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Turkey blocked Kurdish press conference for peace
NewsDesk, Aug
19- The Turkish government has blocked a press
conference which was to be held in Belgium by the
Kurdish organisation KONGRA-GEL on Friday in which
the KONGRA-GEL was to announce a temporary cease
fire as an answer to the peace calls by
intellectuals in Turkey. The Belgian authorities
stopped the press conference after a request from
Turkey.
However, the KONGRA-GEL announced that the
successful sabotage of the press conference by the
Turkish government would not stop them from
persuading HPG (People's Defence Forces) to declare
a temporary cease fire from 1st of September to 1st
of October. Experts believe that the Turkish
government will increase their military operations
during these 30 days in order to also sabotage the
cease fire.
It will be the fourth unilateral cease fire declared
by the PKK/KONGRA-GEL since the outbreak of the war
in 1984. The Turkish government has never answered
their calls.
'Military personnel have been thrown out from
Human Rights commissions'
NewsDesk, Aug 19
- For the first time, the Turkish Parliament's Human
Rights Investigation Commission has confessed that
military personnel has held key positions in Turkish
Human Rights commission established by the OHAL
(Martial Law) governorships investigating claims of
human rights abuses by the Turkish army.
Turkish Parliament's Human Rights Investigation
Commission's Chairman Mehmet Elkatmis made the
breaking announcement during a peace meal in the
city of Agri in northern Kurdistan (southeastern
Turkey), Kurdish news agency MHA reports.
"Turkey has taken big steps in human rights issues,
but we have not yet reached the intended level. We
are working on it. Before, there were police chiefs
and gendarmerie commanders in the Human Rights
Advisory Commissions, but they have now been
discharged. These commissions consists now only of
civilians and elected representatives", Elkatmis
said in his speech.
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