[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 101 (Thursday, July 28, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: July 28, 1994]
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          U.S. FOREIGN POLICY--BASED ON MORALITY OR GEOGRAPHY?

  (Ms. FURSE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. FURSE. Mr. Speaker, today Leyla Zana is in prison, and she faces 
the death penalty. She along with six elected Kurdish leaders are 
charged with treason. They all face the death penalty.
  What is their crime, Mr. Speaker? It is exactly what I am doing 
today. They spoke out on the issue of human rights.
  Mr. Speaker, these Kurdish parliamentarians are not in Iraq whose 
treatment of the Kurdish people we have called rightly crimes against 
humanity. No, these parliamentarians are in Turkey, a country that the 
United States supports with massive aid and military assistance.
  Mr. Speaker, every time Members of Congress protest the conditions of 
repression and torture and human rights we are told that we must 
remember that Turkey is strategically important to us. Does our 
morality depend on geography rather than on conviction?
  It is time that Congress demands the release of the six Kurdish 
parliamentarians.

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