HUMAN RIGHTS FEDERATION OF TURKEY – FULL NOVEMBER REPORT

01 November 2012 – (11/001) Hunger strikes in prisons…

Pre-trial detainees and convicts from the PKK and PJAK cases launched a permanent and irreversible hunger strike in prisons on 12 September 2012 “for the constitution of Abdullah Öcalan’s health, security and freedom conditions in İmralı F Type High Security Prison and for the democratic rights of Kurdish people” (on 30 October 2012 the number of strikers was 663 as far as the human rights organisations could determine). The strike reached its 51st day on 1 November 2012.

122 persons were detained and 7 persons were arrested in the solidarity actions for the hunger strikes in many cities in particular in Diyarbakır, Batman, Van, Hakkâri on 30 October 2012. The Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) had called for the action.

Van, Hakkâri, Bitlis and Muş Chief Public Prosecution Office launched investigations against the BDP’s branches. Sub-commission for the prisons of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey’s (TBMM/GNAT) Human Rights Investigation Commission decided to visit the prisoners in Bolu F and T Type of Closed Prisons on 1 November 2012.

During his visit to Germany Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stated that there was just one person on death fast in Turkey. “This is just a show. I’ve sent my minister to the prison and he monitored it on the spot. More than half of them have stopped their action. Hunger strikes can occur from time to time and our staff in the hospitals is in control of it. If necessary they will make the necessary interventions.”

The Minster of Justice, Sadullah Ergin, who was in Germany, too stated on the hunger strikes that 683 persons in 66 prisons were conducting hunger strikes.

In response to the statement of the Prime Minister the Turkish Medical Association (TTB) made a statement on the role of physicians during hunger strikes and stressed that the problem could not be solved using them. “Such an expectation does not correspond to the universal ethical values of our profession. The role of physicians during hunger strikes had been discussed repeatedly and was defined by decisions of the World Medical Association in Tokyo in 1975 and Malta in 1991.

According to these declarations there is the relationship of a patient to a doctor when a person is on hunger strike and this relationship continues, even of the patient does not accept certain treatments… (see the English Wikipedia on the Declaration of Tokyo and Malta Declaration of the WMA)

Çağlar Demirel, mayor of Derik district (Mardin) and imprisoned in Siirt E-type Prison started an unlimited and irreversible hunger strike on 30 October 2012.

Meanwhile prisoners in Şakran (Izmir) T-type and Kırıklar (Izmir) F-type Prison reportedly showed health problems such as loss of weight, dizziness, wounds in the mouth, burning of stomach, difficulty in speaking, bleeding of noses and pain of the eyes. Ziver Mete, on hunger strike in Şakran Prison since 3 October 2012 reportedly is in a bad stage and cannot get up.

Meanwhile two juvenile prisoners -H.D. and U.T.- in Şakran Prison for Juveniles are being been kept in solitary confinement. They commenced their strike on 15 October 2012.

Two pre-trial detainees/strikers in Tekirdağ F Type of Closed Prison set their unit on fire on 30 October 2012. They were reportedly affected by the smoke and treated as out-patients.

(11/002) Operations and clashes in South-east…

On 31 October 2012 HPG militants had kidnapped Mehmet Ali İnan, the Vice President of Girmeli Multi ProgramHigh School and Sabahatin Doğan, worker at the school, in Girmeli Municipality of Nusaybin District of Mardin Province. They were released the same day.

(11/003) Continuing case of torture and ill-treatment in custody… On 9 December 2011 it had been learned that F.C. (37) had been detained under beatings in a music hall in Izmir on 16 July 2011 because she had no ID on her. The police officers Hakan Yörük and Beyit Sezgin had beaten her at Karabağlar Police Stations for minutes and sexually assaulted her. The scene had been filmed showing that other police officers had not interfered.

F.C. was indicted for having resisted police officers and put on trial with the demand of 6.5 years’ imprisonment. The police officers T.D., N.A., H.Y. and B.S. were indicted for injuring a person with the demand of 6 to 18 months’ imprisonment. The case started on 28 November 2011. Later the element of threatening was added bringing the maximum sentence for the police officers to 6 years’ imprisonment.

On 15 February 2012 Izmir Peace Court 17 started to hear the case, but decided not to be responsible. The file was sent to a penal court. On 9 May 2012 the case against the four police officers started at Izmir Penal Court 12. The court said that the case concerned the crime of torture and had to be heard at a heavy penal court.

