Debbie Bookchin: The party that actually supports terror is Erdogan's AKP

Journalist and author Debbie Bookchin, daughter of Murray Bookchin said that efforts exerted by the Kurdish people to hold negotiations with Turkey  are merely to find a peaceful solution indicating that it is Erdogan that impedes such efforts laying stress that leader Abdullah Ocalan must be freed and PKK be delisted from black list.  

Abdullah Ocalan was arrested and sentenced to death, and later to life in prison, without a fair trial. For more than 22 years, he has been held in solitary confinement, a condition that the United Nations considers to be a form of torture.

On this among others Debbie was interviewed by ANHA and said:

Mr. Ocalan is the leader of a legitimate movement for minority rights and national liberation, just as Nelson Mandela was. Several judicial bodies including the Permanent People’s Tribunal, a direct descendent of the Russell Tribunal established by philosophers Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre to investigate American war crimes in Vietnam, have determined that the PKK is engaged in a legitimate struggle for human rights.

The Tribunal found that the Turkish state is “denying the right to self-determination of the Kurdish people’s identity and presence, and the repression of its participation in the political, economic and cultural life of the country.” Another body, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) studying the period of July 2015 to December 2016, documented [pdf, p2]  evidence of: “excessive use of force; killings; enforced disappearances; torture; destruction of housing and cultural heritage; incitement to hatred; prevention of access to emergency medical care, food, water and livelihoods; violence against women; and severe curtailment of the right to freedom of opinion and expression as well as political participation.”

The Permanent People’s Tribunal stated unequivocally that the Kurdish struggle for human rights is not a “terrorist” issue as Turkish President Erdogan claims, but rather a “non-international armed conflict ruled by international humanitarian law.” As such, it should not be subject to anti-terrorism legislation. A Belgian high court has agreed.

The party that actually supports terror is Erdogan's AKP, as shown by its continued support of ISIS and other jihadi gangs. Amnesty International and others have documented how these jihadi militias have systematically attacked the Kurdish people in Rojava, kidnapping and raping women, killing civilians, looting property, and engaging in ethnic cleansing that has displaced more than 300,000 people.

The Kurdish people have repeatedly tried to negotiate a peaceful solution with Turkey. Erdogan alone is responsible for sabotaging these efforts. The growing aggression by Turkey against the Kurdish people should be denounced by the entire international community. Erdogan’s use of chemical weapons by Turkey is a war crime that is a stain on every NATO nation that remains silent. It is time for Turkey to withdraw from Syria and Iraq. It is time for the peace process to resume. To do this, Abdullah Ocalan must be released from prison and the PKK must be delisted. World leaders, and all of us, must speak out in favor of basic human rights and demand the release of Abdullah Ocalan and the resumption of peace negotiations between Turkey and the PKK.

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ANHA