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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9065

10 November 2005
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/turkey/kurdistan
Kurdish organisation says EU is ignoring Kurdish question in Turkey

Brussels, 09/11/2005 (Agence Europe) - Selahattin Demirtas, President of the Diyarbakir Human Rights Association (Diyarbakir is a Kurdish region of Turkey), said at a press conference on 7 November about whether the Kurds have been forgotten with the choice of 3 October 2005 as the launch date for EU-Turkey accession negotiations, that there was still war in the region. In 2004, he said, the war between the Turkish government and the PKK (Kurdish Workers' Party) had led to 219 deaths, with...

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