ANF 09.07.2010- While AKP government praising itself for abolishing the ban
on Kurdish language, defendants who responded the judge in Kurdish were
forcibly pushed out by gendarmerie. Kurdish was also described as an
“unknown language” in the courts records, like it was done in 1991 when
the first Kurdish female MP Leyla Zana took her oath in Kurdish. It
looks the official approach towards Kurdish has not changed much since.
Strasbourg, 07.07.2010 – “There is a need of radical reform of the
juvenile justice system in Turkey”, said Thomas Hammarberg, Council of
Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, publishing today two letters sent
to the Turkish Government on human rights issues.
Baki GUL 07.07.2010- "We are in a restricted self defence position
and have not exercised our full power yet. It is a warning position
where we are standing now. If the state launches an incursion on Medya
Defence Territories or any other part of Kurdistan then we break the
chain and the situation will be completely different." said President of the People’s Union of Kurdistan (KCK) Executive Council Murat Karayılan.
Peace Parliament: Pave the Way to a Solution, not to NATO
Tolga KORKUT 07.07.2010- The Turkish Peace Parliament warned the government to refer to NATO for a
solution of the Kurdish question. Spokesman Bakkalcý said, "The
solution to the Kurdish question is not calling on NATO but negotiations
by middlemen". The Turkish Peace Parliament (TBM) criticized
the announcements made by the Chief of the General Staff and the Prime
Minister. Calling the NATO on duty against the militant Kurdistan
Workers Party (PKK) means to insist on a military solution. And that
would deepen the deadlock of the Kurdish question, the Peace Parliament
warned.
Kurdish Info 07.07.2010 - For already more than one month now, since 1 June 2010 the unilateral
ceasefire of the Kurdish guerrilla ceased. It didn´t make any sense,
after the Turkish state arrested thousands of Kurdish politicians,
activists, mayors and a lot of children and youth under the
anti-terrorism law and made massive military operations and airstrikes
with the aim of annihilation against the Kurdish guerrilla as well as
the burning of villages, and the rise in the number of torture and
extrajudicial killings.
Erol Önderoglu 06.07.2010-Singer Cevdet Baðca was sentenced to
imprisonment of ten months for saying "Do not forget Kazým Koyuncu,
Ahmet Kaya, Ozan Serhat and Delila. Do not forget Ugur Kaymaz" in a
concert performed in the south-eastern city of Siirt.
Amnesty International asks Syria to reveal fate of disappeared prisoners
ANF 06.07.2010-Amnesty International has called on the President of Syria
to reveal exactly what happened to 52 prisoners who went missing during
and after disturbances at a military prison that also left at least 22
people dead. The clashes between inmates and military police at Saydnaya
Military Prison near Damascus began on 5 July 2008. Unconfirmed reports
say the violence erupted after police officers shot dead nine Islamist
prisoners.
Speaking in Kurdish slams 7 into prison for 35 months
DIHA 06.07.2010- Seven people, all former members of the banned Democratic Society Party (DTP) and hosted a celebration for their political campaigns for the upcoming election, have been sentenced to five months in prison each because participants of the meeting made remarks in Kurdish during the ceremony in Ceyhan-Adana on November 29, 2008.
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