WE DAMN THE TERRORISM OF THE MILLENIUM

As the mothers knowing too much about the terrorism disaster and having lost their 35 thousand children in terrorism, we sincerely share the sorrow and pain of the people of the USA. In the name of humanity, we condemn the brutal attack with great hatred and believe that the terrorists who committed crimes against humanity will be punished as soon as possible.

We are the ones who can best understand the grief of the USA having lost thousands of its people in terrorism in New York and Washington on September 11th. Because, 40 thousand of our people have been killed and thousands of them have been disabled as a result of the activities of the terrorist organizations of the PKK, Hizballah, DHKP/C and ASALA.

As the mothers having suffered from terrorism and believing in democracy, human rights and the rule of law, we took every opportunity on every platform to say, "Don't do that. Don't tolerate terrorism and terrorists. Those tolerating terrorism are at least as guilty as terrorists. Definitely, those supporting terrorism will, one day, be the victims of terrorism. It is not right to say my terrorist is good. Anyone making way for terrorism or supporting or having sympathy for it is not loyal to humanity. Terrorist organizations, which killed thousands of our people without distinguishing between children, women or elderly people and disabled thousands of others, are an international trouble. Let's fight together against terrorism. Terrorism is not a regional but an international problem". But, we could not explain that. I wish we were wrong...

We hope that all the humanity will take important lessons from the terrorist brutality experienced by the USA.

The necessity for the whole world opinion to understand that terrorism cannot be a tool for the political aims of various groups of people has been made clear in the recent terrorist activity.

Terrorism is a devil standing against the contemporary world. All the leading democracies of the world should come together and struggle against this big enemy together. No matter where it is, poisonous branches of the terrorism tree can reach every part of the world.

Recalling the fact that the biggest obstacle on the way to human rights and peace is terrorism, we call the international public opinion to struggle together with terrorist organizations.

We support the proposal to commemorate September 11th as the "Day for World Struggle Against Terrorism and Commemorating the Victims of Terrorism".

Yours faithfully,

Turkish Mothers' Association