Ευρωβουλευτές:
Έφτασε ο καιρός πια για σκληρή κριτική στην Τουρκία !
Ευρωβουλευτές δήλωσαν πως ¨Έφτασε ο
καιρός για άμεση και ισχυρή κριτική της Ε.Ε. για την Τουρκία¨
και ζήτησαν ελευθερία για τους δημοσιογράφους.
Οι ευρωβουλευτές έκαναν έκκληση
προς τον πρόεδρο του Ευρωπαϊκού Συμβουλίου Ντόναλτ Τουσκ και στον πρόεδρο της
Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής Ζαν Κλοντ Γιούγκερ σχετικά με τους δημοσιογράφους. Οι
βουλευτές ζήτησαν από τους Τουσκ και Γιούγκερ να κάνουν μια ισχυρή έκκληση προς
τον Ερντογάν να αφήσει ελεύθερους τους δημοσιογράφους.
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Στο κείμενο αναφέρονται τα εξής:
Dear President Tusk, dear President Juncker,
We would like to express grave concern regarding the deterioration of
the human rights context and of the rule of law in Turkey, and to write to you
ahead of the EU-Turkey leaders’ meeting in Varna, Bulgaria on 26 March 2018. We
urge you to ensure human rights are discussed as a matter of priority, and call
upon you to press President Erdoğan to put an end to repression in the country
and release individuals detained without evidence of wrongdoing.
As Turkey is under a state of emergency imposed after a failed coup in
July 2016, President Erdoğan has headed the cabinet and ruled the country by
decree, with weakened parliamentary and judicial oversight. Since July 2016,
independent media has been silenced, with over 160 media outlets and publishing
houses closed down, and scores of journalists and media workers jailed without
any evidence of their participation in illegal activities. Turkey is the
country with the highest number of journalists in detention anywhere in the
world. Many are held in pretrial detention, face terrorism related charges and
could face sentences of life imprisonment. Scores of individuals are imprisoned
for undertaking their legitimate work as journalists – without ever advocating
violence.
The European Parliament has repeatedly condemned the arbitrary
imprisonment of many journalists in Turkey and has called for their immediate
release, issuing the European Parliament resolution of 27 October 2016 on the
situation of journalists in Turkey, the European Parliament resolution of 6
July 2017 on the 2016 Commission Report on Turkey and the European Parliament
resolution of 8 February 2018 on the current human rights situation in Turkey.
Several of us have committed to personally take up individual cases of
jailed journalists unjustly imprisoned and to repeatedly call for their
immediate release. These include Şahin Alpay, a 74-year old political scientist
and former columnist for the shuttered newspaper Zaman (released on 16 March,
but under judicial control and confinement to his house while his trial
continues); Ahmet Şık, investigative writer and reporter for the opposition
daily Cumhuriyet (released on 9 March, pending conclusion of trial); Akın
Atalay, chief executive officer of Cumhuriyet; Abdullah Kılıç, former columnist
for the shuttered daily newspaper Meydan; and Zehra Doğan, artist and
journalist for the feminist Kurdish news site JINHA. İnan Kızılkaya, former
news editor of the pro-Kurdish daily Özgür Gündem, is currently outside of
detention, yet still faces charges and therefore risks reimprisonment. These
are just a few examples amongst so many. According to recent accounts, there are
still more than 150 journalists imprisoned in Turkey.
Others, including human rights defenders including Osman Kavala and
Taner Kılıç, academics, lawyers and elected members of the parliament and local
politicians, remain behind bars.
We have been deeply shocked by the recent collapse of the independence
and effectiveness of Turkey’s judiciary. On 12 January, a local court crushed a
Constitutional Court’s ruling that journalists Şahin Alpay and Mehmet Altan
should be released. On February 1, a decision by a Turkish court to keep Taner
Kılıç, human rights defender and chair of the board of Amnesty International’s
Turkey section, in pretrial detention less than 24 hours after ordering his
provisional release shows the increasingly politicized and arbitrary nature of
Turkey’s judicial system. We welcomed the 2 February joint statement by the
High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the
Commissioner on European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations on
those cases and urge you to make robust calls for their release during your
Summit with President Erdoğan.
