{"id":431,"date":"2020-12-19T21:01:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T20:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=431"},"modified":"2025-01-02T21:56:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T20:56:53","slug":"newsletter-12-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter 12\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Letter to the President of the European Council\u00a0<\/strong>On the occasion of the meeting of the European Council on 10 and 11 December we sent a letter to the President of the European Council Charles Michel.<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=424\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=424<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Comment on EUCO conclusions regarding Turkey&nbsp;<\/strong>The European Council imposed limited sanctions on Turkey in relation to its resumption of oil and gas drilling in EU member states\u2019 territorial waters.&nbsp;Turkey\u2019s further regression into a \u2018zero rule of law\u2019 presidential system, its hostage holding of politicians, among them the co-chairs, members of parliament and mayors of the pro-Kurdish Peoples Democratic Party HDP, the full-fledged assault on civil society and independent media remain unmentioned. The European Council is also silent about Turkey\u2019s unlawful occupation and war crimes in Northern Syria.&nbsp;The European Council\u2019s silence about all such issues a flagrant contradiction to the democratic values and the rule of law on which the council says the EU is grounded and encourages Erdogan to continue his destructive path chosen.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=429\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=429<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Interview with our board member Dersim Da\u011fdeviren on EUCO conclusions regarding Turkey (German)<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/episodes.castos.com\/5e2f5a2fe045c1-83979070\/2020-12-13-Interview-Dersim-fin.mp3\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/episodes.castos.com\/5e2f5a2fe045c1-83979070\/2020-12-13-Interview-Dersim-fin.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Statement by EP standing rapporteur for Turkey Nacho S\u00e1nchez Amor and the chair of the EU-Turkey parliamentary delegation Sergey Lagodinsky in reaction to the decision in the case of Osman Kavala.&nbsp;<\/strong><br>Contrary to the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights the court in Turkey has ruled for the continued imprisonment of Osman Kavala. The next hearing will be held on February 5, 2021.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/news\/en\/press-room\/20201217IPR94215\/statement-on-the-turkish-court-decision-on-osman-kavala?xtor=AD-78-[Social_share_buttons]-[twitter]-[en]-[news]-[pressroom]-[afet-statement-on-osman-kavala]-\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EU Turkey Civic Commission\u00a0<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>Letter to the President of the European Council\u00a0On the occasion of the meeting of the European Council on 10 and 11 December we sent a letter to the President of the European Council Charles Michel.http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=424 Comment on EUCO conclusions regarding&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/?p=431\" 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":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","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=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1929,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/1929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eutcc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}