Udenrigsudvalget 2018-19 (1. samling)
URU Alm.del Bilag 74
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THE FINAL RESOLUTION OF THE 15
th
ANNUAL EUTCC
CONFERENCE 2018
Wednesday & Thursday 5-6 December 2018, European Parliament, Brussels
THE KURDISH FACTOR IN WORLD POLITICS:
CRISIS, CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS
The Annual International Conference on the EU, Turkey and the Kurds was hosted by the EU
Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC) in cooperation with the European United Left-Nordic
Green Left (GUE/NGL), the Greens/European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA), and the
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) groups of the European Parliament.
This conference was successfully held on 5-6 December 2018 in the European Parliament in
Brussels.
EUTCC RECOMMENDATIONS AND DEMANDS
The EUTCC endorses the vision of the Kurdish people to become an actor of policy towards
building stability in Middle East. Supporting Kurdish aspirations for peace and stability in the
Middle East will contribute to global peace as the various interrelated conflicts in the region
have global characteristics and ramifications. For that purpose, the EUTCC strongly believes
that there is an urgent need for change in the political outlook of European and other global
players with respect to the Kurds, and these powers must recognise the Kurdish people as a
major stakeholder in the Middle East and as an important non-state actor striving for peace and
stability in the region, rather than simply continuing to focus on state-based policy.
THE KURDS AND THE MIDDLE EAST: FROM FACTOR OF INSTABILITY TO
ACTOR OF STABILITY
1. The EUTCC calls upon the European institutions, EU member states, the United
Nations, His Holiness Pope Francis, and the United States to urge the Turkish
government to immediately release Abdullah Öcalan.
2. The EUTCC calls on the European Council to take diplomatic, political and legal
measures to compel Turkey to comply with international law concerning the ongoing
isolation of Abdullah Öcalan. Furthermore, the EUTCC asks again the European
Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
Punishment (CPT) to immediately send a delegation to Imrali to visit Abdullah Öcalan.
3. The EUTCC calls on the Turkish government to end the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan
and the treatment of Mr. Öcalan as a political hostage, and calls for the resumption for
the peace talks between representatives of the Turkish state and those of the Kurdish
people.
 URU, Alm.del - 2018-19 (1. samling) - Bilag 74: Sluterklæring fra konference om EU, Tyrkiet og kurderne den 5. - 6. december 2018 i Bruxelles
4. The EUTCC sends its solidarity greetings to the imprisoned Leyla Güven HDP MP and
all who are currently on hunger strike in Turkey in protest at the continued isolation of
Abdullah Ocalan.
5. The EUTCC recognises the recent ruling of the European Court of Human Rights
(ECHR) calling for the immediate release of Selahattin Demirtas and the subsequent
call by the Council of Europe for Mr. Demirtas’s release as important contributions to
the promotion of justice and democracy in Turkey, and believes that similar steps must
be taken concerning Figen Yüksekdag and other political prisoners unjustly detained
and persecuted in Turkey and calls for the lifting of all restrictions on political parties
and individual politicians in the country.
6. The EUTCC welcomes the judgment of the General European Court of Justice which
determined that the decisions to maintain
the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on the
EU list of terrorist organisations must be annulled. The EUTCC calls upon the European
Union to delist the PKK.
7. The EUTCC calls on the EU, the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the United
States, the Russian
Federation, the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS to treat Turkey’s
occupation of Afrin as a clear violation of the Syrian territory which is contrary
international law, to condemn Turkey’s campaign of demographic change in Afrin and
other territory occupied
in Syria, and to call for Turkey’s immediate withdrawal from
these regions.
8. The EUTCC asks the EU member states and United Nations to recognise the Northern
and Eastern Syrian Autonomous Administration as an initial step toward a political
solution to the conflicts in Syria.
9. The EUTCC asks the Turkish government to ensure free and fair local elections on 31
March 2019 and urges the Council of Europe, the EU and the United Nations to send
observer delegations to Turkey prior to these elections and ensure
Turkey’s compliance
with international legal obligations.
10. The EUTCC welcomes the active and autonomous engagement and participation of
Kurdish women in building peace and democracy in the areas of society, politics,
governance and the economy as a model for democratisation of the Middle East.
11. The EUTCC calls upon the European Union, the UN and the Council of Europe to push
Turkey to stop airstrikes and occupation in the Kurdistan region of Iraq which is a clear
violation of international law.
12.
The EUTCC regrets
and condemns the European Parliament Presidency’s sudden,
arbitrary decision to prevent Mr Zubeyir Aydar from speaking at our conference held in
the European Parliament. This regrettable action negates freedom of speech, the pursuit
of peace and democracy.