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Human rights groups are warning to authorities on the outlawed activities of
intervening Jurists Union demanding measures and an investigation. Concerns
mount over security at court due to rightwing group's public appeal to
display "national unity".
A day before the controversial trial of Turkey's internationally acclaimed
writer Elif Shafak is heard in an Istanbul court, human rights organizations
THE ASSASSINATION ORGANISATION OF THE DEEP STATE: TIT
The bomb explosion in Diyarbakir-Baglar on 12 September, on which 10 humans
live, under it 7 children around came, brought large shaking with itself.
The actual shock however developed itself, after the Turkish Revenge
Brigade TIT to the attack well-known.
TIT had submerged after 1980, in the connection on numerous attacks. Only
2006 were shaken again Turkey/Kurdistan by actions of the TIT. The TIT left
Turkey's internationally acclaimed writer Elif Shafak got acquitted on the
first hearing today from charges of "insulting Turkishness" in her last
novel. Numerous intellectuals and activists supported Shafak and once again
deemed the article 301.
Turkey's internationally acclaimed writer Elif Shafak is acquitted of the
charges of "insulting Turkishness" in her last novel "Father and Bastard".
Court acquits Mayor Demirbas on charges of propaganda in European Social
Forum statement titled "Municipalities and Local Administrations in the
Light of the Multilingualism". Case was launched on grounds that the PKK
also demands Kurdish language rights.
Diyarbakir Sur district Mayor Abdullah Demirbas has been acquitted on
charges of terrorist propaganda by means of the press in a trial at the
22.09.06
An investigation was launched against lawyer Erkem for her statements as Bar
Association official related to child torture in local prison. She given
only 10 days to prepare her defense or forgo defense rights, but is denied
access to court files.
The Izmir Public Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation against
attorney Nalan Erkem who in 2003, as an executive of the city Bar
22.09.06
A Turkish court acquitted 405 Turkish soldiers of the charges of torture and
rape of a Kurd woman, citing lack of evidence.
The 34-year-old woman, identified only as S.E., claimed she was blindfolded
and repeatedly raped and tortured in the town of Mardin during her detention
in November, 1993 and in March and August, 1994, times of heavy fighting
between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the army.
22.09.06
Politicians seem to be blaming each other for the seemingly inexorable,
juggernaut-like lynching psychology currently spreading across the country.
The academics, civil society representatives, trade union presidents and
authors that TDN talked with seemed to agree that most of the recent
lynching initiatives have stemmed from the impasse over the Kurdish
question.
Academic and author Tanil Bora contends that the impasse in the Kurdish
Kampagne gegen Isolation in der Türkei
sowie zur Situation der Todesfastenden:
RA. BEHIC ASCI
GÜRCAN GÖRÜROGLU
SEVGI SAYMAZ
DRINGENDER AUFRUF FÜR DELEGATIONEN IN DIE TÜRKEI
Wichtig !
Vom 27.09. bis 01.10.2006, wird eine Delegation in die Türkei nach Istanbul zu Behic Asci reisen. Anmeldungen bitte unter +43 676 942 52 90 oder e-mail: flashnews_isolation@yahoo.de
In der Türkei ist der Rechtsanwalt Behic Asci bereits seit 171 Tagen im Todesfasten gegen die Isolationsfolter in den türkischen F-Typ-Gefängnissen.
FLASHNEWS on the campaign against isolation in Turkey
and the situation of the death fasters:
LAWYER BEHIC ASCI
GÜRCAN GÖRÜROGLU
SEVGI SAYMAZ
URGENT APPEAL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS DELEGATIONS TO
TURKEY/Istanbul from September 27th to October 1st
Attention!
From 27.09. to 01.10.2006, a delegation will visit Behic Asci in Istanbul/Turkey. For reservation please call +43 676 942 52 90 or write to isolation@post.com
22.9.06
Netherlands: Top court upholds ban on Kurd activist's extradition
The Dutch Supreme Court has blocked the extradition to Turkey of Kurdish
activist Nuriye Kesbir, leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on the
grounds that she could face torture there by Turkish police. "Kesbir cannot
be extradited to Turkey," the court said in a statement on its website. The
ruling comes as a relief to Kesbir but represents a defeat for justice