Newsletter February 2025

Our PR: Mr Öcalan’s statement: A Momentum for Peace and Democracy 

This momentum must be adequately recognised. The European Union and its institutions, in particular the European Parliament and the Council of Europe, should now make every effort to strengthen the process. This includes engagement to ensure that Abdullah Öcalan can freely practice his leadership role in the ongoing political process.

http://eutcc.net/?p=1981

Mr Öcalan’s Call for Peace and a Democratic Society 

Just as every contemporary organisation and party whose existence has not been forcibly ended would voluntarily do, gather your congress and take the decision to integrate with the state and society: all groups must lay down their arms, and the PKK must dissolve itself.

https://www.demparti.org.tr/en/call-for-peace-and-democratic-society/20770

Human Rights Watch: Use Call to Halt Violence as Catalyst to End Right Abuses

The landmark call on February 27, 2025, to end a decades-long armed insurgency against the Turkish state should be a catalyst to end its abusive use of terrorism charges to criminalize and silence government critics including politicians, journalists, lawyers, and activists.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/02/28/turkiye-use-call-halt-violence-catalyst-end-rights-abuses

DEM Party’s Statement on wave of arrests against HDK 

AKP government is threatening Peoples’ Democratic Congress (HDK) and its components with baseless accusations and imprisonment. 

https://www.demparti.org.tr/en/akp-government-is-threatening-hdk-and-its-components-with-baseless-accusations-and-imprisonment/20746

Statement by Congress of Local and Regional Authorities Co-Rapporteurs David Eray and Bryony Rudkin on the dismissal of Abdullah Zeydan, Mayor of Van and member of the Turkish delegation to the Congress

We reiterate our call to the Turkish authorities to stop this practice and resume the political dialogue with the Congress rapporteurs to ensure the effective implementation of past recommendations.

https://www.coe.int/en/web/congress/-/dismissal-of-mayor-of-van-statement-by-congress-co-rapporteurs-on-local-democracy-in-t%C3%BCrkiye–

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