|
Six PKK prisoners in Maras punished with isolation
Kurdistan
(Turkey), Nov 6 - Six PKK prisoners in the Maras
E-type Closed Prison were punished with three months
isolation after handing over a signed petition to
the Turkish prison administration announcing the
Kurdish national leader Abdullah Ocalan their
political volition.
The PKK prisoners Recep Öztop, Ibrahim Türk, Ahmet
Demir, Irfan Çelik, Selim Çiftçi and M. Durak Karak
are prohibited from having visitors for three months
and using the prison phones for one year. The six
PKK prisoners will also be prosecuted in court.
All PKK prisoners in the Maras prison have now
started a 2-day alternately hunger strike to protest
the punishment.
22.5 years for painting over five busts of
Ataturk
Kurdistan
(Turkey), - A Kurdish youth in Turkey has been
sentenced to 22.5 years in prison for vandalizing
five busts of Ataturk in Ankara by painting them
with spray cans.
A maximum sentence for repeatedly 'humiliating the
founding father Ataturk' is 5 years in Turkey. But
Murat Vural was given the unusually hard sentence by
the Sincan 3rd Criminal Court in Ankara for "not
showing regret".
A murderer can get between 10-15 years in Turkey and
a rapist a maximum of 10 years.
Two of Ugur Kaymaz killers died in clashes with
HPG
Kurdistan
(Turkey), Nov 6 - The two Turkish military
intelligence (JITEM) agents Seyhmus Erden and Ahmet
Koçhan were killed on November 5 in clashes with
Kurdish HPG guerrillas in the rural areas of the
Kiziltepe district of Mardin in northern Kurdistan
(southeastern Turkey).
The short clash occurred when HPG guerrillas noticed
the Turkish forces trying to slip into a guerrilla
stronghold in the area. A third Turkish soldiers was
also killed in the clash, HPG reports. One HPG
guerrilla was slightly wounded. The Turkish security
forces retreated shortly after.
The two JITEM agents were directly involved,
together with at least 30 other Turkish police and
soldiers, in the killing of the 12-year-old Ugur
Kaymaz and his father Ahmet Kaymaz in the city of
Kiziltepe on November 21 in 2004. Autopsy report had
shown that all 13 bullets in Ugur's body were fired
less than 50 cm (~20 inches) from the body.
Turkish officials tried to justify the killings by
saying that Ugur and Ahmet Kaymaz were preparing
attacks on Turkish forces. Independent investigation
later showed that Ahmet Kaymaz was preparing his
truck with the help of his son Ugur for a business
trip to Iskenderun and that two AK-47s close to the
bodies had been planted there. Ugur was wearing
pajamas and slippers when he was killed.
www.dozame.org
Top |
® 