ABOUT THE TEN

This poem is dedicated to the revolutionary prisoners who were and are on indefinite hunger strike to resist the isolation type of prisons.

The chain of solidarity continues with hungerstrikes around Europe to support the demands of revolutionary prisoners in Turkey:

Ten Human beingsTen lives
Ten honourable, decent lives
Ten hungry lives
Ten angry lives

They said…
This is not life what we live
The sun is forbidden
The air is forbidden
Faces of their loved ones
Their voices and smiles
Conversation is forbidden
At the bottom of a pit, a well, a hole
Concrete wherever I look
And iron bars
And metal mesh
A coffin.
They buried us alive mother
This is not life
We are like creatures here
Not human.

Then they said…
The hell with it
We have had enough..

We declare that!
We are not putting up
With the kind of life
You enforced upon us
For the sake of our people
For the future of our children
For our country
For our thoughts, beliefs and traditions

Food no more…

And then they laid their bodies
To the mercy of hunger
No one can imagine
What it is like to be hungry
Unless one faced poverty.
Only our people
Or people like Palestinians
Or Asians, Africans, South Americans…
Will know what it is like.
Living with a scrap of food

Today is the 7th of May
Twenty twenty five
Sercan Ahmet Arslan is on his two hundredth day
That’s almost seven months
Serkan Onur Yılmaz is following his comrade with
Three weeks behind
And three days after him Mulla Zincir is following
And then young Baki Can Işık
He is a Revolutionary Youth member, you know.
And his mum Yurdagül Gümüş
Mother and son
Both resisting like warriors
Shoulder to shoulder
Hearts to heart
Mind to mind…

Mithat Öztürk comes next
And then the Grup Yorum
With their songs and anthems
Of resistance and dignity
Of struggle and fight
Of not giving up
About life and death
Love for people and country
In the shape of Ali Aracı and Ali Hasan Akgün
And then Alberk Demirdöğen
Fikret Akar is the next in line
Like a soldier

Ten minds and souls
Ten honourable human beings
Ten revolutionaries
Ten free captives.
Free in mind but in captivity
They may be captives but
They are not alone

Millions of hearts are beating
-Amongst billions of people-
In rhythm and harmony
I can hear them.
One day millions of hearts
Will sing the songs of freedom
In rhythm and harmony
Will sing the battle songs
In rhythm and harmony

Until the last monster,
Until the last oppressor, exploiter,
The last tyrant is wiped off
The face of earth.

7 May 2025
Wigan, England

The story of the Ten is ongoing.
Their struggle is ours too
Their demands are also ours
No isolation in prisons
Return them where they were previously
Forced transfers are torture
So that they can contact to their friends
Close down the well-type, solitary confinement type
dungeons they call S, R, Y type prisons.
Immediately release the sick prisoners.
Long live our hunger strike resistance
Revolutionary prisoners are our honour.

SOLIDARITY ACTION CHAIN CONTINUES, JOIN US. INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY WILL BREAK THE ISOLATION.