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Turkey: 'No evidence' proving death squad
killed Kurd's parents
13.3.2006
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BRUSSELS, 13
March - A report from the Belgian ambassador in
Turkey has poured cold water on suspicions that the
death of the parents of Kurdish activist Derwish
Ferho was the work of a death squad.
The confidential report has been handed over to
Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht who has confirmed
its findings to newspaper 'De Morgen'.
De Gucht had previously criticised Flemish Foreign
Minister Geert Bourgeois for suggesting that the
murder of Derwish Ferho's parents could be a form of
state terror. Bourgeois had demanded an
investigation.
Ferho — who fled Turkey years ago as a political
refugee — is the head of the Kurdish Institute in
Brussels. It was feared that the violent death
of his parents might have been in retaliation for
his activist work.
However, the Belgian ambassador in Turkey suspects
the murders were the work of local village guards.
The embassy also stressed that Turkey has made good
progress on human rights in recent years.
One of the embassy's workers visited the Kurdish
region of Turkey where the murders took place and
spoke with the opposition party DTP. The DTP also
raised doubts about the possibility that a
state-backed death squad carried out the killings.
The 85-year-old Ferho and 81-year-old Fatim Akgül
were brutally killed at the start of March in the
village of Mizizah, in Turkish Kurdistan.
The Kurdish Institute in Brussels then claimed the
couple was killed by death squads linked to the
Turkish Interior Ministry and local security
services in retaliation for the "anti-Turkish
activities" of their two sons, who fled to Belgium
years ago as political refugees.
But the report said: "There is little reason to
believe that the murder was the work of a death
squad, such as Ferho hinted at".
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