France : CCAF condemns Laurent Fabius’s positive signal to the authoritarian regime of Turkey

In a statement released on Wednesday, Feb. 12, CCAF condemns Laurent Fabius’s positive signal to the authoritarian regime of Turkey. Jean Eckian writes about this from Paris.

The CCAF (Council of coordination of the Armenian organizations of France) regrets the decision of France to give its agreement to the opening of a new chapter in the negotiations between Turkey and the European Union. This initiative, made public by Laurent Fabius on February 12, is all the more intolerable it occurs in a context of serious violations of freedoms in this country, ” specifies the text. Which cites the case of Pinar Selek, of the French student Sevil Sevimli, those imprisoned journalists and lawyers …

” This shocking decision of the French government also joins in a context of racism and violence against minorities in Turkey (Armenian women killed in Istanbul, anti-Kurdish repression), which spilled blood to Paris on January 9 with assassination of 3 Kurdish activists. A crime which weigh heavy suspicions about the involvement of the Turkish secret services.

Considering these events, Laurent Fabius’s announcement constitutes a provocation and an encouragement in the turpitude of the AKP. It expresses a cynical conception of the diplomacy, in total contradiction with the commitments affirmed by the PS and by the President of the Republic on the conditions of entry of Turkey into Europe.”