VITAL, and TIME SENSITIVE: Yesterday's Turkey's un-Democratic actions against Kurds must be Condemned and the 85+ Kurdish Officials Released
by: Steve Tataii
Honorable Navanethem Pillay
December 24, 2009
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Dear UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Ms. Navanethem Pillay, Greetings
Mam,
Turkey's un-Democratic behavior should be condemned by all Democratic UN
member states, and must be stopped. 85 Kurdish Politicians
including 17 Mayors from 11 Kurdish Provinces have so far been arrested
since yesterday.
These arrests are all under the pretext of their political party
"DTP" affiliation with PKK. Despite the fact; that they leftB DTP
party membership, when the party suddenly declared as illegal by Turkey's
High Court, and have accepted, and now became members in a New party called
"BTP" to satisfy Turkish Regime; the Regime appears to remain
overly ambitious in their endless harassment & Persecution of Kurdish
Nation they have been Ruling over against the wishes of Kurds since 1923;
executing the surprised arrests, angering Kurdish population in this new
trend of humiliation and chaos, using Kurdish people's emotions.
I am especially writing to you in my pleadings, and to please call and meet
with Secretary Ban Ki-Moon if you must, in arranging a "UN Emergency
Special Security Council meeting" or in any other appropriate
manner possible on UN behalf; to issue an Order/"Demand" to
Turkish Government to RELEASE ALL 85 POLITICIANS AT ONCE.
The Kurdish communities have expressed concern about the safety and well
being of these Democratically elected officials and Community activist
intellectuals, especially that in similar incidents such as in the 1994
arrests, many peace loving political figures such as the late "Burhan
Dogan" were killed in custody, while others remained in prison for
years (i.e., MP Leyla Zana spent 10 years in prison for speaking Kurdish in
Turkish Parliament at her swearing in ceremony) or others died under
torture.
I am a Kurd by origin, and was born in East Kurdistan, now a US citizen, but
the Kurds in all 4 parts are from the same ethnicity, and speak Kurdish,
which is another genocide of the cultural nature Turkish regimes have
imposed on our nation, when they have done their utmost to prevent speaking
of our mother language, Kurdish, and we have had to fight back endlessly to
keep it alive in the past 90 years.
Below is a short synopsis about PKK I just wrote, and hope it will come
handy to understand the situation in a nutshell, but please feel free to
call or write if you have any questions or concerns.
I look forward to hear from you, and for your response, and Thank you in
advance for your sincere attention in this most urgent, and abhorrent human
rights violation against Kurdish nation,
Respectfully submitted,
with Regards,
Steve Tataii
Steve Tataii
P O BOX 11042
Honolulu, Hawaii 96828
Telephone: 808 845 5716
[PKK, founded in 1978, is the militant Liberation Organization Army of
nearly 30 million Kurds of "North Kurdistan" located in South East
Turkey, invaded since 1923, which has been forced to engage in armed
conflicts with Fascist Turkish Military Regime since 1984 in defense of
Kurdish people's Human Rights, Cultural Rights, language, Homeland
"11400 years" prior to the arrival of Turks to the region, and the
right to have a Self-Governed state for Kurds known as the right to have
self-determination, for the largest nation without independence since 1923.
Kurdish population has been subject of heavy handed assimilation,
discrimination, mass killings, death & torture of Kurds at random, and
Genocides in addition to burning and destroying of over 20 thousands of
Kurdish villages since 1915 prior to manufacturing of the artificial state
of Turkey by Great Britain & France, meddling with Kurdish Nation's
Internal Affairs, depriving them of becoming an Independence state,
resulting in the division of Kurdistan into 4 forcefully split parts, and
allowing them to be Usurped by Turkey, Iraq, Syria, and Iran. The plan for
Independence was included in the "Treaty of Sevres of 1920" as
part of late President Woodrow Wilson's self-determination doctrine or
proposed plan supposedly to help many of the post WW1 nations gain
Independence with the assistance of the League of Nations].
About Steve Tataii:
Steve
Tataii is a Kurdish Scholar, former US Senator Candidate, the author of 3
recent books on Iraq War related to Kurds, and Kurdistan, a longtime
contributing writer for Kurdish News Websites and other media, a Linguist of
more than 6 languages, and an Independent Conflict Resolution Consultant. He
may be reached at: tataii2003congress@msn.com (please identify the
subject in your email).