MLKP and HBDH fighter Sinan Güneş laid to rest

Farewell to MLKP and HBDH fighter Sinan Güneş in Istanbul.

Sinan Güneş (Sefkan Bulut) came from the town Kızıldere in the province of Tokat in northern Turkey. Under the impression of the Rojava revolution, he joined MLKP (Marxist Leninist Communist Party) at the end of 2014. After the ISIS massacre in Suruç in July 2015, which took place under the supervision of the police and the Turkish secret service MIT and cost 33 young people their lives, he decided to follow the path of a professional revolutionary.

The following spring, Sinan Güneş finally joined the "Armed Forces of the Oppressed and Poor" (FESK), the armed arm of MLKP. From there, he went to the Black Sea region in the ranks of the Peoples’ United Revolutionary Movement (HBDH), and finally, he stayed in the Serhad region of Northern Kurdistan with a mixed guerrilla unit consisting of members of the HBDH, FESK and the People's Defense Forces (HPG). On 29 April this year, he and three of his friends died in a Turkish air raid in Kağızman district of Kars province.

Dozens of people joined the farewell to the fallen guerrilla fighter at the Cemevi (Alevi place of worship) in Gazi neighborhood of Istanbul on Saturday. The neighborhood witnessed a heavy presence of police forces with dozens of armored vehicles deployed everywhere.

The Cemevi was also besieged by the police who did not allow access to the area till 5 pm in the late afternoon, after which only the family members and the closest relatives of Güneş were allowed to enter Cemevi for the funeral prayer. The other mourners and journalists were threatened with arrest and denied access.

Following the funeral prayer, body of Güneş was put into coffin covered with a red flag. The funeral procession then moved to the Gazi Cemetery under police siege. The guerrilla fighter was then laid to rest.