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To: Taro who wrote (225266)	3/20/2005 9:25:40 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572508

And to continue their genocide of the Kurds. I know that they treat the Kurds as second-class citizens, but have they done anything recently that would quality as genocide? Ted is a little bit confused today and mixed up the Turks with Saddam. He poisoned the Kurds, the Turks didn't. And neither does he any longer thanks to GW. You lie and lie. You can't stop, can you? You are so corrupted you wouldn't know the truth if it slapped you upside your head. ***************************************************** Rights group says fewer abuses in Turkey, but level still "unacceptable"** Document Actions 18/03/2005 Human rights violations decreased in Turkey in 2004 but are still at an "unacceptable level" compared to European Union norms, Turkey's main human rights group said Friday. "We can speak of a general improvement when we compare the 2004 human rights record to that of 2003," Yusuf Alatas, the head of the Human Rights Association (IHD) told a news conference unveiling the group's annual human rights report. "But if we assess the figures without comparing them to previous years, the situation is not encouraging at all," he said. "Human rights violations are still at an unacceptable level and far from EU standards." A summary of the IHD report shows the group received 843 complaints of torture and mistreatment in 2004, compared to 1,202 in 2003. Alatas said the figure showed that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government had failed to live up to its "zero tolerance" promise as far as torture is concerned. The report said nine publications were seized or banned in 2004, compared to 285 the previous year. The number of non-governmental organizations closed down by authorities dropped from 47 to 13 during the same period. Prosecutors filed various charges against 467 people for only expressing their views, down from 1,706 people in 2003. The report, however, said the number of people killed in armed confrontations increased from 104 to 240. The figure appeared to reflect a rise in clashes between security forces and Kurdish rebels in the country's mainly Kurdish southeast since last June, when the rebels ended a five-year unilateral ceasefire with Ankara. In a landmark decision last December, the EU gave Turkey the green light for accession talks scheduled to begin on October 3, but the country is still under pressure to prove its full commitment to democracy and human rights. eubusiness.com

To: Taro who wrote (225266)	3/20/2005 9:28:56 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572508

"In Turkey, a civil war between the Kurds and Turks has been going on for the last ten years; approximately 15,000 people have been killed so far ("Time to Talk Turkey, p. 9, 1995). The Turks launched an invasion they called Operation Steel against the Kurds in March 1995, sending 35,000 troops against them, but the plan backfired, as only 158 Kurdish rebels were killed in the first week (Possant, Doxey,& Borrus, p. 57, 1995). To sum up the Turks attitude toward the Kurds,Tansu Ciller, the Turkish prime minister, said, "Turkey has no Kurdish problem, only a terrorist problem" (Marcus, p. 9, 1994)." studyworld.com. "The British newspaper 'European' published pictures of Turkish soldiers proudly posing with the decapitated remains of fallen Kurdish guerrillas. The pictures published here are evidence of a savagery that took place in April 1995 in the district of Hakkari in the Kurdish regions of southeastern Turkey." "These are many of the human rights violations that have kept Turkey out of the EU. Turkey has a violent and aggressive history. Just in the twentieth century, they have gone after the Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians and now the Kurds. I suspect that because they want into the EU so badly, the genocidal killing of Kurds has probably stopped. However, the fighting between the Kurds' PPK and the Turks continues in southeastern Turkey." diaspora-net.org