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Sarkozy against Killing European Dream: EU must Hear People's Anger, he says eve of EU-Turkey Summit

Written by ACM
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
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*Strasbourg-Shiltigheim/Angelo Marcopolo/- Speaking during an EU Parliament's Plenary Session in Strasbourg which debates Paris' terrorist Attacks, "Radicalisation" and "Recruitment .. by Terrorist Organizations", at the Eve of a Crucial EU - Turkey Summit next Sunday in Brussels, still deserted by Maximum Security Measures after Paris Massacres MasterMinded by a Belgian resident who returned from Syria through Turkey, as well as 2 of his "Kamikazi",


     the Experienced Leader of France's main Opposition Party "the Republicans", former President Nicolas Sarkozy, stressed that EU must "Hear the Anger of the People" which is currently Growing throughout Europe, (as many Electoral results and/or Polls in several EU Countries clearly show), and Called for a Real Change of erroneous Policies threatening to Kill "the European Dream"; which Needs, Today, "New Foundations" :


- F.ex., even if more EU "Enlargement is Unreasonable" Today, nevertheless, some "Persist to Enlarge" even further the EU, he Criticized.

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+ Worse : Even if leaving "Turkey enter inside Europe, is Irresponsible", as he pointed out, nevertheless, some "Persist to Promise to it (Ankara) an (EU) Accession !", he Denounced,

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attracting a Strong Applause by a Numerous Audience in a Public Meeting Full of People, while many were still Waiting to find a place to enter inside, with quews still extending up to the main Entrance of a Large Conference Building, at Shiltigheim, near Strasbourg's European District.

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The forthcoming, exceptional EU - Turkey Summit on Sunday reportedly aims to discuss also Ankara's demands to get more than 3 Bilions € in full Grants from the EU, in Addition to the 1 Billion € of Grants each Year that it already receives, to Open more Chapters in its Negotiations with the EU on an "Open-Ended" Process related to its initial, 1999-2005 "Accesion" Bid, notoriously Controversial and UnPopular, (particularly after the 3 '"NO" to EuroReferenda  betwen 2005-2097 in France, the Netherlands and Ireland, as wel as the Elections, then, of Nicolas Sarkozy in France and Angie Merkel in Germany, etc, followed by their joint Brillant Win, inside the Larger ChristianDemocrat/EPP Party, led by Joseph Daul, on 2009 EU Parliament's Elections, to which succeded on 2014 a Votes' Result even More towards the "Right" side of the Political Spectrum, with much More MEPs elected on programs More Opposed to Turkey's EU Claims). But, the most Dangerous Issue Today, which obviously Risks to have more Immediate Consequences, and affecting EU Citizens EveryDay Life, as well as EU's Social Structure and Cohesion, (etc), is that of Ankara's demand for the EU to give to more than 73 Milions of Turks a Total "Visa Free" regime, allowing them to Come and Go throughout all the EU whenever they like.


Something that the French Government had always Refused, as long as Sarkozy was President, (i.e. up to May 2012), and might Risk Today to Add even More serious Security Problems, also as far as Deadly Criminal and Terrorist Threats are concerned, given Facts such as, f.ex.,  the Cold-Blood Murder of 3 Dissident Kurdish Women on January 2013 in Paris, for which many Suspect an Agent of the Turkish Security Services, the Arrival from Turkey of at least 3 ISIL's Terrorists who Killed 130 innocent Civilian People last October 2015 in Paris, to which are also added recent Rumours about an alleged Distribution of more than 100.000 Turkish Passports to ISIL's and Other Extremist Islamist Jihadists, as well as Chinese "Uyghur"  Violent Separatists, according to a British Journalist cited by mainstream Russian Press Agency "Sputnik", etc.


But Reuters a.o. reported that Sunday's EU - Turkey Summit risks even to Shorten the Time Deadline to be set for Visa-Free Entries of 73 Millions of Turks inside the European Union, by fixing it only in a Few Montths Time : I.e. on "October 2016", instead of the Initial 2017 Deadline, with the Result to Deprive both French and German, as well as Other Kkey EU Countries' Citizens from a Chance to Debate in Public and Express Politicaly their Views at the forthcoming Democratic Elections in France and Germany, etc., on 2017.


