Killing Of Ayhan Eser By German Police

EDM number 1479 in 1993-94, proposed by Alan Simpson on 07/07/1994.

That this House is shocked by the death of Ayhan Eser, a 15 year-old Kurd, who was shot in the back and killed whilst fly-posting in Hanover on 1st July; is concerned by the German government's refusal to allow entry to Germany on 25th June of several people of different nationalities wishing to attend a peaceful rally protesting at the persecution of Kurds by the Turkish government; believes these incidents are linked to a series of measures taken by the Kohl government to give political support and military aid to the Turkish regime; is aware that most of the 1000 Kurdish villages destroyed by the Turkish armed forces in the past four years have been scorched or flattened by guns, tanks and other military equipment or skills supplied by Germany; and calls for an international ban on the sale of arms to Turkey in view of its continued repression and denial of basic human rights to the Kurdish people. (Relevant registered interest declared).

This motion has been signed by a total of 21 MPs.