Both EU leaders and elected representatives of the European people have
a duty to demonstrate full solidarity with every individual detained in Turkey
for exercising their free expression. It is time for the European Union, its
institutions and its Members States to make an immediate and strong criticism
of the massive crackdown in the country. The Turkish people depend on our
support.
Pending discussions on Turkey’s accession to the EU, on a renewed
customs union, as well as the EU’s support to key extractive infrastructures
like the Trans-Anatolian Pipeline and other forms of economic and political
cooperation are important for the EU and Turkey. However, we urge you to be unequivocal
with President Erdogan: closer relations between the European Union and Turkey
can only be conditioned on the lifting of the state of emergency, returning to
rule of law, releasing detained journalists, human rights defenders and elected
politicians, and ensuring accountability for torture and ill-treatment
committed in police custody.
We would be glad to hear back from you at your earliest convenience.
Yours sincerely,
Ana Gomes (S&D) / Ana Miranda
(Greens-EFA) / Anna Maria Corazza Bildt (EPP) / Bart Staes (Greens/EFA) /
Beatriz Becerra Basterrechea (ALDE) / Benedek Jávor (Greens/EFA) / Bernd Lucke
(ECR) / Birgit Sippel (S&D) / Barbara Lochbihler (Greens EFA) / Bodil
Valero (Greens/EFA) / Boris Zala (S&D) / Brando Benifei (S&D) / Bronis
Ropé (Greens/EFA) / Charles Goerens (ALDE) / Claude Turmes (Greens/EFA) / Costas Mavrides (S&D) / Demetris
Papadakis (S&D) / Eleonora Evi (EFDD) / Elly Schlein
(S&D) / Eva Joly (Greens/EFA) / Fabio Massimo CASTALDO (EFDD) / Georgi
Pirinski (S&D) / Georgios Epitideios (Non-attached Member) / Helga Stevens (ECR) / Helga Trüpel (Greens EFA) / Hilde Vautmans
(ALDE) / Isabella Adinolfi (EFDD) / Jaromir Stetina (EPP) / Javi López (S&D
Group) / Jiří Pospíšil (EPP) / Joachim Starbatty (ECR) / John Howarth (S&D)
/ Jordi SOLÉ (Greens/EFA) / José Inácio Faria (EPP) / Juan Fernando López
Aguilar (S&D) / Jude Kirton-Darling (S&D) / Julie WARD (S&D) /
Judith Sargentini (Greens/EFA) / Keith Taylor (Greens/EFA) / Klaus Buchner
(Greens/EFA) / Liadh Ní Riada (GUE-NGL) / Luke Ming Flanagan (GUE-NGL) / Lynn
Boylan (GUE-NGL)Marco Valli (EFDD) / Margrete Auken (Greens/EFA) / Maria Arena
(S&D) / Marie-Christine Vergiat (GUE-NGL) / Marietje Schaake (ALDE) / Mark
Demesmaeker (ECR) / Martina Anderson (GUE-NGL) / Matt Carthy (GUE-NGL) / Merja
Kyllönen (GUE/NGL) / Miapetra Kumpula-Natri (S&D) / Michal Boni (EPP) /
Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ (EPP) / Michel Reimon (Greens/EFA) / Michèle Rivasi
(Greens/EFA) / Monica Macovei (ECR) / Nikos Androulakis (S&D) /
Nadja Hirsch (ALDE) / Pascal Durand (Greens/EFA) / Patricia Lalonde (ALDE) /
Pavel Svoboda (EPP) / Peter Kouroumbashev (S&D) / Piernicola Pedicini
(EFDD) / Rebecca HARMS (Greens/EFA) / Renate Weber (ALDE) / Richard Sulík (ECR)
/ Rina Ronja Kari (GUE-NGL) / Sirpa Pietikäinen (EPP) / Soraya Post (S&D) /
Stefano Maullu (EPP) / Tanja FAJON (S&D) / Takis Hadjigeorgiou (GUE-NGL) / Terry Reintke (Greens/EFA) / Theresa Griffin
(S&D) /
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24/3/2018
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