Kosovo made greatest deal in its history as state
(8 years ago)It says: Getoar THE Republic of Kosovo yesterday was the largest in its history as a state: it gave up six refugees -- five educators and a doctor -- a state that, in all likelihood, is being persecuted unjustly and wants to arrest them without guilt. But the expulsion of the afflicted [...]
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The Republic of Kosovo took the biggest part in its history as a state yesterday: it gave six refugees over to five educators and a doctor a state that, according to all odds, is being unjustly persecuted and wants to arrest without guilt.
But the expulsion of the afflicted today has a series of bad things. You know them.
(1) You violate international law. A country can't get refugees back to where it's gone, nor take a citizen to a country where it's afraid it's going to be hunted. The state may keep a close-up on loose ends that it values as dangerous, but it does not expel or restore them to a country where injustice awaits them.
(2) I change our constitution and our laws, which protect basic human rights and freedoms, and define procedures for justifying citizens and losing them and following lawbreakers. Kosovo institutions were arrested without cause and gave no time to six «gylenists» to defend their right to stay in our country. They didn't ask at all if Turkey would guarantee you fundamental human rights and freedoms. Without charge of criminal offence and extradition procedure, I almost gave them up to a lost country.
(3) It makes Dardan a police state, a country of entertainment, and a vasal of a state go away. Our institutions didn't give up six to follow by law, which I said in terms of which conditions and at whose request people can be established. Kosovo today acted on the order of the Sultan's haffyst services of Turkish dictator Recep Tayip Erdoğan, of whom international investigative organisations say it is destroying democracy, violating human rights, and persecuting political opponents.
(4) You drop the oath of Albanians. When we meet them in our country, we have pledged to the six Turkish citizens that we will protect their freedom and treat them as equal and worthy. And since dictator Erdoğan has started to persecute his colleagues because of their association and political beliefs, educators have stayed in Dardan because they have something here. Consequence is the protection that Albanian docks give to the one who is in danger of life.
(5) You insult our people. Erdoğan's regime views itself as the revival of the Ottoman Empire, which has oppressed and left our people in darkness for five centuries. If there is an area in which Ankara was not supposed to be involved in Albanian soil, it is education. Osmanes once banned Albanian schools and books. Today, Neusmanian Turkey orders us to hand over teachers and close schools that are not under control.
(6) It shames us in front of the world. Dardania is an independent country why our people refuse to live under an invasion that has so cruelly violated our human rights. Our country is the work of international justice. Today, however, we violate human rights and violate international order and right.
This shame is not to be forgotten, nor is it easy for me. Our society, if not our institutions, should find the people responsible and give them the punishment of merit. If we don't raise the fairy for six Turks today, tomorrow we'll mourn 600 or 6 thousand Albanians.
Getoar Doctor is a Texas lawyer.