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Finland to ask Turkey to explain
deportation of scholar Dr Kristiina Koivunen
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Finland protests arrest of Finnish Kurdistan expert
in Turkey
January 12, 2007
Finland is to request further clarification from
Turkey on the
deportation of Kristiina Koivunen, a Finnish
Kurd scholar, the Finnish embassy in Ankara told the
Finnish News Agency (STT) on Friday.
The Finnish Embassy in the Turkish capital Ankara
has sent the Turkish Ministry for Foreign Affairs a
sharply-worded diplomatic note concerning the arrest
and inappropriate treatment of Finnish Kurdistan
expert Kristiina Koivunen.
In the note, Finland protests the ban on entering
the country that was imposed on Koivunen, and notes
that the decision was not presented to her in
writing, as required by international practice.
The Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs says that
Koivunen should have been notified of the ban when
she was entering the country, and not when she was
already in Turkey. |
Dr Kristiina Koivunen, a Finnish sociologist |
Koivunen was also not given her deportation order in
writing. Instead, she was flown out of the country
on her own plane ticket, and not at the expense of
the country from which she was being expelled.
Having travelled in a Kurdish area in southeastern
Turkey (Kurdistan-Turkey), where she was collecting
material for a book on Kurdistan. Koivunen,
who had written her doctoral thesis on Kurdistan,
has published two other books on the region.
Dr Koivunen was arrested
in Van on 15 December and deported two days later.
Finland fi | hs fi
The use of the term "Kurdistan" is vigorously
rejected due to its alleged political implications
by the Republic of Turkey, which does not recognize
the existence of a "Turkish Kurdistan"
Southeast Turkey. The Kurds have no rights in
Turkey.
Others estimate as many as 40 million Kurds live in
Big Kurdistan (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Armenia),
which covers an area as big as France, about half of
all Kurds which estimate to 20 million live in
Turkey.
The Kurdish flag flown officially in Iraqi Kurdistan but
unofficially flown by Kurds in Armenia. The flag is
banned in Iran, Syria, and Turkey where flying it is
a criminal offence"
Southeastern Turkey:
North Kurdistan (
Kurdistan-Turkey) wikipedia
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