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Mr. Tony Blair
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
10 Downing Street
London SW1A 2AA
Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year
Dear Mr. Blair,
22nd December 2004
On behalf of the Kurdish people and many Kurdish
institutions and organisations, we would like to
present you the following memorandum regarding the
decision about entry talks for the Turkish EU
membership:
Your Excellency said that a deal bringing Turkey a
step closer to EU membership would be of
“fundamental importance” to the peace and security
of the world.
But the fact is that the European approach during
the recent talks with the Turkish delegation was
very disappointing and even shocking for the Kurdish
people, because the European representatives didn't
mention the fate and the rights of 25 million Kurds
living in Turkey with one single word and in this
respect didn't make any demands to the Turkish
government.
This means a heavy setback for the European idea of
freedom and equality, which has been signed and
promoted by so many European governments and
representatives. This approach of your and other
European governments is very similar to the British
appeasement policy versus Nazi Germany during the
agreement of Munich in 1938 when Czechoslovakia was
sacrificed to the German aggressor, and
Chamberlain's “peace in our time” led directly to
World War II.
Likewise it's a very short-sighted policy always to
make concessions to Turkey and always to tolerate
the permanent oppression of the Kurdish people. For
example, as you certainly know, the Kurdish Member
of Parliament Mrs. Leyla Zana was sentenced to
imprisonment for 15 years because she spoke one
sentence in Kurdish language in front of the Turkish
Parliament. That's Turkey as it is just now, and
they are longing to imprison Mrs. Zana again.
No European government seems really to concern about
the fact that Erdogan's so highly praised reforms
exist on paper only up till now. We are deeply
afraid that Kurdish human and political rights might
be ignored in future, too, since at this critical
moment of decision even the mere words Kurds and
Kurdistan were not allowed to be mentioned, in order
to avoid Turkey to be offended by the mention of
these words.
This way the European Union will no longer be a
stronghold of human rights and liberty and equality
of nations. In contrary it will be conquered by the
Trojan horse of Kemalist Fascism.
As long as Turkey will not recognize the existence
of 25 million Kurds within her frontiers and will
not recognize the culture and the human rights of
these 25 million Kurds, there shouldn't take place
any negotiations about Turkey's entry to the EU. And
Turkey will be able to do that only when there will
be a new and really democratic Turkish constitution,
respecting human and political rights of all
nationalities living in Turkey. Likewise the Turkish
military has to be deprived of all its political,
economical and social power.
Because it is the military always defending Kemalism
and fighting Kurdish culture, language
and national rights.
As long as Europe is wearing a muzzle ordered by
Turkey and doesn't even dare to use the words Kurds
and Kurdistan, Turkey's and Europe's problems won't
be solved, and they won't be any better than the
European representatives who sacrificed
Czechoslovakia to Hitler.
We are hoping very much, Your Excellency might share
the Kurdish worries about European policy with
Turkey, and might do much more in future to defend
the human and political rights of the Kurds in
Turkey.
Yours sincerely
Dr. Jawad Mella
President
Kurdistan National Congress - KNC
Representatives of the following institutions and
organisations:
- Western Kurdistan Government in Exile
- “Referendum for All Kurdistan” Commission
- Friends of Independence of Kurdistan
- Kurdish Academy of Science and Arts
- Western Kurdistan Association
- Kurdish Human Rights Commission
- The National Union of the Kurdish Students and
Youths
- Kurdish Women Union
- Kurdish Writers and Intellectuals Union
- Kurdish Medical Association
A copy to:
- European Union
- European Parliament
Kurdistan National Congree - KNC
WKA, Palingswick House, 241 King Street, London W6
9LP
Tel: 0208 748 7874, Fax: 0208 563 8406, Mobile:
07768 266005
websites: www.knc.org.uk www.rojava.com
e-mail: wka@knc.org.uk knc@ribrahim.de
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