Subject: Flash Bulletin!!!
From: Int. Initiative (info@freedom-for-ocalan.com)
Date: Thu Jun 15 2000 - 10:17:51 CDT
International Initiative
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15.06.2000
Flash Bulletin:
1. “Isolation Conditions are in EHRC”, The lawyers of the PKK President
Abdullah Ocalan have applied to the European Human Rights Court (EHRC)
requesting that his health condition be corrected and isolation
conditions to be removed.
2. “Clash in Hinis”, In Erzurum’s Hinis District a 10 person group have
been put forward as guerrillas clashed with soldiers.
3. “Don't dash all hopes”, The CHP's Ercan Karakas said that, because of
the government's indifferent attitude, they were only expecting simple
legal changes and that this had led to the extinguishing of hope in the
people in Kurdish cities.
4. “Protest in front of UN in Greece”, Kurds in Greece protested in
front of the United Nations (UN) office in Athens for the health and
against the solitary confinement of the Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan,
who is being held at the Imrali Prison Island in Turkey. The
demonstrating Kurds asked UN officials to send a delegation to Turkey to
obtain first-hand information about Mr. Ocalan's health.
5. “Mines must be cleared”, Families who earn their livelihood through
agriculture and stock raising in the Dargecit district of Mardin state
that the mines laid in the rural areas constitute a threat to them, and
have applied to the kaymakam and regiment command to have the mines
cleared.
1. – Ozgur Politika – “Isolation Conditions are in EHRC”:
The lawyers of the PKK President Abdullah Ocalan have applied to the
European Human Rights Court (EHRC) requesting that his health condition
be corrected and isolation conditions to be removed.
News Centre
Asrin Hukuk Bureau lawyers stated in the application to the EHRC that
the weekly meeting s with their client was dropped to 1 hour a week and
restrictions have been given on magazines, books and newspaper also that
there are problems in attaining letters and that even though every
prison has a television receiver Mr. Ocalan cannot benefit form this.
Lawyer Dogan Erbas also stated that Mr. Ocalan is only taken out to
aeration 2 hours a day and with the dense wired high walls in a closed
aeration he cannot obtain enough air.
2. – Ozgur Politika – “Clash in Hinis”:
ERZURUM
In Erzurum’s Hinis District a 10 person group have been put forward as
guerrillas clashed with soldiers. It was stated that 4 guerrillas have
lost their lives. In the statement presented by the Erzurum Governor
Derya Kadioglu, indicated that the soldiers clashed with a 10 person
guerrilla group while going to search the area yesterday morning in
Hinis District Pinar village. In the statement by the Governor it was
recorded that 4 guerrillas and 1 soldier lost their lives, while 3
soldiers were wounded.
Translated by International Initiative, Sipan Kendal.
3. - Kurdish Observer – “Don't dash all hopes”:
ANKARA
The CHP's Ercan Karakas said that, because of the government's
indifferent attitude, they were only expecting simple legal changes and
that this had led to the extinguishing of hope in the people in Kurdish
cities.
Republican People's Party (CHP) party assembly member Ercan Karakas said
that the people of the region wanted to look forward to the future with
optimism and to live in peace, but that Ankara's silent attitude was
destroying their hopes a little more every day. Karakas called for
legislative changes in the fields of democratization and human rights to
be realized as quickly as possible.
Karakas made these statements when evaluating the two-day trip to Mardin
and Diyarbakir which he made with CHP party assembly members Aydin Guven
Gurkan, Fikri Saglar, and Hasan Fehmi Gunes. Karakas said that, along
with the people of the region, they had met with representatives of both
non-governmental organizations and unions in both provinces and had
noted that unemployment, health, and education problems largely
continued, as did problems with democracy and the identity problem.
Karakas said that it was necessary to secure democratization and freedom
of expression at once and to recognize the Kurdish identity if they were
to sustain the peaceful atmosphere in Kurdish cities. Karakas continued:
"It is finally being accepted by numerous segments and by the government
that the Kurdish problem possesses a historical and ideological process
and that it is a reality. But the government cannot take a clear step
when it comes to a solution. This is where the problem becomes locked
up. But now an atmosphere of peace has been born. The practices which
will completely get rid of the problem must be initiated at once."
