{"id":12708,"date":"2009-05-25T22:41:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T20:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=12708"},"modified":"2013-10-12T22:48:52","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:48:52","slug":"turkey-urges-police-action-on-bnp-flyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2009\/05\/25\/turkey-urges-police-action-on-bnp-flyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey urges police action on BNP flyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Govement is acted on early and timely information received from Turkish Forum UK members.. Turkish Forum is again leading the way through its wast resources on information transfer between the Turkish communities around the world.. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE INFORMED MEMBERS .. DR. KAYAALP BUYUKATAMAN, PRESIDENT-CEO,\u00a0 TURKISH FORUM<\/p>\n<p>From The Sunday Times    <script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script> May 24, 2009<\/p>\n<h2>The country&#8217;s government is considering referring the party to the police over racist promotional material<\/h2>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/js\/m24-image-browser.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script> <script src=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/js\/tol.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>BNP leader Nick Griffin launched his party?s European election campaign earlier this month, setting out its opposition to Turkey joining the EU<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script> Jason Allardyce<\/p>\n<p><!-- div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited { color:#06c; }  -->The Turkish government has demanded the withdrawal of election leaflets  distributed in Scotland by the British National party, claiming they are  intended to incite racial and religious hatred.<\/p>\n<p>Flyers promoting the BNP&#8217;s European election campaign suggest that millions of  Turkish Muslims would flood into Britain if the country were to be granted  full EU membership.<\/p>\n<p>One BNP leaflet being handed out on the streets of Glasgow said taxpayers&#8217;  money &#8220;shouldn&#8217;t be wasted on expanding Europe so that millions of Muslims  in Turkey can join the invasion of foreign job snatchers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Another urges voters to &#8220;oppose the dangerous drive backed by the other main  parties to give 80m low-wage Muslim Turks the right to swamp Britain&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Officials at the Turkish embassy in London have complained to the British  Foreign and Commonwealth Office and have suggested the matter be referred to  the police because the leaflets potentially breach race relations  legislation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is obvious that these are racist and highly inflammatory statements which  insult both Turkey and the Turkish nation as a whole and put hundreds of  thousands of Turks and Turkish Cypriots who live and have been born in  Britain at risk of racist abuse and attacks,&#8221; said Orhan Tung, a  spokesman for the embassy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the leaflets are a clear breach of both the Race Relations Act and  the Racial and Religious [Hatred] Act, which makes it an offence to  distribute written material with the intent to stir up religious or racial  hatred.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe that the relevant British authorities such as the Equality and  Human Rights Commission should consider taking legal action against the  party in question.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Equality and Human Rights Commission also criticised the material and  warned that Scotland needed immigration to counter the effects of an ageing  declining population.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman said: &#8220;Because immigration to Scotland is necessary and because  we want to build the population to meet the challenges of the future, we  want to work against the tension and unease rather than ignite it as the BNP  seems to be doing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it is examining the  complaint and that the government is &#8220;firmly committed to the elimination of  all forms of racism and intolerance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>John Walker, a spokesman for the BNP, denied its literature was racist. &#8220;We  oppose the creeping Islamification of Europe and our country which we see as  a threat. If the Turkish embassy doesn&#8217;t like it, that&#8217;s tough &#8211; our duty is  to look after Britain&#8217;s interests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nick Griffin, the leader of the BNP, launched his party&#8217;s European election  campaign earlier this month, setting out its opposition to Turkey joining  the EU and putting British jobs at risk.<\/p>\n<p>He claims the party could win up to seven seats in next month&#8217;s European  elections. Mainstream parties fear that it may win at least one seat,  including in northwest England where Griffin is standing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Govement is acted on early and timely information received from Turkish Forum UK members.. Turkish Forum is again leading the way through its wast resources on information transfer between the Turkish communities around the world.. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE INFORMED MEMBERS .. DR. KAYAALP BUYUKATAMAN, PRESIDENT-CEO,\u00a0 TURKISH FORUM From The Sunday Times May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":776961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,89,94],"tags":[163],"class_list":["post-12708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eu-members","category-turkey","category-uk","tag-human-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}