"Turkey: Anti-Terror Law Used Against Peaceful Activists
07 Jun 2006 16:25:05 GMT
Source: Human Rights Watch
(New York, June 7, 2006) � The trial tomorrow of three Kurdish activists on anti-terrorism charges after they attempted to stage a peaceful protest near the Iraq border calls into question the Turkish leadership's commitment to human rights reforms, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. To demonstrate that his government stands by the reform process, Prime Minister Erdoğan must ensure that Ibrahim G��l�, Zeynel Abidin Ozalp and Ahmet Sedat Oğur are released. These three Kurdish activists are scheduled to go on trial tomorrow in the eastern city of Diyarbakir. They were arrested on May 2 as they prepared to walk to the border of Iraq to peacefully protest the recent killings of civilians by security forces in southeastern Turkey and express their concern about tensions between the Turkish government and the Kurdish-led administration in northern Iraq."
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