Protest at Ocalan's Capture: Student sets himself on fire
Kurdish Info 16.02.2011- Mustafa Malçok, a seventeen year old high school student, set himself on
fire in Diyarbakýr in protest at Öcalan's capture which took place on
February 15, 1999. A burned body was found near Tigris River in
Diyarbakir. A note next to the totally burned body explained the
identity of the corpse and also the reason he had set himself on fire.
Kurds, Basques and Irish agreed common work resolution in Venice
The final document agreed at the Venice international conference on peace processes and conflict resolution said that the city of Venice, through its peace minister Gianfranco Bettin, has committed itself to the establishment of a new among cities and municipalities from Italy, Ireland, Kurdistan and Basque Country, to enhance processes of direct democracy.
The Presidency Executive Council of the People’s Union of Kurdistan (KCK) Statements 15.02.2011- "We condemn the 15 February International Plot that has just marked its 13th year. This plot attempted to deprive the Kurdish people of their freedom and will-power in the person of our leader Apo and aimed at our genocide. With deepest gratitude we commemorate “Our Sun Can't Be Blacked Out!” martyrs who turned their bodies into a ball of flame against this plot."
Police clash with Kurdish protesters and Many kurds arrested
Kurdish Info 15.02.2011- Turkey has turned into a huge demonstration area since thousands of Kurds from all over Turkey wanted to mourn the anniversary of the capture of Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan on February 15, 1999. Conducting fierce house raids and arrests, police officers took many Kurds into custody just in case though most of them not attended protest demonstrations. Showing the police’ anger against Kurds; one hundred police raided Süleyman Çelik’s house in the early morning in Istanbul and seized all books in the house. There is no total number of arrests.
Statement of the International Initiative in relation to the 12th anniversary of illegal abduction of Abdullah Öcalan on 15 February 1999- Who would have thought, in the eventful days that followed 15 February 1999 when the Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan was abducted from Kenya and taken to Turkey – with decisive contributions from CIA, MIT and MOSSAD as well as support from Russia, Greece and other European states – in violation of international law, that one day a Turkish prime minister like Recep Tayyip Erdogan would see himself forced to confirm that state authorities are conducting serious talks with “public enemy no. 1” about the settlement of the decades-old Turkish-Kurdish conflict.
KNK : Massacres and mass graves are crimes against humanity
KNK Executive Council - The Kurdish nation has repeatedly drawn humanity’s attention to the genocide carried out by the Turkish state against the Kurdish people. However neither international forces, nor European countries, nor the USA nor wider international public opinion have heeded the call of the Kurdish nation. Today it has become obvious that Turkey has been prosecuting a long and dirty war for 30 years. By various means the Turkish state has been exterminating Kurds, with mass graves and many different covert actions.
Approximately 1.7 million Kurds live in Syria, a much smaller number than in Turkey, Iran, or Iraq. Furthermore, the Kurds in Syria live in three non-contiguous areas and, therefore, historically have been much less successfully organized and developed than in the other three states. Nevertheless, the Kurds in Syria constitute the largest minority in Syria. For many years the repressive Syrian governments of the Assads have sought to control their Kurdish minority by various oppressive means including an Arab belt between its Kurds and those living in neighboring Turkey and Iraq. Some Kurds have also been denied Syrian citizenship (the so-called ajanib), while others have been stripped of their basic civil liberties (the so-called maktoumeen).
Human Rights Association reports 469 corpses in 114 mass graves
DIHA 11.02.2011 - Human Rights Association (IHD) Diyarbakır Branch reported today at its press conference in Diyarbakir that 469 corpses have been secretly buried in 114 mass graves in Turkey since 1989. Over the past years, authorities have unearthed 171 corpses from 26 mass graves.