---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Solidarity with H. Dicle <[email protected]> Date: 1 July 2011 21:40 Subject: Solidarity with Hatip Dicle To: Sukla Sen <[email protected]>
Dear Sukla Sen, thank you very much for your solidarity by signing the campaign for Hatip Dicle. We would be very glad if you could inform friends of yours and people in your country about the campaign and ask them for their support. This would strengthen the campaign again and raise the pressure on the Turkish government to keep to juridical and democratic regulations and to open the way for a peaceful and democratic development of the country. Many thanks for your support and trouble, yours sincerly, Solidarity campaign for Hatip Dicle **** *Declaration of solidarity with Hatip Dicle* We, the signatories, declare our solidarity with the elected independent candidate of the Labour, Democracy and Freedom block, Mr. Hatip Dicle - and call on the Supreme Electoral Board of Turkey (YSK ) - and other responsible bodies - to reverse the decision to revoke his parliamentary mandate immediately. Hatip Dicle is, like all politicians of the electoral block for Labour, Democracy and Freedom, fully committed to the continuous work for a peaceful solution of the Kurdish question and the democratisation of Turkey. Therefore we are convinced that the recognition of his mandate and the recognition of the democratic will of the Kurdish population, are necessary steps in the direction of the democratisation as well as the stabilisation of the country. Hatip Dicle was elected by 77,709 voters for the Turkish National Assembly as an independent candidate in Diyarbakir. The Supreme Electoral Board (YSK) of Turkey revoked Hatip Dicle‘s mandate on Tuesday 21st June 2011. Citizens who are imprisoned also enjoy the right to exercise their vote in Turkey - and they achieve immunity in case of being elected. The politician served a 10-year prison sentence for the reason of speaking Kurdish in the Turkish Parliament in the 1990s, together with Leyla Zana. In 2009 Hatip Dicle was arrested once again within the scope of the KCK case on account of juridically untenable allegations. Just before the election the YSK excluded him from standing as a candidate, but nevertheless, accredited his candidature following mass popular protests. We are convinced that, for the solution of the Kurdish question to be achieved the following are necessary:- a recognition of the democratic will of the population, a political dialogue with the BDP and the members of the electoral block for Labour, Democracy and Freedom and the ending of the repressions against politically active Kurds and the leftwing opposition in Turkey, an immediate bilateral ceasefire, as well as dialogue between the government and all political actors involved in the conflict, including Abdullah Öcalan and the PKK. In this context we expect the YSK – and other responsible bodies - to take a decision in accordance with human rights and democratic aims and the approve the mandate of Hatip Dicle. *First signatories:* *Prof. Noam Chomsky* (Institute Professor MIT, Cambridge, USA), *John Austin * (Former UK MP, Former Member of the PACE), *Prof. Dr. Norman Paech*(Professor for International Law, Former MdB), *Prof Dr. Latif Waid*(University Professor, London, UK), *Prof. Dr.Rudolph Bauer* (Professor i.R., Bremen), *Prof. Michael Gunter *(EUTCC Secretary General), *Prof. Kamal Mitra Chenoy*(Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India), *Jürgen Klute* (MdEP, Die Linke, GUE/NGL), *Ingrid Remmers* (MdB, Die Linke), *Harald Weinberg* (MdB, Die Linke), *Andrej Hunko* (MdB, Die Linke), *Dr. Les Levidov* (Senior Research Fellow, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK), *Dr. Joey Moses* (Advocate of the High Court of South Africa and Chair of the National Association of democratic Lawyers, Western Cape, South Africa), *Luisa Morgantini* (Former Vice President of the EP), *Maya Heuschmann* (Coordinator of the Turkey section of Amnesty International Switzerland), *Sarah Ludford* (MdEP, Liberal Democrat European justice and human rights spokeswoman, Brüssel), *Jürg Meyer* (Pensionary Journalist, Basler Zeitung, Member of the `Grossen Rates des Kantons Basel-Stadt`, Sozialdemokratische Partei), *Dr. Bircan Turan* (Doctor, Zug, Switzerland), *Dr. Peter Strutynski*(Political Scientist, peace researcher, Kassel), *Edgar Auth* (Journalist, Frankfurt a.M.), *Martin Glasenapp* (medico international, Frankfurt a.M),*Antonella di Biasi* (Journalist, Rome), *Manuel Martorell* (Journalist, Spain), *Özgür Rencberlik* (Chief Editor of the Newspaper Özgür Politika, Frankfurt a.M.), *Villo Sigurdson* (Former Mayor of Copenhagen, Denmark) *If you want to support the declaration of solidarity please send an e-mail including your name to:* [email protected] If you like you can add your title and profession. -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. 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