++ Moreover, at the same time, "Communautarism (Gettoisation) ... was the preparation of the Destruction of our Society". "Multi-Culturalism ... was the Contrary of our Identity",  Sarkozy also denounced Tonight, in this regard, obviously referring to a series of Historic relevant Statements also by German Chancelor Angie Merkel, and British Prime Minister David Cameron, etc.


+++  We "don't deny the Advantages of Globalisation", which "allows .. .. to Meet eachother, exchange, Share", and "could ... Build many Bridges between Men, Peoples, Societies and Cultures", "But we must also See, with lucidity, that it can also become the Worst thing, If it acts as a Niveller of Cultures throughout the World, something that we do Not want at all, ... a Uniformity of the Ways of Life, Thought and Creation, if it's an Open Door to all Dumpings, to all Unfair Competitions, to all Speculations", he went on to add, Widening the scope of a kind of Concentric Circles of obviously Interrelated Issues, (As, f.ex., the famous notorious Refusal, by Turkish President Erdogan, of any Socio-Cultural "Assimilation" of Turkish Immigrants inside EU Countries, too often pushed to gather in "Ghettos", as many have Denounced and Warned throughout Europe, already as early as since the 1990ies, from Danemark to Germany, etc., both inside the CoE and in various Top European Political Leaders' Statements) :


 - "Communautarism (Ghettoisation),... Abandonment of (Cultural) Assimilation, ... the Drift of some Neighbourhoods, ...., the EnDangering of our Culture Security and Identity, which is added to the Economic and Social Lack of Security, are the Most Visible Signs of the Breaking down of our Republican Model, under Violent Strikes by those who ...., during 40 Years, Demolish our Values, Principles and Institutions. We are just Starting to See the Consequences of that Demolition".


- Because, in fact, "Communautarism (Ghettoisation) .... was the Premice of our Society's Destruction", and "Multi-Culturalism, .. was the Contrary of our Identity", he pointed out.
+ Moreover, from both a GeoPolitical point of view, and as a matter of Principles, Sarkozy significantly chose to Speak about Russia, (Historic part of General De Gaule's "Greater Europe, from the Atlantic ocean to the Ural's mountains"), immediately after Denouncing a pro-Turkey lobby's "Irresponsible" attempts (Comp. Supra) :


- Even if "it's Crazy to Believe that Russia might be obliged to Back Down by imposing Sanctions", (on pretext of the controversial Ukranian conflict, since the unresolved yet Kiev Deadly "Snipers" incident of February 2014, which threw away an already Signed Peaceful Agreement and provoked a Violent Division of that usualy Peaceful European Country, particularly after the also non-elucidated Atrocious Massacre of more than 50 Civilian Dissident People in Odessa, who were Burned Alive on 2 May 2014, without any Serious Investigation by the Kiev's Government until now, in order to Find and Punish those Responsible for such Horrible Crimes, as CoE has just Denounced recently, in a Report just published last October 2015), nevertheless, some push the EU to "Continue to impose Sanctions against Russia" even for a Longer Period of Time, (and despite a recent Calm in the Ukraine conflict, mainly after Political Concessions by the Autonomist Regions of Donetsk-Luhansk, which Postponed for 2016 their own Local/Regional Elections, as the Kiev's Government wished, even if the Minsk Summit's Agreements gave them a Right to Vote before the End of 2015), Denounced Sarkozy.

He was largely Applauded by the Audience on this Topical point, apparently because many French a.o. People, Today, naturaly can't find normal for the EU to ...Reward Turkey, after Ankara's Government suddenly unleashed against the EU an Unprecedented "Tsunami" of various irregular Mass Imigrants/Asylum Seakers totaling more than 750.000 in a few Months, (that the Turkish Government obviously abused as a "Blackmail" in order to Ask now from the EU to make several Concessions - Comp. Supra- as Sarkozy had already Denounced at the latest PanEuropean Congres in Madrid, Spain, of the EPP Party last October 2015), including at least 3 among ISIL's Terrorists who have just Killed many Civilian People in Paris after crossing in the EU through Turkey, in addition to the latest Turkish Attack Destroying a Russian which was Fighting against ISIL and other Extremist Islmamist Terrorist Gangs in Syria, after which 2 Russian Soldiers were Killed, (in such an Unprecedented Incident which has Not occured Before for at least 65 Years, since the 1950 Korea War !), instead of Helping, on the Contrary, Russia to Avenge the recent Murder by ISIL's Terrorists of about 200 Russian Civilian People (mostly Women and Children) last October in Egypt's Sinai where an ISIL Bomb Destroyed a Civilian Russian Airplane, kiling all its passengers...


