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Avrupa Konseyi’nin Türkiye’deki seçimleri izleme heyetine katılımımdan sonra AKP taraftarları, şahsıma karşı başlatmış oldukları gayrimeşrulaştırma kampanyası ile beni PKK sempatizanı olarak karalamaya çalışmaktadırlar. Türkiye’de son aylarda gerçekleşen kitlesel tutuklama ve işten çıkarılmalar da aynı yöntemle gerekçelendirilmiştir. Bu doğrultuda açıklama yapanlardan biri, Dışişleri Bakanı Mevlüt Çavuloğlu’dur. Halbuki kendisi, Avrupa Konseyi Parlamenterler Meclisi eski üyesi olarak Konsey’in PKK’yı terör örgütü olarak değerlendirmediğini bilmektedir.
Interview with the Turkish newspaper BirGün
First of all, how do you evaluate the crisis between Turkey and Germany?
The relations have cooled down in the last weeks. But only because the Turkish Governments’ statements have reached a level that makes it hard take them serious. Until now, the Merkel Government has relied on its Turkish partners in the light of the anti-immigration deal. This has led to a mutual dependence which resulted in the fact, that the German Government didn’t criticize the Turkish Government at all, accepting that way the massive and undemocratic persecution of the Turkish opposition, media, academics, and others. We have criticized the Merkel Government for that cronyism with the dictatorship-to-be. We also condemn Erdoğan’s plans for a constitutional reform and the persecution. I hope that the people in Turkey will vote NO in the referendum.
Answers by Andrej Hunko, MP for DIE LINKE in Germany to Sputnik
Do you expect the situation in Syria to ease under the presidency of Donald Trump?
At least that is what I hope. A solution to the Syrian crisis to a large extent depends on the relations between the USA and Russia. While Hillary Clinton is known as a “hawk” in foreign policy and in 2013 tried to push Obama to openly intervene in Syria, Trump at least during the election campaign sounded more moderate regarding the relations to Russia. But currently it’s difficult to say because Trump is very unpredictable.
By Andrej Hunko and René Jokisch, June 7th 2016
In an article[1] also published in German in DIE ZEIT and on EurActiv.de, Susan Stewart of the Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), an organisation which advises the German government, called for Russia to be excluded from the Council of Europe, as there is allegedly no longer any justification for it to remain.
Joint statement of a ten-member international delegation assembled in Istanbul to try to help restart the Kurdish-Turkish peace process, which has been suspended since the spring of 2015.
Eine deutsche Version des Textes finden Sie weiter unten. Hier finden Sie eine italienische Version.
The situation in Turkey today is critical. The recent escalation of conflict surrounding the Kurdish question is most dangerous. The war in Syria has already spilled over into widespread hostilities across the Southeast of Turkey. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s AKP government is committing human rights’ atrocities in Cizre and other towns and cities, and there is a very real threat of a further spiraling of violence throughout the country. The state’s repression and intimidation of Turkish academics and journalists who have spoken out against its war-mongering reveals the intimate connection between the struggle for a peaceful resolution to the Kurdish question and the struggle for democracy in Turkey more generally.