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Turkey: Four lawyers of Kurdish leader
Ocalan, released
29.3.2013 |
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The KCK-trial began on October 18, 2010 when 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. Photo: DHA •
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March 29, 2013
ISTANBUL,— Four lawyers of the jailed Kurdish
leader Öcalan, were released on Wednesday.
The court board released its interlocutory judgment
after listening to the lawyers' defense statements.
The trial has been postponed to 20 June 2013.
The fourth hearing of the trial against 50
defendants (including one journalist and 26 lawyers
acting for Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan) detained
in the so-called "KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union)"
operation 22 December 2011, took place at Istanbul
16th High Penalty Court in Silivri on Thursday.
The lawyers are accused of "being member of an
illegal organization" and "being executive of an
illegal organization" on account of the meetings
which they had with their client Öcalan.
The court board released lawyers Mustafa Eraslan,
Şaziye Önder, Cemal Demir and Mehmet Sabır Taş.
The KCK is a clandestine group suspected of being the political wing of the
armed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Turkish authorities accuse the KCK of wanting to
promote insurrection in Turkey's Kurdish region.
The
KCK-trial began on October 18, 2010 when 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.
According to Turkish government figures since 2009, some 700 people have been arrested over
alleged links to the KCK, while Kurdish media puts
the figure to over 3,500.
Over
7748 people were taken into
custody and over 3895 persons were
arrested in the scope of KCK operations during the past
nine months,www.ekurd.net
the
pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party announced.
Dozens of BDP executives and employees are still in
prison.
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