SUZAN FRASER : Kurdish Guerilla's on the Peace Road
Thousands of Turkish Kurds gathered Monday near the border with Iraq to
welcome a small group of Kurdish rebels planning to cross into Turkey
to support government plans for peace.Lawmaker Sabahat Tuncel said 34
Kurds would cross the Iraqi-Turkish Habur border gate, where
authorities set up tents and prosecutors were expected to question the
group.
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Thomas Seibert:Anger after officers who killed Kurds are cleared
The National 24.06.2009- On a November day five years ago, Turkish police stormed the house of
Ahmet Kaymaz, a lorry driver in Kiziltepe, a town in the country’s
Kurdish region in south-east Anatolia. Acting on a tipoff that Kurdish
rebels were hiding in the house, the officers opened fire immediately.
Kaymaz and his son Ugur, age 12, who witnesses said were unarmed, died
on the spot. Nine police bullets were later found in the boy’s back.
Bawer Cakir: Turkey Must Apologise to Relatives of Disappeared
Two weeks of activities protesting against the many disappearances in police or gendarmerie custody in Turkey ended with a Justice Tribunal, organised by the International Committee against Disappearances (ICAD).Held at Istanbul's Bilgi University Dolapdere campus on 31 May, the tribunal called for an apology by the state for all disappearances, as well as the trial of generals, police officers and politicians on duty during the period of most intensive fighting with the PKK.
Tolga Korkut: “Monumental Opportunity” for Solution to Kurdish Quest
Ahmet Türk, co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP),
spoke at a party parliamentary group meeting yesterday (12 May).He referred to President Abdullah Gül’s description of the Kurdish
question as “Turkey’s priority” in his speech, saying that these
comments were “positive and encouraging”.“Our expectation and desire is that these messages are turned into
concrete steps and that the government will act as soon as possible.”
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Thousands of Turkish Kurds gathered Monday near the border with Iraq to
welcome a small group of Kurdish rebels planning to cross into Turkey
to support government plans for peace.Lawmaker Sabahat Tuncel said 34
Kurds would cross the Iraqi-Turkish Habur border gate, where
authorities set up tents and prosecutors were expected to question the
group.
The National 24.06.2009-
Ahmet Türk, co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP),
spoke at a party parliamentary group meeting yesterday (12 May).He referred to President Abdullah Gül’s description of the Kurdish
question as “Turkey’s priority” in his speech, saying that these
comments were “positive and encouraging”.“Our expectation and desire is that these messages are turned into
concrete steps and that the government will act as soon as possible.”