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The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), in its report for the implementation of its recommendations to Cyprus, which were published on 6 June 2019, expresses its “concern” over the inaction of the Office of the Commissioner for Administration and Human Rights and the absence of any activities in support of vulnerable groups.
The Commissioner for Administration has rejected the conclusions of the Commission as wrong and unfounded, referring generally to her reports on violations of human rights. On the contrary, KISA considers that the conclusions of the Commission reflect the tragic course followed by the Office of the Commissioner for Administration during recent years, who evidently consciously refuses to exercise her responsibilities and powers especially as the authority against racism and discrimination, which constitute an obligation derived under Community law and particularly under Directives 2000/43/EC and 2000/78/EC, as well as other responsibilities attributed to it either by law or by decision of the Council of Ministers.
KISA along with other civil society organisations had expressed serious concerns from the beginning regarding the choice of Mrs Stylianou-Lottidou, both in terms of her epistemological and technocratic proficiency in the field of human rights and discrimination, as well as concerning the political expediency behind her appointment by the president of the Republic, potentially due to a close family relationship with a major influencer in the media.
In spite of these concerns, following the Commissioner’s appointment, KISA continued to make substantial efforts for cooperation in order to continue the important work demonstrated by the institution up until then in safeguarding human rights as well as to retain cooperation with the civil society.
We continued to lodge complaints at the Commissioner’s Office concerning serious violations of human rights and discrimination against vulnerable groups. Regrettably, the Commissioner’s response has been deeply disappointing under the pretence of “the exhaustion of the margin for intervention”, among others, and has systematically failed to investigate and intervene.
Additionally, we have sought to continue the cooperation we had previously established with her predecessors in the field of implementation of European programmes, which she has refused, notwithstanding the fact that according to the Paris Principles -which provide the framework for the functioning of this institution and also the law governing it – her office is under an obligation to support and cooperate with NGOs.
Furthermore, KISA has invited the Commissioner to three public events and workshops, concerning integration, racism and discrimination as well as a recent one concerning hate speech. In all three events, not only did she refuse to participate but also failed to designate a representative from her staff. On the other hand, in the few events and meetings organised by her office, she not only failed to give KISA the opportunity to actively participate but in fact did not extend an invitation to the organisation at all.
At the same time, the Commissioner’s office currently faces serious problems in its operation, because of the perception and approach of the Commissioner concerning the powers and responsibilities assigned to her by legislation as well as the role and operation of the independent authorities under her mandate.
Converging all the powers and procedures under her control, she has rendered the institution even more intuit personae and has stamped out the autonomy and agency of the independent bodies placed within her mandate, such as the authority against racism and discrimination authority, causing their inertia and ineffectiveness. The same seems to have occurred in relation to the Office’s staff, where remarkable and experienced members have been side-lined and isolated.
Perhaps the most tragic aspect of the situation is the Commissioner’s interventionist and censoring approach towards the media, particularly in cases involving the publication of critical opinions about the incompetence and unwillingness to execute the important role assigned to her by the state, pressuring even for the withdrawal of articles that criticize her and her Office.
In conclusion, KISA wishes to highlight that ECRI’s conclusions must be studied thoroughly, first and foremost by the Commissioner herself and to be evaluated correctly in order to develop the appropriate measures and actions for a rational approach towards addressing the problems identified. Similarly, they must be evaluated thoroughly by the state and through a public dialogue that includes the participation of civil society in order to take action and restore the competence and efficiency of the institution.
Finally, in view of ECRI’s conclusions, KISA calls upon the relevant authorities to take all necessary measures for the implementation of the action plan for the integration of migrants and refugees as they have announced, in close cooperation with the relevant bodies of the UN, NGOs and migrant and refugee groups.
Steering Committee of KISA
Birleşik Kıbrıs Partisi Genel Başkanı İzzet İzcan, Cumhurbaşkanı Mustafa Akıncı’nın, bayram mesajında yaptığı uyarıların dikkate alınması gerektiğini belirterek “Akıncı’nın, tüm tarafların kabul edebileceği tek gerçekçi çözüm modeli olan federasyonun hayata geçirilmesi için, gerektiği yerde inisiyatif alarak çalışılması gerektiğini vurgulaması, ilgili tüm tarafların kulağında küpe olmalıdır” dedi.
Müzakerelerin yeniden başlamasına odaklanmalıyız.
Kıbrıs’ta bulunacak çözümün, BM Güvenlik Konseyi kararları ve Avrupa Birliği ilkelerine uygun federal çözüm olmasının tek çıkar yol olduğunu vurgulayan BKP Genel Başkanı İzzet İzcan, BM Genel Sekreteri Antonio Guterres’in belirlediği çerçevede, müzakerelerin yeniden başlamasına odaklanılmasını talep etti.
Kıbrıs halkının felakete sürüklenmesine izin veremeyiz.
Kıbrıs’ın etrafında sayısız tehlikenin Kıbrıslıları beklediğine işaret eden İzzet İzcan, “Macera peşinde koşan statükocu güçlerin, Kıbrıs halkını felakete sürüklemesine izin verilmemelidir” dedi.
Yarın çok geç olabilir.
Kıbrıs solunun kendi aralarındaki didişmeleri bir yana bırakıp, ortak vatan mücadelesi çağrısında bulunan BKP Genel Başkanı İzzet İzcan, “Yarın çok geç olabilir” dedi.
