ARGONAUTS FOR THE LIBERATION
OF PROMETHEUS - ÖCALAN
By Michalis Charalambidis*
In Kalolymnos, this is the Greek name of
Imrali, it is not only the legal representative of an indigenous historic
people that is prisoned for twelve years, Abdullah Öcalan. It is Democracy and
Human Dignity that are imprisoned as well. Just as Nelson Mandela was
imprisoned on Robben Island of Racist South Africa.
It was Öcalan and the Kurdish movement that
fueled the procedures of democratization and humanization in Asia Minor.
The
response to this request was a new genocide, that of the Kurds.
For this new crime the Turkish military and
political leaderships are guilty and must be indicted to the International
Criminal Court of Hague. Years ago the then President of the Court Carla del
Ponte said that it was their turn.
This was later suppressed for interest related reasons. We had the classic
policy of preservation and tolerance of the Turkish slaughterhouse, of which
the first moral and political prosecutor was Rosa Luxemburg.
In Greece the name Kurds, Kurdia and Öcalan is
forbidden after the crime in 1999. The Kurdish fighters are now facing many
obstacles and humiliations by the pervert cooperation between Ankara and Athens
(non-Athens so as not to offend the name of Athens).
The so-called left-wing, both official and
unofficial, ignores both Kalolymnos of 1915-1922 and the Imrali of 1999-2011.
Between 1915 and 1922 all of its Greek habitants were exterminated, just a few
survived.
There is an internationally growing campaign of
solidarity for the liberation of Abdullah Öcalan. Protagonists of this are Noam
Chomsky and the South African Bishop Desmond Tutu. The best of modern Humanism
and Internationalism. During the '80s and early '90s, we were only four or five
people in Europe. Now we are many.
There are two symbolic dates. One is August
9th, Day of Indigenous Peoples Worldwide. The Kurds are indigenous. The Turks
are not. I write in my last book about it [1]. The other is August 15. It is
the day of August 1984 during which a few young people attacked the Turkish SS, instigating a movement that changes
the Political, Economic Geography and Institutional Architecture of Asia Minor.
Either on the 9th of August or the 15th of
August, we can all people who consider the prison of Imrali an Ecumenical
shame, to besiege with sailboats this island in the center of Marmara, which
was transformed into a death place. The history of our region is rich in
symbols which constitute symbolisms for the whole world. The campaign can be
called «Argonauts for the Liberation of Prometheus Desmotes (Prometheus
Bound)».
In the Marmara Sea shall meet sailboats coming
from the Euxeinos Pontos (Black Sea), Bulgaria - Russia - Ukraine through the
Bosporus and those that will come from the Aegean through the Hellespont. There
can participate also Kurds, Arabs, Lazes, Pontians, Turks from Constantinople.
But I think that these times are not only
mature enough, but also actual and necessary the solidarity to initiatives of
this type from representatives of all churches and religions that are based in
Constantinople. Orthodox - Catholic - Jews - Sunni - Shia - Alevi. It is a
period very critical and demanding for the Turkish Islam so that it not only
gets rid of the guilt and crimes of the past but also to stop repeating them
while manipulated politically.
This is a setting of peaceful coexistence and
mutual respect between people regardless of religion and nationality.
In Kalolymnos, Imrali are deemed in practice
these values.
With the Öcalan Bound in Imrali there can be no solution to
the chronic Turkish pathology, the Turkish problem.
Unfortunately there is no Hellenic
Institutional leadership group to make this clear in Brussels and all over the
Ecumene. But it is hopeful, pleasant so as to get out of the contaminated cloud
of hypocrisy, of lies, of tolerance, the fact that young directors are keen on
raising the Prometheus Desmotes of Aeschylus adapted to Öcalan Desmotes.
It's time for the
return of theater in Asia Minor. In its destroyed, empty and buried in the land
theaters.
* Exempt from Radio interview in 2011. [2]
[1] “Asia Minor unites,
Turkey barbarizes – Pontos, the return of a very ancient identity”, Michalis
Charalambidis, Stravon Publications, 2011.
[2] The text was distributed during the press
conference of Abdullah Öcalan’s lawyers held in Athens, on 4th of
November 2015, in the hall of the Athens’ Bar Association. The interview was
attended by the HDP MP, Dilek Öcalan, niece of the leader of the Kurdish
people.
Michalis Charalambidis’ blogspot
polis-agora.blogspot.com
