The roots of this contra-guerrilla date back to the time, long before the coup of 1980. For example, Catli was acting as chief of the Grey Wolves already before 1980. International and national experience with the resistance of the oppressed peoples taught the contra-guerrilla how to refine and extent their methods. More and more money had to be put in the machinery of oppression, more and more people were forced to become village guards. The units of the contra-guerrilla were strengthened, and nowadays even the traffic police carries machine guns.
All police stations are torture centres at the same time.
The rulers now very well they lost the legitimacy for their rule a long time ago. Their only protection is the seeming invincibility of their almost immeasurable apparatus of repression. The prisons in Turkey are overcrowded with tens of thousands of political prisoners. Executions in broad daylight and the torture of children are just the top of the iceberg of crimes against humanity, still committed by the forces of the Turkish state. The power of the rulers in Turkey is based on this iceberg.