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Policing Human Rights Abuses in Turkey


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Éditeur : Compte d'auteur Date & Lieu : 1999, London
Préface : Pages : 96
Traduction : ISBN : 1 900 175 25 8
Langue : AnglaisFormat : 210x295 mm
Code FIKP : Br. Eng. Kur. Pol. N° 1620Thème : Général

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Policing Human Rights Abuses in Turkey

Policing Human Rights Abuses in Turkey

Kurdish Human Rights Project


Compte d’auteur


The Diyarbakir Branch of the Human Rights Association of Turkey (IHD) in south-east Turkey was closed by the Turkish authorities in May 1997 and ten members of the executive/ management committee were prosecuted over allegations of '‘making propaganda” for and assisting the PKK (Kurdistan Worker’s Party), an armed opposition group in Turkey.
It is this prosecution that this report covers.
The Diyarbakir Branch faced permanent closure and the Defendants each faced up to 10 years in prison. However, on 11th May 1999, all ten Defendants were acquitted on the ground that there was insufficient evidence.
The basis of the allegations was that the members had in their possession, either at the offices of the IHD or in their own homes, documents deemed to reveal support for the PKK. The said documents included banned human rights reports and personal literature (poetry). In addition, further grounds for the prosecution were said to be telephone and fax communications with various legitimate non-governmental organisations throughout Europe, including the Kurdish Human Rights Project1.
The forum for the prosecution was the State Security Court (DGM), a military court entirely divorced from the civilian courts, in which the coram of three judges includes a military judge2.
The Turkish authorities have brought multiple prosecutions against the various branches of the IHD (as separate legal personalities) and in parallel, the associated executive members, since its inception ...



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Table of contents

Foreword

Introduction

I Background
1.1 Historical Introduction
1.2 The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)
1.3 Broken Promises
1.4 HADEP
1.5 The Human Rights Association of Turkey (IHD)
1.6 IHD - Diyarbakir Branch
1.7 Previous Prosecutions of the IHD
1.8 The State Security Court (DGM)
1.9 The Arrest of Abdullah Ocalan

The Prosecution
2.1 The Defendants
2.2 The Alleged Offence
2.3 Legislative Framework
2.4 The Interim Closure of Diyarbakir Branch
2.5 The Defence
2.6 Prosecution History
2.7 The Hearing of 22nd December 1998
2.8 The Hearing of 9th February 1999
2.9 The Hearing of 16th March 1999
2.10 The Hearing of 11th May 1999

III Turkey’s International Obligations
3.1 The European Convention on Human Rights
3.2 Article 6: Right to a Fair Trial
3.2.1 “fair and public hearing”
3.2.2 “within a reasonable time”
3.2.3 “independent and impartial tribunal"
3.3 Articles 9 and 10 - Freedom of Thought and Freedom of Expression

IV . Interviews
4.1 Interview with Kerim Yildiz.
Executive Director of the KHRP
4.2 Interviews with the Residents of Diyarbakir

V Conclusions

VI Recommendations

Appendix
Annexe 1: The Indictment
Annexe 2: Related Legislation




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