Speaking, also now in the presence of the Biggest European Political Party's President, that of ChristianDemocrats/EPP; PJoseph Daul, who had arrived in a well guarded Strasbourg from a spectacularly immobilized Brussels, Sarkozy denounced, thus,  "a Divided Europe, Disarmed, without (Political) Will, (which) made us more Vulnerable" :


-  "I am a convinced pro-European, but I Hear the Revolt of the People". We (EU) "can't be Insensitive to the Peoples' Revolt", to what "fuels a more and more stronger  Rejection, which provokes People's Revolt Everywhere in Europe !", he Warned.


- In the Past, "we wanted to Build the European Union, because we wanted to have a Tool to Defend, in this World, our Joint Idea of Civilisation, that 2 Horrible Wars, the Final Solution and Totalitarian regimes had almost Destroyed. ... During a too Long Period of Time, we have Dreamed of that Ideal Europe", Sarkozy reminded.


 - "But we Suddenly Wake Up with anOther (a Different one), so Relentless to Erase a great part of the European History", he regretted.


-  "In a lanscape Prepared since long by a Generation of thinkers belonging to the Influental Species of those that (French Writer and Philosopher Albert) Camus Accused to have "placed Nothing else in History, but Only ...their ArmChair" (Sic), "in the West, Forrgetting Everything, launched a "Tabula Rasa" Movement, of whch we are just Starting to measure the amplituide and its Horrible Connsequences", he denounced.


 - Even if, former President of France, long-time Collaborator and Successor to General De Gaule, "Georges Pompidou used to say, with Wisdom, that a Country", as, particularly, all European Countries, (which notoriously have a more or less Long History, and vivid Culture), "is Not an Empty (Blanc) Page". "But, a Dominant Ideology, ... seeked, on the Contrary, to Impose the misconception that Everything that had been Written, should be Erased" : So that, "on a Blanc (Empty) Page, No more Nations, ... No more Borders, No more Identities, No more Links, No more Heritage : This revendicated Nothingness, prepared a Catastrophe", and, by an "Historic Irony, it's in our Old Continent (Europe), among our Old Countries,... that the Hardest Blows aggressed all the (Cultural and Historic) Heritage"....


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- "Europe is always my Ideal, But I DoN't Want it to become the Tool of our Renouncements", Sarkozy firmly reacted.


=> Therefore, "Such Circumstances, give us a Duty to ReAct, Before Wasting for ever the Treasure of Civilisation and Culture that the Previous Generations have entrusted to us", he warned.


=> "The Time has come to ReBuild Europe on New Foundations", Nicolas Sarkozy Strongly Urged.
- Because, "probably, we are facing one of the Biggest U-Turns of our History since the 2nd World War".


- Indeed, "It's High Time to Recognize that we Yielded Too Much to that Conformism, which, since 40 Years, Manipulates the Public Opinion and Masks the UnderGround Movements of Tragedies which Now pop up in front of our eyes" :


- In fact, "we (Europeans) have done that Same Error, as those who Survived the "Great War" (of 1914 - 1918), when they throught that it was the Last War", he Warned. "Similarly, we thought that we won't see, No More (Economic) Depression like that of the 1930ies, the Emergence of Extremisms, People Shot Dead at Cafés' Terraces in the middle of Paris, (as at the recent, November 2015 Terrorist Attacks), Wars of Religions, AntiSemitism, Europe covered up by Barbed Wires", (as nowadays, in several European Countries' attempts to Protect their Citizens and Society from that Unprecedented "Tsunami" of Massive Irregular Migration/Asylum Seekers' influx through Turkey, this Summer and Autumn 2015), etc.


