

We, who swear to never to join nor cooperate with any armed forces that
undertake the
defense mission of organized domination and exploitation, refuse to
participate in an army, in any preparation of war, and in war itself!

Therefore, we consider opposition to the preparations of war that currently
occupy the agenda to be totally legitimate, and proclaim that we will resist
these preparations and will work to foster an anti-war attitude. We shall
struggle for a free world without discrimination, boundaries and classes,
and against domination and plunder over mankind and nature.

We believe in the necessity of a state of continuous action until the last
epaulet on a uniform and the last landmine on earth are removed. And since
we also believe that the elimination of the causes of war is a guiding path
that leads to the foundation of a free world, we won't be anyone's soldiers!

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Proclamation of the Antimilitarist Solidarity Network is as the following:

To anyone who has received this proclamation!

Are you not fed up too? Didn't you also wake up this morning with a
crippling rage at a world which keeps getting organized against your will?
In these days, when we are overwhelmed with cries for war, we are informed
about decisions that control our lives, the lives of our beloved ones, and
the lives of many others unknown to us through television and newspapers.

We didn't make these decisions and we don't want them! We don't want to be
in nor under a bomber plane.

We don't want to kill and have no intentions of dying yet. And we don't want
anyone else to carry on such deeds in our names with money stolen from our
pockets!

But we do know that as the result of various bargains, governments will
declare WAR again and they will not bother themselves with our opinions. And
yet we shall be affected by these resolutions for the rest of all our lives,
as the aftermath of bombs will last decades, even centuries. Remember
Hiroshima. Don't forget Halepce. The south-eastern part of this country is
still covered with landmines!

There is another possibility;

To claim your own conscience and say "NO!"

Let's refuse to provide "human resources" for war!

WE REFUSE TO SERVE THE ARMY. WE REFUSE to serve in any
field of militarism. We SAY NO to war!

Within the last ten years, more than thirty people in Turkey have chosen
this path, and now many are preparing to do the same in the very near
future. They will declare their CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION and TOTAL OBJECTION.
We will be in solidarity with those who refuse to be a cog in the machinery.
We call everyone to claim their own conscience. It's in our hands to tuck in
the tails of a handful of barkers, the profiteers of war.

REFUSE! RESIST! SAY NO!

DON'T BE A SOLDIER!"