Turkey's dirty war to be exposed at Andrea Wolfs graveside
Turkey's dirty war to be exposed at Andrea Wolfs graveside
An internationally significant action schedule will be released to exhibit the dirty war Turkey conducts against Kurds under the name of 'fight against the PKK' and the human rights violations in Turkey. One of the major activities of the schedule will be performed at the mass graveside of 41 PKK members including Ronahi code-named PKK guerrilla of German origins, German national human rights activist and sociologist Andrea Wolf, who had lost their life and been buried in a mass grave in 1998 in Çatak, a district of Van.
The schedule has been prepared with the intention of telling the world public opinion about the major offenses against humanity committed by Turkey in the 90s, especially in Kurdistan and taking Turkey to international courts in this context. The work is conducted by Andrea Wolf International Research Group which has held a series of meetings and interviews to reveal the facts concerning the slaughter of Andrea Wolf and other 40 guerillas.
Within the framework of the work, the Research Group has also met with IHD Van Branch Secretary Sami Görendað and ANF reporter Rawin Sterk who writes and follows the news about mass graves in Kurdistan.
ACTION SCHEDULE TO BE ANNOUNCED AT THE MASS GRAVE
While IHD administrator Görendað informed the Research Group about the details of clashes, information received from local sources and personal experiences in the region, our reporter Rawin Sterk provided the Group with the personal reports of surviving guerillas, statistical information and the reports appeared on the media about mass graves.
The effective and comprehensive schedule, which was prepared both in Germany and Kurdistan in the light of the gathered information, will be announced to the world from the mass graveside of 41 guerillas including Andrea Wolf who had been brutally executed and buried in a mass grave in 1998 in Çatak, a district of Van.
The first step of the program will be taken in Germany where panels, marches and open-air forums will be organized with international participation in World Peace Day on 1 September. The organizations which will take place in many cities including Munich, Frankfurt and Berlin will try to create sensitivity to the mass grave and to the issue of Andrea Wolf. The activities in Germany will also be joined by parliamentarians from Turkey and Kurdistan, families of guerillas buried in mass graves, organization- responsible IHD administrator Görendað and our reporter Rawin Sterk.
On the other hand, the Kurdistan part of the schedule will carry out a more comprehensive study. In accordance with information provided from local sources, the savageness extents of the event, the positions where the in-action soldiers belong to, the hierarchal responsible of the operation will be ascertained and a criminal complaint will be filed to the judicial authorities both in Turkey and Germany against the responsible.
The second step of the program will be to reach the families of all guerrillas who died fighting and to include them in the action schedule, to increase the applications and to enable the clarification of truths.
The third phase will be to provide an active participation in the meetings with BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) Headquarters and local authorities. As well as participation of thousands with the support of local authorities and parliamentarians, the program will also demand the conveyance of the event to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. With the participation of thousands of people, a call will be made to the world public opinion at the mass graveside on September 15. The call text will make a participation call to all non-governmental organizations, political parties, unions, as well as artists, academicians and journalists in Turkey and Kurdistan.
The open-air forum at the graveside will gather both the allies of Andrea Wolf in German and the relevant activists and politicians in Turkey. Then a criminal complaint will be filed to Çatak Public Prosecutor's Office and all the activities and acts to be performed afterwards will underline that the Turkish militarism committed a crime against humanity in Kurdistan. Following the schedule of events in Van, a proposal will be made to the activist and drafting committee of Mesopotamian Social Forum (MSF) in Diyarbakýr to add this subject as an agenda item. In addition, there will be a separate work about including the participants from Europe and Turkey to the MSF.
One other part of the program will be to shoot a documentary film of Andrea Wolf which will tell the story of Wolfs years in Germany, her friends, her struggle and life, her visit to Kurdistan and joining the PKK and her life finding an end in the mass grave.
