To: DIRECTOR GENERAL EUROCONTROL(THROUGH OFFICIAL CHANNELS)
From: Ali R+ SARAL DEI5 Eurocontrol Software Team KARLSRUHE
Date: Nov 10, 1994
Recently I have
been to EUROCONTROL offices in Brussels.
During my various contacts with
my colleagues, I have heard some comments about
'the practices of police in Turkey'.
I would like to
inform you and my other colleagues that I do not come from a parent
organization. I have applied for my
current position individually through the news paper advertisements of the
organization. I do not have any
connection to the Turkish government, neither do I represent her. I have never applied to serve as a civil servant
in Turkey although I did serve for the
obligatory military service of 1.5 years.
My only relation with the Turkish government is my Service
Passport.
I was the first
Turkish employee of the organization in Germany. During the first year of my service there,
when I was returning to Germany from
summer vacation, I was refused by Lufthansa to be taken to the airplane due to
the fragility of the documents that I had been given by the organization. I missed my flight. On my arrival the next day, I was invited to
the police station at the Frankfurt airport together with other false visa -
false passport suspects.
The German
government is still refusing to give me a working permit and a residence
permit. As a permanent solution, I was
advised by the organization to apply personally to the Turkish Consulate for a
Service Passport.
It is ludicrous
for me to hear comments about democracy in Turkey, because I was a secretly elected student representative
in my high school Ankara Fen
Lisesi-Ankara, Turkey in the years 1977, 1978 when the high school students did not have the right of
representation. During my university
years 1978 - 1982, I have refused to give donation to ITU-DER, the student
organization of Istanbul Technical University, which was dominated by DEV-SOL's
left terrorist bullies. I have not given
a damn to the continuous death threats that I have received because of this in
the years 1978, 1979.
Within this
context, I would like to remark that although European intellectuals try to
support the Turkish democracy at every
single occasion nowadays, they were much more silent in the past. During the years of Cold War indeed, the West
was supporting the Turkish government at the expense of Turkish democracy.
Given the above,
I will appreciate if you could attain that my colleagues in Brussels are well
informed about who is who and what has happened and is happening in Turkey
before they try to perform any more sleight of comments.
I will appreciate
if your secretary sends me an acknowledgement of receipt.
