JINHA

Ankara-In the final declaration of peace and democracy conference it was said ‘we as conference participants assign ourselves to follow the process of peace and negotiation. We state that nobody should turn back to military policies and this process shouldn’t be interrupted, it is required to be improved, in this regard we declare the determination of efforts for which we are responsible’

The first ‘democracy and peace conference’, come to order with resolution process and planned to be held in four different region, took place in Ankara, Surmeli Hotel on 25-26 may. The final declaration of two-day conference was announced. In the final declaration it was said in two-day conference in which more than five hundred people came together, participants commentated the negotiation process, resolution of Kurdish issue and the steps taken for peace. Alewives, Armenian, Assyrians, Kurds, Turks, Sunni, Arabs, Roman as various people of country, participated to the conference as well as the belief groups, unbelieving people, intellectuals, academics, youths, women, LGBT, laborers, political party and other groups. The common demand of participants is to raise permanent peace and found a common democratic future embraced the right and freedom of all sections. For this we have to work together.’

‘’the government should give up the restricting approaches’’

                In the announced final declaration of conference these were emphasized:

‘’ we see that today some approaches make difficulties in terms of developing peace and democracy process with mutual trust. We state that the government of AKP shouldn’t make problems in front of the development of resolution process with its hegemonic and authoritarian politics sense. We call the government to take steps for promoting mutual trust and strengthening the resolution and peace process.

We indicate the necessary of securing the situation of health, safety and freedom of MR. OCALAN who is carrying on the negotiation under the limited conditions, and providing him the opportunity of communication with groups consisted of various sections. We emphasize the importance of mutual tolerance and respect and the spread of peace language, not the language of hate. We remind the importance of ending obstacles against democratic struggle required to socialize peace atmosphere and negotiations and in this context, the freedom of expression, organization, meeting and demonstrations shouldn’t be restricted.

‘’ steps should be taken to ensure the equality between women and men’’

Among the decisions taken at the Democracy and Peace conference, gender equality and the situation of ill prisoners were emphasized. These are stated in the continuance of the final declaration:

‘’ we demand that legal arrangements providing to set free all of the political prisoners, especially patient and child prisoners, should be handled immediately. Once again we emphasize that rights of people’s language, identity, culture and belief are universal, they shouldn’t be matter of negotiation and these rights are essentiality of being equal citizen.

We express our believes about providing real and permanent peace by gender identity, equality rights of sexual orientation and equality between women and men at the each level of resolution and democratization process.’’

‘’ we are followers of the process’’

In the final declaration of conference these are stressed by saying ‘we as participants of conference are assigning ourselves to follow up the process of peace and negotiations’’

‘’for realizing the real peace we are uniting in the indispensability of facing with genocides, lost, unsolved murders and all of the massacres which are lied from today to past. We express that we will make everything to establish justice and reveal all of the abuses committed against humanity with no time limit.

We are calling out the political parties in parliament by considering the inability of ensuring resolution only one sided self-sacrifices. We point out that it is required to accelerate the steps of legal reforms and democratization, to conclude the new constitution studies before elections, and to improve an appropriate study pace, style and language for resolution process in parliament by both government and opposition parties.

When we point out that the aim of realizing the peace not only in Turkey but also in Middle East and Syria is the common struggle matter of conference participants, we emphasize that the attack in Reyhanli showed the urgency of peace need.

We as conference participants announce that we have common demands and approaches for resolution, peace and democratization in Kurdish issue and we announce to everyone that we will have collective struggle to practice them. We call out all of the people and foundations that are from side of peace, democracy and right of labor, to carry on the struggle of equality, justice and democracy collectively in Turkey and to be a part of resolution process.

When we state that we are open to different voices, views and styles, we point out that the way by which these are ensured is to work with people who are different and unjustly treated in society.

This conference, gathering various groups of society, became the will of resolution, peace and democratization. We are determined to carry on our works by means of ‘’Truth, Confrontation and Justice commission’’, ‘’Law, Cleaning the way and New constitution Commission’’, ‘’ Social Negotiation and Democratic Politics Commission’’ and their coordination.

From that point, as conference participants, we are announcing the determination of widening the struggle of socializing peace and negotiation and crowning the struggle of equality, freedom , right quest of labor and ecological justice with democracy.’’

(eg/la/ak)