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Genelde en çok bilinen ilk yazılı hukuk kuralları, MÖ 1793-MÖ 1750 yılları arasında Babil kralı olan Hamurabi’ninkiler olarak çıkar karşımıza. En çok bilinen olduğu doğrudur. Fakat ilk olduğu yanlış. Bugüne kadar bulunmuş en eski hukuk kuralları MÖ 2400’lerde yaşamış Sümerlerin Lagaş Kralı Urukagina’nın kurallarıdır. O dönemdeki kent devletlerden biri olan Lagaş’ta hüküm sürmüş olan Urukagina tarıma oldukça önem veriyor ve bu alanda çalışanlar için bir dizi kurallar geliştiriyordu. Bunlardan en çok bilineni “Tarla, sürenin; hayvan sağanındır” kuralıdır. Bu kuralla Urukagina, bir çeşit özel mülkiyeti devreye alarak verimliliği artırmayı planlıyordu. Urukagina kendi yönetiminin gücünü artırmak ve tapınağın gücünü azaltmak için tapınağın aldığı vergileri de bu kurallar ile azaltıyordu. Urukagina’dan yaklaşık beş yüz yıl sonra karşımıza Hamurabi kanunları çıkıyor. Hamurabi krallığını güçlendirdi, toplumsal yaşamı geliştirip polis teşkilatına benzer yapılar oluşturdu ayrıca ilkel bir posta sistemi kurdurttu. “Kısasa kısas”, “göze göz, dişe diş” yasaları diye anılan bu kurallar sonraları Tevrat ve şeriatta da gerek benzerlik gerekse mantık anlamında tekrardan karşımıza çıkıyor. Bugün hala radikal İslami anlayışlar tarafından savunulmakta olanları bile vardır. O zamanlar Shamash’inin (Sümer mitolojisinde Utu tanrısına karşılık gelen tanrı; adalet tanrısı olarak da bilinir.) bizzat kendisine bu 282 kuralı ilettiğini iddia eden Hamurabi bu kuralları acımasızca uygulatmıştır. Kurallardan bazıları şöyle; “Göz çıkaranın gözü çıkarılsın, diş kıranın dişi kırılsın, ameliyatta hastanın ölümüne neden olan doktorun ve hastanın gözünü kör eden doktorun parmakları kesilsin, babasına vuran evladın parmakları kesilsin.” Yönetim tarafından alt tabaka ve üst tabaka diye sınıflara ayrılmış toplumsal yapıda kurallar tabakalara göre de değişebilmekte idi. Örneğin insanın dişini kıranın dişi kırılacaktır, fakat bu suç daha alt tabakadan bir insana karşı işlenirse, o zaman üst tabakadan insan sadece para cezasıyla cezalandırılacaktır! Böylece adalet tanrısının Hamurabi’ye üst sınıfları altlardan biraz daha fazla kollayan kurallar fısıldadığını anlıyoruz.
Bugünün dünyasında da tanrılar fısıldamaya devam ediyor
Mesela silah tanrısı, ABD’de makineli tüfek kullanımının yasalarla serbest bırakmasını söylemiş yönetenlere. Doğanın tanrısı ise İngiltere’de tüm çiçeklerin kraliçeye ait olduğunu fısıldamış. Bundan dolayı park ve kamusal alanlarda çıkan yabani bir çiçeğin bile kesilmesi yasak. Hangi tanrı bilmiyorum Fransa’da bir domuza Napolyon ismini vermeyi yasaklamış. Terzi tanrı Tayland’da iç çamaşırı giymeden dolaşmayı yasaklarken, İspanya’da ise çırılçıplak dolaşmayı yasal hale getiren bir başka tanrı mı var acaba? Bangladeş’te sınavlarda kopya çekmeyi yasaklayan öğretmen tanrı İsviçre’de gece saat 22:00’den sonra kamuya açık alanlarda erkeklerin ayakta işemesinin yasaklanması ile ilgisi olmadığını fısıldamış.
Yargıçlar da fısıldar
Bugünlerde bizim kktc’de öğrendiğimde çok şaşırdığım şey ise; adaleti sağlayan, yargıya yön veren yargıçların nasıl seçildiği idi. “Bağımsız” kktc yargısı yargıçlarını hangi kriterlere göre nasıl seçiyor biliyor musunuz? Hukuk bilgisini ve adalet anlayışını ölçen ve fırsat eşitliğini sağlayan yazılı bir sınavla mı? Hayır. Söyleyeyim; var olan yargıçlar olası yargıç adayı olarak düşündükleri avukatların kulağına “yargıçlığa başvurursanız seçileceksiniz.” diye fısıldıyorlar.
“Adaletin gevşeyen vidalarını suç tornavidasıyla sıkarsın!”
Adalet anlayışı hem tarihsel hem de ulusal ve coğrafi düzlemlerde farklılıklar gösteriyor. Adalet mevzusunu ele alırken belli bir dönemde var olan sınıf ilişkileri ve çıkarları ile hep ilişkilendirilmesi gerektiği düşüncesi en doğru yaklaşım gibi görünmektedir. Ebedi, doğru ve evrensel bir adalet anlayışı yoktur.
Engels şöyle diyor; “Ekonomik durum temeldir, ama üst yapının değişik unsurları – sınıf mücadelesinin politik biçimleri ve sonuçları – kazanılan muharebeden sonra kazanan sınıfın belirlediği anayasa – hukuk biçimleri ve hatta bütün bu gerçek mücadelelerin tarafların beyinlerine yansıması, politika, hukuk ve felsefe teorileri, dini dünya görüşleri ve bunların dogma sistemlere evrimi tarihsel mücadelelerin akışı üzerinde etkide bulunuyorlar ve birçok durumda bu mücadelelerin biçimini belirliyorlar.” Buradan yola çıkarsak kapitalizmin adaletliyim iddiasının, kendi koşulları içerisinde adaletli olmadığını savunmak/göstermek, politik bir mücadele yöntemi olarak kapitalizmin eleştirisi için kullanılabilir ve de etkilidir. Bize fırsat eşitliği gibi sunulan yasaların aslında sadece belli bir sınıfa hizmet ettiğini ve günün sonunda en iyi yasanın bile sınıfsal sömürüyü ortadan kaldırmayacağını gösterebiliriz. Fakat bu yapılırken gerçek adalet şudur, budur gibi evrensel bir anlayışı savunmak mücadeleyi bağlamından koparacağı gibi sizi geleceğin toplumunun kahinliğine soyunan bir konuma yerleştirir. Suç ve adalet birbirleri olmadan var olamazlar. Herakleitos “Eğer adaletsizlik olmasaydı adaletin ismini bilmezlerdi” der ve Igor Jaguar, Murat Menteş’in Antika Titanik kitabında yarattığı bir mafya babası, bakın ne diyor; “Adaletin gevşeyen vidalarını suç tornavidasıyla sıkarsın!”
