Today there was a brutality in Malatya, city in Southeast of Turkey. By this event we face up the reflection/practice of a system, which does not allow different religious, languages, ethnic origins and estrange these differences, in social life.
Different-minority people’s defencelessness increase in an atmosphere, in which majority dominates rather than pluralism. Moreover, there are some factors that cause defencelessness of different people and estrange those are different. These are factors are; ignorance of racism and religious aggressiveness by the system/public authorities that are leaders of the system, considering actions of murders as “national inclination” by some public authorities. Slaughter of working people of publishing house indicates such defencelessness openly. According to the received information, the publishing house had been threatened for a long time.
In Turkey, there are many factors that provide an atmosphere, which encourages murderers. These factors, which seen also in the murder of Hrant Dink, are; concealing real persuaders, protecting perpetrators and defining known perpetrators as ordinary organizations immediately etc…Today we face up outcomes of such an atmosphere through these brutality.
Perpetrators, who raided the publishing house, carried out their brutal action. They killed our citizens. They violated right to life viciously. They violated freedom of thought, religion and conscience. They attacked to freedom of expression.
As IHD, we do not believe that any religious belief permits such an action. Also, Islam does not permit such an action.
We call the Government and State Institutions for taking measures to prevent any kind of discrimination, practicing politics/implementations that are suitable Turkey’s pluralistic structure of ethnics, religious and language. We call also inquiry and judiciary institutions for acting in accordance with primary of law.
We protest perpetrators.
We upbear those who killed and express our condolences to their relatives.
HUMAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION HEADQUARTERS