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The last letter of Ramazan Yukarýgöz, a prisoner tried and hanged in the aftermath of the 1980 military intervention, was delivered to his mother 26 years after it was written by the prisoner only 10 minutes before his execution.
Yukarýgöz, Mehmet Kanbur, Erdoðan Yazgan and Ömer Yazgan, all members of the Turkish People’s Liberation Party/Front (THKP/C), were apprehended by police forces in a clash after they allegedly committed a robbery in the Akyazý district of Sakarya province in 1981. They were kept in Gölcük Military Prison for about two years and then hanged in 1983.
‘’They were allowed to write letters to their families before the execution, but those letters were not delivered to the relevant recipients because it was considered inconvenient,’’ the head of the Revolutionist 78ers Federation, Ruþen Sümbüloðlu, said during a ceremony in which Yukarýgöz’s letter was presented to his mother. The Revolutionist 78ers Federation, a civil society organization, has been trying to obtain the four prisoners’ last letters for two and a half years.
In addition to Yukarýgöz’s letter, Kambur’s letter was found in 2006; the original copies of the other two prisoners’ letters are still missing despite all efforts made by the organization. Speaking at the ceremony, Yukarýgöz’s mother said she lived solely to see her son’s last letter. ‘’I will live to see those who led the 1980 coup tried and punished now,’’ she added. The prisoner’s brother said his family’s hatred for the 1980 junta administration has grown even more because they were forced to wait 26 years to receive the last letter of his hanged brother.
Source: http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=169904
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It´s horrible they need to wait that long!
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