Speech Saturday 8th September

September 9th 2001

Expel Turkey's Representative in Ireland - IRSP

In a statement following yesterdays national rally at the GPO, Dublin, in support of Turkish hunger strikers, Irish Republican Socialist Party representative, Mr Micky Og Devine said, "Today's rally should just be the start of a mass solidarity movement which is needed to break down the silence surrounding  our comrades struggle for justice.

"The military Turkish state is employing all forms of the repressive measures at their disposal to annihilate this revolutionary struggle. So we must employ clear, decisive, solidarity actions in order to change this ongoing massacre, such as today's call made from the platform, that the 26 County administration must immediately expel Turkey's representative in Ireland and for an increased campaign until the political prisoners in Turkey have fully achieved their demands."

Addressing the rally which had Turkey hunger striker representative committees from across Ireland in attendance, Mr Devine said "Let no Irish republican or socialist stand idly by whilst there is still a continuing death fast in Turkey. The working class people of Ireland is with you!"

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