Kurdistan Observer

URFA (06.02.2006)- Ayse Gokkan, who is the member of IHD (Human Rights Association in Turkey) Branch from Urfa and a writer in the Azadiya Welat magazine, made a response to her punishment, which was given to her because of talking in Kurdish in the congress of HADEP and DEHAP, with explaining this in Kurdish.

Ayse Gokkan who made a press statement in IHD in Kurdish, said that this punishment is contrary to international agreements.

Gokkan, who made a press statement in IHD Urfa Branch in Kurdish, talked like this; "Every individual talks in his/her mother tongue in the world. Mother tongue is the basic principle of Human Rights. This right can not be bereaved from the individual with any law. It is a right that you have congenitally. It was accepted in the Universal Agreement of Human Rights, which was signed also by Turkey".