On 31 October 2012 Izmir Heavy Penal Court started to hear the case of the four police officer. Police officer H.Y. testified that they had gone to inspect venues that sold drinks. F.C. had been extremely drunk and not shown her identity. She had insulted the officers. They had to use force to get her into the police car. She had continued cursing and injured him with her finger nails. He had hit her as well and both had fallen to the ground. In order to render her ineffective they had handcuffed her but not tortured.

Defendant T.D. said that she had sworn and spit at them, but he had not beaten her. The court adjourned the hearing to 6 February 2013 and decided to forcibly get the defendants that had not testified yet. (Also see the reports of 16 February, 10 May, 30 May, 26 to 28 June and 20 July 2012)

02 November 2012

(11/004) Hunger strikes in prisons…

Pre-trial detainees and convicts from the PKK and PJAK cases launched a permanent and irreversible hunger strike in prisons on 12 September 2012 “for the constitution of Abdullah Öcalan’s health, security and freedom conditions in İmralı F Type High Security Prison and for the democratic rights of Kurdish people” (on 2 November the number of strikers was 654 as far as the human rights organisations could determine). The strike reached its 52nd day on 2 November 2012.

A delegation of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) visited 6 prisons and talked to hunger strikes. They made a public statement on their observations in front of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (GNAT) on 1 November 2012. The committee stated that they could not find evidence of the allegations that strikers have been “eating and drinking”. On the 50th day of the strike, the committee determined that the prisoners have spasms of nausea or stomach cramps; mouth, rectum, urinary tract or blood, dizziness, headache, dizziness or good sightedness, numbness, or tingling in various parts of the body, fatigue, and sleep disorders, throat and respiratory tract burns, difficulty in walking and talking, sensitivity to sensory organs, difficulty to swallow pills and liquid due to unsatisfactory nutrition.

The committee stated that the hunger strikers do not have additional demands besides the ones that were announced in public and none of the activists claimed that he/she had been forced or threatened to make a hunger strike. The CHP committee visited Sincan (Ankara) F Type of Closed Prisons No. 1 and 2 and Sincan Prison for Women on 19 October 2012, and Kandıra (Kocaeli) F Type of Closed Prisons No. 1 and 2 and Bolu F Type Closed Prison on 31 October 2012.

The Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, the Human Rights Association and the Contemporary Lawyers Association made a joint public conference on 2 November 2012 and announced that 654 prisoners continue the hunger strike action. Seven members of the Socialist Party for the Oppressed (ESP) who attempted to make a hunger strike for one day and a civilian were detained in the intervention of police teams in Kartal District of İstanbul Province on 1 November 2012

Police teams detained 16 members and executives of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) in home raids after racists attacks on people supporting the hunger strike in Yıldırım District of Bursa Province on 1 November 2012. The attacks had resulted in 14 detentions.

Hasan Bilgiç (40), one of 5 detainees who had been detained in the intervention in Kızıltepe District of Mardin Province on 30 October 2012, was arrested on charges of “resisting police officers” and “acting on behalf of an illegal organisation” on 1 November 2012 and sent to Mardin E-type Prison.

(11/005) Death in prison…

Ordinary prisoner Musa Yıldız who had set himself on fire in Şakran (İzmir) T Type of Closed Prison a month ago died in the Bozyaka Hospital on 25 October 2012.

(11/006) Explosion in Hatay Province…

Five persons were wounded when a parked car exploded in front of the Ahmet Tor Barracks in İskenderun District of Hatay Province on 1 November 2012.

(11/007) Fire in refugee tent…

A juvenile died due to the fire in one of the tents that the refugees from Syria have been living in in Yayladağı District of Hatay Province on 1 November 2012.

(11/008) Ongoing case on torture and ill-treatment in detention…

On 2 November 2012 İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 18 went on hearing the case against 7 police officers who had inflicted torture on Sezai Yakar who had been detained in a traffic check and brought to Taksim Police Station in Taksim Square in İstanbul Province on 8 June 2007 on charges of “torture”.

Prosecutor alleged that Sezai Yakar wounded himself by hitting the walls in the station and asked for the acquittal of the officers. The hearing was adjourned for the preparation of the legal argument of the defendants on the essence of the case on 1 March 2013.

