Droits de l’Homme / Human Rights : European Peace & Democracy Assembly Meets in Düsseldorf
Conforming to the resolution of the European Peace & Democracy Conference held on June 29-30, 2013, the European Peace and Democracy Assembly formed by participating organizations to meet on September 1st, 2013, in Düsseldorf, on the occasion of the International Day of Peace.
MESOP COMMENTARY : TURKEY (OR EGYPT OR SYRIA) SECULAR STATES ?
Citation of Düsseldorf meeting paper: “Building mosques in Alevi, Assyrian, Armenian and Kurdish villages to be stopped. The new constitution should define the state as a secular entity and abolish the Department of Religious Affairs. Compulsory religion classes should be abolished”.
Turkey has never been secular, even under Atatürk they were building Mosques in Alevite villages, but Sunni Kurds will not accept a ban on building mosques in Kurdish Sunni villages. (MESOP)