Defending People and Brotherhood Association (İMKANDER) organized International Caucasian Congress in Haliç Congress Center, Istanbul.
The congress was inaugurated by Mustafa Demir, Mayor of Fatih, Istanbul. In his touching speech, Demir said that he admired the struggle being pursued by Caucasian people, let alone their past full of sorrow.
In his speech delivered after Mustafa Demir, Junsei Terasawa, Buddhist Priest, said, after his peace prayer, that he backed the resistance pursued in the Caucasia and that condemned Russia who backed the massacres. Terasawa said that the was in Chechenia during the war and observed the genocide with his own eyes.
The congress was congratulated first by Abdullah Gül, President of Turkey, and innumerable Ministers, deputies and mayors.
The conference was realized in three sessions. In the first session, the presentations were submitted on the subject of “Political Movements in History of Northern Caucasia and Attempts of Unification”.
The first session was chaired by Rıdvan Kaya, President of Özgür Der, where the presentations were submitted by Asst. Dr. Alev Erkilet, İslam Matsiev from Finland, Magomed Toriev from Germany and Elena Maglevannaya from Finland, who was banned to enter into Russia since she backed Chechenian cause.
Participating to the conference from Finland as the editor-in-chief of Caucasian Center, Islam Matsiev said that there were more than 200 Caucasian families in Finland in the emigrant status and that they went to Finland leaving Turkey. Matsiev said that he was the editor-in-chief of Caucasian Center and that there were vast amount of data on the Caucasia; however, they weren't provided systematically and majority of them were contradictory. Pointing out the bitter cruelties of Russia in the Caucasia, Matsiev said that hundred thousands of Caucasian people dispersed throughout the world.
Taking part to the conference from Germany, Magomed Toriev said that Russian torture wasn‘t solely onto the Chechenia but it was all over the Caucasian and that it was only the Chechenian among the Caucasian people who engaged in armed struggle against Russia.
European’s Incredibility
Faruk Ünsal, President of Mazlum-Der chaired the second session of the conference. During the second session of the conference, Mikael Storsjö, Finnish Human Right Activist, Aleksandra Kvahadze, the member of Georgian Circassian Cultural Center, Yukiko Kıkuchı, Japan Human Right Activist and Vaha Banjaev, President of Czech Republic Concentration Camp Prisoners Association on “Human Right Abuses in Northern Caucasia”.
Vaha Banjaev, President of Czech Republic Concentration Camp Prisoners Association delivered most interesting presentation during second session. Banjaev said that there were hundreds thousands Chechenians in Russian concentration camps and that Russia killed about 98 thousands women, 195 thousands senior people and more than 60 thousands children. Pointing out that it was clear indication of Russian massacre, Banjaev said that the world was silent to such torture. Banjaev said that he was served for European Parliament for 12 years and that proclaimed the fact that Russia pursued massacre in the Caucasia; however no progress was ever achieved since last 12 years. Banjaev added: “I tell European people Russian torture and justified struggles of the Caucasian for 12 years. But I haven’t made any progress at all. I tell you, don’t believe and rely on the Europeans. This is mainly because that think nothing but their benefits. I wonder, what do they trade for a life of Chechenian in terms of petroleum? Here, it is the Islamic world to act. This is because we are Muslims for which we fight for 400 years. Until now, I made 125 applications to European Human Right Court, but none of them was accepted.
Awards
Murat Özer, President of İMKANDER, declared that they elected Aunt Kesirat as the mother of the year, whose 4 sons, father and spouse were martyrized during the war. Alev Erkilet congratulated Aunt Kesirat with a flower bouquet. Kesirat Midaeva delivered a speech and she said that their resistance would be continued with determination. The hall was echoed with a voice of praying. Hüseyin Kulaoğlu, owner of Yeni Akit Newspaper, was awarded with Bold Journalism of Year.
During the third and last session of the conference was on “Occupation, Deportation and Resistance in Caucasia”. The session was opened by Murat Özer, President of İMKANDER. The presentations were given by Ahmed Sardalov, Chechenia, Rustem Khalukhaev, Ingushetia, Muhammed Gergif, Kabardino-Balkar-Karachay and Özden Öner, Dagestan.
The conference was concluded upon submission of the plaque and announcement of the conference declaration.
ISTANBUL DECLARATION FOR UNITED, INDEPENDENT CAUCASIA
MAY 13, 2012
TURKEY
To all conscientious and free people of the world!
We, as the sons of the Caucasian people resisting against the occupation and massacres of Tsarist Russia, Soviet Russia and present Putin’s emperorship of Russia of 2012 and have its hundreds thousand people martyred in these causes and exiled in different geographies of the world, declare that,
We once again declare to all the world on our decisions we have adopted in order to make terms with the filthy past and today of the torture and persecution of Imperialist Russia that occupied our lands.
1. We declare that we abolished all the artificial walls and borders of ethnical nationalism, separation and divisiveness created via the seeds planted by Russian expansionism and get rid of all conflict between us as Chechenias, Ingushetians, Circassians, Dagestan People, Karachays, Murkus, Nogals, Balkars and all other honorable Caucasian People and we have come together as a single CAUCASIAN PEOPLE be united always.
2. We deny the title of Russia on our lands stretching from Nogal Steppes at the North and Ingushetia at the South and Caspian Sea at the East to the Blacksea at the West. The lands of Northern Caucasia belong to Caucasian People! We deny all claims on the independence and occupation of Russia on these lands.
3. We announce that those betrayer governments assigned by Russia in Northern Caucasia for torturing its own people, in particular Ramzan Kadirov management, occupier’s governor in Chechenia, in addition to Arsen Kanoko management in Kabardino-Balkar, Yevkurov management in Ingushetia, Magomedsalam Magomedov management in Dagestan and the landlord other collaborators, submissive and illegal governments. We consider Caucasian Emirates as sole legal managements in Northern Caucasia as the follower of Chechenia-Icheria Republic.
4. We salute all our leading Mucahids, in particular Cevher Dudayev, who refused the submission against the slavery and abasement just like our ancestors, İmam Mansur and İmam Şamil, as well as all other Mucahids, in particular Dokko Umarov, who has taken over this holly cause pursued in Caucasian mountains for the time being.
5. We declare our support to the struggle against Russia and her collaborators so long as it is confined within the legal-Islamic boundaries, based on the very fact that the resistance to the occupation and torture is the basic human right”
6. We condemn the attacks initiated by Russia against Georgia in 2008. We state our intent to live in peace with all our neighbors, in particular the Georgia, providing her support to the fight for the freedom of Northern Caucasia.
7. We state that the Independent Caucasia without any foreign flag on the lands where the people are not identified as being Russian citizens is only possible by establishing a united Caucasia.
We, as Caucasian Diaspora, proclaim that we will spread our struggle into other relevant political, academic, cultural and other areas and call all honorable people of the world to support this struggle.
8. The International Caucasian Conference has decided that the committee will be established on behalf of Caucasian people in order to conduct all these activities and the works in this regard will be conducted under the title of Caucasian People’s Congress.
