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.
KURDISTAN & NEAR EAST : Middle East Conference Against Female Genital Mutilation
BEIRUT by Irfan Al-Alawi . January 31, 2012 - On January 19, the first conference on female genital mutilation (FGM) in the Middle East opened in Beirut, Lebanon. The event was called by two non-governmental organizations, the Dutch-based Humanist Institute for Cooperation (HIVOS) and WADI, the Association for Crisis Assistance and Solidarity Development Cooperation. Founded by Germans, WADI has worked extensively in Iraqi Kurdistan, where it is in the forefront of opposition to FGM.
FGM is most commonly found in African countries, where it may be inflicted on women by Christians and animists as well as by Muslims. For example, Egyptian Copts and Ethiopian Orthodox Christians subject their daughters to this cruel and inhumane degradation. FGM is not a religious-based practice, although it has been legitimised by certain Islamic clerics, including the Egyptian radical preacher Yusuf Al-Qaradawi. Even Al-Qaradawi, nevertheless, states that the alleged justification for FGM among Muslims is based on weak hadiths (oral commentaries) of Muhammad, and that it therefore cannot be considered obligatory. It has no basis in Qur’an and, fortunately, is absent from much of the Muslim world.
Demonstrations in Choman continue for the fourth day
News by The Kurdistan Tribune: 5.2.2012 – Residents of Choman, in Balakayati, have staged demonstrations for the past four days, blocking the main trading road between Choman and Haji-omaran and demanding justice be served following the murder of Rebaz Rahim, 27, whose body was found in Gali-Alibag River on 31 January.
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).
EXCLUSIV : Syrian Muslim Brotherhood Secretary General Al-Shaqfa
Friday, 3 February 2012 – Interview: Ali Hussein Bakeer – JTW – The Syrian issue entered a critical juncture after the Syrian government refused the solution offered by the Arab League in order to put an end to the killing machine and stop the situation from moving further toward a full scale war. This development came along with the regional and international efforts to convince Russia to change its position on Syria after the failure of all previous initiatives to contain the situation under the Arab League umbrella.
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.
FLASH NEWS : A breakthrough or more weapons? / Russian officials to meet Assad next week in Syria
Ynet – 6.2.2012 – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and foreign intelligence service chief Mikhail Fradkov will travel to Syria on Tuesday to meet President Bashar Assad, Russian news agencies quoted Lavrov as saying in Munich on Saturday. Lavrov, who said President Dmitry Medvedev had instructed him and Fradkov to make the trip, gave no details about its specific purpose, the reports said.
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