Karl Marx’a kulak verecek olursak; “Bayrağınıza tutucu ‘adil bir iş günü için adil bir iş günü ücreti’ şiarı yerine devrimci ‘Kahrolsun Ücret Sistemi’ sloganını yazmalısınız.”
Tahsin Oygar
tahsinoygar@yahoo.com
Kaynakça:
Tarih Sümer’de Başlar –Samuel Noah Kramer
Antika Titanik – Murat Menteş
https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraklitos
http://www.praksis.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/010-11.pdf
https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammurabi
http://www.teorivepolitika.net/index.php/arsiv/item/366-marxin-ahlaki-realizmi
http://www.microdestek.com.tr/dunyanin-en-ilginc-yasalari.html
https://www.birgun.net/haber-detay/karl-marx-kapitalist-somuru-ve-adalet-kavrami-200939.html
H Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή κατά του Ρατσισμού και της Μισαλλοδοξίας (ECRI) στην έκθεση της για την υλοποίηση των συστάσεων της προς την Κύπρο, η οποία δημοσιεύθηκε στις 6 Ιουνίου 2019, εκφράζει τις «σοβαρές ανησυχίες» της για την αδράνεια του Γραφείου της Επιτρόπου Διοικήσεως και Ανθρωπίνων Δικαιωμάτων και τη μη λήψη δράσεων για στήριξη των ευάλωτων ομάδων της κοινωνίας.
Η Επίτροπος Διοίκησης, ακολουθώντας την πεπατημένη απέρριψε τα συμπεράσματα της Επιτροπής ως λανθασμένα και αβάσιμα, παραπέμποντας σε εκθέσεις της αναφορικά γενικά με παραβιάσεις ανθρωπίνων Δικαιωμάτων. Αντίθετα, η ΚΙΣΑ θεωρεί ότι οι διαπιστώσεις της Επιτροπής αντικατοπτρίζουν την τραγική πορεία που έχει ακολουθήσει το Γραφείο της Επιτρόπου Διοίκησης τα τελευταία χρόνια, η οποία προφανώς συνειδητά αρνείται να ασκήσει τις αρμοδιότητες και εξουσίες της ειδικότερα ως αρχή κατά του ρατσισμού και των διακρίσεων και οι οποίες αποτελούν υποχρέωση που απορρέει από το ενωσιακό δίκαιο και ειδικότερα τις Οδηγίες 2000/43/ΕΚ και 2000/78/ΕΚ, αλλά και άλλες αρμοδιότητες που της έχουν αποδοθεί είτε βάσει νόμων είτε με αποφάσεις του Υπουργικού Συμβουλίου.
Η ΚΙΣΑ μαζί με άλλες οργανώσεις της κοινωνίας των πολιτών είχαν εκφράσει από την αρχή έντονες ανησυχίες για την επιλογή της κας Στυλιανού-Λοττίδου, τόσο ως προς την γνωσιολογική και τεχνοκρατική της επάρκεια στον τομέα των ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων και των διακρίσεων, όσο και τις πολιτικές σκοπιμότητες του διορισμού της από τον πρόεδρο της Δημοκρατίας, ενδεχομένως λόγω στενής οικογενειακής σχέσης με σημαντικό παράγοντα των ΜΜΕ.
Παρόλα αυτά, μετά το διορισμό της η ΚΙΣΑ συνέχισε να καταβάλλει κάθε δυνατή προσπάθεια για συνεργασία και συνέχιση του σημαντικού έργου που επέδειξε μέχρι τότε ο θεσμός αυτός για την προάσπιση των ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων και τη συνεργασία με την κοινωνία των πολιτών.
Συνεχίσαμε να υποβάλλουμε καταγγελίες στο γραφείο της για σοβαρές παραβιάσεις ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων και διακρίσεις εναντίον ευάλωτων ομάδων. Δυστυχώς, η ανταπόκριση της Επιτρόπου ήταν άκρως απογοητευτική αφού επικαλούμενη διάφορα προσχήματα όπως «την εξάντληση των περιθωρίων παρέμβασης» παρέλειψε συστηματικά να διερευνήσει και να παρέμβει.
Επίσης, επιδιώξαμε την συνέχιση της συνεργασίας που είχαμε αναπτύξει μέχρι τότε με τις προκάτοχους της στο τομέα της υλοποίησης Ευρωπαϊκών προγραμμάτων, την οποία μας αρνήθηκε παρά το γεγονός ότι με βάση τις Αρχές του Παρισιού, που αποτελούν το πλαίσιο αρχών που διέπουν τη λειτουργία του θεσμού αυτού αλλά και του νόμου που τον διέπει, το γραφείο της έχει υποχρέωση για στήριξη και συνεργασία με τις ΜΚΟ.
Περαιτέρω, η ΚΙΣΑ προσκάλεσε την Επίτροπο σε τρεις δημόσιες εκδηλώσεις και συνέδρια, για την ένταξη, το ρατσισμό και τις διακρίσεις και μια πρόσφατη για την αντιμετώπιση της ρητορικής μίσους. Και στις τρείς περιπτώσεις αρνήθηκε όχι μόνο να λάβει μέρος αλλά και να υποδείξει εκπρόσωπο της από το προσωπικό του Γραφείου της. Από την άλλη, η ίδια στις λίγες εκδηλώσεις και συναντήσεις που διοργάνωσε το Γραφείο της όχι μόνο δεν έδωσε την ευκαιρία στην ΚΙΣΑ για ενεργό συμμετοχή αλλά δεν την κάλεσε καν να παρευρεθεί.
