24/09/2003 (Agence Europe) - Francis Wurtz, President of the GUE/NGL Group, "calls on the president of the European Parliament to use his influence to obtain the release" of Tancer Bakirhan, President of Dehap, and Ahmet Turan Demir, who leads the "Party for a Free Society", who were arrested by the Turkish authorities for having taken part, on 13 September, in a Kurdish festival in Germany. "These arrests are confirmation that fundamental rights in Turkey are not really respected", Mr Wurtz...