Turk: It's Clear Kurdish Education Demands Have Connection With P.K.K.

ADANA, Jan 27 (A.A) - Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said on Saturday that demands for education in Kurdish contradicted with the Constitution and is was clear that those demands had connection with the terrorist organization PKK.
Turk visited Governor's Office in southern province of Adana.
When asked during the meeting whether of not petitions about education in Kurdish had connection with an illegal organization, Turk said, ''undoubtedly, every citizen can submit petition about the matters which either concern themselves or the administration and their petitions are responded. However, demands cannot be contrary to the Constitution.''
''It is clear that demands in Kurdish education have connection with the terrorist organization. However, we should not show same approach to everybody who joins such acts. There are people who organize these acts and there are people who were forced to sign such petitions,'' he said.
''The aim of the terrorist organization with this act and the similar acts in the future is to create a mass of unhappy people as mauch as possible, fill police stations and prisons with such people and bring possible disputes or verdicts of courts in a case that will be filed by those people to the European Court of Human rights. As far as it is understood the illegal organization is following such a plan,'' he said.
Stressing that the Constitution said that ''Turkish is the official language of the state and any language except Turkish cannot be the mother tongue at schools'', Turk said, ''so the response to a demand which contradicts with the Constitution is clear.''
When asked, ''it was claimed that some head officials took identity cards of citizens in eastern provinces and wrote petitions on behalf of them. Is this claim true?'' Turk said, ''the concept of Turk is our common identity. We cannot accept efforts to follow separatist intentions by creating sub-identities. If claims saying that some head officials took identity cards of citizens in eastern provinces and wrote petitions on behalf of them are true, this is a crime. And all crimes will be punished.''
Meanwhile, Adana Bar Chairman Necati Erdem informed Justice Minister Turk on their problems.
Erdem said that prison gendarmes and guards should not carry on body-search on lawyers.
Turk told Erdem that they would bring the issue onto parliamentary agenda and added that new arrangements would be made soon.
''Briefcases of lawyers will not be searched without decision of judge. However, there are more tight measures in prisons across Europe. Also, there are more sensitive systems in European prisons,'' he added.