Ταυτόχρονα, το Γραφείο της Επιτρόπου αντιμετωπίζει σήμερα σοβαρά προβλήματα στη λειτουργία του, λόγω των αντιλήψεων και των προσεγγίσεων της Επιτρόπου για τις εξουσίες και αρμοδιότητες που της αναθέτει η νομοθεσία, καθώς και για το ρόλο και τη λειτουργία των ανεξάρτητων αρχών που της έχουν ανατεθεί.
Συγκεντρώνοντας όλες τις εξουσίες και διαδικασίες στο πρόσωπο της, κατέστησε το θεσμό ακόμα πιο προσωποπαγή και κατάργησε την αυτονομία και αυτενέργεια των ανεξάρτητων αρχών που υπάγονται στο Γραφείο της, όπως την αρχή του ρατσισμού και των διακρίσεων, οδηγώντας τις σε αδράνεια και αναποτελεσματικότητα. Το ίδιο φαίνεται να έχει συμβεί και σε σχέση με το προσωπικό του Γραφείου, με αξιόλογα και έμπειρα στελέχη να έχουν παραγκωνιστεί και απομονωθεί.
Τραγικότερη ίσως πτυχή αποτελεί επίσης η παρεμβατική και λογοκριτική στάση της προς τα ΜΜΕ, ιδιαίτερα σε περιπτώσεις δημοσίευσης επικριτικών απόψεων για την ανεπάρκεια και την περιορισμένη βούληση για επιτέλεση του σημαντικού ρόλου που της έχει ανατεθεί από την πολιτεία, πιέζοντας ακόμη και για την απόσυρση άρθρων επικριτικών για την ίδια και το Γραφείο της.
Καταληκτικά, η ΚΙΣΑ θέλει να τονίσει ότι τα συμπεράσματα της ECRI, είναι σημαντικό να μελετηθούν σοβαρά, πρώτα απ’ όλα από την ίδια την Επίτροπο και να αξιολογηθούν ορθά, έτσι ώστε να γίνει δυνατή η ανάπτυξη των κατάλληλων μέτρων και δράσεων για την ορθολογιστική αντιμετώπιση των προβλημάτων που έχουν εντοπιστεί. Παράλληλα, θα πρέπει να τύχουν σοβαρής αξιολόγησης από την πολιτεία αλλά και δημόσιου διαλόγου, με τη συμμετοχή και της κοινωνίας των πολιτών με σκοπό τη λήψη μέτρων για την αποκατάσταση της επάρκειας και αποτελεσματικότητας του θεσμού.
Τέλος, η ΚΙΣΑ, με αφορμή τις εισηγήσεις της ECRI, καλεί τις αρμόδιες αρχές όπως προχωρήσουν άμεσα στη λήψη όλων των απαραίτητων μέτρων για την ετοιμασία του σχεδίου ένταξης μεταναστριών/ών και προσφύγων που έχουν εξαγγείλει σε στενή συνεργασία με τους αρμόδιους οργανισμούς των Ηνωμένων Εθνών, τις σχετικές μη κυβερνητικές οργανώσεις και οργανώσεις μεταναστών και προσφύγων.
Διοικητικό Συμβούλιο
Birleşik Kıbrıs Partisi Genel Başkanı İzzet İzcan, yayımladığı bayram mesajında, halkın Ramazan Bayramı’nı kutlayarak barış dolu aydınlık yarınlar diledi.
Kıbrıs Türk toplumunun Ramazan Bayramı’nı büyük ekonomik, sosyal ve siyasi sorunlar ile boğuşarak karşıladığını belirten İzcan, çözümsüzlük ve Kıbrıs sorununda belirsizliğin Kıbrıslı Türkleri toplumsal yok oluş tehlikesiyle karşı karşıya getirdiğini kaydetti.
Kıbrıs Türk toplumunun varlık ve kimliğini koruma mücadelesinde kararlılıkla hareket etmesinin önemli olduğunu belirten BKP Genel Başkanı İzzet İzcan, “Tüm yurtseverlerin öncelikli görevi, insanlarımızın kardeşliği temelinde yurdumuzun bütünlüğünü sağlamaktır. Birleşik Kıbrıs Partisi çıktığı yolda kararlılıkla ilerlemeye devam edecektir” dedi.
Görüşme sürecinin bir an önce başlamasını talep eden İzzet İzcan, Birleşik Federal Kıbrıs’ın, tek gerçekçi çözüm olduğunu vurgulayarak, BM Genel sekreteri Antoni Guterres’in inisiyatif almasını istedi.
Halkımızın Ramazan Bayramını kutladığını belirten BKP Genel Başkanı İzzet İzcan, “Tüm kardeşlerimizin bayramını kutlarken, önümüzdeki bayramların yurdumuz Kıbrıs ve bölge halklarına barış, huzur ve mutluluk getirmesini dilerim” dedi.
Birleşik Kıbrıs Partisi Merkez Yürütme Kurulu, UBP – HP hükümet programını değerlendirdi.
“Hükümet programının en önemli yanının, federal çözüm modelinin tamamen terk edilip, yerine AB’ne üye iki ayrı devlet politikasının benimsenmiş olmasıdır” diyen BKP Merkez Yürütme Kurulu, “Bu tamamen taksimci bir yaklaşım olup, Kıbrıs Türk toplumunun sonudur” dedi.
Ankara’daki AKP hükümetinin, ray değişikliği adı altında, Kıbrıs’ın kuzeyini rehin tutma ve kendi çıkarlarını koruma peşinde olduğunu vurgulayan BKP Merkez Yürütme Kurulu, “Kıbrıslı Türk yurtseverlere düşen görev, ülkenin birliği temelinde bir araya gelip ortak vatan mücadelesini sürdürmektir” dedi.
