14-16 July 2012 Daily Human Rights Report
(07/120) Intervention to the distribution of communiqués in Mardin Province…
Ten people including Derik vice Mayor Doğan Özbahçeci were detained as they were distributing communiques in Derik District of Mardin Province, for the meeting of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDPPeace and Democracy Party ) and Democratic Society Congress in Diyarbakır Province on 14 July 2012.
(07/121) Ongoing KCK/TMKCK Par lament Turkey Main Case in İstanbul Province…
İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 15 went on hearing the case against 205 defendants -140 of them pre-trial detainees and 23 of them were fugitives- on 13 July 2012.
Prof. Dr. Büşra Ersanlı is among the defendants and charged with “being the executive of the illegal organisation”.
The lawyers asked for the release of their clients and right to defend themselves in their native language. The court released Prof. Dr. Büşra Ersanlı, Kemal Karagöz, Kazım Şeker, Büşra Beste Önder, Canşah Çelik, Erdoğan Baysan, Medeni Demirkapu, Zekiye Ayık, Cüneyt Özil, Birgül Arvas, Suna Varsak, İbrahim Ethem Yıldız, Mehmet Sıddık Kumek, Uğur Taşdemir, Nizamettin Özmen and Mustafa İpek and adjourned the hearing to 1 October 2012.
Istanbul Chief Public Prosecution Office had finalised the indictment against 193 people -147 of the pre-trial detainees- who had been detained in various dates in the framework of KCKUnion of Communities in Kurdistan investigation and sent the 2401 pages of indictment for the evaluation of Istanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 15 on 19 March 2012. Writer Ragıp Zarakolu had been charged with “helping and harbouring an illegal organisation” under Article 220/7 and Prof. Dr. Büşra Ersanlı had been charged with “being an executive of illegal organisation”.
İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 15 released Writer Ragıp Zarakolu, Muhsin Yenisöz, İrfan Hülakü, Lütfü Balbal, Ali Geritli, Songül Karatagna, Nahit Onat, Zeynal Çelik, Neci Elmas, Burhanettin Toprak, İsmail Zeybek, Evrim Öztürk, Yasin Yalçın, Cemalettin Görbegir, Alaattin Güneş on the grounds that the probability that the qualification of the charges could be change and the conditions of the evidences as well as taking the period of time spent in prison as pre-trial detainees.
(07/121) Coercion in prison...
Prisoners Durmuş Kırbıyık and Selim Köse who had been transferred from Samsun E Type Closed Prison to Bafra (Samsun) L Type Closed Prison on 30 June 2012 were beaten by the guardians who were called as “Robocop” by the ordinary prisoners and threatened with death. They were attacked in the dormitory by other prisoners with broken bottles. The incident was revealed out with the official complaint of Durmuş Kırbıyık and Selim Köse on 13 July 2012. Durmuş Kırbıyık was hospitalised due to the cuts in his ear, face and armpit.
(07/122) Operations and clashes in South-east…
Two soldiers and 3 militants were killed and two soldiers were wounded in the clash between Turkish Armed Forces and Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKKKurdish Workers' Party ) armed wing People’s Defence Forces (HPGPeople's Defence Forces (armed wing of the PKK) ) in Kel Mehmet Mountain between Uludere and Beytüşşebap District of Şırnak Province on 14 July 2012.
A temporary village guard was killed in the clash in the vicinity of Akarca Village of Sarıseki Municipality of İskenderun District of Hatay Province on 14 July 2012.
Fifteen police officers were wounded with the explosion of the mine as the police shuttle that was carrying the officers to the polygon of the security directorate in Van Province on 14 July 2012.
The train machinist and his helper were wounded in the explosion of the bomb placed on the railroad in the vicinity of İslahiye District of Gaziantep Province on 15 July 2012.
Temporary village guards Zümeyra Can and İsmail Can who had been abducted from Büyükağaç Village of Çatak District of Van Province on 1 July 2012 were released on 12 July 2012.
(07/123) Tried persons…
On 14 July 2012 İzmir Heavy Penal Court No. 10 went on hearing the case against Halit Bilgiç in connection with the songs he sang in Kurdish and Turkish in the election meeting of Labour, Democracy and Freedom Bloc in Bodrum District of Muğla Province on 12 June 2011. The court adjudicated to postpone the prosecution against the defendant for three years basing its verdict to the Temporary Article 1/1-b of the Law No. 6352 which came into force as a part of the third Judiciary Reform Package on 5 July 2012.
(07/124) İntervention to the meeting Diyarbakır Province…
The meeting of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and Democratic Society Congress which had been planned to be held in Diyarbakır Province on 14 July 2012 was banned by Diyarbakır Governorate on 8 July 2012.
The BDP and DTK called for the meeting on 14 July 2012 despite the ban decision.
Diyarbakır Governorate and Security Directorate took extraordinary security measures from 13 July 2012 and did not allow anyone to enter the city on 14 July 2012.
