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Newsletter June 2024

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Dear Sir or Madam,

Please find below our current newsletter. 

Kind regards 

Prof. Kariane Westrheim 

EUTCC Chairperson 

PACE visit to Turkey 

Following a fact-finding visit to Ankara and Istanbul on 11-14 June 2024, PACE’s co-rapporteur for the monitoring of Turkey, Stefan Schennach (Austria, SOC), has again called on the Turkish authorities to implement the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights and to continue their high-level dialogue with the Council of Europe.

https://pace.coe.int/en/news/9508/a-l-issue-de-sa-visite-un-rapporteur-de-suivi-de-l-apce-exhorte-a-nouveau-les-autorites-turques-a-mettre-en-uvre-les-arrets-de-la-cour-de-strasbourg

International crime organization leaders in Turkey

During a plenary session of the parliament, CHP MP Cevdet Akay presented a 20.5-meter-long list of names of international crime organization leaders who were wanted with red notices and had been captured in Turkey. 

https://www.duvarenglish.com/chp-lawmaker-displays-20-meter-list-of-intl-fugitives-caught-in-turkey-in-parliament-video-64573

Travel ban on DEM Co-Mayors

DEM Party has announced that the Interior Ministry has banned the party’s many co-mayors from traveling abroad without a court order.

https://www.duvarenglish.com/dem-party-turkish-interior-ministry-bans-mayors-from-traveling-abroad-without-court-order-news-64561

Bianet Male Violence Monitor June

Men killed at least 34 women and five children in June. Additionally, 30 women died under suspicious circumstances. 

Men killed 193 women in the first six months of the year. 

https://bianet.org/haber/men-killed-34-women-in-june-297077

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Newsletter Mai 2024

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Please find below our current newsletter. 

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Dersim Dağdeviren 

EUTCC board member 

EUTCC statement: Verdict in the Kobane Trial: Ignoring European Rulings

The EUTCC calls on the European institutions to immediately impose political sanctions out of respect for their own decisions. 

http://eutcc.net/?p=1709

Statement by DEM Party Co-Chairs on the verdict in the Kobane Trial 

The court has shown its alignment with ISIS and fascism

https://www.demparti.org.tr/en/our-co-chairs-condemned-the-verdict-in-the-kobani-case-the-court-has-shown-its-alignment-with-isis-and-fascism/20050

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PR: Verdict in the Kobane Trial: Ignoring European rulings

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In the show trial known as the “Kobanê trial” in Turkey against 108 people, including leading HDP politicians, the verdicts were pronounced. As expected, the defendants were sentenced to long prison terms.

The trial was political, and so is the judgement. It reveals Turkey’s attitude towards ISIS. The defendants had shown solidarity with the fight against ISIS in Rojava. The judgement is an acquittal for ISIS. Even though the coalition of AKP and MHP is decisive, the way was paved with the votes of the CHP, which agreed to lift the immunity of numerous HDP deputies. 

After a retrial in the case of Osman Kavala was recently rejected, this anti-democratic judgement now follows. 

The signals from Turkey in favour of a European rapprochement have now been deciphered. Unambiguous answers are now needed from Europe, above all from the European Union and the Council of Europe. Expressing concern and acting hesitantly strengthens authoritarianism. Those who want a democratic Turkey have to support the democratic forces and act now. 

The judgement shows that Turkey is ignoring the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights and the resolutions of the Council of Europe and the Council of Ministers of the European Union, all of which call for the release of detainees. The EUTCC calls on the European institutions to immediately impose political sanctions out of respect for their own decisions.

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Newsletter April 2024

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Please find below our current newsletter.

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Kariane Westrheim
Chairperson

Our statement: Anti-Kurdish Policy from Turkey to Europe
We call on the European Union member states not to support Turkey’s anti-Kurdish policy. Freedom of the press & international law are universal values that must be protected and defended.

eutcc.net/?p=1692

Council of Europe Congress statement on election observation mission to Turkey:
“However, we regretted that, for the first time in over 120 Congress missions, one delegation member was not granted accreditation…. In line with the Council of Europe principles of democracy, rule of law and human rights, more needs to be done to ensure a political and media environment where there is genuine freedom of expression and a reasonable and well-implemented framework overseen by an independent judiciary.”

https://www.coe.int/en/web/congress/-/council-of-europe-congress-local-elections-in-t%C3%BCrkiye-overall-well-organised-and-respecting-the-will-of-the-voters

Statement by DEM Party: We urge the AKP Government to respect the will of the people of Van!
We call upon all supporters of democratic principles to condemn this course of action. Respecting the will of the people is fundamental to the essence of democracy.

https://demparti.org.tr/en/we-urge-the-akp-government-to-respect-the-will-of-the-people-of-van/17952

Our statement: Turkey has voted against AKP & Erdoğan
A democratic transformation process can be initiated only if the causality between the democratisation of the country / region & a political solution to the Kurdish question is seen.

eutcc.net/?p=1675

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PR: Anti-Kurdish Policy from Turkey to Europe

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After the local elections on 31 March – the AKP suffered significant losses – which this gave hope for political change. Several European politicians already saw the end of the era under President Erdoğan.

But the sad fact is that only three weeks later, Turkey intensified its attacks on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq in violation of international law, this happened shortly before Turkish President Erdoğan’s visit there and in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, and in parallel to German President Steinmeier’s visit to Turkey.

At the same time, the studios of the Kurdish TV stations Medya Haber and Sterk in Belgium were searched, while nine Kurdish journalists were arrested in Turkey. These attacks on press freedom are unacceptable. The Kurdish media landscape has played a key role in ensuring that opposition voices from Turkey were heard in the local elections.

Belgium has not yet drawn any conclusions from the attacks by Turkish fascists on Kurds in connection with the Newroz celebrations in March, which would be urgently needed.

We call on the European Union member states not to support Turkey’s anti-Kurdish policy. Freedom of the press and international law are universal values that must be protected and defended.

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