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Kurds considered a security risk [jW]

federal government designated the PKK as a "destructive factor" in Germany and justifies monitoring

By Nick Braun

In Germany, some 800,000 Kurds live. This number called the federal government first official response to an inquiry of the domestic political spokesperson of the Group of the Left Party, Ulla Jelpke, "to" Kurdish specific integration policy. The government is based on an estimate of the "NAVEND - Centre for Kurdish Studies" in Bonn. A separate recording of the Kurds living in Germany does not consider it necessary, as in the Central Aliens Register, only the registration of nationality is provided. Until now, Kurds, if they do not have German citizenship, as Turks, led Iraqis, Iranians or Syrians in the statistics. We find not only the operating mainly in Turkey, forced assimilation continued in Germany, but the Kurdish group migration fundamental rights as native-language instruction, advice and support in their own language and be denied participation in specific integration measures. Kurdish groups are calling as recently as late January at a fraction of the Left in Hesse state conference organized an official recognition migration group.

Kurds actually existed for the Federal Government seems especially in the form of asylum seekers, criminals and risk factors. So located on the part of the federation in Kurdish asylum procedure provides only information on AIDS education brochures and instructions for detained.

Kurdish personalities and the Association of NAVEND were involved in the nationwide integration summits to justify the government. NAVEND and the Youth League Komciwan also receive financial support amounting to € 140 000 172 000 or from federal funds. But these associations are either exclusively or scientific work represented only a fraction of the Kurdish diaspora. The Federation of Kurdish Associations in Germany, YekKom, with 65 affiliates and 100,000 members, however, is observed by the intelligence, and their clubs are regularly searched by the police on charges of PKK nearby. The PKK retains a "destructive factor of national security" justifies the federal government, "the force since 1993 ban again" as a means of prevention as the basis of the monitoring. Within the Kurdish exile community, the PKK "a dominant factor unchanged," the Cabinet is contrary to earlier representations the same time that only a minority was behind the liberation movement.

Cansu Özdemir

Photo: Karen Desmond

The potential Kurdish voters with German citizenship was modified in the state election in Hamburg 20. February clear when the 22 year old was selected after an election Cansu Özdemir call YekKom with the increasing number of voices from the hopeless ninth place to second place of the Left Party list. Prompt came the young politician migration in recent days targeted by the Constitution and protection of image, they tried to vilify as "near-PKK extremist."