The two points to be underlined in this work were defined as the crime against humanity committed by Turkey throughout the country, not only in Kurdistan, which will open the way for trial in Geneva, and the approval of all applications of the official state militarism by state authorities including prime ministers, chiefs of defence staff, in-action commanders and governors, which will reveal that the implementations are an official state policy and cant be inflicted on certain persons and responsible authorities.
Translation: Berna Ozgencil
The schedule has been prepared with the intention of telling the world public opinion about the major offenses against humanity committed by Turkey in the 90s, especially in Kurdistan and taking Turkey to international courts in this context. The work is conducted by Andrea Wolf International Research Group which has held a series of meetings and interviews to reveal the facts concerning the slaughter of Andrea Wolf and other 40 guerillas.
Within the framework of the work, the Research Group has also met with IHD Van Branch Secretary Sami Görendað and ANF reporter Rawin Sterk who writes and follows the news about mass graves in Kurdistan.
ACTION SCHEDULE TO BE ANNOUNCED AT THE MASS GRAVE
While IHD administrator Görendað informed the Research Group about the details of clashes, information received from local sources and personal experiences in the region, our reporter Rawin Sterk provided the Group with the personal reports of surviving guerillas, statistical information and the reports appeared on the media about mass graves.
The effective and comprehensive schedule, which was prepared both in Germany and Kurdistan in the light of the gathered information, will be announced to the world from the mass graveside of 41 guerillas including Andrea Wolf who had been brutally executed and buried in a mass grave in 1998 in Çatak, a district of Van.
The first step of the program will be taken in Germany where panels, marches and open-air forums will be organized with international participation in World Peace Day on 1 September. The organizations which will take place in many cities including Munich, Frankfurt and Berlin will try to create sensitivity to the mass grave and to the issue of Andrea Wolf. The activities in Germany will also be joined by parliamentarians from Turkey and Kurdistan, families of guerillas buried in mass graves, organization- responsible IHD administrator Görendað and our reporter Rawin Sterk.
On the other hand, the Kurdistan part of the schedule will carry out a more comprehensive study. In accordance with information provided from local sources, the savageness extents of the event, the positions where the in-action soldiers belong to, the hierarchal responsible of the operation will be ascertained and a criminal complaint will be filed to the judicial authorities both in Turkey and Germany against the responsible.
The second step of the program will be to reach the families of all guerrillas who died fighting and to include them in the action schedule, to increase the applications and to enable the clarification of truths.
The third phase will be to provide an active participation in the meetings with BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) Headquarters and local authorities. As well as participation of thousands with the support of local authorities and parliamentarians, the program will also demand the conveyance of the event to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey. With the participation of thousands of people, a call will be made to the world public opinion at the mass graveside on September 15. The call text will make a participation call to all non-governmental organizations, political parties, unions, as well as artists, academicians and journalists in Turkey and Kurdistan.
The open-air forum at the graveside will gather both the allies of Andrea Wolf in German and the relevant activists and politicians in Turkey. Then a criminal complaint will be filed to Çatak Public Prosecutor's Office and all the activities and acts to be performed afterwards will underline that the Turkish militarism committed a crime against humanity in Kurdistan. Following the schedule of events in Van, a proposal will be made to the activist and drafting committee of Mesopotamian Social Forum (MSF) in Diyarbakýr to add this subject as an agenda item. In addition, there will be a separate work about including the participants from Europe and Turkey to the MSF.
One other part of the program will be to shoot a documentary film of Andrea Wolf which will tell the story of Wolfs years in Germany, her friends, her struggle and life, her visit to Kurdistan and joining the PKK and her life finding an end in the mass grave.
The two points to be underlined in this work were defined as the crime against humanity committed by Turkey throughout the country, not only in Kurdistan, which will open the way for trial in Geneva, and the approval of all applications of the official state militarism by state authorities including prime ministers, chiefs of defence staff, in-action commanders and governors, which will reveal that the implementations are an official state policy and cant be inflicted on certain persons and responsible authorities.
Translation: Berna Ozgencil
