Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-05-13-Speech-2-262"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-05-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Search made of the Ankara headquarters of the Human Rights Association of Turkey2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030513.11.2-262"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-05-13-Speech-2-2632
lpv:speaker	lp:Efstratios Korakas2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, the raid on the offices of the Human Rights Association of Turkey is not the first attack on this organisation, which has played and is playing a leading part in the fight against the repression of the people of Turkey, Turks, Kurds and national minorities. There have been repeated, even more savage raids in the past. I need only remind you of the armed raid on the previous president of the Association, Akin Birdal, who was repeatedly fired on. That attack too was condemned by the then Minister for Justice, and yet the victim was ultimately locked up in gaol for several years. Just so that we understand what condemnations by serving ministers mean! So this raid is particularly significant, because it was carried out at a time when the new government of Turkey is trying to stop the democratic mask which Mr Erdogan and his cohorts were wearing before and after the elections from slipping. As far as we are concerned, there can be no doubt that the government of Islamists, by reason of its very ideological base, was and is not in a position to lead Turkey towards democracy. It had to be elected, taking account of the thirsting and the fight of the Turkish people, but under no circumstances has it changed its ideological political orientation. Without doubt, the basic reason for this raid is the intrepid, heroic fight of the Human Rights Association in Turkey and the rights of the Kurdish people. Neither the military establishment that always directs political life in Turkey nor the Islamic party entertain any sympathy for this sort of impropriety. The raid was carried out on the basis of Articles 169 and 312 of the Criminal Code and the anti-terrorism law respectively, which criminalise any support for the hunger strike of political prisoners and their fight against the white cells as an act of terrorism. The ban on the Turkish communist party and the HADEP party was decided in the same spirit. We express our brotherly solidarity with the people of Turkey and stand by their side in their fight for democracy and peace, as recently expressed during the attack on Iraq."@en1

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