Funeral of Cafer Kurt sent off to Turkey
Vedat Yeler
ATHENS – The funeral of Cafer Kurt, the patient of Wernike Korsakof, who ended on December 28 in Athens, the capital of Greece, was sent off to Turkey.
Wernike Korsakoff’s patient Cafer Kurt, who lost the results of the death fast and the forced intervention after it, ended in Athens on 28 December due to respiratory failure. Kurt’s funeral was on his way from Athens to be identified in his hometown, Samsun, after a ceremony in the evening today (January 13).
In addition to his friends, many revolutionary and socialist institutions from Greece, Turkey and Kurdistan attended the farewell ceremony held for Kurt. In the ceremonies, which started with a moment of silence, Turkish and other speeches were made by his friends.
‘He spent his life on the values he believed in’
One of his friends, Kamil Yıldız, who was exiled at the same time as Kurt, who went through a difficult exile process after 2002, made brief references to Cafer Kurt’s life story.
Stating that his life story is a debt of loyalty, Yıldız stated that Kurt faced a revolutionary struggle in the ranks of the Communist Party of Turkey (Birlik) in his youth and that he continued this struggle wherever he went. Yıldız, who fell not on behalf of the prisoners of the Turkish Revolution Party (TDP) in the death fast actions that started in 2000 after Kurt was arrested in 1997, noted that Kurt was released and exiled after the death fast process.
Stating that Cafer’s exile groups in Greece are trying to stand on their own feet, Yıldız said, “He gave a really good revolutionary escape effort with his merits, burdens, shortcomings and weaknesses, collapse and resistance. He was a revolutionary person by all means. He didn’t want anything for himself. It has reached the values of uniting the whole.”
‘Despite his obstacles, he did not hold back from his struggle’
Then, Haris Kourdakis made a speech on behalf of SEAAN, the disabled union affiliated with the All Struggling Workers’ Front of Greece (PAME), where Cafer is fighting in exile.
Kourdakis, who drew the sky that Kurt continued an intense struggle against the barbarian capitalist in the class struggle in Greece, said, “Despite his obstacles, he did not stay away from his struggle, he always stood upright and participated in the class struggle in the government in this way. He always acted with us. He took part in the struggle for the disabled, fought for their rights, and existed with all his energy in the class struggle in Greece, together with his responsibility.”
Continuing his speech, Kourdakis continued, “As he took part in the struggle of our people, he took a stance with the peoples of the world against imperialist attacks.” We are going on his front that we will continue this struggle until the end,” he said.
After the ceremony ended with the slogans “Our enemy is one, he is imperialism” and applause, while the ceremony was passed with “Martyr Namirin” in Kurdish, he set off for Turkey.
Kurt’s funeral will be met by his family and friends at the İspala Border Gate around 07:30 on January 14, and he will travel to his hometown, Samsun Bafra.
Kurt will be given after the funeral that will be held on Sunday, January 15th at 12:00 in Bafra.