Protests and injustice in Turkey

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From: DHKC Informationbureau Amsterdam <dhkc at dds.nl>


Turkey,
02.13.96

Until this day, the protests against the filthy connections between
the Contra-Guerrilla, State and Mafia continue.  After the
initialization by the "Platform for Freedom and Rights" from the
campaign "Susurluk is the State", many democratic organizations have
joined this campaign and started several protest-actions.

On the firsts of February, intellectuals, artists, journalists and
writers started a campaign under the slogan "A minute of darkness for
eternal light". Every day at 21.00Hrs, all over the country, the
lights are turned of for one minute. Every day more and more people
join this action. Exactly at 21.00Hrs. the lights go out and the
people go on the streets to protest against the state and the
contra-gurrilla.

Except the governing parties DYP (Founded with Mafia-drugsmony) and
the Refah-Party and of course the fascist MHP,all political parties are
involved in this campaign. The deputy chairman of the DYP accused the
participating people and organization of being traitors.  

On Feb.12 the RADIKAL reported that Justice Minister Sevket Kazan had
said, "They are playing the game of blowing out the candle," This
remark has particularly angered the members of the Alawite sect
because "blowing out the candle" is a derisive phrase used against
Alawis by certain members of the Sunni sect, implying that Alawis
could be having incestuous relationships in the dark.

The policemen's lawyer is a torturer

02-13-97

CUMHURIYET said Nejdet Kucuktaskiner, "a self-confessed torturer," has
now surfaced as the lawyer for the policemen accused of the torture
death of journalist Metin Goktepe. Daily Evrensel correspondent
Goktepe was beaten to death in Istanbul in 1996 while he was in
custody.  Kucuktaskiner was a National Intelligence Organization (MIT)
official. He had taken part in the torture-interrogations in the wake
of the military's "coup by ultimatum" which toppled the government in
1971. In 1978 some members of the press who had been his victims
identified and challenged him.  Speaking with them he admitted that he
had operated as a torturer. On Aug. 17, 1978 the Istanbul Bar
Association disbarred him. It is not clear why he is now being
permitted to act as the legal counsel for the policemen on trial in
the Goktepe case.


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