WE CONDEMN TERRORISM NOW AND FOREVER
TERRORISM IS GOING TO BE PROSECUTED
IN STRASBOURG ON 21 NOVEMBER 2000
ON 21 NOVEMBER 2000 IN STRASBOURG
WHAT WILL THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS GIVE JUDGEMENT ON?..
SUPPORTING
NEW MURDERS TO BE COMMITTED BY THE TERRORISTS OR,
CONDEMNING TERRORISM NOW AND FOREVER?
LEADER
OF THE TERRORIST PKK ABDULLAH OCALAN HAS BEEN PROSECUTED BY THE
TURKISH
INDEPENDENT
COURTS AND CONVICTED OF “TREASON AND CONDUCTING MASS MURDERS”.
WHAT
HAVE BEEN SAID, WHAT HAVE BEEN WRITTEN
REGARDING A. OCALAN’S TRIAL IN
IMRALI?
WE CONDEMN TERRORISM NOW AND FOREVER
NOTE : The original sources
mentioned below are not available to us, therefore we have translated
them back to English from the Turkish versions of them as
they have appeared in the Turkish media.
“EUROPEAN COUNCIL : OCALAN WAS
TRIED FAIRLY”
“European
Council has acknowledged that the court has acted fairly
during the trial of Ocalan. Representatives of the Euoropean
Council, who attended the court hearings held between May 31
and June 08, have emphasized in their reports declared in
Strasbourg that the case was heard in a way perfectly
compatible with the Turkish legislation.
In the
foregoing report, it was stated that the judges and
prosecutors behaved kindly to Ocalan.
Before
the court, Ocalan has to account for his actions intended to
undermine the integrity of the Republic of Turkey with the
aim of establishing an independent Kurdish state.
At the beginning of the trial,
responding to the accusations directed at himself, Ocalan
admitted that he also found himself guilty”.
(DER TAGESSPIEGEL, 23. 06.1999)
“EUROPEANS SAY THAT OCALAN WAS
FAIRLY TRIED”
In the
report prepared by the European Council, it was declared that
the trial of Abdullah Ocalan, leader of Kurdish rebels, had
been conducted in compliance with the principles of justice.
The Council, which had been
established after the end of Second World War with the aim of
improving democracy and human rights in Europe, closely
monitors the way Turkey behaves to the separatist Kurdish
leader, captured in Kenya in February.
Ocalan is accused of
committing treason and conducting mass murders”.
(WASHINGTON TIMES, 23.06.1999)
Þýrnak / Silopi-Gürümlü
Village (23.03.1995)
PKK's Village Massacre...
“ABDULLAH OCALAN IS ON THE
ACCUSED SEAT”
“Ocalan is a merciless and
dogmatic brute. Although the opening defense statement, which
he made on the accused seat, displayed a reconciliatory and
even an apologizing attitude, in the past years the PKK
members killed not only the Turkish soldiers but also the
hundreds or even thousands of Kurds including teachers,
postmen, etc. which they called the collaborators working for
Turkey.
Ocalan is also accused of killing
the separatist colleagues within his organization. That is
why, Germany has also issued a warrant of arrest for Ocalan.
Although it is said that a softening is occurring in his
views, it is hard to believe that he is a democrat with the
Leninism he defends openly.”
(THE
ECONOMIST, 05.06.1999)
“CALM AND ALSO FAIR”
“According
to Walter Schwimmer, the Council of Europe Rapporteur for
Turkey, the trial of Ocalan was very calm and fair. Schwimmer
stated that the accused Ocalan and his lawyers had all the
opportunities for taking turns to speak.
Observing the trial on Imraly,
Schwimmer said that the head of the court prevented
completely any attempt to interfere made by the families of
the soldiers who are in the courtroom.”
(DER STANDARD, 02.06.1999)
“A FAIR TRIAL”
“Schwimmer; says that ‘the trial
of Abdullah Öcalan has been carried out correctly and
according to the rules’.