Karakas said that constitutional and legislative changes must be
realized at once and continued: "The obstacles to democratization and
human rights in Turkey are obvious. Work must be done on this matter.
But because of the government's indifferent attitude, only simple
legislative changes are expected. This is causing the hopes of the
people of the region to be extinguished."
CHP party assembly members detained
Three CHP members were detained in Dersim (Tunceli) on allegations that
they had assisted the PKK. A statement released by the Tunceli Security
Directorate said that CHP Provincial General Assembly members Imam
Gucer, Ali Ihsan Sahin, and Huseyin Dermen had been detained the other
day while bringing Ozgur Aydin, who is asserted to be a member of the
PKK, to Istanbul in a private automobile in return for payment. The
three CHP members were arrested by the On-Call Court and sent to prison.
4. – Kurdish Observer – “Protest in front of UN in Greece”:
Kurds in Greece protested in front of the United Nations (UN) office in
Athens for the health and against the solitary confinement of the
Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is being held at the Imrali Prison
Island in Turkey. The demonstrating Kurds asked UN officials to send a
delegation to Turkey to obtain first-hand information about Mr. Ocalan's
health.
ATHENS
The Democratic Kurdish People's Union (YDK) of Greece asked for an end
to the solitary confinement of Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) Chairman
Ocalan. Kurdish demonstrators also requested that the UN to send a team
of doctors to evaluate Mr. Ocalan's health.
At noon, approximately 200 Kurds sat in front of the UN building on
Amalias Street, which bustles with activity. Protesters carried signs
which read, "UN immediately take action," "Insistence for socialism is
insistence for humanity," "Women are the assurance for a new life,
EJAK-PJKK [Kurdistan Women Workers Party]," "Freedom, freedom, freedom
for Ocalan" and "Long live PKK, long live Ocalan."
YDK representatives gave a letter, asking for an end to the solitary
confinement of Mr. Ocalan, to UN representatives. The YDK also asked UN
representatives to send an international team of doctors to Turkey to
assess the health of Mr. Ocalan. The YDK was quoted as saying, "The most
important condition for peace is that Mr. Ocalan's health be attended
to. The UN is responsible for Mr. Ocalan's health, since Mr. Ocalan was
handed over to Turkey in an international conspiracy." The YDK said that
peace is needed among the Kurdish people in the Kurdish region, and also
stated that Mr. Ocalan should be released since it had been the Kurdish
side of a struggle with Turkey, led by Mr. Ocalan, that had unilaterally
offered peace with Turkey.
5. – Kurdish Observer – “Mines must be cleared”:
AMED
Families who earn their livelihood through agriculture and stock raising
in the Dargecit district of Mardin state that the mines laid in the
rural areas constitute a threat to them, and have applied to the
kaymakam and regiment command to have the mines cleared.
The people were spurred to action after a young shepherd, the 8-year-old
Remzi Varan, was killed by a mine explosion while out grazing his
animals about 5 kilometers away from Dargecit on June 8. About 70 local
families who are engaged in agriculture and stock raising in the area
prepared a joint petition and applied to the Dargecit Provincial
Kaymakam's Office and Regiment Command on June 12. They said in the
statement that the mines laid throughout the area had resulted in many
deaths and in many people being crippled, and that they should be
cleared now that conflicts have ended.
Kaymakam: The problem will be solved
Dargecit Kaymakam Yusuf Guler stated that he had forwarded to the Mardin
Governor's Office a similar petition that had been presented to him
previously. Kaymakam Guler stated: "Our friends are looking over this
last application. It has not yet been forwarded to me. We are here to
solve our citizens' absolute problems. The problem will be solved."
Ramazan Duran, who signed the petition, said that because of their fear
of mines, they said good-bye to their families as if it was their last
good-bye each time they went out to work in the fields or to graze their
animals. He stressed that they did not want to live with this fear any
longer. Duran said they had determined some mine fields and marked them
with stones, "But there are still hundreds of mines that we don't know
about. That is why we want these mines to be cleared."
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