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ANKARA (DIHA) - Speaking at the DTP congress, Ahmet Turk asked for the Draft Bill for Fight with Terror to be revoked, said that the draft bill is a strait jacket meant for Turkey. It is a kind of law for fight with the Kurdish. Co-director Turk, made a series of recommendations for the democratic solution of the Kurdish problem.
Speaking at the DTP congress, Ahmet Turk reminded that Turkey has found a negative and relative atmosphere of peace from 1999 to 2004 and said that “this situation has made important contributions to the EU process of Turkey. However, the governments during this period did not do anything serious for the development of the democratic dialogue and for the stabilisation of the relative situation of peace and they acted as a director for a tense situation that upset us deeply today.” Evaluating the Kurdish problem as a historical and sociological fact, Turk said that the problem is also one of democracy, identity, one of being an equal and free compatriot, peace, unity and development as a country and human rights problem.
Turk gave his recommendations for a solution for the Kurdish problem:
* The 1982 constitution that is a product of 12th September, so it should be replaced by a new one.
* There should be assurance for rights of language and culture. Our differences should not be a reason for separation but one of unity and richness of colours.
* The law for election and political parties should be changed and be made more democratic. The free will of the people should be given the right to be represented in the Grand Assembly.
* The legal and actual practices on the freedom of thought and organisation, essential for a democratic society.
* The Draft Bill for Fight with Terror should be revoked, because this bill is a strait jacket meant to be. It is a kind of law for fight with the Kurdish.
* There should be “a Political Amnesty” as a way to open peaceful channels and the democratisation of the political life.
* Laws special for the individual should be should be abolished. F Type, D Type and all kinds of isolation and special repression should be given up.
* 126 people died while protesting such practices and thousands of others suffer from serious health problems. It is not acceptable that the government has not noticed and not done anything about these. This practice should be ended and replaced with contemporary and regulations and practices.
* The practice of village guards should be abolished and the mines should be cleared.
* There should be possibilities for the people to return to their evacuated villages that reach up to 4000 in number. There should be humanitarian conditions there for them to live as a human being. In this context, the number 5233 Law of Compensation is not enough to solve the problem on its own while the new practise brings about injustice.
* Regarding the injustice in distribution of wealth, unemployment, lack of investment, lack of wealth and the long periods of emergency in Eastern and South-Eastern regions, there should be a special plan for development for the region.
* There should be steps in compliance with the modern world, taken towards identity and cultural rights:
* Drawbacks on the Kurdish language, education in the mother language, TV-radio broadcast and written publications should be lifted. There should be possibilities for education and publications with regard to the population and the demands.
* Habitation unities whose names had been changed by laws should be granted their names in accordance with their historical, geographical, and cultural structures.
* Kurdology Institutes and Kurdish culture and history academies should be opened.
* Expressing that they defined a three-phase road map a while ago, Turk went on with his speech:
"I repeat my calls from here once more. Some sides reflect these calls as a deal, and they say that we say these for the stipulation that PKK should conform to the decision of no operation. Such a controversy does not reflect the truth and it does not contribute to a solution. It is not important whether the operations will stop or PKK will stop its actions. What really counts is whether the blood that drips will stop. What really counts is whether the Kurdish people have a country where they can express themselves freely. Everyone should do what falls on them as a responsibility."./..
(ekip/ny)