(11/009) Ongoing KCK/TM case in Şanlıurfa Province…

Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 5 went on hearing the case against 28 defendants – 4 of them pre-trial detainees including the Şanlıurfa deputy İbrahim Ayhan- who had been detained in Şanlıurfa Province in 2010 and eventually arrested in the framework of the KCK/TM operation on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” under Article 314 of TPC on 1 November 2012.

The prosecutor stated his legal argument on the essence of the case and declared the sentences he demanded against 28 persons. The court declined the demand of the defendants to make their legal argument on the essence of the case in Kurdish and prolonged the detention process of the defendants İbrahim Ayhan, Azize Yağız, Adle Fidan and Mikail Gözek and adjourned the hearing.

(11/010) Tried persons…

On 1 November 2012 İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 9 went on hearing the case against 29 defendants who had been tried on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation -MLKP” under Article 314 of TPC. Some of the defendants had been pre-trial detainees since the home raids in Mustafa Kemal Quarter (1 Mayıs Quarter) of Ataşehir District of İstanbul Province on 11 October 2007.

The court heard the arguments of Süleyman Yıldırım and Hüseyin Tunç and released Süleyman Yıldırım, Erdinç Araç and Gözel Tekbaş and prolonged the pre-trial detention period of Coşkun Günay and Hüseyin Tunç.

(11/011) Coercion in prisons…

Lawyers Mazlum Dinç, Rezan Sarıca, and Hüseyin Boğatekin were not allowed to visit their client Abdullah Öcalan on 1 November 2012 on grounds that the ship that would carry them to İmralı Island was out of order.

11/012) Tried persons…

On 30 October 2012 Malatya Heavy Penal Court No. 3 went on hearing the case against 6 persons who had been detained in Tunceli province in the operation against the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front -Devrimci Halk Kurtuluş Parti/Cephesi (DHKP/C) which was conducted in Kocaeli, Mersin, Hatay, Konya, Tunceli, İstanbul, Ankara, Adana, Sakarya, Eskişehir, Kütahya Provinces on 8 May 2012 and resulted with the detention of 138 people on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” under Article 314 of TPC. Several houses and the offices of the Halk Cephesi, Temel Haklar Federasyonu, TAYAD, Gençlik Federasyonu were raided in the operation. The defendants had been arrested on 9 May 2012.

The court heard the legal argument of the prosecutor on the essence of the case. The hearing was adjourned to 4 December 2012.

(11/013) Home raids in Hakkâri Province…

Nine people were detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in Hakkâri Province and its Yüksekova District on 1 November 2012.

(11/014) Detained person… Youth Federation (Gençlik Federasyonu) member Gürkan Türkoğlu was allegedly detained by three police officers in plain clothes in Okmeydanı Quarter of Şişli District of İstanbul Province on 1 November 2012. Officers were driving a civilian car and they beat Türkoğlu during apprehension.

(11/015) Operations and clashes in South-east…

A temporary village guard was killed in the clash in the rural part of Çiçekdere Village of Bingöl Province on 20 September 2012.

(11/016) Attack on party building…

The relatives of the temporary village guard who had been killed in the clash in the rural part of Çiçekdere Village of Bingöl Province on 20 September 2012, attacked on the BDP’s Province Branch office with stones and sticks in Bingöl Province on 21 September 2012 and caused material damage.

(11/017) Coercion in prisons…

BDP Tatvan (Bitlis) District Branch Chairperson Mazlum Akgün who has been a pre-trial detainee in Muş M Type of Closed Prison had a second heart spasm on 6 September 2012. His health conditions became stable after his medical treatment in hospital reported on 2 November 2012.

03-05 November 2012

(11/018) Hunger strikes in prisons…

Pre-trial detainees and convicts from the PKK and PJAK cases launched a permanent and irreversible hunger strike in prisons on 12 September 2012 “for the constitution of Abdullah Öcalan’s health, security and freedom conditions in İmralı F Type High Security Prison and for the democratic rights of Kurdish people” (on 2 November 2012 the number of strikers was 654 as far as the human rights organisations could determine). The strike reached its 55th day on 2 November 2012.

A person was wounded from his head and several people were effected from the gas bombs during the intervention to the solidarity march of the People’s Democratic Congress/Halkların Demokratik Kongresi (HDK) and the students of Trakya University in Edirne Province on 2 November 2012.

