As the revolutionary newspaper Yeni Demokrasi reported on 02 December, militants of the TKP/ML have put up banners in Istanbul to commemorate the martyrs who died in the People's War in Dersim in 1997 and 2016. The comrades called with the banners to commemorate the martyrs and to develop the people's war. In addition, a statement was published in which the comrades wrote:
"We commemorate the martyrs of Ese Yaylası and Aliboğazı who coloured the month of November red with the determination to keep the flag of struggle they raised even higher. The commemoration of our immortalised is a response to the massacres and attacks against the working and labouring classes, especially the Kurdish nation."