İcazetini TC elçiliğinden alan göstermelik kukla bir koalisyon hükümeti kurulmuştur denen BKP Merkez Yürütme Kurulu açıklamasında, “Bugüne kadarki BM kararlarını ret eden, toplumlar arası görüşmeleri bitiren böyle bir karar, Kıbrıs Türk toplumunu felakete sürüklemekten başka bir işe yaramaz” dedi.
BKP Merkez Yürütme Kurulu, “Cumhurbaşkanı Mustafa Akıncı’ya darbe yapma hedefini güden bu politikanın orkestra şefi TC Dış İşleri Bakanı Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu’dur ” diyerek, UBP – HP hükümeti ve meclis aracılığı ile halkımızı yeni maceralara sürüklemeye çalışanlar karşısında barış, demokrasi ve özgürlük mücadelesini yükseltmenin tüm yurtseverlerin öncelikli görevi olduğunu vurguladı.
KISA – Action for Equality, Support, Antiracism is organising a seminar on ‘Countering hate speech, nationalism and populism in the public discourse and the media’, on Friday and Saturday, 31 May and 1 June 2019. The seminar, which will be held at Goethe Institute in Nicosia, is being organisation in the framework of the transnational project “Words are Stones», in which KISA participates with organisations in 5 EU member states.
In the first part of the seminar, which will start on Friday, at 6:00 in the afternoon, the following themes will be presented by corresponding speakers:
The seminar will be opened by KISA and more particularly by Ms Anthoula Papadopoulou, Chair of the Steering Committee, who will present the project and the the main findings of the national report for Cyprus.
Mr Aristos Tsiartas, Lawyer, will follow with a speech on the interaction of hate speech, nationalism and populism and their interactions on human rights, civil liberties and society in general.
Mr Aristoteles Constantinides, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Cyprus, will speak on the prohibition of hate speech as a permissible limitation to the freedom of expression.
Following on, Mr Kypros Michaelides, Chielf of Policy, will speak on the contribution of law enforcement agencies on combating discrimination and hate speech.
And finally, Ms Sevgül Uludağ, the well-known Turkish Cypriot journalist and Nobel Prize nominee, will speak on combating hate speech and nationalism through seeking the truth, reconciliation and peace.
The first day of the seminar will close with a light meal and networking.
It is noted that there will simultaneous translation from-to Greek to English.
The whole programme as well as the themes and speakers of the second day of the seminar, on Saturday, 1 June, which starts at 09:00 in the morning, are shown in the attached agenda or the link: https://bit.ly/2VX8glr.
Η ΚΙΣΑ – Κίνηση για Ισότητα, Στήριξη, Αντιρατσισμό διοργανώνει την Παρασκευή και το Σάββατο, 31 Μαΐου και 1 Ιουνίου, σεμινάριο με θέμα την «Αντιμετώπιση της ρητορικής μίσους, του εθνικισμού και του λαϊκισμού στο δημόσιο λόγο και στα μέσα ενημέρωσης». Το σεμινάριο, που θα πραγματοποιηθεί στο Ινστιτούτο Goethe στη Λευκωσία, διοργανώνεται στο πλαίσιο του διακρατικού προγράμματος «Οι λέξεις είναι πέτρες», στο οποίο συμμετέχει η ΚΙΣΑ μαζί με οργανώσεις από άλλα 5 κράτη μέλη της ΕΕ.
Στο πρώτο μέρος του σεμιναρίου, που θα αρχίσει την Παρασκευή, στις 6:00 το απόγευμα, θα παρουσιαστούν τα ακόλουθα θέματα από αντίστοιχους/ες ομιλητές/ομιλήτριες:
Το άνοιγμα του σεμιναρίου θα γίνει από την ΚΙΣΑ και συγκεκριμένα από την κα Ανθούλα Παπαδοπούλου, Πρόεδρο του ΔΣ, η οποία θα παρουσιάσει το έργο όπως και τα βασικά συμπεράσματα της έκθεσης για την Κύπρο.
Στη συνέχεια, ο κ .Άριστος Τσιάρτας, Νομικός, θα μιλήσει για την αλληλεπίδραση της ρητορικής μίσους, του εθνικισμού και του λαϊκισμού και για τις επιπτώσεις τους στα ανθρώπινα δικαιώματα, τις ατομικές ελευθερίες και την κοινωνία γενικά.
Ο κ. Αριστοτέλης Κωνσταντινίδης, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής Διεθνούς Δικαίου και Ανθρωπίνων Δικαιωμάτων, Τμήμα Νομικής, στο Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, θα μιλήσει για την απαγόρευση της ρητορικής μίσους ως επιτρεπόμενος περιορισμός στην ελευθερία έκφρασης.
Το λόγο στη συνέχεια θα έχει ο κ. Κύπρος Μιχαηλίδης, Αρχηγός της Αστυνομίας, ο οποίος θα μιλήσει για τη συμβολή των διωκτικών αρχών στην καταπολέμηση των διακρίσεων και της ρητορικής μίσους.
Τέλος, η κα Sevgül Uludağ, η γνωστή Τουρκοκύπρια δημοσιογράφος και υποψήφια για το Νόμπελ Ειρήνης, για την καταπολέμηση της ρητορική μίσους μέσα από την αναζήτησης της αλήθειας, της συμφιλίωσης και της ειρήνης.
Η πρώτη ημέρα του σεμιναρίου θα κλείσει με ελαφρύ γεύμα και αλληλογνωριμία και δικτύωση στις συμμετέχουσες και τους συμμετέχοντες.
Σημειώνεται ότι στο σεμινάριο θα υπάρχει ταυτόχρονη μετάφραση από τα ελληνικά στα αγγλικά και αντίστροφα.
