From: "Derya Tekin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 02:24:29 +0200
Subject: Vl: Turkey: Contra-Guerilla-State-Mafia update
> From: Press Agency Ozgurluk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 16:05:43 +0100
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> Subject: "[Ozgurluk.Org]" Turkey: Contra-Guerilla-State-Mafia update
>
> TDN: Political leg of Susurluk Scandal remain untouched
>
> THE UNTOUCHABLES: Former member of Susurluk Parliamentary Commission
> Saglar states that the decision of the court says it can not sentence Agar
> and Bucak due to their 'Parliamentary immunity.' "The court points out that
> political and administrative protection shields should be lifted"
>
>
> STATE FORMS GANG: Saglar states that the decision is an politicians,
> bureaucrats and mafia triangles have formed a gang and state that this was
> the main purpose for forming the gang. Saglar claims it is possible to see
> the prints of Susurluk in the assassination of Okkan and the two missing
> HADEP members
>
> Esra Erduran
>
> Ankara - Turkish Daily News
>
> In the aftermath of the Istanbul State Security Court (DGM) decision to
> sentence the suspects of the Susurluk Case Ibrahim Sahin and Korkut Eken
> with six years imprisonment; hopes are now raised that the politicians
> who were involved in the Susurluk scandal will face trial also.
>
> Former member of Parliamentary Susurluk Commission and the Repu Fikri
> Saglar told the Turkish Daily News in a telephone interview that the most
> important statement of the court was that they could not sentence
> independent Deputy Mehmet Agar and True Path Party (DYP) Deputy Sedat Bucak
> due to their Parliamentary immunity.
>
> "That means, if their immunities were lifted, then they would have been
> sentenced," Saglar said.
>
> It is argued that the decision of the court only sentenced a part of the
> Susurluk scandal participants. There are high expectations that
> politicians who are involved in this case will be punished too.
>
> "The court points out that political and administrative protection shields
> should be lifted. And those who don't lift these shields or those who hide
> under these shields will need justice one day," Saglar stated.
>
> Meanwhile, the Virtue Party (FP) leader Recai Kutan said, on Tuesday, that
> a few bureaucrats are sentenced in the Susurluk Case and mystery remains in
> the rest of the scandal.
>
> "arts cannot be investigated by the judiciary," Kutan stated.
>
> Bucak, the lawmaker who survived the crash and Bucak who was a former
> Interior Minister, were also implicated in the scandal, have parliamentary
> immunity and were not tried. Several politicians urge parliament to lift
> their immunity.
>
> "Further developments should follow this decision. The immunities of Bucak
> and Agar should be lifted. At this point the Prime Minister, Interior
> Minister, Justice Minister and lawmakers have the greatest responsibility,"
> Saglar stated.
>
> Now, it is Parliamentary's turn to make the next move.
>
> Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Deputy Chairman Bulent Yahnici said that
> the judicial process is still continuing and all the state organs will
> fulfill their responsibility.
>
> Yahnici didn't hint on how he is going to move when Parliament debates the
> lifting of the immunities of Bucak and Agar.
>
> It is also argued whether the decision of the court will accept that the
> state formed a gang with the intent of crime or not.
>
> Saglar stated that the decision is an official acceptance that politicians,
> bureaucrats and mafia triangles have formed a gang with the intent of
> committing a crime and states it is the main purpose that urged the forming
> of the gang.
>
> Saglar claimed that if we observe the assassination of Diyarbakir Police
> Chief Gaffar Okkan and the two missing People's Democracy Party (HADEP)
> members Serdar Tanis and Ebubekir Dez, we can see still see the prints of
> Susurluk.
>
> "The decision of the court puts an end to the discussion that if state has
> formed a gang or not with its decision," Caglar said.
>
> Meanwhile, Defense Minister Sabahattin Cakmakoglu preferred not to make any
> comment on the discussion. "I haven't seen the decision, it is not
> possible to make any comments without seeing the decision," Cakmakoglu
> stated.
>
> DGM on Monday sentenced Sahin and Eken for organizing and running a crime
> ring.
>
> Monday's convictions were the first linked to the "Susurluk" scandal, which
> emerged from a 1996 traffic accident in which a car carrying Bucak, a
> former ultra-rightist militant, wanted by police for multiple murders and
> drug trafficking Abdullah Catli, a senior police official Huseyin Kocadag
> and a beauty queen crashed into a truck near the town of Susurluk.
>
> The court also sentenced seven police officers, a driver, a convicted
> drug-smuggler and two former casino oers to four years in prison for
> membership in the criminal gang.
>
> "The decision of the Court is proof that the indictment and the evidence
> were correct," Saglar stated.
> Gendarmerie intimidating families of the missing
>
> The families of HADEP's Silopi district leaders, missing since Jan.
> 25, say JITEM members
> came and warned them off in the middle of the night; the ban
> preventing HADEP Sirnak
> provincial organization leaders from entering the town remains in
> force
> Mert Gozde
>
> Ankara - Turkish Daily News
>
> The families of Peoples Democracy Party (HADEP) Silopi District
> Organization chairman Serdar Tanis and district secretary Ebubekir Deniz,
> whom eye witnesses confirm were taken to Silopi District Gendarmerie
> Headquarters on Jan. 25 and from whom no word has been heard since, called
> HADEP headquarters and told them that three men in civilian clothing had
> come to their houses in the middle of the night and warned them "t to go
> accusing the Gendarmerie". According to HADEP assistant general secretary
> Veli Buyuksahin, three men in civilian clothing had gone to the house of
> Ebubekir Deniz's family while the Tanis family were there the other night.
>
>
> The uninvited guests spoke very good Turkish and said they were from
> Gendarmerie Intelligence (JITEM). The men questioned the families asking
> them why they were blaming the Gendarmerie for their relatives going
> missing.
>
> The same people then warned the families off by saying, "Don't go accusing
> the Gendarmerie or it won't be good for you." They then left.
>
> Ban on HADEP members entering Sirnak still in force
>
> Meanwhile the ban preventing HADEP Sirnak Provincial Organization staff
> from entering the town center and neighboring districts is still in force.
> HADEP provincial organization chairman Resul Sadak had gone to Diyarbakir
> airport on Feb. 2 to meet HADEP general secretary Mahmut d flown in from
> Ankara tinvestigate the missing persons incident. The two men then got as
> far as the district of Cizre, where they were turned back by the
> Gendarmerie. Sadak and Provincial Board of Directors members Cengiz Balik,
> Ahmet Bilgi,o get off. Whenever they don't have the means to get back, a
> Gendarmerie vehicle takes them back to Diyarbakir."
--
> Press Agency Ozgurluk
> In Support of the Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Struggle in Turkey
> http://www.ozgurluk.org
>
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