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Over 7,000 people taken into custody in
the last seven months in KCK probe: Turkey's BDP
25.11.2011
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November 25, 2011
ISTANBUL, — BDP (Peace and Democracy
Party) Law Commission released the figures of KCK
(Kurdistan Communities Union) detentions and arrests
during the last seven months, on suspicion of
membership in a separatist Kurdish PKK rebel group.
4,547 people have been detained and among them 1,838
have been remanded in custody in the last seven
months in connection with “KCK” operation which
targets Kurdish politicians and institutions since
14 April 2009.
According to the BDP statement, the figures of this
years are as follows; 383 detentions and 117 arrests
in March, 906 detentions and 406 arrests in April,
969 detentions and 501 arrests in May, 524
detentions and 120 arrests in June,
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KCK-trial, on October 18, 2010 a Turkish court began
the trial of 152 high profile Kurdish politicians
and rights defenders, accused of being the urban
wing of the outlawed separatist Kurdish PKK rebels. |
65 detentions and 44 arrests in July, 331 detentions
and 74 arrests in August, 636 detentions and 237
arrests in September, 717 detentions and 332 arrests
in October. While the figure of November month is
still on the increase in line with ongoing
operations, the number of detentions during the last
seven months therewith exceeds two thousand.
Speaking at the protest demonstration staged on
Wednesday in Istanbul against “KCK” detentions, BDP
MP Hasip Kaplan noted that these operations were
severer than the executions of the military coup
staged on 12 September 1980.
“This is not an advanced but an idiot democracy”,
said MP Kaplan and underlined that the Prime
Minister put his signature under all kinds of
unlawfulness. Kaplan said that; “The AKP would be
left alone if 8,000 members of it were detained and
among them 4,000 were put in prison. However, the
Kurdish people are protecting their will,www.ekurd.net
lawyers and media as detentions and operations
continue. The Prime Minister needs to see that
people cannot be reduced to silence in this way.”
Kaplan pointed to the confidentiality verdict in the
operation and urged Erdoğan to explain who poked and
pried for him in this connection and caused lawyers
to become target.
KCK-trial, on October 18, 2010 a Turkish
court began the trial
of 152 high profile Kurdish politicians and rights defenders,
accused of being the urban wing of the outlawed
separatist Kurdish PKK rebels.
A Turkish court on Nov.1 pressed separatism charges
against 23 suspects, in so-called KCK-Trial, including a university professor
Prof. Busra Ersanli,
a political scientist,
and Ragip Zarakolu, a well-known human rights
activist and director of Belge Publishing House, on suspicion of membership in a
separatist Kurdish PKK rebel group, state-run
television reported.
Intellectuals in Turkey have started a campaign they
labelled "We
are all KCK". KCK
(Kurdish Communities Union) is alleged by the
prosecutors to be the "urban wing" of the PKK. ANF news agency
reported on Nov.3.
Amnesty International has long held
concerns
regarding Turkey’s anti-terrorism legislation and
its application. The definition of terrorism in this
law is overly broad, vague and lacks the level of
legal certainty required by international human
rights law. Fundamentally, it defines terrorism by
its political aims rather than its tactics.
Provisions criminalising membership of a terrorist
organization have also led to abuses. Persons can be
found guilty of membership of a terrorist
organization without being a member of the
organization if found to have committed a crime ‘in
the name of such an organization’.
Since it was established in 1984, the PKK has been
fighting the Turkish state, which still denies the
constitutional existence of Kurds, to establish a
Kurdish state in the south east of the country, sparking a conflict that has claimed some 45,000
lives.
But now its aim is the creation an autonomous
Kurdish region
and more cultural rights for ethnic Kurds who
constitute the greatest minority in Turkey,
numbering more than 20 million. A large Turkey's
Kurdish community openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK rebels.
PKK's demands included releasing PKK detainees,
lifting the ban on education in Kurdish, paving the
way for an autonomous democrat Kurdish system within
Turkey, reducing pressure on the detained PKK leader
Abdullah Öcalan, stopping military action against
the Kurdish party and recomposing the Turkish
constitution.
Turkey refuses to recognize its Kurdish population
as a distinct minority. It has allowed some cultural
rights such as limited broadcasts in the Kurdish
language and private Kurdish language courses with
the prodding of the European Union, but Kurdish
politicians say the measures fall short of their
expectations.
The PKK is considered as 'terrorist' organization by
Ankara, U.S., the PKK continues to be on the
blacklist list in EU despite court ruling which
overturned a decision
to place the Kurdish rebel group PKK and its
political wing on the European Union's terror list.
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