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Germany bans Ozgur Politika Newspaper
6.9.2005
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BERLIN - Germany on Monday banned the publisher
of a newspaper with links to the outlawed Kurdistan
Workers Party (PKK).
Interior Minister Otto Schily said: "The government
is taking decisive action against any activities
which have an extremist or terrorist background."
The E. Xani publishing company, based in
Neu-Isenburg near Frankfurt, produced the Turkish
language newspaper Ozgur Politika which had a print
run of 10,000 copies.
Schily described it as "the mouthpiece" of the PKK,
a group considered to be a terrorist organisation by
the Turkish government, the United States and the
European Union.
The PKK last year ended a five-year-old ceasefire
and has stepped up attacks in Turkey in recent
months.
The Anatolia
Times
Germany, Yesterday September 5, 2005, at 9
a.m., the German police forces raided the buildings
of the daily newspaper Ozgur Politika, the
Mesopotamian News Agency, MHA based in Neu Isenburg,
Germany and the Kurdish music organization, Mir
based in Köln. |
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The personnel is kept under the police custody until
about 4 pm and following this raid, the German
federal internal ministry, being based on the 4th
article of association’s law, took a decision
concerning the closure of the daily newspaper Ozgur
Politika and put an end to its publication.
MHA News Agency, Ozgur Politika, the Publisher
Mesopotamia, Mir music organisation and the other
associations always achieved their work suitably
within the framework of the laws of the Federal
Republic of Germany. |
Photo: KurdNet |
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These organizations respect the principles of the
press and their only aim was to make aware the whole
world regarding the Kurdish question.
The German government had preceded these kinds of
pressures in the past as well. Whatever is the
pretext, the goal was always to quieten the voice of
the Kurdish people, also to extend the policy with
the Turkish State against the Kurdish people.
But the voice of the Kurdish people cannot be
quietened.
We call upon the democratic press to line up on the
Kurdish people’s side and to condemn these attacks
against the freedom of expression and the newspaper
industry.
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