9/1/1998
WKI: RIGHT TIME FOR POSITIVE RESPONSE TO PKK CEASEFIRE BID
PRESS RELEASE
Letter Calls on Administration to Push Issue with Turkish, Iraqi Kurdish Leaders...
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5/15/1998
The following letter, initiated by WKI, the Human Rights Alliance, Center for Victims of Toture and the Federation of American Scientists,
The letter was released to the media and public.
We write to ask that your government launch an immediate investigation into the savage shooting of Akin Birdal, President of the Human Rights Association of Turkey (IHD), inside his offices on May 12,...
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10/27/1997
WKI Calls on Albright to Protest Turkish Intervention in Iraqi Kurdistan;
PRESS RELEASE
Calls for US Leadership to Promote Steps for Lasting Peace and Stability ...
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9/3/1997
Ethnic Cleansing of Kurds in Iraq Violates U.N. Resolutions
Press Release
Washington, D.C. -- In a letter today to Secretary of State Madeline Albright, the Washington Kurdish Institute called upon the U.S. Administration to demand an end to Saddam Hussein’s ethnic cleansin...
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7/18/1997
PROMISES ONE DAY, PROSECUTIONS THE NEXT
PRESS RELEASE
Washington, D.C. -- On July 17, 1997, Mehdi Zana, a renowned Kurdish activist and husband of imprisoned MP Leyla Zana, was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment for "separatist propaganda." ...
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6/11/1997
WKI Calls on Albright to Protest Sentences of HADEP Officials in Turkey
PRESS RELEASE
The President and Executive Director of WKI, in a letter to Secretary of State Madeline Albright, today condemned the June 4, 1997 sentencing of 31 officials of the People’s Democracy Party (HADEP) ...
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5/15/1997
WKI President reacts to Turkish invasion of Iraqi Kurdistan.
PRESS RELEASE
Urges U.S. leaders to call on Ankara to avoid humanitarian crisis, regional instability. Calls for non-military resolution of Turkey’s Kurdish problem....
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5/5/1997
WKI DECRIES TURKISH GOVT. ATTEMPT TO STIFLE DISCUSSION OF KURDISH PROBLEM AT CONFERENCE
PRESS RELEASE
The Ankara Security Director today informed organizers of the "Conference for a Peaceful Settlement of the Kurdish Problem in Turkey" that the May 8-9 meeting was banned....
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12/23/1996
claims that the PKK has opened a new Kurdish Institute in Washington, D.C.
PRESS RELEASE
Today’s Radikal newspaper (in Turkey) reported an interview with PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan...
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