Schwimmer, who is the prospective
Secretary General of European Union, an institution which has
been built on the foundations of the respect for human rights
states that the Turkish authorities have made an effort to
respect for the European standards.”
(IL MESSAGGERO, 01.07.1999)
“WE
WITNESSED A FAIR TRIAL”
“Anras Barsoni, the observer who
was sent by the Council of Europe for the trial of Ocalan
states that ‘We definitely witnessed a fair trial.’”
(DER SPIEGEL, 28.06.1999)
Kulp-Hamzalý / DÝYARBAKIR
(Jan 1, 1995)
The massacre of the PKK
in the village...
“In general, we can say that the
trial of Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the terrorist
organization PKK has been concluded in accordance with the
rules. The accused and his lawyers have defended their rights
in a fair way.
The trial has been monitored by the
media, foreign diplomats, the relevant organizations and
individuals. The American Embassy has also watched each
hearing closely.
The
execution of the death penalty for Ocalan concerns the
Turkish judicial system, the Turkish Parliament and the
President of Turkey.”
JAMES
RUBIN / State Department Spokesman / (29.06.1999)
“The
trial of Abdullah Ocalan has been conducted in a fair way.
The defense lawyers have been given turns to speak in
accordance with the international norms. The head of the
court has granted the defense all of its rights. Both the
defendant Ocalan and his lawyers have had all the
opportunities for taking turns to speak.”
WALTER
SCHWIMMER / Member of the Council of Europe
Parliamentary Assembly
The
Council of Europe Rapporteur for Turkey / (02.06.1999)
Eruh-Çölköy / SÝÝRT
(Nov 17, 1994)
The Massacre of the PKK
in the village...
“A
diplomat from the German Embassy who was present in the court
with the aim of watching the trial expressed his surprise
that such a long period of time had been given to Ocalan for
conducting his defense and defined the trial extremely fair.
Appearing before the judge, the PKK
leader Ocalan said that he was not tortured or verbally
insulted. He had also made a similar statement on the date
when he was brought from Kenya to Turkey.”
(GERMAN RTL TV, 31.05.1999 –
from 18.45 news bulletin)
“Appearing before the judge,
Ocalan, the leader of the terrorist organization PKK said
that he was not tortured or badly treated.”
(USA TODAY, 01.06.1999)
“Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of
the terrorist organization PKK said before the court that he
was not tortured and was not subject to pressure.”
(LA LIBERTE, 01.06.1999)
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“MURAT”
“While
the wife of an officer, Yildiz Namdar was telling about
what had happened to her with tears on her eyes, the
judge could not help crying and even Abdullah Ocalan was
touched. ‘I warned him. I said they were all terrorists,
but he said 'Don’t be afraid' and calmed me down,’
said Namdar.
Yet
in 1995 the PKK members stopped the couple Murat and
Yildiz on a secondary road in the Southeastern Anatolia
of Turkey and took 23-year-old Murat out of the car and
took him away. They shot him a bullet in the head and ran
away to the mountains.
Yildiz Namdar said “Murat
would not discriminate among the people. He would even
give money to the soldiers of Kurdish origin when they
went on leave. I asked ‘For God’s sake what have we
done to you? Why do you hate us?’ Murat was everything
to me.” This was what Yildiz the nurse was telling
about while crying in the hearing of the suit filed
against Ocalan, the PKK leader on the island of Imrali.
The relatives of each soldier killed had tragic things to
tell.
The
dead soldiers’ relatives who could not go to the Island
were standing with fortitude on the quay of Mudanya with
the photographs of their slain loved ones on their chests
and were cursing Ocalan. The mother of a soldier who had
been killed by the PKK members one month before his
military service was over thought that even the death
penalty would not be enough for Ocalan.
After
the trial is over, now I keep on asking myself why I did
not deal with the situation of these families more.”
JESSICA LUTZ
(DEVENTER DAGBLAD, 06.07.1999)
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