Ολόκληρο το πρόγραμμα καθώς και τα θέματα και οι ομιλήτριες/ές της δεύτερης μέρας του σεμιναρίου, το Σάββατο, 1 Ιουνίου, που αρχίζει στις 09:00 πρωί, φαίνονται στη συνημμένη ατζέντα ή στον ηλεκτρονικό σύνδεσμο: https://bit.ly/2VX8glr
Haziran ayı filmi Hanna
Katılımcıların önerileriyle belirlenen bir sonraki film ise Hanna oldu. 16 yaşında zeki ve meraklı bir çocuk olan Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) babası Erik'e fazlasıyla bağlıdır. Hanna, kuzey Finlandiya'nın balta girmemiş ormanlarında, soğukkanlı bir ölüm makinesi, bir suikastçı olarak yetiştirilmiştir. Hayatı boyunca okula hiç gitmeyen Hanna artık Avrupadadır. Ve tüm hedefi görevini yerine getirebilmektir.
Macera, aksiyonun yaşanacağı, insanlarla temas ettikçe kendi varoluş amacını da sorgulayacağı duygusal sahneler de barındıran bu güzel filmi birlikte izlemek isteyen herkesi 1 Haziran Cumartesi akşamı 20:00′de Kızılbaş’taki lokalimize bekleriz. Our friends and comrades in Thessaloniki are creating a new collective – a hostel in the social space Micropolis! Soon information about a crowdfunding will be published. In the meantime read the declaration, check out the FB page of SLG Salouga Hostel and leave a like!
August 2008: Airbnb is founded
2010: The company goes over 1 million subscriptions and accepts financing of 7.5 million dollars.
2011: Airbnb grows to over 5 million subscriptions.
June 2012: 10 million subscriptions.
2013: Airbnb already has offices in Ireland, London, Singapore and USA.
2014: The company accepts financing close to 500 million dollars.
2015: It reaches a valuation of 2.3 billion dollars with additional financing.
November 2015: Airbnb is not accepted in San Francisco
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2016: Airbnb becomes the only company in its sector having bought all the other smaller ones.
2018: Airbnb has by now taken over all the major cities of Europe and the USA. Most homeowners choose to throw out those renting their homes and to place their home in the Airbnb platform which reaches a valuation of 38 billion.
2019: Madrid adopts a law which essentially forbids to 95% of houses to come under Airbnb.
2020: This is followed with similar laws by other European cities such as Barcelona, Milan, Paris.
2021: The valuation of Airbnb develops with slower but steady rhythm as it continues to develop around the world despite the legal limitations placed by some cities.
2022: In all European cities and metropoles, where Airbnb has been forbidden, pressure is growing to bring the platform back for development purposes by owners of properties, restaurants, bars, foreign investors, airlines and the tourism lobby.
2023: A new world economic crisis breaks out. It is fired up first by the second nuclear explosion in Fukushima, 12 years after the first. The extremely high levels of radiation in the Pacific Ocean, which destroy natural resources, result in an ocean where no exploitation can take place, all life in it either dies or gets sick, all this while cancer levels exceed all records in its coasts. As coastal areas are evacuated insurrections break out, while in the USA armed revoltsdevelop. The second reason for this is the break up of the bubble of student loans in the USA, which had reached in the USA already from 2019 1.5 trillion dollars and in 2023 it reaches 3 trillion. Studentmobilisations and occupations of universities starting in America and then in Europe are the biggest ever recorded. At the same time, a new phenomenon appears which was called by economists “mass fall out” and “mass skive”. It grew like an epidemic, especially after it expanded to mass media; persons around 25-40 “could not get up from bed”, leading this way to the greatest multisector long duration wild strikes of all time. An asymmetric attack by hackers is launched against state institutions and multinational companies. New revelations come to light after whistle blowing by members of several secret services around the world. Depression reaches 30% of world population, suicides and hunger strikes reach massive proportions.
2024-2026: An enormous war has erupted which has become known in history and human conscience as “worldwide civil war”. Extreme pauperisation leads to chain insurrections worldwide. The central slogan „The future is NOW!“ is being shouted in all languages around the world. NATO, Russia and China send international fully armed armies in the streets of metropoles and provinces; coordinated attacks with drones in occupied areas result in the death of many millions of civilians and imprisonments of many more millions. State prohibitions shut down the internet in many areas.
2027: Airbnb buys out the monopoly of privately managed prisons in the whole world, which in the context of the new state of exception penal system function also as production chains for big multinational companies, such as Amazon, aiming at a faster economic growth. Other impoverished areas have been transformed into huge lagers by states and international military organisations and their populations work in big chains of production for just a daily meal. In parallel with all this, conflicts continue around the world with somewhat lower intensity, since because of insurrections autonomous zones were created which continue to resist including evermore greater parts of population.
2028: Airbnb launches its “all inclusive trip packages”. In cooperation with Google’s big data management, it offers specially adjusted to everyone door to door trips, i.e. from the moment they leave their house until they return to it. All intermediary steps, including transportation, hotel accommodation, entertainment and food have been bought by Airbnb. Disneyworld, which has the monopoly in the spectacle industry, converts cities and metropoles in huge tourist thematic parks. Cities are equipped with “intelligent borders” for the prevention of insurrections. All this takes place with the agreement of state governments for “economic growthand anti-depression” reasons. The valuation of Airbnb explodes to 600 billion dollars.
2029: One after the other, many European metropoles such as Rome, London, Paris and Athens are bought by Airbnb. The historic centers of cities are converted for rent by rich locals and tourists, while the lowerclass is obliged to live outside the center in production lines in the suburbs and live in overercrowded buildings or encampments. Their possibility to move is limited, except for higher level company employees able to travel through Airbnb in poorer countries. Any protest, if not quashed before it even appears due to extreme controland collection of information, is put down brutally by international armies that have replaced the police in the streets of cities, in addition to the newly established U.O.M.A. (Units for Order Maintenance Airbnb).
