Dear Sir/Madam,
We consider the report adopted by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Commission for Immigration and Immigrants titled as "Displaced Persons in the Southeastern Turkey" as a document encouraging terrorism, which is prejudiced and excludes the factor of terrorism.
We protest this report in which the activities of the separatist terrorist organization have been disregarded and the terrorist identity of the PKK has in no way been emphasized.
We think that this report, which questions the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Turkey, has been prepared in a way far from objectivity and rationality.
It is believed that although the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has defined the PKK as a terrorist organization, the fact that this report has been prepared by some parliamentarians who are members of the commission would overshadow the consistency of the European Council Parliamentarian Assembly.
We would like to remind our European friends, who demand that the PKK which is the reflection of terror in Turkey should be recognized as a "political side to be negotiated", of some of the terrorist activities conducted by the organization during the last week:
· PKK activists attacked a minibus carrying passengers and killed 10 civilians including a clergyman on June 3, 1998. (Hürriyet Newspaper, 04.06.1998)
· PKK activists placed a bomb in a train carrying passengers, and killed a civilian and injured 3 others on June 3, 1998. (Hürriyet Newspaper, 04.06.1998)
· Construction machines of a private company were set on fire by the PKK activists in Tunceli on June 3, 1998. ("Ülkede Gündem" Newspaper, 04.06.1998)
· PKK activists set in fire a gas station in a district of Bingöl and killed the owner of the station on June 2, 1998. ("Ülkede Gündem" Newspaper, 03.06.1998)
· PKK activists raided a house in the rural areas of Tunceli, and killed 3 person including a child at the age of 5 on June 7, 1998. (Reuter, 07.06.1998)
The PKK, which carried on its terrorist activities by using the funds gathered through illegal ways such as black money-laundering in the procurement of weapons, has killed 5 thousand civilians and injured 5 thousand others, without discriminating as to sex, age and religion.
We remind once again that the rules of terrorism make no discrimination between countries, nations and people, and we invite all of the people and organizations, who have common sense with regard to "human rights" and "democracy", to condemn the terrorism carried out by the PKK, and to protest this report, which gives premium to terrorism.
Yours Respectfully,