Twelve out of the 19 detainees, who had been detained in the intervention to the protest in Okmeydanı Quarter of Şişli District of İstanbul Province on 30 October 2012, were arrested on 3 November 2012.

On 1 November 2012 Diyarbakır Governorate banned the meeting that was planned to be held on Istasyon Square on 3 November 2012. After the decision nine people were detained during ID checks and home raids in Mardin Province. The Governorate brought additional force from Gaziantep, Malatya, Elazığ, Batman, Şanlıurfa, Konya, Kayseri, Tokat and Erzurum Provinces to hinder the meeting and Peace and Democracy Party’s (BDP) Diyarbakır Branch Building was surrounded by police teams and vehicles. The executives, deputies and mayors of the BDP made a sit-in strike in front of the Diyarbakır Governorate to protest the measures. Several groups gathered in front of the governorate byinterference with gas bombs and pressurizeed water. HDK Diyarbakır Spokesperson’s Hüseyin Bardakçı’s nasal bone was fractured in front of the governorate.

Police teams interfered to the BDP’s public statement with gas bombs and pressured water in Aksaray Quarter of Fatih District of İstanbul Province on 4 November 2012. Several people including BDP’s İstanbul Deputy Sebahat Tuncel and Van Deputy Aysel Tuğluk, were effected from the gas and four people were wounded. After the incident it was reported that 49 people had been detained and four had been wounded.

The fax messages of hunger striker Turgut Koyuncu in Kırıklar (İzmir) 2 Nolu F Type Prison to human rights organisations were evaluated as being dangerous and confiscated according to reports of 4 November 2012. Two people were wounded and 15 people were detained in the intervention to the hunger strikes in the offices of the HDK in Gazi Quarter of Sarıgazi District of İstanbul Province on 4 November 2012.

BDP General Chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş and İstanbul Deputy Sırrı Süreyya Önder met with the Minster of Justice Sadullah Ergin on 2 November 2012.

Following the racist attacks against supporters of the hunger strikes in Bursa-Yıldırım district that started in 28 October 2012 and lasted for three days Bursa Governorate banned all kinds of activity and action for ten days starting from 2 November 2012. Sixteen out of the 36 people who had been detained in the solidarity action were arrested.

Ninety-one students were detained in the solidarity action in Pamukkale University (Denizli Province) on 2 November 2012.

Eighteen people were detained in the intervention of police teams to the march in Malazgirt District of Muş Province on 4 November 2012. Malazgirt Mayor Mehmet Nuri Balcı, BDP’s Malazgirt District Chairperson Nihat Kalın, Konakkuran Mayor Kemal Çetin are among the detainees.

On 3 November 2012 it was learned that the letter of the DİHA reporter Şahabettin Demir in pre-trial detention in Giresun E Type Prison, in which he reported on the health of prisoners on hunger strikes, had been confiscated. Three out of four people that had been detained in Mersin.Tarsus District were arrested on 2 November 2012.

On 2 November 2012 Siverek District Governorate banned the meeting of the BDP to be held in Siverek District of Şanlıurfa Province on 4 November 2012.

Since 6 October 2012 B1 vitamins and letters are not given to Mehmet Erbey who is on hunger strikein Kürkçüler (Adana) F Type Prison.

Following a visit of prisoners on hunger strike the chair of Şırnak Bar Association and 21 lawyers reported that they had spoken to 12 hunger strikers. They had told them that the were given B1 vitamin, but had to pay for medicine.

(11/019) KCK Operation in Kocaeli Province…

Twenty-six people were detained in synchronised home raids of the police teams in the framework of the KCK investigation in Darıca, Dilovası and Gebze Districts of Kocaeli Province on 2 November 2012.

(11/020) Intervention to the protest in Adana Province…

The Minister of Development Cevdet Yılmaz was protested by students during the “Regional Dynamics in Development” Symposium in Çukurova University and four students were detained under beatings in the intervention in Adana Province on 2 November 2012.

(11/021) KCK Operation in Mersin Province…

Twenty-one people –including BDP’s Mersin Chairperson İrfan Yücel- were detained in synchronised home raids of the Anti-Terror Department teams in the framework of the KCK investigation in Mersin Province on 3 November 2012.

