Turkey: Haluk Gerger will enter the 21st century in jail

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May 30 1998

Haluk Gerger will enter the 21st century in jail

  * Criminal Court No. 8 of the Court of Appeals approved the sentence
 of 20 months' imprisonment for Associate Professor Haluk Gerger
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Ankara - Turkish Daily News

Criminal Court No. 8 of the Court of Appeals approved the sentence
handed down to the journalist and writer, Associate Professor Haluk
Gerger. He will serve 20 months in jail. If Gerger's sentence is not
changed, he will be in jail until February 2000.

Haluk Gerger, a prisoner of conscience, is currently in Gudul
penitentiary near the Ankara district of Ayas. Gerger was sentenced to
a year and eight months of imprisonment and to pay a fine of TL
500,000 by the Istanbul State Security Court (DGM) because of his
article in the daily Evrensel entitled, "Emergency Rule Region (OHAL)
and Operation Providing for Comfort (OPC)." The Court of Appeals
approved the sentence.

Associate Professor Haluk Gerger had previously served 20 months in
jail, and eight other cases have been brought against him because of
his books and articles and his speeches in Cologne and Australia.

  British legal experts visit Gerger

British Deputy Bar Chairman Mark Muller, Modern Legal Experts'
Association (CGD) Chairman Ismet Demirdogen and journalist Ragip Duran
visited Gerger in the penitentiary hoping to demonstrate the European
legal experts' sensibility on the issue of criminals of conscience.
CHD Chairman Demirdogen said that they have conducted a comprehensive
report on journalists in prison which they will present to the
European Parliament in the coming days.

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