 - "Once the Cold War had Ended, we (Europeans) throught that History will Never become, anymore, Tragic, (before the 2014-2015 Ukranian conflict), that Violence and Rarety had been, at last, Defeated, and that, from Now on, Everything would be Regulated by Democracy and the Market". In consequence, "the West was Blinded by its Force, while, in fact, it was already Retreating World-wide, without even being conscious of that. It was Blinded by the (Past) Solidity of its Values and Institutions, while, in fact, they had already started to sway"...


 - "It (Western Countries) became Deaf to some Voices which had risen to remind that Civilisation canNot be Only Material, that People Need, in order to Live and simply stay Humans, to Believe and Hope. That the Peoples, in order to be Actors of their own History, Needed a Transcedance, to adhere to a Great Ideal", Sarkozy observed.


- Therefore, "History's Lessons had no more any Meaning. No more Reason or Morals, Science and Religion, which Retreated in front of a Relativism claiming to Nivelate Everything. Culture Retreated Everywhere in front of Utilitarism, which asked from all Arts, Litterature, Poesy, Music, what they Served for, instead of Teaching how to Love them".


- Worst : "to those who dared Speak out in order to Try to Awaken the Consciences on the Dangers of that Intellectual, Cultural, Spiritual and Moral Disarmament, to which led that Nihilism, a Witches' Hunt was launched" :


+ F.ex., "Those who Defended the Family, were called "Petits Bourgeois" (Old-fashioned Middle-Class), he Denounced, spontaneously Applauded by Many French People, who haven't, cesrtainly, forgotten the 2013 - 2014 wide Popular Struggle for the Defense of Natural Family and Marriage, against a surprisingly Brutal Imposal of Controversial and UnPopular "Same Sex Mariage", even allowing to Subordinate Children Born by Other People to the Power of Homosexuals, under Pretext of "Adoptiion", with an obvious Risk to push towards Submitting the Procreation of Many Thousands of Human Beings to the Control of a Lobby of Technocrats, (by Opening a Way to Interest Groups for Artificial Procreation, In Vitro Fertilisation, PreNatal Screening, the InHuman Atrocity of "Surrogate Mothers", Trans-Plantation of Embryos, "Banks" of Sperm, Eggs, and/or Human Embryos, etc., instead of Natural Births, for which only Heterosexual, Man - Woman Couples are able. Sarkozy has recently Denounced the fact that, on this occasion, Surprusingly, some seem to have abused of the French Police in an attempt to "Humiliate the Families", and Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly has recently expressed its "Concern" for Serious Misgivings particularly on so-callled "Punitive ID Checks" even of Peaceful Demonstrators, as well as agaist Controversial and Unpopular attempts to Impose a so-called "Gender Theory" even to Small Children at Primary Schools, etc. While, others, Today, regretted the Fact that a large part of the French Police was used in order to ...Arrest Peaceful Young Girls, Mothers, Elder People, etc, sitting or standing at Paris' pavements with Small Candles and Reading Poetry or Philosophy, etc, (the famous "Veilleurs"  according to the Original Term in French;, which means Watchmen, or those who Look After something Important to Protect from Dangers), instead of Following and Preventing Extremist Islamic Terrorists linked to ISIL's atrocious BeHeaders to Mudrer in cold-blood Many Innocent Civilian People, just a Year later (from Jan. 2015)...


 + And "Those who said that we .. Needed Borders, were called "Petainists", (i.e. NAZIs' Colaborators). "Those who evoked Immigration as a Problem, were "Racists"". "Those who asked for "an Islam of France" (and/or of Europe), and who Denounced the Dangers of Communautarism (Socio-Cultural Ghettoisation), were "IslamoPhobes"". "Those who asked for our Children to Learn the History .. at School with its Chronology, who pointed at the Risks against (Social) Cohesion ... provoked also by the Weakening of (a Collective) Identity .. , who Wanted for a "House of History".. to be Built, were Treated as Fascists. Without forgetting with what Contempt were also Slandered those who Dared Criticize a Strategy of Over-Evaluated €uro", as he reminded.


