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Turkey: DTP deputy Pervin Buldan faces
investigation
25.3.2008
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March 25, 2008
Ankara, -- An investigation has been launched
against pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP)
deputy Pervin Buldan on the grounds that she praised
criminal activity during a speech during the
weekend's Newroz celebrations in Igdir. Newroz Day,
or the Kurdish new year.
Prosecutor Mustafa Küçük said the Igdir chief of
police had requested that a criminal investigation
be started against Buldan. He added that a file on
Buldan will be sent to the Ministry of Justice.
Meanwhile, at a press conference in the main Kurdish
city of Diyarbakir,www.ekurd.net
DTP members blamed the
police for clashes with between Kurdish
demonstrators and the Turkish security forces during
Newroz celebrations. |
Pervin Buldan,
Pro-Kurdish DTP deputy |
Before the press
conference, a crowd chanted slogans in support of
the Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)
and its imprisoned Kurdish leader, Abdullah Öcalan.
The crowd also condemned the ruling Justice and
Development Party (AK Party) and Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan in front of the DTP's city
headquarters.
The DTP's Diyarbakir provincial president, Necdet
Atalay, criticized security forces for acting
"violently" and accused the AK Party of
irresponsibility. He said Newroz had been celebrated
peacefully in places where official permission was
given. He claimed that security forces acted in a
hostile manner in Van and Yüksekova.
Atalay was accompanied by several DTP deputies,
including Aysel Tugluk from Diyarbakir, Ayla Akat
Ata of Batman and Osman Özçelik from Siirt, as well
as Diyarbakir Mayor Osman Baydemir.
Dozens of people have been
detained,
killed and
300 detained at the weekend
in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast where
celebrations to mark March 21 -- Newroz Day, or the Kurdish new year
-- degenerated into protests in favour of the armed
separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which
Ankara lists as a "terrorist group".
Since 1984 the The PKK took up arms for self-rule in
Turkey's southeast. A large Turkey's Kurdish
community openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK
rebels.
The PKK demanded Turkey's recognition of the Kurds'
identity in its constitution and of their language
as a native language along with Turkish in the
country's Kurdish areas, the party also demanded
an end to ethnic discrimination in Turkish laws and
constitution against Kurds, ranting them full
political freedoms.
todayszaman com | Agencies
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Kurds are not recognized as an official minority in
Turkey and are denied rights granted to other
minority groups. Under EU pressure, Turkey recently
granted Kurds limited rights for broadcasts and
education in the Kurdish language, but critics say
the measures do not go far enough.
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.
Others estimate over 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.
Turkey is home to 25 million ethnic Kurds, a
large Turkey's Kurdish community openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK for a
Kurdish homeland in the country's mainly Kurdish
southeast of Turkey.
Before August 2002, the Turkish government placed
severe restrictions on the use of Kurdish language,
prohibiting the language in education and broadcast
media.
The Kurdish alphabet is still not recognized
in Turkey, and use of the Kurdish letters X, W, Q
which do not exist in the Turkish
alphabet has led to judicial persecution in 2000 and
2003
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)
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