For information contact Derek Brett (+41 77 462 9825;
derek.brett@ifor.org
)
or
Murat Kanatli (+90 542 852 8446;
muratkanatli@gmail.com
; facebook @muratkanatli2018)
Last Friday
4/1/2019
, EBCO reported on the sentence handed down to Turkish
-
Cypriot conscientious
objector Halil Karapaşaoğlu by the Military Court in the self
-
styled “Turkish Republic of Nor
thern
Cyprus”, and on the massive public support he received, with a crowd of well over a hundred waiting
to cheer him as he emerged from the court.
Things have subsequently moved rapidly in northern Cyprus.
After the trial on Thursday the President and Ge
neral Secretary o
f the Press Workers Trade Union
announced that they would henceforth refuse to perform reserve service; on Friday they received
the endorsement of the Trade Union as a whole.
Friday lunchtime Murat Kanatli and Derek Brett did a 45
-
minute l
ive interview with the Kanal SIM TV
station (see the
link
on the
ebco facebook page
). Five hours later, as activists gathered at the Press
Workers Trade Union to discuss strategy, they were able to watch the Prime Minister sitting at
exactly the same table telling a differen
t interviewer that the Draft Amendment to the Military
Service Act which would allow alternative service for conscientious objectors was ready and would
be put before Parliament on Monday 7
th
.
On Saturday morning, the people of Nicosia woke to see a wall b
earing a new graffito by CRS
depicting Halil with two doves one carrying an olive branch signifying peace and the other
a pencil
signifying poetry...
http://www.ebco-beoc.org/sites/ebco-beoc.org/files/attachments/2019-01-09-Press-Release_EBCO_Cyprus_Halil.pdf
http://bessereweltlinks.de/index.php?cat=14699&thema=Gesetz-Entwurf_zum_Recht_auf_Kriegsdienstverweigerung_(work_in_progress)_2019
Zeitraum
11.01.2019, 22:19 Uhr - 11.01.2019Adresse
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