PRO ASYL Presseerklärung | Press Release
February 23, 1999
PRO ASYL demands postponement of deportation
and re-valuation of the German policy on Turkey
So-called „safety guarantees“ of the Turkish state
are eyewash related to human rights.“
- PRO ASYL fordert Abschiebemoratorium und Neubewertung der deutschen Türkeipolitik
Sogenannte „Sicherheitsgarantien“ vom türkischen Staat sind „menschenrechtliche Augenwischerei“ - PRO ASYL demands postponement of deportation and re-valuation of the German policy on Turkey
So-called „safety guarantees“ of the Turkish state are eyewash related to human rights.“
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The Nation-wide Human Rights Organisation for Refugees PRO ASYL rejected demands from CSU (Christian Social Democrats) and FDP (Liberals) circles and considerations of the Home Office sharply, to negotiate „safety guarantees“ with Turkey for expelled Kurds in order to not expose them there to danger of torture and death penalty.
In view of the extent of violations of human rights, torture, extra-legal executions and arbitrary arrests in Turkey these considerations would be „eyewash related to human rights“ and „irresponsible slogans of groups of regulars“, said PRO ASYL-spokesperson Heiko Kauffmann.
„The Federal Government and the parties know exactly, that also after the application of the so-called consultation procedure of March 10th, 1995, based on a correspondence of the former Home Secretaries Kanther and Mentese, it came to arrests and torture of asylum seeker expelled from Germany“. The Lower Saxonian Refugee Council and PRO ASYL have just submitted a documentation with 11 cases alone from the year 1998, in which after the deportation detention, torture, charges or condemnations are proven…
„At this it is to be feared, that the co-operation between German and Turkish authorities contributes certainly or has contributed to the endangering of the persons concerned „, said Kauffmann.
PRO ASYL has submitted the current documentation to the Federal Ministries of the Interior and of Foreign Affairs and requests the Ministers of the Interior meeting in this week and the Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs Joschka Fischer to an examination and a re-valuation of the policy of the German Federal Republic on Turkey.
The ministers of the Interior are demanded by PRO ASYL to issue a deportation ban, since Germany has also in relation to asylum-seekers, which were not granted asylum, protection duties under international law…
