Practitioners in Turkey visited the National Assembly on February 8, 9, and 13. A petition has been submitted to the Human Rights Committee.

The petition states that Falun Gong is a peaceful meditation based on the universal principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance." It has enormous positive affects on health and is practiced by 100 million people in 78 countries of the world.

Falun Gong has been granted many awards and letters of recognition. It is respected by the whole world except in China. Practitioners have been tortured since 1999 in China and the methods used in persecution are extremely cruel.

We are asking our government to show sensitivity, as shown by other democratic countries in the world, to help to stop the persecution of Falun Gong in China.

Some of the members of assembly who are on the human rights committee received personal visits and were told the facts about the persecution. A delegate to the European Council, Mr. Abdulkadir Ates, agreed to see the practitioners. He said that he was definitely going to support Falun Gong when there was an opportunity to do so.

The reactions toward Falun Gong by the people who work in the National Assembly are very supportive. A lot of people have learned more about Falun Gong and are shocked to learn that the practice is banned in China. They said that they wanted to learn the exercises, and could feel that the energy around the practitioners is calm and pure. We promised to teach them the exercises and gave them brochures. We suggested teaching them the exercises in the gardens of parliament. They were so supportive that they gave us the use of a cupboard to keep our truth-clarification materials in, as they thought they were too heavy to bring back and forth.

Practitioners of Falun Gong in Turkey will keep clarifying the truth as we think that Falun Gong has brought happiness and amazing health to our lives. This is the least we can do. We believe we can never do enough for Falun Gong and Master.

On February 17, 2006, practitioners rallied with several international human rights organizations in Berlin, urging Foreign Minister Steimeier to pay attention to the Chinese Communist Party's cruel persecution of Falun Gong. The Foreign Minister will soon visit Asia.

Steimeier became Minister of Foreign Affairs last November.

The Falun Gong Association expressed that the CCP persecution of Falun Gong has become more concealed. When the persecution began in 1999, Chinese media fabricated overwhelming propaganda to slander Falun Gong. However in recent years the propaganda has lessened, which gives the outside world the false impression that Falun Gong does not exist anymore. The CCP's ultimate purpose is to escape international condemnation for its ongoing brutal suppression of Falun Gong.

The Falun Gong Association representatives point out that in fact, the CCP's arrests and torture of Falun Gong practitioners haven't decreased at all. The number of practitioners beaten and tortured to death continues to steadily rise.

A Chinese democracy advocate, Fei Liangyong, thinks that the human rights situation inside China is actually deteriorating at an alarming and worrying rate. He condemns the CCP's wicked gangster-like tactics of sending secret agents to America and attacking Epoch Times chief technician and Falun Gong practitioner Dr. Li Yuan. At the same time he urges the world to pay attention to the incident.

Officials of the German Foreign Ministry came to the rally that afternoon to meet representatives of Falun Gong, international human rights organizations and Chinese democracy advocates. They met for nearly an hour.

Falun Gong representative Wu Manyan spoke to the diplomats about Falun Gong practitioner Jiang Renzheng, who was deported to China with his family from Germany in March 2005 and was unlawfully sentenced to three years forced labor by the CCP. He still suffers persecution and is asking for help.

When offered three copies of the "Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party," a diplomat replied, "I have already read it and I am fully aware about the tide of quitting the CCP. I'll hand the three copies to others in the ministry".

That the new chancellor of Germany, Mrs. Merkel, personally replied to the German Falun Gong Association not long ago. Her letter clearly condemns the persecution of Falun Gong.

Two young Argentine tourists passed by the rally and expressed their support after learning the facts at the rally. They said, "We hope that Chinese people will soon live without a repressive regime. In Argentina, genocide occurred in our history. We fully understand what is happening in China. We support you."