(11/022) Intervention to YOK protest in Ankara Province…

Nine members of the Youth Federation were detained in the intervention of police teams to the protest against the High Education Council (YÖK) in Ankara Province on 3 November 2012.

(11/023) Home raids in Şırnak Province…

Three members of the BDP were detained in synchronised home raids of police teams in Şırnak Province on 4 November 2012. No reason was given for the operation.

(11/024) Operations and clashes in South-east…

Faris Demircan (11) was killed and 26 people were wounded, two of them seriously, in the explosion in a car as an armoured police vehicle was passing by in Şemdinli District of Hakkâri Province on 4 November 2012.

(11/025) Death in Prison…

İsmail Erdem (26) allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in Uşak E Type Prison on 1 November 2012. The prosecutor started an investigation.

(11/026) Intervention to the student action in Bitlis Province…

On 4 November 2012 police teams interfered with gas bombs and pressurized water in the protest of the students of Bitlis Eren University (BEÜ) against the fact that a newly planned student hostel should only be made for female students.

(11/027) Home raids in Antalya Province…

Ramazan Yıldız, member of the BDP’s Party Assembly, was detained in a home raid in Antalya Province on 3 November 2012. No reason was given for the operation.

(11/028) Home raids in Mardin Province…

Four out of the ten detainees who had been detained in home raids of teams of the Special Task Force in Midyat District of Mardin Province on 30 October 2012, were arrested on 3 November 2012.

(11/029) Detained juveniles…

Five students of Kocaköy High School were detained as they left the school Kocaköy District of Diyarbakır Province on 2 November 2012. The reason for the detention of the students could not be established.

(11/030) Torture and ill-treatment in detention…

Three people who had been detained after the attacks on public buildings in Şırnak Province on 28 October 2012 were arrested on charges of “helping and harbouring members of an illegal organisation” on 1 November 2012. It was alleged that they had been beaten.

(11/031) Ongoing KCK case in Cizre Province…

On 31 October 2012 Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 7 went on hearing the case against 90 defendants -31 pre-trial detainees- who had been arrested in the Koma Ciwaken Kurdistan-Kurdistan Communities League /Assembly of Turkey (KCK/TM)in Cizre District of Şırnak Province on charges of “being members of an illegal organisation”. The secret witness rejected his previous statements but the court prolonged the arrest warrants and adjourned the hearing to 3 December 2012.

(11/032) Operations and clashes in South-east…

A soldier and three militants were killed and 7 soldiers were wounded in the clash in the vicinity of the army headquarters in Duru Village of Lice District of Diyarbakır Province on 2 November 2012.

(11/033) Arrested person…

Gürkan Türkoğlu, member of the Youth Federation who had been detained by three police officers in plain clothes under beatings in Okmeydanı Quarter of Şişli District of İstanbul Province on 1 November 2012, was arrested on 2 November 2012.

(11/034) The case on the bombing incident in Güngören…

Seventeen people had been killed and 154 people had been wounded in the bomb attack in Güngören District of İstanbul Province on 29 July 2008.

On 2 November 2012 İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 12 went on hearing the case against nine defendants – 8 pre-trial detainees- on charges of “homicide”. In the previous hearings, the prosecutor had asked for 17 times aggravated life sentences and imprisonment for up to 1800 years for the two defendants Hüseyin Türeli and Nusret Teriş each.

The prosecutor asked for imprisonment of 6 defendants on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” under Article 314 of TPC and “having unlicensed firearms” and acquittal for a defendant. Pre-trial detainees Hüseyin Türeli, Ziya Kıraç, Abdurrahman Oral, Şerafettin Kara, Cevat Aydın, Aydın Ağlar, Mehmet Salih Yanak, Nusret Teriş participated in the hearing. A secret witness, who testified at the hearing rejected earlier statements he had made to the police. He stated that this was not his statement and claimed that innocent people were on trial. This was a conspiracy of the police and intelligence that had prepared his statement. In custody he had been given empty pages and he had put his signature and fingerprints on them. Later something had been written on the papers.

The court jury ruled that the police officers that took the statement of the witness should be identified and called for the next hearing. The court prolonged the arrest warrants of the defendants and adjourned the hearing to 7 February 2013.

