Alarmed Parliament's MPs over case of arrested gilenists

The publicist writer Veton Surroi has written an open letter to MPs from the Republic of Kosovo following the arrest and, according to all likelihood, deportation of six Turkish citizens linked to the Gylenist movement.

Surroi has said to have been concerned as he read Prime Minister Haradinaj's reasoning about the dismissal of two officials, the interior minister and the AKI director, that yesterday's “actions were completely unacceptable and contrary to our values and principles as state”.

But I am convinced that the act that took place with the six Turkish citizens was an attack on the country's constitutional legal system, an inside attack and an attack, which if it doesn't get its legal and political response, has great potential to deepen even more the usurpation of state instruments and restricting the rights and freedoms of citizens of the country”, Surroi has written.

For Surroi, the actions the prime minister called “totally unacceptable and contrary to our values and principles as state” are in fact open violations of Kosovo's law and Constitution.

Surroi has stressed that Kosovo has made administrative decision to remove these six Turkish citizens from Kosovo, but not for their extradition to a certain country.

“Legally, they could have gone to Albania, Montenegro, Serbia or Macedonia if they had decided to cross land borders, or wherever they could on an airline. But Kosovo authorities, without extradition legal procedure, handed over to Turkish authorities. This means that Kosovo authorities have been collaborators in illegal deprivation from freedom, kidnapping. Thus, Kosovo authorities have co-operated in a criminal offence”, writes Surroi.

According to Surroi, the action that was called “unacceptable” and “against the values of our principles as state” is actually the collapse of the constitutional-judic system on its foundation of guaranteeing human rights.

“This unacceptable action violates with both six articles of the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo, international human rights conventions that are automatically applicable as local legislation and laws derived from this constitutional system. So it's an attack on the country's constitutional system, freedoms and rights of all citizens”, Surroi wrote.

And Surroi has said that the attack on the Constitution also has responsible addresses, even described right in the Constitution of Kosovo.