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SÖYLEDİKLERİ VE YAZDIKLARI
Terrorism and Human Rights
Following are retired Ambassador Gündüz Aktan’s
observations on PKK terrorism in meetings on human rights and
self-determination:
Gündüz Aktan argued that international law and norms were
not applied to right of self-determination and a contradictory,
subjective perspective ensued instead. Particularly in the early
‘90s, the international community and Western nations, within
the uncertainty left in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union,
went as far as to sympathize with PKK terrorism at a time when
terrorist acts were at their most violent. Aktan claimed that at the
root of the sympathy lied the instability caused by a wrongful
conception of the issue of terrorism in terms of international law.
He further argued that the inclusion of the term “guerrilla” in the
international human rights system in the postcolonial era
contributed to this perspective.
The lack of sanctions in international law regarding internal
conflicts gives rise to a legal situation where the rights of
terrorists are protected under human rights law. However, Aktan
claims that to defend the right of self-determination for a people
that lives under the roof of a “sovereign state” and does not have
issues of “lack of self-determination” and of “an unlawfully
occupied land” is wrong. He emphasizes that such a conception
makes violence against the state acceptable, while causes
legitimate defense against terrorists that are responsible for the
deaths of innocent civilians to be considered state violence.
Gündüz Aktan asserts that the efforts of international NGOs at
the time served, without proof, a purpose of wrongfully depicting
the PKK as a guerilla force and a victim of torture.
Gündüz Aktan
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