Special for the Armenian Weekly
The following quote contains what reportedly happened to Fatma Tokmak, a Kurdish woman from Sirnak in Turkey’s Kurdistan, when she was arrested in 1996: “They blindfolded me when they put me in the police car. I was holding Azad in my arms. The police officers sitting on my left and right beat me on the way to the Anti-Terror Branch of the Istanbul police department. I was exposed to torture and sexual abuse for 11 days there. They gave me electric shocks m
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Tokmak’s case as well as as other documented cases of Kurdish women sujbmitted to torture, forced assimilation ands other inguman treatments, must be brough to UN tribuabls,namely, the Committee against Torture, Amnesty International and other Women’s Defense Conventions. I think Turkey is sigantory of these treaties.
aline dedeyan (Geneva)
It is a human tragedy like many others caused by the “Democratic, freedom loving, peaceful and Turkish Republic”. A “Secular country that can be used as an example for other Moslem countries” according to the official US Government. I don’t think that this article/story belongs in an Armenian newspaper. We Armenians know more than enough about Turkish “civilization and culture”. This and similar articles belong in US and European papers so that their public knows more about Turkey, a country that many want to see join the European Union. Something that if it happens will mean the end of Europe and its civilization as we know it. Europe, America and the world, wake up and know who real Turkey is.