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PKK Calls For Peace!
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Time to Clean Up UK Foreign Policy Towards the Kurds in Turkey!
PKK offers an historic opportunity to solve The Kurdish Question in Turkey.
Since the establishment of the modern Turkish state the Kurdish people in Turkey have suffered the most profound and violent suppression. Their language, culture and history was banned, denied and there was an official policy to forcibly assimilate them to be Turks.
An insidious Turkish racism grew as the suppression reached levels of genocidal proportions with thousands of Kurdish villages still being burnt in the Nineties and millions of Kurdish refugees spread all over Western Turkey and Europe without a word of condemnation from European countries.
Worse, European countries including UK sent weapons that the Turkish army used against Kurdish civilians and there was a conspiracy of criminal silence towards Turkey's massive and systematic human rights abuses against the Kurds with Europe choosing to side with Turkey labelling the Kurdish defence as 'terrorism'.
Until now the democratic road for the Kurds has been curtailed with routine closures of Kurdish parties and newspapers and widespread imprisonment of Kurdish politicians and political activists.
However, following the recent local elections in Turkey, on 29 March 2009, which was widely seen as a referendum on the Kurdish issue, the Kurdish party, DTP won a massive and decisive victory in the Kurdish South East of Turkey trouncing the AKP that had promised to 'capture Diyarbakir' the Kurdish capital.
All commentators agree that there can be no military solution to the Kurdish issue and increasingly Turkish journalists and intellectuals are pressing the Turkish government to solve this issue which the Turkish president, Abdullah Gul has now been forced to call Turkey's "most important political problem".
But despite a PKK unilateral ceasefire since May and repeated calls from the leadership of the PKK for dialogue reported recently in the Turkish and international media, the Turkish government do not seem to be able to initiate a political process.
On the 1st June 2009, if the Turkish government continues to ignore this opportunity for peace, the unilateral ceasefire of the PKK runs out.
The Kurdish community and friends are holding a vigil on this day outside 10 Downing Street to urge the UK government to act as a mediator and offer the Turkish authorities their experience of conflict resolution gained through their negotiations with the Irish Movement.
As Murat Karayilan, the Kurdish leader said, "This is a once in a generation opportunity for peace"!
"PKK Calls For Peace!"
3pm-5pm, 1st June, Outside Downing Street, Whitehall, London.
For more information please contact:
Arzu Pesman, Kurdish Federation in UK 07960302192
or Sultan 07983752689
Organised and supported by Kurdish Federation in UK, Kurdish Community Centre, Halkevi, Peace in Kurdistan
Campaign
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