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DTP's Chairman: Celebration is not Show-biz, the Joy of the
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Pro-Kurdish DTP's Chairman: Celebration is
not Show-biz, the Joy of the people in Turkey
26.10.2009
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October
26, 2009
DIYARBAKIR/ANKARA,
Turkey, — DTP Co-Chair Türk
responds to the Prime Minister's criticism of
turning the arrival of the peace groups into a
"show". Turk said, "This is not a show, this is the
enthusiasm of the people. They came for the peace
process. This enthusiasm should be shared all over
Turkey". Court of Appeals Chief Prosecutor
Yalçınkaya has launched an investigation against DTP
regarding the receptions.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized that
the welcoming events for the peace groups that
arrived from Mahmur and Qandil (Iraqi Kurdistan),www.ekurd.netwere
turned into a show. Co-Chair Ahmet Türk of the
pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) replied
to the prime minister and government officials as
follows:
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Ahmet Turk, the leader of the pro-Kurdish Democratic
Society Party |
"As
DTP we are neither in need of a show nor are we
calculating on political accounts. This is the
excitement about peace". Türk declared October 22,
announcement in the DTP Diyarbakir provincial
office:
"This was not a show, this was the excitement of the
people. Everybody has to understand this excitement
well and everybody has to participate in it. The
groups came for the peace process. The experienced
enthusiasm is the enthusiasm for peace. Also after
this we are going to carry on with our work for
continuing this process with the Turkish people and
political parties. Peace is our only desire. We will
channel all our efforts accordingly".
Fourfold investigation
against DTP
Court of Appeals Chief Prosecutor Abdurrahman
Yalçınkaya declared to have launched an
investigation against DTP regarding the welcoming
events. Yalçınkaya had previously opened a closure
case against DTP. A decision in this case is still
owed by the Constitutional Court.
The groups entered Turkey on 19 October from the
border
crossing at
Habur and moved on to Silopi and Diyarbakir. Thus,
the investigation was launched by altogether four
prosecutors, namely from Silopi, Cizre, Nusaybin and
Diyarbakir.
Since 1984 the PKK took up arms for self-rule in the
mainly Kurdish southeast of Turkey
(Turkey-Kurdistan) which has claimed around 45,000
lives of Turkish soldiers and Kurdish PKK
guerrillas. A large Turkey's Kurdish community
openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK rebels.
Turkey refuses to recognize its Kurdish population
as a distinct minority.
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,www.ekurd.net
the party also demanded
an end to ethnic discrimination in Turkish laws and
constitution against Kurds, ranting them full
political freedoms.
The PKK is considered a 'terrorist' organization by
Ankara, U.S., the PKK continues to be on the
blacklist list in EU despite court ruling which
overturned a decision
to place the Kurdish rebel group PKK and its
political wing on the European Union's terror list.
Turkey refuses to recognize its Kurdish population
as a distinct minority. It has allowed some cultural
rights such as limited broadcasts in the Kurdish
language and private Kurdish language courses with
the prodding of the European Union, but Kurdish
politicians say the measures fall short of their
expectations.
Ankara is currently working on a package of fresh
reforms to expand the freedoms of the Kurdish
community, but has rejected calls to halt military
action against the PKK.
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.
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