>>> - "So Many Debates were Prohibited, so many Debates were Muzzled, so many Debates had become Impossible, at a period when, on the Contrary, it was Needed to Discuss, exchange Reasonable Arguments, Think Together to all the consequences of our Collective Choices", criticized Sarkozy on a Key, Structural Issue for Modern Societies. "While", on the Contary, "all Warnings should have been Taken into Account, all Alerts, which didn't lack, concerning the Dangerous Path in which was engaged our Country (France) and our Continent (Europe)"

    =>  Therefore, - "We (Europeans) must, at last, Hold all those Debates that we didn't manage to have" earlier, "and to learn the Lessons given by Recent History, concerning", f.ex., "what happened at the momernt of the (Global, US born) Financial Crisis on 2008, what happened with the Greek (Debt) Crisis", (in fact looming since the 1980ies, but Hidden since 2000, in order to ease a "Socialist" former Prime Minister's Electoral chances by accepting for Greece to Enter €uroZone Too Early, i.e. even Without Making previously the Necessary Reforms, in Exchange of his Silence and Compliity in the Controversial and UnPopular "Candidate" Status to EU Accession, given then to Turkey, with all the Political and Economic Setbacks which were Provoked afterwards), "whzt happened with the (so-called) Refugee Crisis, (i.e. that Unprecedented, Sudden Influx of more than 800.000 Irregular Mass Immigrants/Asylum Seekers rushing through Turkey to trespass EU's External Borders in Greece, this Summer-Autumn 2015, Ankara exerting now a "Blackmail" against the EU, by asking Money, EU Accession push, and Visa-Free entries for 73 Millions of Turks, etc, as Sarkozy already Denounced at recent ChristianDemorat/EPP Party's Summit, last October 2015 in Spain), and "with Terrorism", he concluded, (obviously pointing mainly at the Series of Merah, Charflie Hebdo, and Bataklan, etc. Murders of Civilian People by Extreme Islamic Terrorists of ISIL's atrocious BeHeaders in France, on 2012 and 2015, to which were added even more in Brussels, London, Copenhagen, Salzburg, etc, while Turkey was Attacking and Killing Syrian a.o. Kurds who Fought, in Alliance with Western Countries, against ISIL's Terrorists at the Northern Syrian Borders towards Turkey, and nowadays even a Russian Airplane and an Helicopter while they were Fighting against ISIL's and other such Terrorist Armed, Deadly Gangs in Syria, etc).


    => - Today, (in real Practice, especially after the recent  Paris and other Terrorist Attacks), - "We Have to Make War to the "Islamic State"" Terrorists, (atrocious BeHeaders and Mass Killers even of defenseless, innocent Civilian People), "starting by Calling them by their Name, and using All Means of War. Otherwise, Chaos will expand even more, the Crisis of Refugees will Destabilize Europe, and Terrorism will persist to feed itself at this Poisonous source", he Warned.


    - "But, we won't cease to be Vulnerable aux Horrible Disorders of the World, if We doN't Oppose them, but Only the Forces of Police and Bombs".

   >>> - On the Contrary, "We Must become Able to Oppose to them, also a Unity, a Cohesion,  a Solidarity, Founded on a common Hope, a Shared Pride to be Citizens of a Great Country" and of Europe, "which has Given Great Services to Humanity", Sarkozy pointed out, making a Key point of obviously Crucial Importance.


    => In consequence, "at this Moment of Doubt and Anxiety, it's just One Idea which Must Guide us : Give to all Citizens" of France (and Europe), "whatever might be their Beliefs, their Origins, their Personal History", our Traditional Values, (alias "la France de toujours": i.e. Eternal France/Eternal Europe). "Which are Not withOut any Change, withOut any Movement, But (on the Contrary) Alive, Evolving, Enriched by what they are Given, Progressing, Growing thanks to the Ideas, the Feelings, and that so Special Genius which Always allowed to ReBound and Rise Up, when some believed them killed".


    -  "Our Traditional Values", (as of "eternal France"), "is what we have Best to Offer to Our Children, and to Those Who Want to Share our Destiny". Because "Nobody can pretend to Share our Destiny, withOut Endorsing these Values", Sarkozy stressed.  - We ("France" and Europe) "are Not a <<Super-Market>>, where one may Choose whatever he likes". On the Contrary, "they are a Whole, which can be Adopted as such, and to which eachone Brings his Contribution. These Values shouldn't have been Cheeply Sold, sometimes even Denied".


    - Because "there is No More an Identity... in a Society which has become Multi-Cultural. There is No more an Identity ... If we do Not Share Moral Values, a Way of Life, a Kindness, a Feeling of Common Belonging ..., to have a History, .. a Joint Dream, and have Solidarity not only in the Greatest Success, but also in the Worst Challenges".


