Turkey's poor treatment of Kurds threatens EU accession

Recorded 5th June 2008 - Eurofocus Episode 15

Turkey's declining human rights situation is endangering its application to join the European Union. There are growing demands fro Ankara to implement a lasting solution to better integrate the country's Kurdish minority. Press TV's Jody Sabral reports from Istanbul.

Featuring interviews with Emma Sinclair-Webb (Human Rights Watch), Hasip Kaplan (Democratic Society Party), Ertugrul Kurkcu (Bianet) and Ahmet Turk (Democratic Society Party).

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• turkey
• kurd
• kurdish
• european union
• europe
• human rights
• minority
• minorities
• refugees
• asylum
• record
• abuse
• integration
• policies
• ankara

[vitovito123]

this is stupid, when Van had an earthquake who fucking helped? the PKK kudish kurds didnt help the citizen of turkey being kurds and turks helped and it was mostly turks that helped the kurdish people..dont even say the government doesnt care about you....dheres more airports in the east of turkey than there is in the black sea region, the government gives u schools, buses, running water, hot water..stop whining like little bitches and u support btp or pkk, hopefully turkey would give u no right

[CelticKraut]

@lonely54 I'm with you bro. Luckily it looks like the EU will be dissolving soon.

[lonely54]

@xOxKurdParstxOx I don't know any kurdish word in turkish language. Stop lying silly kurd. You have no culture, no history, no land. Don't be jealous more. are kurds aryan???? hahahaha in your dream maybe. look your dark skin and cry...

[lonely54]

@xOxKurdParstxOx shut fuck the up liar kurd... You look like monkey. if you dont believe me look at the mirror.

[xOxKurdParstxOx]

@lonely54 Go find your oldest Father from 3000 2000 years ago! Before you became Turk. Turkish Culture=Hittite Culture! Turkish DNA= 90% Not Turks. What more? Ah Language=Turkish Gypsy language= 40% Arabic 30% Persian The Rest=Mongolo-Hittite! Kurdish Nûche/Hewall (News) Turkish (Haba)=Arabic: Xabar.... even Sunday Monday Words are from PERSIAN! Window=PERSIAN, Even Pronouns (O,Men...)=ALL From Kurdo-Persian (Arian). FUCK TURK Death to Joke Turk. Turk=Not a people,not a lngauge,TURK=A NAME.

[xOxKurdParstxOx]

@lonely54 where Did I remove my comments? You Raped Son??? hahahah I have NEVER DONE THAT NEVER! My Greatest Grandmother was a Joke-Turk JUST LIKE YOU!, and my own mother 1/4 Turk, but none of them could say 1 word in Turkish! ALL=Assimilated. FUCK TURKKKKKK Death to TURKS! Turk=Gypsy Hun comming from Mongolia, Raping 1000000 people! Offspring=YOU (Your oldest Grandmother=Raped by Mongols)

[lonely54]

@xOxKurdParstxOx why you removed your comments :D you accepted your beastliness with your comment.:D:D

@lonely54 these Kurds don't need any state! or something, TURKEY is their state, a Turkish family has only 1 2 3 or none children! These Kurds have 5 8 7 10. 2040 they will become 50% in just 80 years from now they will TAKE OVER.

[lonely54]

@xOxKurdParstxOx Being mongol is not insult for me. I prefer to be mongol than to be kurd. I am 100% Turk and proud to be Turk. No need your lies. I know our history better than you. fuck off hairy monkey...

[xOxKurdParstxOx]

@lonely54 these Kurds don't need any state! or something, TURKEY is their state, a Turkish family has only 1 2 3 or none children! These Kurds have 5 8 7 10. 2040 they will become 50% in just 80 years from now they will TAKE OVER.

[xOxKurdParstxOx]

@lonely54 You wiped out Greeks,Hittites (your real fathers),Armenians,Lazs,Syriac­s... BUT KURD is STILL KURD! My people STILL exist and lives on your TURKISH HEART with fighting you and killing your SONS in the wars inside KURDISTAN "Eas of so called Turkey". That is enough for me to SEE! You succeeded in everything but NOT Kurds. Soon they will become the majority INSIDE Turkey.They live in Eastern Turkey but also many Big Turkish cities have Kurdish majority population! Mersin,Adana,Istanbul..