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  2. Wavatar peace and democratic solution group
    31/10/2009 at 5:36 pm

    Letter of the Peace and Democratic Solution Group
    to the Turkish authorities

    To the Representatives of the Goverment of the Turkish Republic,
    İts Citizens and the Democratic Community

    İn order to unwind the current halting of the peace initative in respect to the Kurdish question in Turkey and Turkey’s democratisation process,we the Peace Group acting on the historical initative of Mr.Abdullah Öcalan ,come to turkey to contribute to a true basis for peace.

    Our decision to the contribute to the peace process by comeing to turkey in no way realatesto us wanting immunity according to section 221 of the turkish Penal code .İt was our free will to decide and partake in this peace group .We do s oto firstly asist ceasing the bloodshed between the parties, to put and and to our mother’s crying,and to strengthen the foundations for a peaceful solution .AS it event from this peace initiative we have taken,we are not the root of the problem but rather the side that wants a peaceful solution. Turkey is currently going through a very importent,critical process.After the local elections on the 29th of March of this year, the debate surrounding democratisation within turkey reached a significant level. The Road Map For A Peaceful Solution drafted by our Leader Abdullah Öcalan was prevented from distribution to thhe wider community.Despite this, the Road Map has had a positive effect on goingdebates for a peaceful solution ,and together with the constructive announcement by goverment representatives, has strengthened the possibilities for a peacful and democratic solution.

    The fact that a very wide and diverse community seeks to contribute to the debate ( although on a limited basis ) has it self opened up the possibilities for a real democratisation of Turkey. Community contribution to the debate will enhance common understanding amongst its people and respect for he rights of its various peoples. The Kurdish Freedom Movement is continuing its unilateral ceasefire,and enduring significant sacrifices . through these developments and the debate which has resulted, the Turkish public has come to face the plight ot the Kurdish peoples. These developments have brought the democratisation of Turkey and efforts for a peaceful and democratic solution to the Kurdish question to the forefront of the debate as real issues. The fact that the problems of theTurkish and Kurdish people can not be resolved through violence but rather through the process of the democratic politics, has now reached firm recognition.

    As a Peace Group,we believe that our initiative will asist the democratisation process by providing a fundamental basis for understanding and creativity . The current developments in Turkey provide possibilities for a genuine solution more than ever available befor . A democratic and stability within the region . İn order to bring this possibility to life we are hopeful that first and foremostly, the responsible forces and reponsible communities approach the process in a sensitive and delicate manner.

    Whatever the conditions of the solution may be ,democracy will not prevail without a common will .The obstacles provided by nationalist ,self-serving,chauvinist groups against the democratisation of Turkey and the democratic and peaceful solution to the Kurdish questions maket his explicity clear. The wide ranging attacks of these groups against the democratisation of turkey are disigned to prevent a peaceful solution to the Kurdish question . This consittutes a real threat to the democratic initiative that has been developed and ongoing debates to this end .

    İn order to overcome these threats to the democratisation process, Mr Abdullah Öcalan has called upon peace and democratic solution groups to g oto Turkey. We are threfore, using our freewill to go to Turkey as peace ambassadors to asist the ongoing process. Another reason for our initiative is to uncover historical subversions in order to strengthen the possibilities of our people living harmoniously together .

    Some of us represent the people of Maxmur who are made to live through the heavy consequences of the damaging policies that have result in the intractable nature of the Kurdish question . During the 1990’s the Turkish government forces burned down and destroyed our villages. These attacts resulted in us having a migrate from the very lands that we were born, grew up in a struggled tol ive through unbearable conditions in order to protect ourselves from the falling bombs. Families and loved ones lost their lives as a result of these unjust policies. Likewise many members of our families and loved ones became the victims of extrajudical killings by the government forces of the time.

    To this day we do not know how these people we killed and where their bodies are. Thousands of peoples we disabled and hundreds were imprisoned and remain imprisoned to this day. As the people of Maxmur ,who have been made tol ive throudh all of this suffering, there is nobody that wabts tol ive in peace with freedom of our own identities as much as we do.

    Some of us on the other hand,opted to take active part in the Kurdish Freedom Struggle and remained in the mountains for years under immensely difficult conditions in order to protect an honourable identity. This was in the face of an otherwise unsolvable Kurdish question, with inequalities in the living conditions of Kurdish and injustices lived by the Kurds. This became our struggle for our existence – for a democratic,equal and freedom based solution.

    Every conflict must have its process of dialogue and peaceful solution. Principally and ethically ,we are the opinion that once the problem has been grasped and made opens to public debate , that both sides need to refrain from violence for a peacefull solution through dialogue. We firmly believe that a solution will only come from those who believe and advocate peace. As has been evidenced from conflict around the world, we can also with our unique circumstances , reach a peaceful solution through dialogue.

    İt is fort his reason that we consider our contribution to attempting to overcome the halting of the current process to be critical .With the consciousness of this responsibility for the furtherance of the peace process we have responded to the calls of our leader, and the hopes of peace of oure people to create the conditions to be able to live together in freedom and peace . We simply ask that the currently halted process be untangled, in order to reignite the democratic political process of dialogue . Despite similar attempts which have not been successful in the past , we demonstrate the will of the Kurdish people and our leader for a peaceful and democratic solution once again. We believe that all those who feel responsible for a peacefull solution will respect and support our peace initiative. İt is as a result of this belief that we are demonstrating this sacrifice as a toll that needs to be paid as a demonstration of our readiness for a peacefull resolution. We believe that Turkish government representatives and those in favour of peace will respond to our initiative with the responsibility it deserves.

    We list our requests below as fallows in order that our message for peace may find life :

    1. Fort he Road Map drafted by our Leader to find its rightful adresses in order that a puplic debate be initiated.

    2. For both sides of the conflict to observe ceasefires in order that a democratic and peaceful process to solve the Kurdish question be initiated

    3. On the basis of recognite of our Kurdish identity, that guarantee and protection of our identity be provided within the constittution tol ive freely, equally and together as part of a democratic Turkey

    4. Tol ive our mother tongue Kurdish freely :to speak it ,develop it , tol ive our historic values and culture within our geography in our own mother tongue.

    5. To be able to name our children in Kurdish and to educate them in Kurdish.

    6. To live our history , culture ,literature and music as the Kurdish populace ,and to develop and protect the same.

    7. To be able to unite with our people as Kurds,and partake in the democratic political process and to freely Express ourselves within this process.

    8. For the Villages,towns and cities of Kurdistan to be free from village guards and fear of violence by governed forces, and tol ive in security.

    9. For the democratisation of Turkey ,with the construction of a democratic civil constitution.

    These requests form the basis with which to find a democratic solution to the Kurdish question . We seek to openly debate and advocate peace in Turkey with all of the democratic community. We are talking these steps in order to take this historical opportunity forward. We believe that our initiative will be successfull and on this basis we salute all communities in favour of peace.

    Peace and Democratic Solution Group

    01.11.2009

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  3. Wavatar Stelios Ioannou
    02/11/2009 at 12:10 pm

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  4. Wavatar snowbird
    13/11/2009 at 3:26 pm

    Leave it out mate!!! The carpetbaggers of the South have had their chance!!

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    19/01/2010 at 6:22 pm

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