It is with deep regret and profound sorrow that the Leadership, Staff and Volunteers of the Irish National Liberation Army and the Ard Comhairle, Area and Local Executives of the Irish Republican Socialist Party learned of the death of Comrade Zehra Kulaksiz of TAYAD.

Comrade Zehra Kulaksiz gave her life after 221 days on Death Fast, not only for her comrades in the Turkish F-type isolation prisons, but for those who struggle for freedom everywhere. Our thoughts are with Zehra's family and her comrades at this time.

In the twenty years since our own Hunger Strike we have remembered our own three comrades who fell martyred then with their seven IRA comrades and from this point on we will always remember Zehra and her comrades with pride. As Socialists and communist's we take solace from the second verse of The International.

"Should these vile monsters still determine.
Heroes to make us in despite.
They will know full soon the type of vermin.
Our bullets strike in this last fight."

WE ARE WITH YOU! YOU SHALL WIN!

Statement issued by Terry Harkin
Irish Republican Socialist Party,
International Department
European Secretary

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