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Letter of solidarity to Gülcihan Simsek from Basel Canton

Posted on June 18, 2020December 30, 2020 By admin

The Swiss association joined the call for the release of political prisoners in Turkey.

The co-chairs of the Basel-Van Twin Cities Association, in Switzerland, wrote a letter after learning of the arrest of former co-mayor of Bostanici Gülcihan Simsek.

The letter, signed by Green deputies and co-chairs of the association, Sibel Arslan and Martin Flückiger, recalled that Simsek has implemented several ground breaking projects, especially to promote and empower women.

The letter added that “it is not the first time that Gülcihan Simsek is in prison. She spent five long years behind bars, without charge and without judgment. The pretext is always the same: ‘Support an illegal organization’. This means the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

But for the Turkish state, every person who is critical of the current AKP regime is “terrorist”. The strong Kurdish women’s movement in particular is a thorn in the side of President Erdogan. Together with Gülcihan Simsek, 17 other women, all committed to women’s rights, were arrested.

The Swiss association joined the call for the release of political prisoners in Turkey.

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The Kurdish Center for Human Rights was established in Geneva in 2000, according to the Suisse civil law. In response to the genocide, war crimes and human rights violations occurring across the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria.

The KCHR, as a non-profit organization of social utility, was born from the need to  inform the European and Swiss people and the OHCHR on human rights violations against the Kurds via seminars and other dialogue platforms and to attend their meetings; to establish a dialogue with NGO’s, civil movements, associations, government and civil institutions.. Read More….

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