Gulnar Orazymbetova
Askar Darimbet
Almaty, Feb 18
(The GLOBE)
�Freedom to Odzhalan�, chanted 1500 members of the Kurdish community, during their peaceful demonstration on February 18.
The president of the Kurdish Association in Kazakhstan reported the organization addressed to the UN, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights and to the USA Embassy, requesting the release their leader Odzhalan. The Kurds also demanded the transfer his case to the International Court, as the issue is of international importance to the 40 million Kurdish people worldwide.
Nadir Nadirov pointed out that Kazakstan�s Association decided to refrain from any provocations. To keep peace in settlements, where Kurdish and Turkish people live together, the association instead organized a special informational press conference. The organization and announcements in the mass media were agreed upon with Kazakhstan�s authorities.
Mr. Nadirov stressed that Ankara events was the last straw for the Kurds in the whole world. The evening TV shots, showing the Kurdish leader being beside himself due to his narcotic and psychotropic intoxication made the blood of the whole Kurdish community boil.
In the morning spontaneous demonstrations occured at the Turkish Embassy to Kazakhstan to express their protests. However, the demonstrators were stopped by municipal authorities and were forced to go to the Kurdish Center. They carried the following slogans: �Shame on American Democracy!� and � Stop Genocide of the Kurdish People!�
Participants of the demonstration believed that the American government was involved in the arrest of the Kurdish leader.
�Execution of Abdullah Odzhalan will provoke reaction in return all over the world. The programs in Ankara and in Istanbul have already been launched. Further developments are impossible to predict�, demonstration participants said.
On of them said �Those opposing the leader oppose the nation.�
Translation - INSEL