>From: dhkc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: "[Ozgurluk.Org]" Fehriye Erdal 40 days in Hungerstrike > > >FEHRIYE IS ON THE 40TH DAY OF A HUNGER STRIKE > >FEHRIYE MUST LIVE, HER LIFE AND HER FREEDOM ARE CONNECTED > >On August 16, Fehriye Erdal was released from months of unjust imprisonment >in jail and was placed under house arrest. The authorities who for months >have confronted Fehriye with injustice, illegality and arbitrary behaviour >and who are supposed to keep her current address secret have given it away >twice in the space of 24 hours. > >In a political trial, a military court in Turkey has demanded the death >penalty for Fehriye. The sadistic fascist government wants to get its hands >on Fehriye so as to be able to torture and murder her. Fascism in Turkey is >doing everything it can in order to achieve this goal. Politics in Turkey >are founded upon torture and massacres. Threats, extortion, injustice and >oppression are the basis of state policy. > >Fehriye has been on hunger strike for exactly 40 days. To defend her dignity >and freedom, and to be able to live, a 23-year-old woman has been putting >her own body and health at risk in order to resist the political game the >Belgian government is playing with her, and to resist the ongoing illegality >and injustice with which she has been confronted. Her life depends on her >security and her security depends on her freedom. For 40 days, Fehriye has >been paying the price of freedom. It is government officials, especially the >Belgian Interior Minister Duquesne, who are taking away Fehriye's freedom >and creating threats to her life. Grown men have dressed up in costumes and >come together posing as serious statesmen to work out ways in which a young >woman, whom they have neither seen nor come to know and with whom they have >never come into contact, "can be extradited into the bloody hands of >fascism - whether directly, or through a third country". The Belgian >government wanted to use a secret treaty with Turkey to extradite Fehriye to >Turkey. Nothing came of this, so now they are trying to achieve this goal by >means of a third country. > >Not only is this murder, but it also means violating their own laws. After >the decisions reached within the framework of the secret treaty with Turkey >ran into obstacles from the court and the Higher Administrative Court, >threats began to emanate in a more open form from the authorities in Turkey. >Turkey began to threaten Belgium with an economic embargo. Will Belgium also >give way to these threats? Will it violate its own laws once more because of >these threats? Will it sacrifice Fehriye so as to be able to bow the knee to >threats from fascism? Will it wound the national honour of the Belgian >people once more by submitting to these dirty threats? All this depends on >M. Duquesne and the members of the government. > >Fehriye wants to live, her life depends on her freedom. Her freedom is >connected with her application for asylum being accepted, and also connected >with the removal of the threat of being sent to a "third country" which >hangs over her like a sword of Damocles. > >FEHRIYE MUST LIVE > >FREEDOM FOR FEHRIYE > >August 22, 2000 > >COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM FOR FEHRIYE > >-- >Press Agency Ozgurluk >In Support of the Peoples Liberation Struggle in Turkey and Kurdistan >http://www.ozgurluk.org >DHKC: http://www.ozgurluk.org/dhkc > _______________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________
