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FRANCE: CCAF CONDEMNS LAURENT FABIUS'S POSITIVE SIGNAL TO THE AUTHORITARIAN REGIME OF TURKEY
Jean Eckian / Paris
17:07 13/02/2013
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http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/politics/view/28919
In a statement released on Wednesday, Feb. 12, CCAF condemns Laurent
Fabius's positive signal to the authoritarian regime of Turkey
The CCAF (Council of coordination of the Armenian organizations of
France) regrets the decision of France to give its agreement to the
opening of a new chapter in the negotiations between Turkey and the
European Union. This initiative, made public by Laurent Fabius on
February 12, is all the more intolerable it occurs in a context of
serious violations of freedoms in this country, "specifies the text.
Which cites the case of Pinar Selek, of the French student Sevil
Sevimli, those imprisoned journalists and lawyers...
"This shocking decision of the French government also joins in a
context of racism and violence against minorities in Turkey (Armenian
women killed in Istanbul, anti-Kurdish repression), which spilled
blood to Paris on January 9 with assassination of 3 Kurdish activists.
A crime which weigh heavy suspicions about the involvement of the
Turkish secret services.
Considering these events, Laurent Fabius's announcement constitutes
a provocation and an encouragement in the turpitude of the AKP. It
expresses a cynical conception of the diplomacy, in total contradiction
with the commitments affirmed by the PS and by the President of the
Republic on the conditions of entry of Turkey into Europe."
Jean Eckian / Paris
17:07 13/02/2013
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/politics/view/28919
In a statement released on Wednesday, Feb. 12, CCAF condemns Laurent
Fabius's positive signal to the authoritarian regime of Turkey
The CCAF (Council of coordination of the Armenian organizations of
France) regrets the decision of France to give its agreement to the
opening of a new chapter in the negotiations between Turkey and the
European Union. This initiative, made public by Laurent Fabius on
February 12, is all the more intolerable it occurs in a context of
serious violations of freedoms in this country, "specifies the text.
Which cites the case of Pinar Selek, of the French student Sevil
Sevimli, those imprisoned journalists and lawyers...
"This shocking decision of the French government also joins in a
context of racism and violence against minorities in Turkey (Armenian
women killed in Istanbul, anti-Kurdish repression), which spilled
blood to Paris on January 9 with assassination of 3 Kurdish activists.
A crime which weigh heavy suspicions about the involvement of the
Turkish secret services.
Considering these events, Laurent Fabius's announcement constitutes
a provocation and an encouragement in the turpitude of the AKP. It
expresses a cynical conception of the diplomacy, in total contradiction
with the commitments affirmed by the PS and by the President of the
Republic on the conditions of entry of Turkey into Europe."