PEACE IN KURDISTAN CAMPAIGN / Press Release 6 February 2012
BDP chair Demirtas denounces the silence of the international community in face of increasingly violent repression of Turkey’s Kurds. The chair of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Selahattin Demirtas criticised the international community for its refusal to condemn Turkey following the recent air attack on Kurdish civilians which killed 35 people, mostly youths, on 28 December. His comments came as part of an address in a public meeting in Parliament last Tuesday, which was hosted by Hywel Williams MP, and included contributions from Lord Rea, human rights lawyer Margaret Owen and Jeremy Corbyn MP.
HPG (PKK) ON MILITARY ACTIVITIES – TO THE PRESS AND PUBLIC INFORMATION ON THE INCIDENT OF HAKKARI
We have already made a statement that we have nothing to the with the incident occurred in the City Central of Hakkari on the night of 19 January. Yet, despite this statement, attempts continues to make us responsible about this incident.
Once more, we need to share with the public that we have nothing to do with incident occurred in Hakkari. It is important for our people and the general public to know that it is a dirty plot made by the police, and trying to blame on us.
HPG Media and Communication Center 04.02.2012
KCK: New period to witness inevitable revolutionary resistance
06 February 2012 – The war will continue different from the previous period, said Cemil Bayık – In a statement to ANF, KCK (Kurdish Communities Union) Executive Council member Cemil Bayık made significant statements on the current and coming process in Turkey. Bayık stated that a new step will be taken as of February and continued as follows; “Above all things, the Kurdish Freedom Movement has given a great struggle and for the last seven months in political, military and ideological areas. It could have been unable to achieve all its goals but the political achievement definitely belongs to itself.
Uludere investigation ‘unreliable’: Amnesty International
ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News – 6.2.2012 – Amnesty International described the investigation on the Uludere raid that left 34 villagers dead as “unreliable,” in a letter sent by the organization to Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin.
Turkey: “Usual Suspects” Educated About Potential Arrest (PLA Statement)
05 Feb 2012 GIT North America - Members of the Progressive Lawyers Association [PLA] declared that they would be starting a new seminar aimed at educating all dissident citizens, starting with students, journalists, academics, and writers on the terminology of arrest and what that legally entails, such as “evidence” or “take under custody.” The “Usual Suspects Education” will thus provide important strategic information involved in the processes of arrest, detention and sentence.
94 journalists work for the Kurdish media in prison in Turkey, says European Parliamentary
February 5, 2012 – ANF – Firat News – Dicle Haber – ekurd – BRUSSELS, — European Parliament member Patrick Le Hyaric, Vice-Chair of European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL), wrote a letter to the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Catherine Ashton, in relation to the imprisoned journalists in Turkey, reports ANF. Below is the letter in which Patrick Le Hyaric asks EU to intervene in the case of jailed journalists to enable them practice their job freely and independently.
“Under the guise of fight against terrorism, the Turkish authorities have recently arrested around a hundred journalists and media workers. Among these journalists who were taken to the court in Istanbul, there is also one who suffers serious health problems but denied to be taken in consideration by the Turkish judiciary. Apart from this group, many others are imprisoned for months, even years. How can the EU ever show tolerance to this situation without triggering alert procedure, or how doesn’t it ever demand freedom for journalists in a country candidate to the European Union?
I would like to know Madame High-Representative whether you intend to perform an intervention to ensure respect to the right of Turkish journalists to exercise their profession freely and independently.
The European Federation of Journalists which has nearly 250,000 members is very attentive and concerned about this serious situation. I am as well joining the Federation to demand the release of all journalists who are unjustly imprisoned in Turkey.” According to the latest report of the Platform of Jailed Journalists Support (TGDP), the number of journalists in prison is 105, including 19 grant holder and editors in chief. Among jailed journalists, there are 27 journalists from DIHA, 16 journalists from Kurdish daily Azadiya Welat, including four former editors and an editor, 12 journalists from Özgür Gündem and three journalists from Fırat News Agency (ANF).
