BRUSSELS, — Noam Chomsky and Imre Kertesz among signatories of letter sent to US President Obama is support of Kurdish politicians.
In an open letter to US President Barack Obama, numerous international personalities expressed their solidarity to Kurdish politicians who recently ended up accused by the US-OFAC (Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control), a subdivision of the U. S. State Department, of allegedly being engaged, actively or in any other way, in the illegal trade of drugs.
Indeed, the letter stated, the five Kurdish politicians, namely Cemil Bayik, Duran Kalkan, Remzi Kartal, Sabri Ok and Adem Uzun have publicly denounced such activity.
The letter has been signed among others by Noam Chomsky, Author, United States, Imre Kertesz, Nobelprice Laureat, Berlin/Budapest, Professor Kariane Westrheim, Chairperson EUTCC (Norway), Hans Branscheidt, Author, EUTCC (Germany), Professor Michael Gunter Board EUTCC (USA), Bob Russell MP, UK, Stan Newens, MP + MEP ret.
The signature campaign had been promoted by EUTCC Brussels and MESOP Germany. In the letter the signatories said to be “deeply concerned to learn of false allegations, repeatedly aired and recently revived, made against Kurdish politicians and diplomats. These baseless allegations are directed against an entire people and their representatives who should by rights be seen as indispensable to the achievement of a genuine peaceful resolution to Turkey’s conflict with the Kurds”.
The signatories then stated to be “convinced that these individuals are not engaged, actively or in any other way, in the illegal trade of drugs, and indeed they have publicly denounced such activity. Nor does any European government know of even a single bank account possessed by them, such that the US government can claim to have “frozen” it. Nor do they have any bank accounts in the USA”.
The signatories also wished to “put on record that it is our personal conviction that, having been familiar with or met one or more of these Kurdish politicians that it is our belief that they aim simply and solely to achieve a just, reasonable and peaceful resolution of the Kurdish question. We therefore intend despite all the pressures to continue our dialogue with them in search for a solution to this question”.