FREE ADEM UZUN POSTCARD CAMPAIGN

Peace in Kurdistan campaign and Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC) has begun a series of actions as part of the campaign to release Adem Uzun from custody in France. Our Friends of Adem Uzun initiative is already underway, with the list of friends who have shown their solidarity growing by the day.

We have also designed and printed postcards to be sent to the Justice Minister of France, Christiane Taubira, demanding that they FREE ADEM UZUN. The postcard has a short text on the back (which you can read below) and we are asking people to sign and send them off to her.

We need as many people as possible to send a postcard to show the French government that Adem has support. If you would like a postcard to send, please write to estella24@tiscali.co.uk with your name, address and the number of cards you need, and we will send them out to you.

A Kurdish peace activist and member of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK), Adem Uzun was arrested last October in Paris and denied bail. He had been a key negotiator for in the Oslo Peace Talks with high level Turkish government representatives. He is well known for his commitment to a negotiated settlement to the Kurdish question in Turkey.

Further details of the action here: http://peaceinkurdistancampaign.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/free-adem-uzun-postcard-campaign/



Postcard text:

Dear Mme Christiane Taubira,

Adem Uzun is a prominent Kurdish peace activist and leading politician with the Kurdistan National Congress, KNK. Adem is well-known throughout Europe for his political work and supporting a political solution to the Kurdish question, and has been a key Kurdish negotiator in the so-called “Oslo Process” with high-level Turkish Government’s representatives.

Adem’s arrest in Paris on 6 October came as a shock in view of the constructive and positive role that he had been playing in the ongoing search for a peace settlement acceptable to both sides.

Talks between Turkey and Kurdish leaders have since restarted as of early 2013 and we believe that it is essential that Adem Uzun be immediately released to enable him to continue his positive role as a peace negotiator.

His continued imprisonment can only undermine progress in these talks.

We urge you to free Adem Uzun; drop the charges against him and thereby give peace a chance.

Signed _______________________ Name __________________________

Address______________________________________________________




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Peace in Kurdistan
Campaign for a political solution of the Kurdish Question
Email: estella24@tiscali.co.uk <mailto:estella24@tiscali.co.uk>
www.peaceinkurdistancampaign.wordpress.com
Contacts Estella Schmid 020 7586 5892 & Melanie Sirinathsingh - Tel: 020 7272 7890
Fax: 020 7263 0596

Patrons: Lord Avebury, Lord Rea, Lord Dholakia, Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP, Jill Evans MEP, Jean Lambert MEP, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Hywel Williams MP, Elfyn Llwyd MP, Conor Murphy MP, John Austin, Bruce Kent, Gareth Peirce, Julie Christie, Noam Chomsky, John Berger, Edward Albee, Margaret Owen OBE, Prof Mary Davis, Mark Thomas