NEW TESEV REPORT: The new Turkish delight: More Muslim, more modern / By Mustafa Akyol
HURRIYET 5.2.2012 – TESEV, probably the most prominent think tank in Turkey, launched a survey report titled, “The Perception of Turkey in The Middle East, 2010.” This is the second report of its kind trying to measure Turkey’s popularity in the Arab world. Through face-to-face or telephone interviews with 2,267 people in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq (and also Iran), TESEV researchers found out that the Turkish ascendancy in the Middle East is not a myth.
GENERAL HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT FOR TURKEY Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TIHV) – January 2012
(01/001) Torture and ill-treatment in detention…
B.Y. who had been taken to Ba?lar Security Directorate to give testimony on the fight he participated was beaten in Diyarbak?r Province on 1 January 2011. B.Y.’s jaw, teeth and nasal bone were fractured due to the tortured he was subjected to (ANF, 2 January).
(01/002) Coercion in prisons…
The administration of Bitlis E Tipi Type Closed Prison sentenced the hunger strikers who protest the prison conditions of Abdullah Öcalan to ban of communication for 6 months including table visits reported on 1 January 2012 (D?HA, 1 January).
TEIL I ULUDERE REPORT TEIL II : DER GENERAL-MENSCHENRECHTS – REPORT TÜRKEI JANUAR 2012 / Bericht der Menschenrechtsvereine IHD und MAZLUMDER
Übersetzung aus dem Türkischen ins Deutsche durch das DTF – 29. Dezember 2011
Vertreter von IHD und MAZLUMDER brachen nach Uludere auf, sobald der Vorfall bekannt wurde. Gegen 17.00 Uhr kamen sie in Uludere an und suchten das Staatliche Krankenhaus Uludere auf, wo sich einige der Leichen befanden.
AUS DER SERIE: “ALLES FASCHISTEN” : Demirtaş: Dies ist kein Gefängnis, sondern ein Konzentrationslager
Siehe Näheres Mesop: (http://www.mesop.de/?p=17499 )
Der Co-Vorsitzende der Partei für Frieden und Demokratie (BDP) Selahattin Demirtaş besuchte den im Rahmen der „KCK-Operationen“ inhaftierten BDP-Abgeordneten für RIHA (Urfa) Ibrahim Ayhan. Vor den Toren des Gefängnisses sagte der BDP-Co-Vorsitzende:
„Zuerst möchte ich eines feststellen: Das eben besuchte Gefängnis ist kein Gefängnis sondern ein Konzentrationslager. Obwohl es für nur 267 Personen gebaut wurde, sitzen hier 1038 momentan in Haft. Also mehr als 3-mal so viel! In Zellen, die für 3 Personen eingerichtet sind, befinden sich 10–13 Menschen. Man lässt sie auf den Boden oder 2 Personen in einem Bett schlafen. Rechtlich gesehen sind die Haftanstaltsbedingungen unbestreitbar miserabel. Wir werden diese unmöglichen Bedingungen dem türkischen Parlament vorlegen. Unser Abgeordneter Ibrahim Ayhan erwähnte bereits von den unglaublichen Umständen in den Gefängnissen, jedoch berührte mich der Anblick während des Besuches ziemlich.“
Quelle: ANF, 25.01.2012, ISKU
Alles, was rein additiv Selahattin Demirtas hier aufzählt, belegt das Gegenteil dessen, was er behauptet: Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen waren keine Orte der personellen Überbesetzung und der damit verbundenen Knappheit von Belegbetten, sondern etwas gänzlich anderes.
Er mag das nicht besser wissen.
Die es ihm sagen könnten, Deutsche der postfaschistischen Generation, direkte Nachfolger der Täter also und Rezipienten Tausender Berichte und Dokumentationen über das Geschehen in akribisch-buchhalterisch betriebenen Lagern, die keine Entlassung kannten, sondern nur den systematisch vollzogenen ausnahmslosen Mord.
Diese Spätgeborenen muß man moralisch ohrfeigen, wenn sie gedankenlos autoritätsfixiert die Verkehrung von Auschwitz ins Gegenteil nachplappern.
MESOP