Turkey, ABC Istanbul: Solidarity with imprisoned vegan anarchist Osman Evcan on hunger strike since Nov 10

Turkey, ABC Istanbul: Solidarity with imprisoned vegan
anarchist Osman Evcan on hunger strike since Nov 10
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)

Who is Osman Evcan? ---- Osman Evcan who was born on 1959 in Samsun is an anarchist 
prisoner who spent his last 23 years in prison. İn 1992 he was sentenced to 30 years in 
prison with the charges of being a member of a leftist terrorist group and robbery. He was 
also imprisoned for 9 years between 1980-1989. Since Osman adopted anarchist ideas in 
2003, he also became vegan and supports animal liberation struggles. ---- Osman Evcan was 
imprisoned in many different prisons all over the country during his conviction, he built 
his life fighting against authoritarian violence and especially the violence and 
oppression which is a systemic part of the prison’s hierarchical structure, and he still 
continues his fight against prison’s oppressive mentality, without giving an inch, 
aspiring to the right standards for anarchist, vegan, libertarian individuals.

Osman’s first barnburner act was his hunger strike in 2011 for vegan food to be available 
in prison which lasted 42 days. During his hunger strike the anarchists, animal 
liberationists from all over the World and in Turkey supported Osman’s fight to access 
vegan food in prison. After 42 days of hunger strike the government gave in and made 
regulations for the vegan and vegetarian prisoners: “Vegan or vegetarian prisoners demands 
will be accepted as long as its limited by subsistence
allowance”. After this victory of all anarchists, animal liberationists and political 
prisoners, Osman continued to be in the anarchist struggle during his time in prison. He 
has supported the LGBT, Animal Liberation, women rights, anti imperialism struggles 
outside prison and he made hunger strikes to protest the animal massacre during each 
‘feast of sacrifice’ every year for 3 days, he wrote articles to support nature, ethnic 
and different identities against government’s and comprador bourgeoisie’s raids and he 
still continues his political fight as much as he can from prison.

Osman Evcan was convicted of being a member of a leftist terrorist group, he 
self-criticized himself by saying that both capitalist and socialist system forms for 
being are statist and colonist formations. To quote his own words: “Veganism is not only a 
capitalism contrast it also includes socialism contrast. Veganism is civilization 
contrast. Veganism has an all out attitude against technological destruction, violence, 
human species alienation to nature and to itself, ecological pillage, pollution, 
colonialism, global warming. Act of civilization has a common history with statist forms 
of organizations. The idea of a state grown up process starting from primitive-simple 
history ongoing modernization continuum for thousands of years and transforming to nation 
state is a result of civilization. We cant separate This ongoing, mutually reinforcing 
facts that produce each other, from each other. Veganism is a radical attitude against all...”

Osman Evcan is still in Kocaeli no 1 high security prison. The pressure against him 
continues to increase. After his hunger strike for 33 days on June 2015 he took vegan food 
supplies one step further and he gained the right to get vegan food from outside the 
prisons. The prison administration usurped this gain due to arbitrarily reasons. Osman 
Evcan continues his indefinite hunger strike since 10 November 2015.

ABC İSTANBUL

Write to the comrade:

Osman Evcan:
Kocaeli 1 Nolu F Tipi Cezaevi
A-7-21
Kandıra / KOCAELİ
TURKEY

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