Araştırmacı Gazeteci Sevgül Uludağ, Nobel Barış Ödülü’ne Aday Gösterildi
Birleşik Kıbrıs – İki Toplumlu Barış İnisiyatifi, araştırmacı gazeteci Sevgül Uludağ’ın Nobel Barış Ödülü’ne aday gösterilmesini memnuniyetle karşılamaktadır.
Sevgul Uludag, 2019 Nobel Barış Ödülü’ne, Kanada’daki York Üniversitesi Siyaset Bilimi Doçenti Anna Agathangelou tarafından Norveç’teki Nobel Komitesi’ne aday gösterildi. “Kayıp şahıslar” konusundaki çok değerli çalışmasının yanı sıra, toplumumuzun sorunlarının demokratik yollarla çözülmesi ve bu hassas konuda iki toplumumuz arasında karşılıklı anlayışın yaratılması için gazetecilik becerilerini kullanmasıyla da aday gösterildi. Ayrıca Kıbrıs’ta yaklaşık yarım asırdır barış ve uzlaşma için çabası ve aktif mücadelesi bu adaylıkla onurlandırıldı.
Sevgül’ün “kayıplar” konusunda yazı yazdığı iki gazete Yenidüzen ve Politis ortak bir bildiriyle şunları bildirdi:
“1958 Lefkoşa doğumlu olan Sevgül Uludağ, 39 yıllık aktif gazetecilik hayatının son 18 yılını “kayıplar”ın gömü yerlerinin bulunmasına, acılı öykülerinin araştırılıp yazılmasına, her iki toplumdan okurlarını mobilize ederek olası gömü yerlerini göstermelerine ve bu insani konuya gönüllü ve insani katkı yapmalarına adamıştır.
Bu yönde pek çok kez gerek kendisi, gerekse kurumlarımız ciddi tehditlere maruz kalmıştır. Uludağ, bu tehditlere karşı yurtsever bir duruşla, insanlığın evrensel değerlerinin savunucusu olmuştur.”
Geçtiğimiz 13 yıl boyunca Sevgül Uludağ, her iki toplumdan okurları için cep telefonlarıyla gönüllü olarak “Aktif Telefon Hattı” oluşturdu. Okuyucular, bu “Aktif Telefon Hattı” aracılığıyla bilgi vermek amacıyla onu isimsiz olarak arayabilmektedirler. Bu bilgilerden bazıları gazetelerimizde yayınlanırken, bazıları da Kıbrıs Kayıp Şahıslar Komitesi’ne aktarıldı ve böylece, yıllarca süren suçlu sessizlik kırılarak toplumlarımız için insani bir işbirliğinin yolu açılmış oldu…
Sevgül Uludağ, her iki toplumdan “kayıp kişilerin” yakınları ile birlikte çalışarak, kayıp kişilerin yakınları ve savaş mağdurlarından oluşan “Together We Can / Birlikte Başarabiliriz” isimli iki toplumlu bir dernek kurmuştur. Kayıp yakınları ve savaş mağdurları, “ortak bir acıyı” paylaştıklarını kabul edip, hem mezarlık alanlarının aranmasında hem de geçmişte yaşanan şiddetle ilgili barış ve uzlaşma bağlamında toplumun bilincini arttırmak için birlikte çalışmaktadırlar. Sevgül Uludağ bu süreçte oldukça etkili bir rol oynamıştır.
İki Toplumlu Barış İnisiyatifi-Birleşik Kıbrıs’ın kurucu örgütlerinden biri olan “Together We Can” ve bir diğer iki toplumlu oluşum olan “Hands Across the Divide” Sevgül Uludağ’ın kuruluş süreçlerinde aktif olarak emek verdiği örgütlerdir.
Sevgül Uludağ, çalışmaları ve yorulmak bilmez çabaları için “Gazetecilikte Uluslararası Cesaret Ödülü”, “Avrupa Parlamentosu Avrupa Vatandaşlık Ödülü”, “RSF Basın Özgürlüğü Ödülü” gibi çeşitli uluslararası ödüllere layık görülmüş ve yine çalışmalarından dolayı her iki toplumdaki sivil toplum örgütleri tarafından onurlandırılmıştır.
