Many displaced persons have been traumatised. Many refugees are still forced to live in emergency accommodation. The unemployment rate is over 50 per cent. The violence is supposed to have ended last year. However an armistice is not peace .
Genuine peace is impossible without reconciliation and the restoration of justice.
People need to be convinced that a new era is beginning. So we hope that this opportunity will not be lost. We want to see economic, social and political development come to our devastated region. We are calling for the state of emergency imposed in all the provinces of Southeastern Turkey to be raised. All the refugees are entitled to return home and to have their property restored to them.