    - "It's on those Values, from which we have drifted away (Comp. Supra), that we are going to Have to ReBuild ANew Education, Institutions, Society, Justice, Law, and Politics". -For that purpose, "we Need Order, Authority and to Be Firm", but also "Justice, Generosity, Faithfulness to ourselves and to Humanity" , Sarkozy urged ambitiously.


    - "If we aren't Able to ReConcile these Needs, if we don't have enough Intelligence, Courage, Force, Will and Heart, in order to Change our ways of Thinking, Seeing and Acting, we won't  meet this Historic Rendez-vous", he warned.

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    >>> - Today, "We have an Historic Opportunity to ReBuild a Brotherhood of Nation" and Europe, and "we do Not have the Right to Miss that", he resumed in Conclusion, widely applauded by a lot of Stimulated People.

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   Significantly, even if Sarkozy had officialy come here Today in order to Support Alsace Region's President, former Minister, Philippe Richert, for the forthcoming Elections of December 2015 in the New, Greater Region ACAL, which Links Together 5 Bordering Countries at the Heart of Europe, (Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg, (Comp. f.ex. : .......), despite Security Concerns after the Paris' Massacres, which had Suspended most Public Meetings, the Main thrust of his Speech obviously went much Further than Richert's observation that, according to recent Polls, a Majority of Citizens appreciates his Management of Alsace, while, on the Contrary, they disaprove that of Lorraine and Champagne-Ardennes, in the two other parts of that Future (2016) Greater Region ACAL, which is due to Unite them all three Together :  On the contrary, the Experienced France's main Opposition Leader, and former President of the Country, obviously prefered to Focus mainly on National and, even more, European topical Issues, clearly indicating that the People feel an Urgent Need for the EU to Move on certain Key Issues.

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Hu Jia's prize brings SAKHAROV's wife to "EuroFora" on murders of Journalists Politkofskaya, Gongadze and Adali :

- Elena Bonner : "All Journalists' murders must be fully investigated", without Double Standards.                                                                                    

During a special Mega-Event to celebrate 20 Years of SAKHAROV Prize for "Freedom of Thought", attributed in 2008 by EU Parliament to jailed Chinese Cyber-Dissident Hu JIA, the move was reinforced by strongly criticizing the persisting impunity in three cases of Journalists' Murders, such as POLITKOVSKAYA in Russia, GONGADZE in Ukraine, and ADALI in Turkish-occupied part of Cyprus.

Any bureaucratic doubt about whether Cyber-dissidents like Hu JIA might have, or not, a right to be protected as all Journalists must be, particularly when they take risks to search, find and publish original and critical News on issues of general interest to the society, could not resist to the emotion provoked by the message of his Wife, Zeng JINYAN spectacularly transmitted at a big screen in EU Parliament's hemicycle :

- "The most important and most interesting thing he did was to ... say the Truth :.. to write about the phenomena he observed... He never stopped Publishing.. on websites, so that the Public could learn about the reality .. and understand it.  In my view, this has been his greatest contribution", stressed the young wife of the jailed man, eager to cite also the cases of other critical journalists who faced various kinds of "harassment".

 - "Welcoming all those who have suffered for defending Human Rights", EU Parliament's President, German MEP Hans Gert POETTERING, who had invited to Strasbourg all former Sakharov prize-winners from various Countries throughout the World, said that "China needs Europe, and Europe needs China : A great nation" with which "we want to have a good relationship", "association and ..friendship". "But we are never going to stop our fight for Human Rights, and No Government can expect this from us".

    - "It's impossible  to achieve goals of Peace, if Human Rights are left out. In fact, Peace and Human Rights are intrinsequaly linked", added POETTERING.

    It's in this spirit that MEPs adopted, on Thursday, a Resolution denouncing that "the criminal
investigation and trial following the murder of (a) Journalist ...raises serious concerns with regard to transparency and respect for the rule of law", when a "brutal killing has not yet been fully investigated and solved in a satisfactory way".

