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Statement To Press From The Roma Association 17/09/2010

Cemil Akmaca, one of the authors of www.cingeneyiz.org and the president of Roma Association, made a statement to the press. Akmaca said that if France Government continue to deport immigrant Roma, France Government will fail the class about human rights. Here is the full text of the statement:

"Deportation policy of France Government indicates the degree of respect France Government shows to human rights! France which is known as one of the countries respectful to human rights uses Hitles's strategies these days. Demolition of migrant settlements and the deportation policy of France Government doesn't suit any article of European Convention on Human Rights. This events show that France claiming Roma to be despised in my country for many years should take some democracy lessons from The Turkish Republic. There isn't this kind of racist policies which is planned by the government in my country. Governments should protect the human rights. These policies against Roma are unconscionable and unacceptable.

Let Roma to chose their lifestyle with in the frame of human rights and the principles of The European Union. If France doesn't take any democray lessons from the people governing my country, France Government will fail the class about human rights.

We are condemning these racist policies targeting our brothers and our sisters!

President of The Roma Association
Cemil Akmaca"

Source: Cingeneyiz Istanbul