{"id":1374,"date":"2023-04-14T10:45:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T08:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2023-06-29T23:19:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T21:19:25","slug":"eutcc-newsletter-march-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=1374","title":{"rendered":"EUTCC Newsletter March 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear Sir or Madam,<br>Please find below our monthly newsletter.<br>Kind regards&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Prof. Kariane Westrheim&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chairperson&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Final resolution 17th EUTCC Conference&nbsp;<\/strong>The Annual International Conference on the EU, Turkey, the Middle East and the Kurds was hosted by the EU Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC) in cooperation with the The Left Group, the Greens-European Free Alliance (GREENS\/EFA), the Groups of the Free Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&amp;D) and the Kurdish Institute Brussels. The conference was successfully held on 8th and 9th of March 2023 in the European Parliament in Brussels.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><a href=\"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=1296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=1296<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Report by Human Rights Foundation on rights violations in quake zone<\/strong>17 people were subjected to torture and ill-treatment, one person died, and at least 10 people were injured in nine separate incidents in the region.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duvarenglish.com\/human-rights-foundation-of-turkey-reports-17-torture-cases-in-quake-zone-news-61955\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.duvarenglish.com\/human-rights-foundation-of-turkey-reports-17-torture-cases-in-quake-zone-news-61955<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Solidarity statement of the Socialists and Democrats, the Greens\/EFA and the Left Groups in the European Parliament with the Peoples&#8217; Democratic Party in Turkey&nbsp;<\/strong>The closure of HDP would be an irreversible blow to the democratic system of T\u00fcrkiye and its relations with the EU.&nbsp;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialistsanddemocrats.eu\/publications\/solidarity-statement-socialists-and-democrats-greensefa-and-left-groups-european\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.socialistsanddemocrats.eu\/publications\/solidarity-statement-socialists-and-democrats-greensefa-and-left-groups-european<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Statement by the Council of Europe on Osman Kavala and Selahattin Demirta\u015f&nbsp;<\/strong>The Council of Europe has again urged the Turkish authorities to immediately release Osman Kavala and Selahattin Demirta\u015f, in line with judgments from the European Court of Human Rights.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/search.coe.int\/directorate_of_communications\/Pages\/result_details.aspx?ObjectId=0900001680aa82c8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/search.coe.int\/directorate_of_communications\/Pages\/result_details.aspx?ObjectId=0900001680aa82c8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Commentaries 23:&nbsp;The Implications of Turkish Interventions in Rojava for US and EU Foreign Policies<\/strong>by Dr. Veysi Da\u011f, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and SOAS<br>This essay focuses on the anti-intellectualism in Turkey in relation to the oppression, persecution, and discrediting of critical academics. It shows how this anti-intellectualism affects the reproduction and re-legitimation of war policies in regards to the Turkish-Kurdish conflict. To this end, first it presents excerpts from in-depth interviews with academics who were dismissed from universities by presidential decrees for This paper examines how Turkish invasions into Northern Syria\u2019s Kurdish enclave undermine US and European policy objectives. It argues that the Turkish state, obsessed with Kurdish hostility, endangers American and European foreign policies by further destabilising war-torn Syria, facilitating the empowerment of Islamist extremist groups, impeding a peaceful resolution to Syria\u2019s protracted conflict, and assisting Russia\u2019s anti-Western interests. The paper suggests that the US and Europe could rather deploy a dual strategy aimed at exerting pressure on Turkey to discontinue its disruptive and belligerent actions. To cease targeting anti-ISIS Kurdish forces, Turkey must either resume the Kurdish-Turkish peace process or risk being designated as a rival state, analogous to Russia, and subjected to punitive sanctions.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=1280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=1280<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EU Turkey Civic Commission<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eutcc.net\" target=\"_blank\">www.eutcc.net<\/a><br>Twitter: @EUTCC1<br>Facebook: Eu Turkey Civic Commission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Sir or Madam,Please find below our monthly newsletter.Kind regards&nbsp; Prof. Kariane Westrheim&nbsp; Chairperson&nbsp; Final resolution 17th EUTCC Conference&nbsp;The Annual International Conference on the EU, Turkey, the Middle East and the Kurds was hosted by the EU Turkey Civic Commission&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=1374\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}