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November 29, 2004

Turkish police kill Kurdish school child, label boy "terrorist"

Reported in Kurdmedia.com on 11/27

Turkey implements 'Copenhagen Criteria' by executing a school boy

Turkish police fired 13 bullets into the 12-year old Kurd, nine of them from half a meter's distance. His father was also killed in execution style. Turkish police planted weapons on the bullet-riddled bodies; the Governor announced, "Two terrorists shot dead in a shoot-out."

• Mother: I saw my son Ugur forced on his knees, his neck pushed down. Then came gunshots.

• Governor: Two terrorists have been captured dead [sic] after a shoot-out with security forces.
• HRA: "Little likelihood that [the fifth grader and his father] used weapons; it may be an execution.

London (Kurdish.Media.com) 27 November 2004: Turkish police killed a 12-year-old Kurdish boy and his father in "execution style" in front of their house in Kiziltepe last Saturday, says the Human Rights Association of Turkey (HRA).

The police, it appears, then planted weapons on their bodies to portray the father and son as "terrorists who were killed in an armed clash with security forces" - a Turkish cliché.

Ugur Kaymaz, 12, and his father Ahmet Kaymaz, 30, both were civilians, concluded Turkey's leading human rights watchdog in a report released after a fact-finding mission to Kiziltepe (Qosere in Kurdish).

"There is little likelihood that [the father and son] used weapons, the incident may be an execution and security forces killed them either mistakenly or intentionally." ......

Makbule Kaymaz, 30, Ugur Kaymaz's mother:

"My husband Ahmet is a truck driver. We own the tanker and he transports oil. My son Ugur was born in 1992 and was a fifth grade student in elementary school. He would join his father on some business trips.

"On the day of the incident, my husband was preparing for a trip to Iskenderun where he was going to pick up a shipment. At around 16:30, we had set the dinner table and were about to eat.

"Just before dinner, my husband and Ugur took some bedding stuff, blankets, etc. to the truck for the trip. They both had flip-flops on. They were going to put the stuff in the truck and come back to have dinner. The truck was parked on the main street about 40-50 meters from the house.

"A short while after they left, we heard gunshots. My three children, my mother-in-law and I were home. We were scared and rushed to hide in the yard of our neighbor, who is a close relative.

"For a moment, I saw my son Ugur, I recognized him from his white pants. Before the truck, he had been forced on his knees, his neck pushed down in front of the truck. Then came gunshots.
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In 1993, at the Copenhagen European Council, the Member States took a decisive step towards the current enlargement, agreeing that "the associated countries in central and eastern Europe that so desire shall become members of the European Union". Thus, enlargement was no longer a question of 'if', but 'when'. Here too, the European Council provided a clear response: Accession will take place as soon as an associated country is able to assume the obligations of membership by satisfying the economic and political conditions required." At the same time, the Member States designed the membership criteria, which are often referred to as the 'Copenhagen

As stated in Copenhagen, membership requires that the candidate country  has achieved among other things,  stability of institutions guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights and respect for and protection of minorities.  Source..

Posted by Hyscience at November 29, 2004 10:22 AM

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