Six people were detained in the home raids in Bağlar District of Diyarbakır Province on 13 July 2012.
Law-enforcement officers used excessive power and sprayed gas to the people that attempted to go the meeting area. Even the stock of the gas bombs was reportedly consumed and the reserve stock was brought.
Deputy Pervin Buldan was wounded with gas bomb canister; deputy Ayla Akat Ata was wounded with a hit from her eye; Deputy Mülkiye Birtane was wounded from various parts of her body. Deputy Gültan Kışanak was dragged on the ground and Deputy Emine Ayna fell down due to pressured water. Law-enforcement detained the wounded from the hospitals.
Diyarbakır Governorate made a statement on 15 July 2012 and claimed that ten police officers were wounded and 25 people who effected from gas bombs, applied to the hospitals and 85 people were detained during the intervention to the meeting.
According ot the news agencies 79 people -56 civilians and 23 police officers- were wounded and 87 people were detained.
(07/125) Coercion in prison...
İbrahim Çınar who had been detained in Nurtepe Quarter of Kâğıthane District of İstanbul Province on 13 December 2011, reportedly became cancer patient in Tekirdağ F Type Closed Prison No. 1 on 16 July 2012.
(07/126) Riot and fire in prison…
On 15 July 2012 the prisoners in juveniles’ dormitory of Mardin E Type Closed Prison and in females’ dormitory of Batman M Type Closed Prison set their beds ablaze to protest the ban of the meeting in Diyarbakır Porivince on 14 July 2012. A female prisoner was wounded in the incident.
(07/127) Prisoner burned himself as a protest…
Bilal Doğan a pre-trial detainee in Batman M Type Closed Prison set himself ablaze for the anniversary of the “14 July Diyarbakır Prison Resistance” on 14 July 2012. Bilal Doğan was transferred to hospital after the incident.
(07/128) Detentions and arrests…
Azadiya Welat Newspaper’s distributer Nurettin Kaya was detained as he was distributing the newspapers in Batman Province on 14 July 2012. The authorities did not make any explanation on the reason of detention.
(07/129) Ongoing KCK investigation in Gaziantep Province…
On 13 July 2012 Adana Heavy Penal Court No. 7 went on hearing the case against 93 defendants -49 of them pre-trial detainees who had been detained and then arrested in the KCK operation in Gaziantep Province in 2011- on charges of “committing offence on behalf of an organisation although he is not a member” under Article 220/6 of TPCTurkish Penal Code , “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations” and “making propaganda of an illegal organisation” under Article 7/2 of Anti-Terror Law.
The court declined the demand of the defendants to make their legal argument in Kurdish. The court released all the pre-trial detainees after taking their legal arguments and adjourned to 29 November 2012.
(07/130) Coercion in prison...
Azadiya Welat Newspaper’s former editor-in-chief Vedat Kurşun was transferred from Diyarbakır D Type Closed Prison to Giresun E Type Closed Prison against his will on 10 July 2012.
(07/131) Intervention to the protest against prime minister…
Six members of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) were detained with excessive use of force in two different protests against the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Eskişehir Province on 15 July 2012.
(07/132) Ongoing investigation on extrajudicial killings…
Six people had been killed and two others were wounded by the gendarmerie soldiers in the funeral of the PKK militants in Kulp District of Diyarbakır Province on 24 December 1992. The 3 militants had been killed in the clash in the rural part of Solhan District of Bingöl Province.
On 15 July 2012 Kulp Chief Public Prosecution Office declared the investigation confidential after the news concerning the interrogation of the 37 soldiers.
(07/133) Intervention to the protest İstanbul Province…
Municipal police and police teams interfered the sit-in strike attempts of the People’s Front (Halk Cephesi) to protest the abolition of the houses as a part of the “urban transformation” by İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality in front of the building of the municipality again on 13 July 2012. Seven people were detained with excessive use of force.
(07/134) Coercion in prison...
Socialist Democracy Party (SDP) members Ali Okutan (19), Dersim Dinçer (19) and Bedrettin Akdeniz (20) who had been arrested on charges of “being a member of KCK” on 2 May 2012, were transferred from Mersin E Type Closed Prison to İskenderun (Hatay) M Type Closed Prison and beaten by guardians in the latter, reported on 14 July 2012.
(07/135) Devam Eden KCK İnvestigation…
Twenty-two out of the 28 members and executives of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) who had been detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in the framework of the KCK investigation in Şanlıurfa, İstanbul, Ankara, Eskişehir, Muş and Diyarbakır Provinces on 8 May 2012 were arrested on 11 May 2012.
On 14 July 2012 the indictment against 28 people was returned back to the Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecution Office by Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 6 on the grounds that the court do not have the authority of jurisdiction due to the Law No. 6352 which came into force as a part of the Third Judiciary Reform Package on 5 July 2012. .