06 November 2012

(11/035) Hunger strikes in prisons…

Pre-trial detainees and convicts from the PKK and PJAK cases launched permanent and irreversible hunger strike in prisons on 12 September 2012 “for the constitution of Abdullah Öcalan health, security and freedom conditions in İmralı F Type High Security Prison and for the democratic rights of Kurdish people” (on 30 October 2012 the number of strikers was 663 as far as the human rights organisations could determine). The strike reached its 56th day on 6 November 2012.

Police teams interfered to the group after the public statement in front of the Siirt F Type Prison with gas bombs and pressured water in Siirt Province on 5 November 2012.

Police teams interfered to the march of BDP’s Ardahan Branch with gas bombs and pressured water on 5 November 2012 and detained 4 people. Nine people were detained in home raids in connection with the solidarity activities in Hakkâri Province and its Yüksekova District on 30 October 2012, reported on 5 November 2012.

Police teams interfered second times to the solidarity hunger strikes with gas bombs and pressured water and demolish the tent in Gazi Quarter of Sarıgazi District of İstanbul Province on 5 November 2012.

(11/036) Death in Prison…

Mesut Çetinkaya (32) was allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in Nazilli (Manisa) E Type Prison on 4 November 2012.

(11/037) Operations and clashes in South-east…

Five militants were killed in the clash between Turkish Armed Forces and Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) armed wing People’s Defence Forces (HPG) in Cudi Mountain region in Şırnak Province on 4 November 2012.

(11/038) Home raids in Şırnak Province…

Baki Sodak and Beşir İnan who had been two out of the three members of the BDP detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in Şırnak Province on 4 November 2012 were arrested on charges of “helping and harbouring illegal organisation” on 5 November 2012.

(11/039) Coercion in prison…

It is reported on 5 November 2012 that the loophole on the doors of the units of Tekirdağ F Tipi Type Prison No. 2, were closed with papers in order to prevent the prisoners seeing each other.

Twenty-eight prisoners made official complaints against the decision and Tekirdağ Chief Public Prosecution Office claimed that “eye contacts of the prisoners risk the security of the prison” in its decision on 20 September 2012.

(11/040) Banned Panel…

CHP Deputy İlhan Cihaner’s panel titled “What is going on in Syria?” in Faculty of Letters of Ankara University was cancelled on the grounds that the content is inappropriate on 6 November 2012.

(11/041) Ongoing KCK case in Ankara Province…

On 5 November 2012 Ankara Heavy Penal Court No. 11 began to hear the case against 14 students -9 pre-trial detainees- who had been arrested in the Koma Ciwaken Kurdistan-Kurdistan Communities League /Assembly of Turkey (KCK/TM), the KCK is allegedly intended to organize the Kurdish people as an umbrella organization that includes Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) operation in Ankara Province on 10-13 and 20 January 2012 on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” under Article 314 of TPC. The court declined the demand of the defendants to make their legal argument in Kurdish and heard the demands of the lawyers before releasing the pre-trial detainees. The hearing was adjourned to 24 December 2012.

07 November 2012

(11/042) Hunger strikes in prisons…

30 people, who had effected from the gas bombs that used duringf the intervention to solidarity march, were hospitalised in Cizre District of Şırnak Province on 6 November 2012.

Eight members of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) were detained in the intervention to the solidarity tent in Keçiören District of Ankara Province on 6 November 2012.

A.E. (12) wounded from his head with the hit of the canister of the gas bomb in Nusaybin District of Mardin Province on 6 November 2012. Fifty students making sit-in strike in Afyon Kocatepe University on 6 November 2012 were detained.

Twenty-six of the detainees, who had been detained during the interventions to the public statements and meetings in Diyarbakır Province on 30 October and 3 November 2012, were arrested reported on 6 November 2012.

Twenty-one prisoners commenced permanent and irreversible hunger strike in İnebolu (Kastamonu) M Tipi Prison 21 announced on 6 November 2012.

Two out of the 9 people who had been detained in home raids in connection with the solidarity activities in Hakkâri Province and its Yüksekova District on 30 October 2012, were arrested on charges of “helping and harbouring an illegal organisation” on 6 November 2012.

(11/043) Operations and clashes in South-east…

Three militants were killed in the clash between Turkish Armed Forces and Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) armed wing People’s Defence Forces (HPG) in Çoban Mountain region in Beytüşşebap District of Şırnak Province on 6 November 2012.