İki Toplumlu Barış İnisiyatifi – Birleşik Kıbrıs, Sevgül Uludağ’ın Nobel Barış Ödülü’ne adaylığını, adanın yeniden birleşmesi, barış ve uzlaşma için mücadele veren iki toplumlu hareketin tümü için bir onur olarak görmektedir.
Destek Veren Örgütler
1 Cyprus Turkish Teachers Trade Union – KTÖS
2 Cyprus Turkish Secondary Teachers Trade Union – KTOEÖS
3 Customs Workers Trade Union – GÜÇ-SEN
4 EMU Unity and Solidarity Trade Union – DAÜ-BİR-SEN
5 Turkish Cypriot Civil Servants Trade Union – KTAMS
6 State Workers Trade Union- ÇAĞ-SEN
7 Cyprus Writer’s Union
8 Cyprus Publisher’s Association – KYa B
9 Revolutionary Workers Union Federation Dev- İŞ
10 Movement for a Federal Cyprus
11 Proodeftiki Primary School Teachers movement
12 Proodeftiki Secondary School Teachers movement
13 United Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot Teachers Platform
14 İskele Citizens Initiative
15 Municipal Workers Trade Union – BES
16 Socialist İnitiative
17 United Democrats Youth organization
18 Bi-communal Initiative of Relatives of Missing Persons and Victims of 1963-74 events – Together We Can
19 Epilogi Limassol cultural movement
20 Symfiliosi / Uzlaşma / Reconciliation
21 Peace Association
22 New Cyprus Association
23 Left Wing
24 Association of Turkish Cypriot Artists and Authors
25 Bi-communal Choir For Peace in Cyprus
26 Cyprus Turkish Physicians Trade Union – TIP-İŞ
27 Publishers Trade Union – BASIN-SEN
28 BARAKA Cultural Group
29 Cooperative Workers Trade Union – KOOP-SEN
30 Turkish Cypriot Association for Democracy (London)
31 Cypriot Science Education Health and Solidarity Association – KIBES
32 KGP
33 Cyprus Youth Platform
34 Limassol Civil İnitiative ‘Solution-Reunification-Peace”
35 Cyprus Reunification Movement
36 German-Cypriot Forum
37 Workers Democracy
38 NGO Support Centre
39 IKME Sociopolitical Studies Institute
40 Hands across the Divide
41 Association of Historical Dialogue and Research
42 United Cyprus Platform of the Overseas Cypriot Organizations
43 Stop the War Coalition
44 Kontea Heritage Foundation
45 GAT -Gender Advisory Team
46 Cyprus Academic Dialogue
47 Turkish Cypriot Businessmen Association
48 Famagusta Our Town
49 Cyprus Sustainability Institute
50 Famagusta Initiative
51 KISA – Action for Equality, Support, Antiracism
52 Bicommunal Kyrenia Initiative
53 INVEST IN EDUCATION
54 Enorasis sociocultural club
55 Post Research Institute
56 Politia
57 HASDER
58 HAZINE-SEN
59 Eastern mediterranean University Union of Academic Staff- DAU-SEN
60 Cyprus Song Association – KIBHAD
61 The Management Centre of the Mediterranean
62 Cyprus Pir Sultan Abdal Cultural Association
63 Feminist ATÖLYE
64 Cyprus Turkish Building Contractor’s Association
65 MAGEM
66 Dayanışma – Solidarity
67 KLIIR
68 Cyprus Association of Social Psychology
69 OPEK – Association for Social Reform
70 Larnaca for Solution – Reunification Movement
71 Unite Cyprus Now!
72 New Cyprus Party YKP
73 Cypriots’ Voice
74 Association of Cypriot Refugees in Greece – Cyprus ‘74
75 People’s Peace Platform for Unıted Cyprus (London)
Investigative journalist Sevgul Uludag nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
The Bi-communal Peace Initiative – United Cyprus is welcoming with appreciation the nomination of the investigative journalist Sevgul Uludag for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Sevgul Uludag has been nominated for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize to the Norwegian Nobel Committee by Anna Agathangelou, Associate Professor of Political Science at York University in Canada. The nomination has been put forward in recognition of her very valuable work on “missing persons”, as well as of the use of her journalistic skills for the solution of problems of our communities in democratic ways and creating mutual understanding among our two communities on this sensitive issue. Her efforts and active struggle for peace and reconciliation in Cyprus for almost half a century has also been honoured with this nomination.
