Open Letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown – Appeal for the Release of Kurdish Politicians

PEACE IN KURDISTAN CAMPAIGN

Open Letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Appeal for the Release of Kurdish Politicians

We, the undersigned, call on Prime Minister Gordon Brown to use all available diplomatic means to bring an immediate end to the repression of Kurdish politicians in Turkey and to promote a political and negotiated solution to the Kurdish conflict. Read more

Open letter to MEPs etc. – Arrest of Kurdish MPs in Turkey

Open letter to all members of the European Parliament and the Parliaments of the EU countries

Ladies and Gentlemen,

As a member of parliament you will surely join us in condemning the fact that two freely elected Kurdish members of the Turkish Parliament with large majorities have been removed overnight from this institution, their party forbidden and ten likewise freely elected Kurdish mayors taken away in handcuffs. It will surely also shock you to hear that a kind of pogrom atmosphere is being stirred up against their Kurdish colleagues, among them the Party Chairperson, Ahmed Turk, with the result that even the tenancies on their apartments  in the capital of Ankara have been terminated. Read more