Greece: banning of pro-Kurdish party will harm Turkey's EU candidacy [BARF!]

AP ^ | 3/13/2003 | N/A

[a_Turk]

ATHENS, Greece - A decision Thursday by Turkey's high court to ban the main pro-Kurdish party will have negative consequences on the country's bid to join the European Union, Greece said.

Foreign ministry spokesman Panos Beglitis said the decision by the constitutional court will also push back efforts to strengthen the democratic process in Turkey.

"It is an especially negative development for the normalization of political life and the consolidation of democratic institutions in Turkey," Beglitis said. "Turkey, as an EU candidate country, has the obligation to guarantee the calm and the unobstructed functioning of political parties, as it ... obliged to do under the association agreement it has with the EU."

The Turkish court also banned 46 leading members of the People's Democracy Party, or HADEP, from politics for five years. It ordered the immediate confiscation of the party's assets. The court said the party had engaged in activities that threatened the unity of Turkey.

"The decision to ban the HADEP party will be reviewed by the responsible institutional organs of the EU, it is certain, however, to negatively impact on the European course of Turkey," Beglitis said.

[a_Turk]

What are they talking about. The EU has no room for us, the "niggers" of Europe as they call us..

Anyway, the Greek agenda is obvious. Here's a nice photo of Greek General Dimitris Matafias visiting with PKK terrorists in the Bekaa valley.

[Gunslingr3]

Is there a particular reason that Kurds should be denied self determination?

[a_Turk]

Not as long as they are ruled by a feudal lord, Barzani, who supports the terrorist PKK.

Anyway, the article is about Greek comments about the closure of a terrorist alligned political party in Turkey.

[xm177e2]

HADEP is the new name for the PKK and they evil, evil communists. Christopher Hitchens met their leader once and he said he found a Kurdish "Pol Pot." The PKK/HADEP is evil and should be annihilated. If there is ever to be a peaceful settlement between Turks and Kurds, it cannot be between the Turkish government and the PKK, that would be making the Arafat mistake all over again. We learned enough from Oslo to know it is a mistake to beg terrorists to be peaceful and assume they will agree to take part in your fantasies of peace.

[a_Turk]

No worries. We've had too many advances and declines in our history to try anything stupid like that again..

[Stavka2]

Well you see, since Aotaturk started the drive to make a secular and ONLY Turkish Turkey, the Turks have slaughtered Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks, often using the Kurds as their proxies. Once the Christian threat was done, they deteremined to get rid of the Kurdish ethnicity too...absorb them if you can, fry them with Napalm if you can't...just as good.

[Stavka2]

Yup, that's why the Turks have killed 50+K Kurd civilians, to get at a guerilla movement...while wiping out a few villages...and that's only in Turkey. They've invaded into N. Iraq to kill Kurds dozens of times.

[xm177e2]

I didn't say the Turks were nice people either. They can't seem to stop committing genocide against the people around them. There's a reason the PKK has such wide support in the Kurdish areas, it's because Kemal Ataturk was an evil bastard who ruthlessly tried to destroy them. Facing that kind of assault, with nowhere to run to--that could push people towards nihilistic/communist ultraviolence. I understand the PKK, I just don't condone it.

[a_Turk]

>> Kemal Ataturk was an evil bastard

Man, are you ever wrong. You are easy prey for these hyphenated americans. Oh well. Don't need you.

[xm177e2]

Why don't you tell us about all the wonderful things he did for the "Mountain Turks"

[WaveThatFlag]

Are American Conservatives the only political group that is motivated by "what is right," rather that "is it good for me?" anymore?

[a_Turk]

Kurds and Turks fought together. Ataturk had to accept our division by the border of Irak to secure a treaty.

Ataturk was a great leader who fought in front with his troops:



He loved children



He brought equal rights to the female citizens of Turkey



He worked to free us from the grasp of arab culture



His spirit lives on. May be rest in peace.

[a_Turk]

If you ask the US media, what will they answer?

What is right is good for you, and good for me. Otherwise it's just not right.

[Jacob Kell]

Any Greek support for the PKK is probably mainly out of spite. Greeks and Turks have historically not liked each other very much.

[xm177e2]

He murdered a huge number of Kurds, and tried to destroy Kurdish culture along with Arabic culture. It wasn't enough to occupy Kurdistan (which I can understand, it has strategic value), he had to try to destroy it.

[WaveThatFlag]

I mean seriously...
Who is Greece to be dictating these kinds of terms? They singlehadedly blocked Macedonia from entry into the UN, because they did not want to face exactly the same problem that Turkey is dealing with with the Kurds. Liberals in the know get sexually excited of the prospect of this Administration distancing itself from Turkey. She has consistently been our stongest (and sometimes only) ally in the Islamic world ever since the US had any interest there.

[a_Turk]

If what you say were to be true, a fifth of ther population in Turkey wouldn't be ethnic Kurds. Please make sure you aren't influenced by some hyphenated American special interest group's propaganda.