(11/044) Acquitted persons…

On 6 November 2012 Silivri Penal Court of First Instance No. 2 acquitted Nilgün Doğan and İrem Kutluk in connection with the protest against the Sledgehammer/Balyoz Case in Silivri District of İstanbul Province on 5 May 2011 on charges of “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations”.

(11/045) Ongoing second KCK/TM Main Case in Istanbul Province…

On 6 November 2012, İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 16 went on hearing the case against 50 defendants -46 of them lawyers- on charges of “helping and harbouring an illegal organisation” under Article 220/7 and “being an executive of an illegal organisation” under Article 314 of TPC.

The court declined the demand of the defendants to make their legal argument in Kurdish and the lawyers of the defendants protested this decision by leaving the hearing. The court prolonged the pre-trial detention of 27 pre-trial detainees and adjourned the hearing to 3 January 2013.

(11/046) Acquitted persons…

On 6 November 2012 İstanbul Penal Court of First Instance No. 37 acquitted four members of the People’s house/Halkevleri Burcu Yangın, Ece Soydan, Nida Karabağ and Müge Okur in connection with the protest against the Prime Minister’s statement on the banning of abortion in front of the office of the Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Dolmabahçe Palace in İstanbul Province on 6 June 2012 on charges of “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations”.

(11/047) Ongoing KCK Case in Bitlis Province…

On 6 November 2012 Van Heavy Penal Court No. 3 went on hearing the case against 30 defendants – 12 pre-trial detainees- who had been detained in Tatvan District of Bitlis Province on 19 January 2011 on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” under Article 314 of TPC.

The court declined the demand of the defendants to make their legal argument in Kurdish and released all pre-trial detainees before adjourning the hearing to 20 November 2012.

(11/048) Acquitted person…

On 5 November 2012 Bakırköy Penal Court of First Instance No. 33 acquitted Hüseyin Özkahraman, the Republican People Party’s (CHP) Bahçelievler District Branch former Chairperson, in connection with organising the meeting “Light a Candle to the Darkness for Peace” in Şirinevler Quarter of Bahçelievler District of İstanbul Province on 1 September 2010 on charges of “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations”.

(11/049) KCK Operation in Mardin Province…

Seven people were detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in the framework of the KCK investigation in Midyat District of Mardin Province on 6 November 2012.

(11/050) Intervention to YOK protest in İzmir Province…

Fifty-eight students were detained in the intervention of the police teams to the protest against the High Education Council (YÖK) in Ege University in İzmir Province on 6 November 2012 P.

(11/051) Home raids in Diyarbakır Province…

Five people were detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in Ergani District of Diyarbakır Province on 6 November 2012. Ergani Vice Mayor Birsen Azak is also among the detainees.

(11/052) Home raids in Adana Province…

Twelve people were detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in Adana Province on 6 November 2012.

(11/053) Coercion in prison …

Lawyers Mazlum Dinç, Rezan Sarıca, and Hüseyin Boğatekin were not allowed to visit their client Abdullah Öcalan on 6 November 2012 on grounds that the ship that would carry them to İmralı Island was out of order.

(11/054) KCK Operation in Mersin Province…

Ten out of the 24 detainees who had been detained in home raids of Fighting with Terror Department in Mersin Province on 3 November 2012 were arrested in the framework of KCK investigation on 7 November 2012.

08 November 2012

(11/055) Extra-judicial killing in Bitlis Province…

Uğur Demirçin (20) was killed by temporary village guards as he was on his way to help his father Shepherd Rahmi Demirçin in Aşağı Kolbaşı Village of Güroymak District of Bitlis Province on 6 November 2012. The two guards were detained.

(11/056) Hunger strikes in prisons…

15 were wounded, 10 were detained in the intervention of the police teams and private security officers to the public statement with gas bombs and pressured water in Kocaeli University on 7 November 2012

Barış Gökdemir and Mehmet Kan who had been detained with three others in the intervention to the protest in Ardahan Province on 5 November 2012, were arrested on charges of “making propaganda of an illegal organisation” and “committing offence on behalf of an organisation although he is not a member” on 7 November 2012.

Four members of the Socialist Youth Association (SGD) -Esra Ayyıldız, Gizem Türkmen, Mehmet Polat and Sercan Üstündaş- were beaten and detained by the police officers during their solidarity action in İzmir Province on 7 November 2012.

