PRO ASYL Presseerklärung | Press Release
June 2, 1999
June 3, 1999: Start of detention for Akin Birdal
demand: liberty for human rights activists
ban of deportation: item at Conference of the Ministers of the Interior
EU Summit shall start initiative on the Kurdish problem
- 3. Juni 1999: Haftantritt von Akin BirdalForderung: Freiheit für Menschenrechtler
Abschiebestopp: TOP auf Innenministerkonferenz
EU-Gipfel soll Initiative zur Kurdenfrage ergreifen - June 3, 1999: Start of detention for Akin Birdal
demand: liberty for human rights activists
ban of deportation: item at Conference of the Ministers of the Interior
EU Summit shall start initiative on the Kurdish problem
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(partially translated)
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On the occasion of the start of detention for at first one year on tomorrow’s June 3 the Nation-wide Human Rights Association PRO ASYL and the Refugee Council of Lower Saxony call upon the Turkish Government, to guarantee the liberty of Akin Birdal, who was injured seriously at an assassination a year ago, and other already sentenced or accused human rights activists
According to the Supreme Court of the Security of the State Akin Birdal, President of the Turkish Human Rights Association IHD, is accused having incited people to hate and hostility by discrimination of class, race and religion in two speeches. The two speeches, which Birdal held in each case on the International Anti-War-Day in 1995 and 1996 in Mersin und Ankara, don’t contain in the opinion of international human rights organisations any passus justifying this reproach. ..
In his two speeches Mr. Birdal had demanded „a peaceful solution for the war against the Kurds continuing for 11 years“ and declared: „Peace will be not only a solution, which is a guarantee for the welfare of the peoples, but will also lay a foundation stone for the economic development and for a democratic renewal of Turkey“…
PRO ASYL and the Refugee Council of Lower Saxony calls upon the Federal States Ministers of the Interior to put the item of a deportation ban for Kurds as well as for opposition politicians on the agenda of the Conference of the Ministers of the Interior scheduled for June 10/11 1999 in Dresden…
