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Turkey: Mayors investigated over Kurdish
Roj-TV letter
3.1.2006
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DIYARBAKIR, Kurdistan-Turkey, Jan.3 - Public
Prosecutor Office in Diyarbakir had been started a
research about the letter which had been sent to the
Prime Minister of Denmark Anders Fogh Rasmussen for
Roj TV, from 56 mayors who were the members of DTP
(Democratic Public Party).
Among these mayors there are Osman Baydemir, Mayor
of Diyarbakir Metropolis, Huseyin Kalkan, Mayor of
Batman, Songul Erol Abdil, Mayor of Dersim, Ahmet
Ertak, Mayor of Sirnak and Metin Tekce, Mayor of
Hakkari. After the research, Public Prosecutor will
decide about the mayors to open an investigation or
not.
The mayors of 56 municipalities, last week signed a
letter calling on Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh
Rasmussen not to heed Turkish calls to close down
Roj-TV, a pro-Kurdish station that broadcasts out of
Copenhagen. Ankara says that the station broadcasts
propaganda on behalf of the Kurdish Rebel
organization PKK and is controlled and funded by it.
The pro-Kurdish mayors said that shutting Roj-TV
would harm Kurds in Turkey as it would close an
avenue of Kurdish language and culture.
On Monday, judicial officials said that the office
of the chief prosecutor was looking into the
circumstances of the letter to establish whether it
constituted a criminal act.
“If a crime is found to have been committed, an
investigation will be opened against the mayors for
making propaganda on behalf of an illegal
organisation and for praising the crime and the
criminal,” the Reuters news agency quoted an
official as saying.
PKK -- considered a terrorist group by
Ankara, the European Union and the United States --
took up arms for Kurdish self-rule in 1984 the
conflict has claimed about 37,000 lives.
ntvmsnbc.com + Agencies
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