17-18 July 2012 Daily Human Rights Report
(07/136) Operations and clashes in South-east…
A specialised sergeant was wounded with the explosion of the bomb that was placed in his car in Esendere Municipality in Yüksekova District of Hakkâri Province on 16 July 2012.
Three soldiers were wounded with the explosion of the bomb as the army vehicle passing by in the vicinity of Lice District of Diyarbakır Province on 17 July 2012.
(07/137) Excessive use of force by law enforcement officers…
Soldiers on duty in the entrance of Habur Border Gate beat 7 children by hitting their arms and legs with batons in the sentry post that was not used anymore on the grounds that theft complaints had increased Silopi District of Şırnak Province on 17 July 2012.
(07/138) Coercion in prison…
Lawyers Mazlum Dinç, Rezan Sarıca, and Hüseyin Boğatekin were not allowed to visit their client Abdullah Öcalan on 17 July 2012 due to “bad weather”.
(07/139) Coercion in prison…
Sixty-two prisoners were transferred from Mardin E Type Closed Prison to Şakran (İzmir) T Type Closed Prison against their will reported on 17 July 2012.
(07/140) Coercion in prison…
One thousand one hundred sixty (1160) from the prisons in 12 provinces -Batman, Mardin, Midyat, Malatya, Siirt, Elazığ, Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş, Osmaniye, Kayseri, Mersin and Konya- were transferred to Silivri (İstanbul) Punitive Facility against their will on the grounds that overcrowdedness of the prisons on 17 July 2012.
(07/141) Ongoing second KCK/TMKCK Par lament Turkey case in Istanbul Province…
On 16 July 2012 İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 16 began to hear the case and also went on hearing on 17 July 2012 against 50 defendants -46 of them lawyers- who have been tried on charges of “being an executive of the illegal organisation -KCKUnion of Communities in Kurdistan ” under Article 314 of the TPCTurkish Penal Code and “helping and harbouring an illegal organisation” under Article 220/7 of the TPC.
The court declined the demand of the defendants to make their legal argument in Kurdish and also declined the ones of the lawyers and adjourned the hearing to 18 July 2012.
(07/142) Tried persons…
Ankara Heavy Penal Court No. 11 went on hearing the case against 23 members of the Democratic Society Party’s (DTP) Women Assembly including the Peace and Democracy Party’s (BDPPeace and Democracy Party ) Istanbul Deputy, Sebahat Tuncel, on charges of “praising crime and criminal” under the Article of 215/1 of TPC on 17 July 2012.
The prosecutor asked the court to postpone the prosecution against the defendant 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. The court adjourned the hearing for the preparation of the legal arguments of the defendants’ lawyers.
(07/143) Tried deputy…
On 4 December 2008 Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 5 had sentenced Diyarbakır Deputy Leyla Zana to 8 years of imprisonment in connection with her speeches on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” under Article 314/2 of TPC. The court then raised the sentence to 12 years because it was a terror crime and dropped it to 10 years due to her good conduct in the hearings.
The Supreme Court of Appeal’s Penal Chamber No. 9 annulled the verdict of the local court on the grounds that “lack of defence”. Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 6 went on hearing the case against Leyla Zana on 17 July 2012. The court adjudicated to postpone the prosecution against the defendant 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.
(07/144) Intervention to the protest against HES in Trabzon Province…
Gendarmerie soldiers detained 110 villagers who protested the hydroelectric power plant (HES) in Solaklı Valley in Of District of Trabzon Province on 16 July 2012. Eight people were wounded in the incident.
(07/145) Home raids in Diyarbakır Province…
Thirteen people were detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in Diyarbakır Province on 18 July 2012. The authorities did not make any explanation on the reason of detention.
(07/146) Home raids in Mersin Province…
F.S. (16) who had been detained with four others in Mersin Province on 12 July 2012 was arrested on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” due to the things he shared from his facebook.com account on 16 July 2012.
(07/147) Intervention to the protest in Antalya Province…
Seven members of the Youth League of Turkey/Türkiye Gençlik Birliği (TGB) were detained as they protest the Abraham Lincoln Aircraft Carrier that anchored in Antalya Harbour on 17 July 2012.
(07/148) Fighting with Terrorism Law in practise…
N.T., who has a warrant of for his arrest issued on charges of “making propaganda of an illegal organisation” was detained by gendarmerie soldiers during an ID check in Şanlıurfa Province on 16 July 2012 and later arrested.