2030: And then, when we had thought that all was finished, some glimpses of freedom appeared. Antiauthoritarian groups and communities, pushed to the edges of cities, since living in the center was impossible if you were not rich, decide to join together and prepare one last plan. Feverishsecret processes in encrypted communications and collaboration at global level are following. All those who have continued participating in movements decide to create from below conditions of living and housing against the monopoly of Airbnb. Selforganized structures of hospitality are created with rules of resistance to the wave of tourism and uprooting of people, which cater to those who want to visit various cities in Europe, and exchange experiences and ideas on whether another world is finally possible. In Thessaloniki, this starts from the (since 2025)occupied autonomous zone of Aristotle University , a movement conducted via the underground tunnels and catacombs toward the center of the city. Finally, the until 2023 Free social space Micropolis, is occupied with the intention to create a center of the struggle against Airbnb and expand the autonomous community into the centre of the city. SLG Hostel takes form.
BKP Genel Başkanı İzzet İzcan, Ankara’daki AKP iktidarının müdahaleleri sonucunda UBP – HP hükümetinin kurulduğunu belirterek, “Statükoyu korumayı hedefleyen bu yeni yapı, federal çözümden uzaklaşma, AKP’nin dayattığı ekonomik paketleri hayata geçirme ve Cumhurbaşkanlığı seçimlerinde Sn: Akıncı’yı tasfiye etme üzerine kurulmuştur” dedi.
Bugün mecliste okunan hükümet programının bundan öncekiler gibi cek-caklar üzerine kurulu olduğunu belirten İzzet İzcan, “Yıllar var bu ülkeyi yöneten statükocu partilerin, Kıbrıs Türk toplumunu rehin tutmak, statükoya zaman kazandırmak ve ayrılıkçı yapıyı kökleştirmek peşinde koştuklarını vurguladı.
“ Dünyadan izole edilmiş militarist bir yapı içerisinde ekonomik kalkınma ve refah sağlanamaz” diyen BKP Genel Başkanı İzzet İzcan, “Büyük sıkıntılar içerisinde olan tüm sektörlerin, kurtuluşun çözüm, barış ve demokrasiden geçtiğini anlaması ve bu mücadeleye destek vermesi gerekmektedir” dedi.
Aynası iştir kişinin lafa bakılmaz.
Hükümet programında demokrasi, sosyal adalet, hukukun üstünlüğü ve laiklik ilkesine bağlı kalınacağının yazılmasının laftan ibaret olduğunu dile getiren BKP Genel Başkanı İzzet İzcan, “Aynası iştir kişinin, lafa bakılmaz” dedi.
Η εκλογή του Νιαζί Γκιζίλγιουρεκ με το ψηφοδέλτιο του ΑΚΕΛ στις ευρωεκλογές είναι μια ιστορική εξέλιξη. Η εκλογή ενός τουρκοκύπριου με τις ψήφους ελληνοκυπρίων και τουρκοκυπρίων είναι ένα χαστούκι στους εθνικιστές και τους φασίστες και στέλνει ένα ισχυρό μήνυμα για την προοπτική της συνεργασίας, της συμφιλίωσης και της ενότητας των απλών ανθρώπων στο νησί. Δημιουργεί μια νέα δυναμική και ανοίγει ένα παράθυρο ελπίδας για ειρήνη και επανένωση.
Το δεύτερο σημαντικό που έδειξαν οι ευρωεκλογές είναι την αποδοκιμασία της κυβέρνησης και του κυβερνητικού κόμματος. Όσο και να δηλώνουν ικανοποιημένοι που διατήρησαν την πρωτιά δεν μπορούν να κρύψουν ότι έχασαν 9% από τις ευρωεκλογές του 2014 και περισσότερες από 18,000 ψήφους. Η Ψαλλίδα από το ΑΚΕΛ μειώθηκε σε 1,5% από το 11% που ήταν στις προηγούμενες ευρωεκλογές. Ο κόσμος αποδοκίμασε τη πολιτική της λιτότητας, των περικοπών, και των σκανδάλων από τους «άριστους των αρίστων» που διόρισε ο Αναστασιάδης. Αποδοκίμασε τη ρατσιστική ρητορική και την απαξίωση που επεχείρησαν για όσους διαφωνούν μαζί τους με χυδαίες εκφράσεις όπως τα «μηδενικά». Αποδοκίμασε τις εθνικιστικές επιθέσεις στο Νιαζί και τις προσβολές προς τους τουρκοκύπριους με τις «δανικές ψήφους».
Το τρίτο σημαντικό στοιχείο που βγήκε μέσα από αυτές τις εκλογές ήταν η αποτυχία του ΕΛΑΜ, του εδώ παραρτήματος της Χρυσής Αυγής να κερδίσει την 6η έδρα. Ολες οι δημοσκοπήσεις του έδιναν προβάδισμα αλλά τελικά την έδρα την κέρδισε η ΕΔΕΚ την οποία ψήφισαν αρκετά άτομα από άλλους χώρους με στόχο να εμποδίσουν το ΕΛΑΜ να εκλέξει ευρωβουλευτή. Μπορεί το ΕΛΑΜ να ανέβασε τα ποσοστά του στο 8.2% αλλά αυτό οφείλετε κυρίως στην μεγάλη αποχή (57,20%). Στην πραγματικότητα κέρδισε μόνο 1300 ψήφους περισσότερους από τις προεδρικές του Φλεβάρη του 2018. Αυτό όμως με κανένα τρόπο δεν πρέπει να μας προκαλεί εφησυχασμό. Σίγουρα χαιρόμαστε που δεν κατάφεραν να εκλέξουν ευρωβουλευτή γιατί αυτό θα τους έδινε ακόμη μεγαλύτερη αυτοπεποίθηση και δυναμική όπως και πόρους αλλά το ότι εδραιώνεται σε ψηλά ποσοστά και κυρίως μέσα στη νεολαία είναι κάτι που πρέπει να αντιμετωπίσουμε άμεσα την επόμενη περίοδο.
