LONDON, UK—According to the First News Agency Turkish embassy in London refused to accept Archbishops Desmond Tutus letter to the Turkish prime minster Recep Tayyeb Ordogan.
Security guards of the Turkish embassy stopped the delegation from approaching the embassy’s building. The delegation was headed by Rev Matthew Esau, Vice-Chair of Kurdish Human Rights Action Group and Ken Livingstone ex-mayor of London.
The spokesperson of the delegation Essau made a short statement afterward stating that they do not understand the attitude of the Turkish officials.
“Like the situation in the Middle East, where “peaceful negotiations are the only lasting solution to their problems, we are firmly of the view that the Kurdish question can likewise be resolved through peaceful negotiations with the genuine leadership of the Kurdish people” Tutu told in his letter addressed to Erdogan.
Western Medias, however, continuously blames the Kurdish legitimate struggle for the escalation of the violence in the region. Turkish government misleads the International media, and provides them with the information, which serves its discriminatory policies.
25 million Kurds live in Northern Kurdistan, whom are flatly deprived of their basic Human Rights. Since the start of the Kurdish struggle, which is led by the Kurdistan Worker Party (PKK), have constantly asked for the democratic and peaceful solution of the Kurdish question in Northern Kurdistan.
Article 2(4) of the UN Charter which prohibits Use of Force by states was incorporated and elaborated as a principle of International law in the 1970s Declaration on Principle of International Law, which in one of its paragraphs states that “States must not use force to deprive peoples of their rights to self determination and independence”. It might be argued that the Declaration of 1970 is not binding law, but because of its nature, which is classified as Customary International Law it has priority in International legal system. Turkish government, nevertheless, functioned in contrary to the international law, more than 4000 villages were destroyed and burnt by the Turkish army, and thousands of the Kurdish politicians, children, women imprisoned, and hundreds were assassinated by secret Turkish agents.