Boycott Turkish Tourism!

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From: newsdesk at newsdesk.aps.nl (Newsdesk Amsterdam)
Subject: Re: Boycott Turkish Tourism!
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--------------- Forwarded from : Arm The Spirit <ats at etext.org> ----------------

KURD-A Documentation: Statement From The ARGK Press Office
January 17, 1995


"Boycott Turkish Tourism! Do Not Give Financial Support To The
Dirty War!"

     The press office of the ARGK (People's Liberation Army of
Kurdistan) issued a statement on January 17, 1995 relating to a
boycott of Turkish tourism, which finances the special war in
Kurdistan. A special war is taking place in Turkey and Kurdistan.
In this situation of war, the ARGK press office said, there can
be no vacation trips. "Every holiday in Turkey makes profit for
the dirty war." The following is the communique which was sent to
us in written form:

     "There is a battlefield in Kurdistan. The Turkish Republic
is waging a horribly dirty war. They do not seek to reach a
peaceful, political, and democratic solution. The Turkish
Republic has forced the people of Kurdistan into a one-sided war.
In the cities and the countryside, countless people are driven
from their homes, more than 2,000 villages have been destroyed or
depopulated through the violence of the military. Millions of
Kurds are being tortured. 15,000 Kurdish patriots, our people,
have been imprisoned. All living spaces in Kurdistan are being
destroyed, the forests are being burned, and there is not a
single mountain region which is not being bombarded. The Kurdish
people have every right to resist and to struggle. Every region
in Kurdistan is a battlefield in this war. A horrible war is
waging between the ARGK and the Turkish Republic. 
     "The special war is also being carried out in Turkey. Every
vacation in Turkey brings in profits for the dirty war. These
profits are transformed into bullets which are used against the
Kurdish people. We are warning the European public, those people
who would like to spend their holidays in Turkey: You cannot take
a vacation on a battlefield. No one should make reservations nor
book any tickets, no one should travel into Turkey or Kurdistan.
There is no guarantee that you can survive in a region where a
war is taking place. Anyone who does not pay attention to this
and who ignores the human conditions is risking their life by
travelling into Turkey and Kurdistan - we are not responsible for
this. To prevent unwanted consequences, do not travel to Turkey
or Kurdistan. We are warning people ahead of time and making them
aware of the reality.
     "Turkey is not a safe country: The lies and destructive
policies of the government are responsible for this. We don't
want Europeans to be fooled by the tourism propaganda of a regime
which is dictatorial, not democratic, and whose military is
waging a special dirty war. Just like last year, we hope that
people will respect our call.
     "We call on the German state to remove its support for the
Turkish government and to free itself from its complicity in the
dirty war. In the long-term, this complicity will only harm
Germany's own interests. If Germany continues to support
destructive policies in Kurdistan, then political and economic
targets will be attacked by ARGK units. We will carry out suicide
attacks against German targets in Turkey and Kurdistan.
     "The Turkish government denies the existence of the Kurdish
people, it practices violence and despotism. This regime cannot
be accepted. You cannot take a vacation in a region where such a
regime is accepted.
     "We are warning people ahead of time that we are not
responsible for the consequences or any undesirable
developments."

ARGK (People's Liberation Army of Kurdistan)


Translated by:

Arm The Spirit
P.O. Box 6326, Stn. A
Toronto, Ontario
M5W 1P7  Canada

E-mail: ats at etext.org

Berxwedan jiyane!


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