Είναι επίσης σημαντικό το ότι για πρώτη φορά τα κόμματα, που την προηγούμενη περίοδο συνεργάστηκαν με τους φασίστες του ΕΛΑΜ σε μια σειρά εκδηλώσεις, όπως για το ενωτικό δημοψήφισμα, τη διαμαρτυρία έξω από την Ελληνική Πρεσβεία, για να μην ανοίξει το οδόφραγμα στην Δερύνεια και πολλά άλλα, αναγκάστηκαν να μιλήσουν ανοικτά για την φασιστική απειλή. Στα πάνελ των συζητήσεων όλα τα κόμματα χαιρέτησαν την εκλογή ευρωβουλευτή από την ΕΔΕΚ και τον αποκλεισμό του ΕΛΑΜ – Χρυσή Αυγή και για πρώτη φορά μίλησαν για ακροδεξιά, για φασιστικό κόμμα και νεοναζί. Μέχρι τώρα μόνο το ΑΚΕΛ αναφέρονταν στο ΕΛΑΜ σαν Χρυσή Αυγή Κύπρου. Τώρα ακόμη και ο Συναγερμός που πριν λίγο καιρό ο Υπουργός του της Παιδείας επισκέφτηκε τους νεοναζί στα γραφεία τους και δήλωσε ότι «μοιράζονται τις ίδιες αρχές και αξίες» χαιρέτησε την εκλογή ευρωβουλευτή από την ΕΔΕΚ και μιλήσει για τον κίνδυνο από το ΕΛΑΜ, παρά το ότι απόφυγε να μιλήσει για φασιστικό κόμμα αλλά μίλησε για εθνικιστικό.
Όλα αυτά δημιουργούν τις προϋποθέσεις για την συγκρότηση ενός πλατιού μετώπου ενάντια στον φασισμό και τον ρατσισμό. Ο φασισμός δεν αντιμετωπίζεται εκλογικά, ούτε και πρέπει να περιμένουμε τις επόμενες εκλογές για να κάνουμε ένα μέτωπο ενάντια στη φασιστική απειλή. Χρειάζεται να συγκροτήσουμε ένα αντιφασιστικό κίνημα που να έχει διάρκεια και μαζικότητα και να μπορεί να αντιμετωπίσει τις προκλήσεις της ακροδεξιάς και των φασιστών όπου εμφανίζονται κάθε φορά. Ένα κίνημα που να αντιστέκεται στις επιθέσεις της κυβέρνησης και των αφεντικών. Μια κοινωνική συμμαχία, που να αποτελείται από τον κάθε ένα και την κάθε μια που δεν θέλει να δει να ξαναγίνονται ολοκαυτώματα και ναζιστικές θηριωδίες, που θέλει να ζήσει σε μια επανενωμένη πατρίδα που θα την «διαφεντεύουν αυτοί που την δουλεύουν», σε μια κοινωνία που να χαρακτηρίζεται από την κοινωνική αλληλεγγύη, την αποδοχή και το σεβασμό της διαφορετικότητας, ανεξάρτητα από θρησκεία, εθνική καταγωγή ή σεξουαλικό προσανατολισμό.
Αν δεν το κάνουμε τώρα, θα έχουμε χαραμίσει μια τεράστια ευκαιρία που μας ανοίγει το κλίμα που δημιουργεί η εκλογή του Νιαζί Γκιζίλγιουρεκ και η ενίσχυση της αριστεράς και των κομμάτων που έστω και αργά αναγνώρισαν την ανάγκη να αντιμετωπιστεί η φασιστική απειλή.
Εργατική Δημοκρατία
27 Μάη 2019
Άτε Λεβέντ-η μου, κόψε λλιες δανεικές ψήφους του ΑΚΕΛ πέρκι δούμε χαΐρι
Kıbrıslı Türkler bizi Kıbrıslı Rumlar’la yalnız bırakmayın! Evet be annem! Τουρκοκύπριοι, μεν μας αφήκετε μόνους με τους Ελληνοκύπριους!
Turkish Cypriots should vote in the European Parliament elections on Sunday and all democratically minded and peace oriented Greek Cypriots should be vigilant against fascists, policemen and state bureaucrats that might try to prevent some of them from exercising their right.
Turkish Cypriots are entitled to 2 out of the 6 seats in the European Parliament allocated to Cyprus as a unified whole. The failure to reach a unification agreement has allowed the Greek Cypriots who monopolise the legal state to hold all 6 seats in the 2004 and 2009 Euro-elections. It was only after EU pressure that the Greek Cypriot leadership allowed the Turkish Cypriots residing in the north to vote for the first time in 2014 elections in order to not risk losing 2 out of the 6 seats. And the narrow minded Turkish Cypriot leadership who called for non participation and a mixture of bureaucratic prejudice and incompetence by Greek Cypriot state officials resulted in a very low turnout last time and to Greek Cypriots maintaining their hold of the 6 seats.
This time things are different. The danger of permanent partition of our country is within sight. Niyazi Kizilyerek is on AKEL’s ballot with high chances of getting elected. Sener Levent this time does not run alone but with Jasmin, a full ballot of 6 candidates. A small Turkish Cypriot communist group is also contesting this election with 2 candidates.
Friends and comrades in the Turkish Cypriot community come to vote in these elections. Don’t listen to the voices of those in your community who say that by doing so you are forfeiting the Turkish Cypriot right to 2 out of the 6 seats in the European Parliament. If we manage to reunify our country, the two seats allocated to the Turkish Cypriot community are guaranteed. If we don’t manage to overturn partition soon, we have much bigger things than that to worry about. Don’t listen to the voices of those in the Greek Cypriot community who say that by voting you are forfeiting your communal collective rights and you are subsuming yourself in the Greek Cypriot state. And don’t be intimidated by the fascists. Cypriot peace activists and the EU are watching.
We need to keep the reunification idea alive. Mass Turkish Cypriot participation in the European elections is one small, but important step in this process. We all need to work to ensure that this happens.
Τι εννοείτε, κύριε Γκουτέρες μου, ότι η ένωσις και η πολιτική ισότητα είναι ασύμβατα;
One Radical Planet 