Yeniduzen and Politis, the two newspapers where Sevgul is reporting on the question of the “missing”, in a joint statement reported the following:
“Born in Nicosia, Cyprus in 1958, Sevgul Uludag has been working as an active investigative journalist for the past 39 years and she has devoted her past 18 years of life in journalism focusing on the sensitive issue of “missing persons”, trying to locate their possible burial sites, investigating and writing their painful and tragic stories, mobilising her readers from both communities for them to show possible burial sites and helping them to contribute voluntarily and in a humanitarian way on this sensitive humanitarian problem.
Both herself and our newspapers got serious threats many times but Uludag defended universal human values with her patriotic stand against these threats.
For the past 13 years Sevgul Uludag has formed voluntarily a “Hot Line” with her mobile phones for her readers from both communities. Through this “Hot Line” her readers can call her anonymously to give information. Some of this information is published in our newspapers, while several others are passed on to the Cyprus Missing Persons’ Committee, thus breaking many years of guilty silence and opening the way of humanitarian cooperation for our communities….”
Sevgul Uludag has worked together with the relatives of “missing persons” from both communities, to set up a bi-communal association of relatives of missing persons and victims of war called “Together We Can”. The relatives of the missing and victims of war, having recognized that they share a “common pain” work together both in search of burial sites but also in raising the awareness of society around the issue of the violence of the past in a process that promotes peace and reconciliation. Towards this end Sevgul Uludag has been instrumental.
“Together We Can” has been a founding member of the Bi-communal Peace Initiative – United Cyprus and so has “Hands Across the Divide” another bi-communal group that Sevgul Uludag has actively worked to set up.
For her work and tireless efforts Sevgul Uludag has received various international awards like “International Courage in Journalism Award”, “European Parliament Citizen of Europe Prize”, “Press Freedom Award of RSF” and has been honoured by civil society from both communities for her work.
The Bi-communal Peace Initiative – United Cyprus considers the nomination of Sevgul Uludag for the Nobel Peace Prize as an honour for the whole of the bi-communal movement, working for the reunification of the Island, for peace and reconciliation.
Η διερευνητική δημοσιογράφος Sevgül Uludağ υποψήφια για το Βραβείο Νόμπελ Ειρήνης
Η Δικοινοτική Πρωτοβουλία Ειρήνης – Ενωμένη Κύπρος χαιρετίζει με εκτίμηση την υποψηφιότητα της διερευνητικής δημοσιογράφου Sevgül Uludağ για το βραβείο Νόμπελ Ειρήνης.
Η Sevgül Uludağ προτάθηκε στη Νορβηγική επιτροπή Νόμπελ, για το βραβείο Νόμπελ Ειρήνης 2019, από την Άννα Αγαθαγγέλου, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια Πολιτικών Επιστημών στο Πανεπιστήμιο York του Καναδά. Η υποψηφιότητα προτάθηκε ως αναγνώριση του πολύτιμου έργου της Sevgül στο θέμα των “αγνοούμενων” καθώς και της χρήσης των δημοσιογραφικών της δεξιοτήτων για επίλυση των προβλημάτων των δύο κοινοτήτων με δημοκρατικούς τρόπους και για τη δημιουργία αμοιβαίας κατανόησης μεταξύ τους σε αυτό το ευαίσθητο ζήτημα. Οι προσπάθειές της και ο ενεργός αγώνας για ειρήνη και συμφιλίωση στην Κύπρο για μισό περίπου αιώνα έχουν επίσης εκτιμηθεί με αυτή την υποψηφιότητα.
