Italian Network of Solidarity with the Kurdish people
In Turkish Kurdistan is still dirty war against the Kurdish people and against its democratic structures. A war waged in violation of any law or international agreement which Turkey has signed.
Vast areas of the country have declared war zones, equivalent to open-air prisons for millions of people. The Kurds return to villages being burned and evacuated by the Turkish armed forces resulting in exodus of civilians who are forcibly forced to flee their homes and their land. The forests, in defiance of international conventions, not to leave preparations for use are burned to Kurdish guerrillas, and an entire ecosystem is so devastated.
Riprendono le uccisioni indiscriminate di civili colpevoli soltanto di trovarsi in zone di guerra. Nelle città, invece, si registrano violenti maltrattamenti fisici e uccisioni di civili "colpevoli", in qualche modo, di manifestare la loro appartenenza al popolo kurdo.
La drammatica situazione dei minori kurdi rinchiusi nelle carceri turche ha assunto un rilievo internazionale. I recenti rapporti di Amnesty International (Giugno 2010) e del Commissario per i diritti umani del Consiglio d’Europa, Thomas Hammarberg delineano, con tutta la drammaticità del caso, una situazione insostenibile e ingiustificabile dal punto di vista giuridico ed human. More than 4000 children and hundreds on trial those who are still detained in adult prisons, offenders often have only taken part in demonstrations or throwing objects at the armored police. The recent reform of the Counter-Terrorism Law (July 2010) the result of campaigns and international pressure will lead to the release of some imprisoned children, unhealthy, because of the many exceptions and exemptions that contains the status of a breach of the UN Convention on Rights of the Child, signed by Turkey itself. There are still dramatic prison conditions and remains a real risk for children to be incarcerated for their involvement in events square.
A people in prison but can not be reduced to silence. In prison as more than 2,000 mayors, local government officials, human rights activists and representatives of civil society, from
extraordinary electoral success of the Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) in local elections of March 2009 continue to be arrested mass. Covered by imprisonment
Secret State, so that the charges were released only after 14 months from the time of arrest. Even here, once again, dialogue, policy option was chosen by the Turkish authorities, instead of giving space only to the interests of the lobbies of the war and some political forces are already involved in campaigning for national elections in 2011. Elections in which the Kurds will participate in the party of peace and democracy (BDP) that after the forced closure of the DTP in December 2010 has become the political force that represents the Kurdish people and its demand for recognition of rights and a peaceful resolution and Democratic Kurdish question. A request to which it aspires strongly that part of the Turkish population that does not identify with a state violator of the basic rights of its citizens.
The same war against the guerrillas of the Kurdish People's Defence Forces (HPG) is conducted in a manner and with brutal methods that do not respect the Geneva Convention on treatment of prisoners and the conduct of armed conflict. The bodies of guerrillas killed maimed and injured are macabre enough to make it impossible for families to recognize. In many cases the bodies were burned and was prevented families the right to celebrate the funeral. He returned to be the widespread use of poison gas as a weapon of mass annihilation.
We, as representatives of the Italian civil society, we can not tolerate the way of dialogue and confrontation
be destroyed and annihilated in this way;
- condemn the behavior of Turkey, preventing the Kurdish people to grow and to articulate the political point of view, it ends up perpetrating a cruel and endless war for the consumption needs of Internal power;
- we believe that the Kurdish question can never be resolved without a real commitment on the part of Turkey, for a true democratization of institutions and, without giving the Kurdish people to be accepted and considered as a political actor with whom dialogue on an equal footing;
- we believe the abolition of the law on counter (which allows detentions and abuses in derogation of the same Criminal Code), one of basic steps to take to reach that democratization
- riteniamo necessaria, al fine di permettere una riconciliazione reale l’adesione della Turchia alla Corte penale internazionale de L’Aia e la ratifica dello Statuto di Roma al fine di permettere di chiudere con la giustizia dovuta gli anni della guerra sporca e poter costruire la pace basandola però su una seria assunzione di responsabilità dello Stato e dei suoi singoli servitori verso le vittime degli abusi;
- We ask that all the world of Italian peace, to those who still work to another world based on respect, dialogue and mutual recognition, not to leave only the Kurdish civil society.
October 18 will start the trial of mayors he Kurdish civil society. We, as Democrats, peacemakers, and helpers, we are committed, now, to be present in court, where it will be processed Kurdish democracy, to show the sense of international solidarity.
With the arrival of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Ocalan in Rome, November 12, 1999, began, from Europe, the assault on the sky of the Kurdish people. On November 13, 2010, wanting to rebuild a symbolic link to those days, we will be square in Rome with a major national event because we think that "Piazza Kurdistan" calls us, that those eyes of Kurdish and Kurds who now crossed more than a decade is still demand justice and hope in the peace and liberation. That this could be a great opportunity to show the Italian and Turkish authorities that the Kurdish people is not alone. We hear the cry for freedom in Europe that we are now from Turkish prisons and courtrooms. We live in the hope of freedom and peace of the Kurdish people.
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