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| Turkey to free Kurdish activists | |
| 2004-06-09 | |
A Turkish court has ordered the release of four prominent Kurdish activists, including award-winning ex-MP Leyla Zana, pending an appeal. The state prosecutor called earlier this week for their jail sentences - imposed in 1994 on charges of links to illegal rebel groups - to be quashed. Their trials had been widely condemned by human rights groups. Correspondents say Turkey's move will please the EU, which considers the activists prisoners of conscience.
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| Posted by:Steve |
| #2 Moreover, both EU and Turkey will probably need to wait for a shift in government in Cyprus -- Tassos Papadopoulos is a dishonest chauvinist who will squash every chance of reunification for his own island and veto Turkey's entry in the Union. So no chance for Turkey to enter while Papadopoulos is in charge of Cyprus, unfortunately. |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-06-09 10:15:20 AM |
| #1 If the EU constitution (or atleast another treaty dealing with many of the same problems) doesn't get signed, EU won't be ready to take in even Bulgaria and Romania, let alone Turkey. It was barely ready to take in the 10 countries that already became members -- and I'm already almost-regretting *that*. So, there won't be a need to come up with a *fictional* reason not to let Turkey be enslaved by our corporatist-fascist superpower-wannabe that wants to place the whole of Europe's peoples under our collectivist beaurocrat's boot, etc. Real reasons exist. :-) |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-06-09 10:10:22 AM |