H Yeniduzen και o Πολίτης, οι δύο εφημερίδες όπου η Sevgül γράφει για το ζήτημα των “αγνοουμένων”, σε κοινή δήλωση ανέφεραν τα εξής:
“Γεννημένη στη Λευκωσία το 1958, η Sevgül Uludağ έχει αφιερώσει τα τελευταία 18 χρόνια της ζωής της στη δημοσιογραφία, δίνοντας έμφαση στο ευαίσθητο θέμα των «αγνοουμένων», προσπαθώντας να εντοπίσει τους πιθανούς τόπους ταφής τους, ερευνώντας και γράφοντας τις οδυνηρές και τραγικές ιστορίες τους, κινητοποιώντας τους αναγνώστες της και από τις δύο κοινότητες για να δείξουν πιθανούς τόπους ταφής και βοηθώντας τους να συμβάλουν εθελοντικά και με ανθρωπιστικό τρόπο σε αυτό το ευαίσθητο ανθρωπιστικό πρόβλημα.
Τόσο η ίδια, όσο και οι εφημερίδες μας έχουν δεχτεί πολλές φορές σοβαρές απειλές, όμως η Uludağ υπερασπίστηκε τις καθολικές ανθρώπινες αξίες με την πατριωτική της στάση ενάντια σε αυτές τις απειλές.
Τα τελευταία 13 χρόνια η Sevgül Uludağ έχει δημιουργήσει εθελοντικά μια «Ανοικτή Τηλεφωνική Γραμμή» (Hot Line) με τα κινητά της τηλέφωνα για τους αναγνώστες της και από τις δύο κοινότητες. Μέσω αυτών των γραμμών οι αναγνώστες της μπορούν να επικοινωνούν μαζί της ανώνυμα για να δώσουν πληροφορίες. Κάποιες από αυτές δημοσιεύονται στις εφημερίδες μας, ενώ αρκετές άλλες καταθέτει ενώπιον της Κυπριακής Διερευνητικής Επιτροπής Αγνοουμένων, σπάζοντας έτσι πολύχρονες ένοχες σιωπές και ανοίγοντας το δρόμο της ανθρωπιστικής συνεργασίας για τις κοινότητες μας…. ».
Η Sevgül Uludağ συνεργάστηκε με τους συγγενείς των “αγνοουμένων” από τις δύο κοινότητες, για τη δημιουργία μιας δικοινοτική οργάνωσης συγγενών αγνοουμένων και θυμάτων του πολέμου που ονομάζεται “Μαζί Μπορούμε”. Οι συγγενείς των αγνοουμένων και θυμάτων του πολέμου, αναγνωρίζοντας ότι μοιράζονται έναν «κοινό πόνο», συνεργάζονται τόσο στην αναζήτηση τόπων ταφής, όσο και στην ευαισθητοποίηση της κοινωνίας γύρω από το θέμα της βίας του παρελθόντος σε μια διαδικασία που προωθεί την ειρήνη και τη συμφιλίωση. Προς το σκοπό αυτό, ο ρόλος της Sevgül Uludağ ήταν καθοριστικός.
Η οργάνωση “Μαζί Μπορούμε” είναι ιδρυτικό μέλος της Δικοινοτικής Πρωτοβουλίας Ειρήνης – Ενωμένη Κύπρος όπως και το “Hands across the divide”, μια άλλη δικοινοτική ομάδα στη οποία η Sevgül Uludağ εργάστηκε ενεργά για την ίδρυση της.
Η Sevgül Uludağ έχει λάβει διάφορα διεθνή βραβεία για το έργο και τις άοκνες προσπάθειές της, όπως το «Διεθνής Βραβείο για Θάρρος στη δημοσιογραφία», «Βραβείο του Ευρωπαίου Πολίτη» του Ευρωπαϊκού Κοινοβουλίου, «Βραβείο Ελευθερίας Τύπου της RSF» και τιμήθηκε από την κοινωνία των πολιτών από τις δύο κοινότητες για το έργο της.
Η Δικοινοτική Πρωτοβουλία Ειρήνης – Ενωμένη Κύπρος θεωρεί την υποψηφιότητα της Sevgül Uludağ για το βραβείο Νόμπελ Ειρήνης ως τιμή για όλο το δικοινοτικό κίνημα, που εργάζεται για την επανένωση του νησιού, για ειρήνη και συμφιλίωση.