    The text refered to dissident Journalist "Anna POLITOVSKAYA", a critic of Tchechen conflict, killed some years ago in Moscow, where Russian Authorities have found, arrested and are currently judging two executants, while also searching to arrest also a 3rd one, allegedly escaped in Belgium. But they have not yet found the instigators.

     Similar texts were adopted recently also on dissident Ukranian Journalist Georgiy GONGADZE's murder, for which Ukranian Authorities have at least found, arrested and condemned 2 executants to 12 and 13 Years of jail, but not yet the instigators. For that purpose, they recently accepted an International Experts team to participate to the investigations.     

But, it's only for the Murder of dissident Turkish Cypriot Journalist ADALI, in the occupied territories of Cyprus, that Turkey has NOT yet found ANYONE responsible, and even claimed recently inside CoE that it would be "impossible" to do so !    

These astonishing differences exist despite the fact that ECHR condemned alike Ukraine and Turkey with 2 Judgements on the same year : 2005, for the murders of  Journalists GONGADZE and ADALI, strong critics of Corruption in Ukraine, and of Ankara's policies on mass-influx of Turkish Settlers in the Occupied Territories of Cyprus, respectively.    

Regarless of that, CoE's Committee of Ministers, who is entrusted with the duty to supervise execution of ECHR's judgements, has just asked Ukraine's Government to reply to further questions on Gongadze's murder before March 2009, while Turkey, curiously, got a longer postponement for answering questions on Adali's murder, until June...   

A comparison of these cases, raises serious questions about Double Standards :

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On TRANSPARENCY :
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    On Gongadze's murder, CoE's body speaks even about the participation of
"an INTERNATIONAL group of Experts" in the Investigation, (f.ex. of "Tape Recordings"), accepted by Ukraine.
    On the contrary, on Adali's murder, CoE is obliged to repeatedly ask (for a 2nd
time) Turkey whether, at least, it informed the victims' Family, or not...
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- On EFFICIENCY :
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On Gongadze's murder, CoE formally "recalls that the Committee (of Ministers) ..URGED the Ukranian authorities.. to TAKE ALL NECESSARY INVESTIGATIVE STEPS TO ACHIEVE CONCRETE and VISIBLE RESULTS in the INVESTIGATION, aimed at the Identification of the INSTIGATORS and Organisers of the Murder", and "STRONGLY INVITED the Ukranian Authorities to provide information on the PROGRESS IN THE INVESTIGATION", before MARCH 2009.

But, on Adali's murder, on the contrary, CoE's body merely .. "took note" of the "arguments presented by" Cyprus, which denounce the absence of any proof of new "investigation" by Turkey. Following Turkey's own suggestion (!), it simply "noted" that there is "no limitation period" for "any new element" to "lead potentialy (sic !) to a Re-Opening of the Investigation". Without saying who might find any such "new" fact, since Turkey stoped searching... It also POSTPONED the issue until .. JUNE  !
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 - On the PUNISHMENT OF THOSE RESPONSIBLE :
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 -  On Gongadze's murder case, Ukranian Authorities already arrested and condemned, at least 2 suspects, to 12 and 13 Years of jail. And on Politkovskaya's murder at least 2 suspects are judged, and a 3rd one "wanted".

On the contrary, on Adali's murder case, the Turkish authorities simply claim that "it had not been possible to obtain new .. information .. on the basis of which criminal charges could be brought against ANY person" !...

Moreover,  a LETTER sent by Turkey ...2 Years after CoE's 2006 call to re-investigate anew Adali's murder case, is totally EMPTY of Facts ! As Cypus' Delegation denounced earlier, Turkey's Letter ONLY CLAIMS that a "New Investigation" was made without any result, but does NOT even cite ANY FACT to prove it :

F.ex.,on the crucial issue of the "MOTIVATIONS" behind Adali's murder, noted by ECHR, Turkey MERELY CLAIMS that "all allegations  were investigated; without result", but OMITS ANY FACT TO PROVE IT !..(It doesn't even remind which were these "allegations").. .

+ On ECHR's astonishment that the Turkish Occupation regime didn't produce any "BALLISTIC REPORT" on the Shots which murdered Adali, Turkey again repeats, 12 years later, that, still, even until now, "it  was not possible to obtain the BalisticReport"...

