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## Nachricht vom 08.03.99 weitergeleitet
## Ursprung : K.RAUCHFUSS at WALKER.link-do.soli.de
## Ersteller: Branscheidt at medico-international.de

BITTE UNTERZEICHNEN UND ODER WEITERVERBREITEN.

DANKE

HANS BRANSCHEIDT

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Georg Classen <georg.classen at berlin.de>
An: Pro Asyl <proasyl at proasyl.de>
Datum: Donnerstag, 4. März 1999 21:15
Betreff: STOP THE DEPORTATION OF RECEP ÖZ AND All DEPORTATIONS TO TURKEY

>Subject:
>             URGENT ACTION: Stop the deportation of RecepÖz
>      Date:
>              Thu, 4 Mar 1999 20:25:16 +0100
>     From:
>              "[ueber die grenze]" <grenze at CRG.NET>
>        To:
>              COYOTE-L at relay.crg.net
>
>
>
>
>URGENT ACTION +++++ PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE +++++ URGENT ACTION
>
>no one is illegal campaign
>phone: ++49/172/8910825
><grenze at jff.de>
><http://www.contrast.org/borders>
>
>STOP THE DEPORTATION OF RECEP ÖZ
>AND All DEPORTATIONS TO TURKEY
>
>Recep Öz, a kurdish activist, is threatened by deportation to Turkey. He
>was arrested on the way to a demonstration in Berlin on February 17th,
>actually he is imprisoned in Bueren, and started a hungerstrike there.
>
>We ask everyone who receives this e-mail to immediately send a protest
>fax to the following
>
>Minister of Interior Affairs of Northrine-Westfalia, Dr. Fritz Behrends
>Haroldstr. 5, 40213 Düsseldorf phone ++49/211/87101, Fax ++49/2118713355
>
>Minister of Interior Affairs of Federal Republic of Germany, Mr. Otto
>Schily
>Graurheindorfer Str 198 53117 Bonn, phone ++49/228/584030, Fax
>++49/228/584066
>
>Chancellor of Federal Republic of Germany, Mr. Gerhard Schroeder
>Bundeskanzleramt, Adenauerallee 139-141, 53113 Bonn, phone
>++49/228/562522,-2523
>Fax ++49/228/562357
>
>Please sign also the appeal of the Berlin refugee Council:
>
>
>Appeal
>
>"... No matter how you look at it. It is all about the question whether
>the German government is willing to deport offenders to a country of
>torturers or not. Schily says this is not possible, but at the same time
>he is trying through the backdoor to find a way to get rid of Kurdish
>refugees as did Manfred Kanther before. (...) Schily´s wants a promise
>from the Turkish government about sparing deported Kurdish people from
>torture. But this kind of negotiation is absurd. The officials in Bonn
>all know that this won´t save deportees from imprisonment and torture.
>It can´t even serve as a front to hide behind for the German government.
>If you want to deport Kurdish refugees this way you must be honest and
>declare openly that you are acting against the European Human Rights
>Convention. (...)" (Heribert Prantl, Süddeutsche Zeitung, 24.2.1999)
>
>Recep Öz, a Kurd from Turkey, is no offender. But nevertheless, he is
>threatened by deportation. He wanted to participate in a demonstration
>by Kurdish people in Berlin when he was arrested by the the police
>without any legal papers. His application for political asylum has been
>rejected as hundreds of other Kurdish refugees that are now hiding in
>church asylum. All of them have been rejected as political refugees
>because the German officials claim that they could not prove an
>individual persecution by the Turkish state. "In most of the cases
>(rejected asylum seekers from Turkey) we have been investigating torture
>and imprisonment could have been prevented, if the applications for
>poltical asylum had been taken more seriously by the German officials".
>(Refugee-Council Lower Saxony/PRO ASYL in their latest documentation of
>the endagering of Kurdish refugees deported back to Turkey, February
>1999, P.3)
>
>Today the situation in Turkey is even more serious. New waves of arrests
>after the escape of Öcalan to Italy and especially after his
>imprisonment in Turkey need to be taken into account when judging about
>the deportations of Kurdish refugees. Until now this has only happened
>in individual cases.
>
>Recep Öz has started a hungerstrike since his arrest February 17th to
>protest against all deportations of Kurdish refugees to Turkey. He has
>started a struggle for his right to stay in Germany in the name of all
>who are threatened by torture and imprisonment.
>
>We are demanding the immediate suspension of all deportations of Kurdish
>refugees from Germany. This is the only way to guarantee Article 3 of
>the European Convention of Human Rights for Kurdish refugees. We are
>also demanding the release of Recep Öz and a permit to stay in Germany
>for him and all Kurdish refugees in Germany as long as torture is a
>common practice in Turkey. We also believe that this is the only
>possibilty to stop the escalation of violence and a first step towards
>an "international solution" of the Turkish/Kurdish conflict.
>
>Signed by the Refugee-Council Berlin, Anti Racist Initiative, Berlin,
>Günter Grass (author), Hans Brandscheid (medico international), Heiko
>Kauffmann (speaker of PRO ASYL), Gyas Sayan (MP, PDS, City State of
>Berlin), Kostas Papanastasiou (actor and architect), United for
>Intercultural Action, Amsterdam, Ewald Groth (MP, Bündnis 90/the Greens,
>the State of Nordrhein-Westfalen), Berrin Özlem Otyakmaz (Mona -
>International Womens Contact and Counselling Center), Knut Rauchfuss
>(Refugee Medical Help, Bochum), Central America Commitee, Bochum, Centro
>Latino e.V., Regional Office Peace Train Musa Anter, VSP - Union of
>Socialist Politics, Ulla Jelpke (MP, PDS, Bundestag Bonn), Caroline
>Bouquerel-Pajaziti (French Translater, EU- Bruxelles), Georg Classen,
>Berlin, Anti Discrimination Office, Berlin, Peter Tepper, Ingeborg
>Hunzinger, Heidrun Hegewald, Dr. Hanna Behrend, Dr. Manfred Behrend,
>Gina Pietsch, (all from Berlin ),
>
>Please, send further signatures to the Refugee-Council Berlin and copies
>to the Antiracist Initiative, tel: ++49/30/7857281, fax: ++49/30/7869984
>
>Flüchtlingsrat Berlin (Refugee-Council Berlin)
>Fennstr. 31
>D - 12439 Berlin,
>ph. : -30/6317873
>fax: -30/6361198
>
>
>
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