- As for the astonishing absence of key-WITNESSES' Testimonies, denounced by ECHR, Turkey agains repeats various pretexts avoiding to reveal anything, (Fex. that a person "left" the Occupied Territories  "on 2002", or that another witness was heard, but without revealing nothing of what he said, etc).

Turkey obviously "FAILS TO MEET THE CRITICISM made BY THE COURT" for lack of any efficient Investigation in Adali's case, concluded Cyprus' Government.
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Replying to our Question which COMPARED these 3 outstanding cases of "JOURNALISTS MURDERS", Adali, Gongadze and Politkovskaya, in order to avoid "Double Standards" by asking from Ukraine and Russia more than what is asked EU candidate Turkey, many European personalities were critical /

They criticised Ankara's recent claim at the CoE to stop investigating, because it would be "impossible to find anyone" responsible for the 5 bullet shots which killed Kutlu ADALI in front of his Family Home, contrary to the other two Journalists' murders, where Ukraine and Russia at least arrested the executants, searching now for the instigators :
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    - "Where was that ? In Turkish Occupied Cyprus ? WITHOUT ANY DOUBT : Any murder of Journalist should be investigated in full ! All these Murders must be investigated !", replied the famous SAKHAROV's wife, Elena BONNER to our question on Adali's case, compared to Gongadze and Politofskaya.

    Elena Bonner spoke us EXCLUSIVELY shortly after being honored by the President
of EU Parliament on the occasion of 20 Years of her husband's SAKHAROV Prize.

    A strong personality, Sakharov's wife even had to struggle against an anonymous EU staffer who, astonishingly, tried to stop her speaking when h heard our question on "Turkey" (!) : - "Please, let me translate, she continues
speaking, don't stop us !", had to cry Sakharov's daughter, (a Journalist
herself), who was translating her mothers' reply, (obliged to speak louder to
make her voice heard despite the harassment).. (= + Audio Proof !)

    Earlier, Elena Bonner also fustigated "Double Standards" at another case, on
Western countries' attitude vis a vis Kosovo and the Kurds : -F.ex. "You have
recognized a few 400.000 Kosovars as an "independent" country, but you still
deny that to 30 millions of Kurds in Turkey !", she denounced.
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    - "This (ADALI's murder) is an issue which should be pursued by the Committee
for Human Rights. That's why we have one, and it's its duty to examine cases of
Journalists' murders as the one you referred to. You should bring the case in
front of that Committee", suggested in reply to our question on Adali, EU
Parliament's President, German MEP Hans Gert POETTERING.

    - "It's impossible  to achieve goals of PEACE, if HUMAN RIGHTS are left out :
in fact, Peace and Human Rights are intrinsequaly linked", added POETTERING.
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    + "For us (European/International Federation of Journalists) it's clear :
Whenever a Journalist is Murdered, the Investigation should continue until
those Responsible are found !", replied earlier to another question on ADALI
EFJ/IFJ's Secretary General, Aidan WHITE.

    Speaking as a matter of General Principle, White asked us for "concrete data"
on the execution of ECHR's judgement on Adali case, in order to "look at it in
depth" and "make a formal statement", in comparison with the other Murdered
Journalist case, also pending at CoE's  Ministers for completing its execution,
on Ukranian Gongadze.
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     From EU Rapporteur on Human Rights, vice-President of EU Parliament Liberties' Committee, MEP Giusto CATANIA, we were told that, since there is an ECHR judgement in both Adali and Gongadge's cases, "Turkey must naturally execute the judgement and make a full and efficient investigation, until those responsible for the Journalist's murder are found and punished".

    Even if "we (Catania's "EuroLeft" Group) support Turkey's EU perspectives, this does not mean that Ankara should not behave properly. On the contrary, it means that they have to meet tough conditions, particularly on Human Rights", was added on the occasion of Adali's murder case.

    Moreover, "since you raise the issue of Mr. Adali's muder as a part of a Series of Journalist's murders, including fex. Gongadze, Politkovskaya, ao., tthen we (EU) could also act together with CoE's Commissioner on Human Rights, Thomas HAMMARBERG, it was suggested.

    - "We (EU) must step up efforts against the problem of IMPUNITY : Real Peace cannot exist without Justice",  stressed also this week at EU Parliament in Strasbourg, French Minister on Human Rights, Mrs Rama YADE.
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