Police teams dispersed the action of the students of Boğaziçi University with gas bombs and pressured water in İstanbul Province.

7 November 2012 Diyarbakır Deputy Leyla Zana stated that the health conditions of 26 prisoners became critical in Diyarbakır D Type Closed Prison. Aytuğ Atıcı stated that 2 prisoners’ health became deteriorated in Kandıra (Kocaeli) F Tipi Prison .

(11/057) Coercion on trans persons in İstanbul Province…

On 7 November 2012 police teams sealed the houses of the 10 trans person with the decision of Avcılar Governorate in Meis Housing in Denizköşkler Quarter of Avcılar District of İstanbul Province.

(11/058) The case launched against the family of the victim of the extra-judicial killing in Ankara Province…

Cem Aygün (22) was shot death from the back of his neck on the grounds that he did not obey the stop warning as he was driving car in Keçiören District of Ankara Province on 30 August 2012. He had been sentenced to 13 months of imprisonment and he had to give signature to the Police Station every day. Police officer claimed that he had collapsed and his firearm had fired.

On 2 September 2012, eight women from the family of Cem Aygün attempted to protest in front of the Ankara Security Directorate. They were detained for two hours on the grounds that they shouted “we want our brother back”.

Ankara Chief Public Prosecution Office finalised the indictment and sent it to the court to be evaluated reported on 7 November 2012.

The prosecutor asked for the imprisonment of the eight women up to 58 years of each on charges of “simple wounding”, resisting public officer to hinder its duty”, “harming public goods”, “insulting the police officer”, “threatening” and “attempting to kill the police officer”.

Meanwhile the investigation against the police officer who killed Cem Aygün could not be finalised yet.

(11/059) Convicted journalists…

On 7 November 2012 Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 7 went on hearing the case against 8 defendants –including Dicle News Agency (DİHA) Diyarbakır Representative Kadri Kaya, DİHA Batman reporter Erdoğan Altan- who had been detained in the operation of Batman Province Gendarmerie Command Office on 15 April 2011 and arrested on charges of “committing offence on behalf of an organisation although he is not a member” and “making propaganda of an illegal organisation” on 19 April 2011.

The court sentenced Kadri Kaya, Erdoğan Altan, Mehmet Karabaş, Musa Balur, İhsan Dilyak and Mehmet Kaya to 25 months of imprisonment on charges of “committing offence on behalf of an organisation although he is not a member” under Article 220/6 of TPC. The court acquitted Remziye Ekinci and İbrahim Kaya.

(11/060) Convicted person…

On 7 November 2012 Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 7 went on hearing the case against F.G. on charges of “committing offence on behalf of an organisation although he is not a member” under Article 220/6 of TPC, “having explosives”, “making propaganda of an illegal organisation” under Article 7/2 of Anti-Terror Law, “resisting to the officers” on the grounds that he had thrown stones and petrol bombs to the law enforcement in Diyarbakır.

The court sentenced him 30 years and 10 months of imprisonment.

(11/061) Ongoing KCK Case in Balıkesir Province…

On 5 November 2012 Bursa Heavy Penal Court No. 6 went on hearing the case against 12 defendants – 7 pre-trial detainees- who had been detained in Balıkesir province and its Bandırma, Edremit and Ayvalık Districts on 15 May 2012, and arrested on 19 May 2012 on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” under Article 314 of TPC.

The court declined the demand of the defendants to make their legal argument in Kurdish and released pre-trial detainees -Oktay Yıldız, Metin Bilgin, Mustafa Ertaş, Hüsnü Asan, Erdal Bayram, Emrah Sacik and İrfan Aşar- before adjourning the hearing to 17 December 2012.

(11/062) Restriction of access to websites…

Ankara Judicature No. 2 (Authorised by the Article 10 of the ATL) restricted the access to 11 websites, amednewsagency.com, anf.bz, ciwanenkurd.com, fedkom.nl, fekar.ch, feykom.at, firatnews.ws, kaypakkaya-partizan.org, kon-kurd.org, newroz.tv, serxwebun.org, with its decision on 1 October 2012.

(11/063) Home raids in Van Province…

Twenty-three people were detained in synchronised home raids of the Special Task Force Department teams in Van Province on the grounds that they had participated in several demonstrations on 7 November 2012.

(11/064) Home raids in Siirt Province …

10 juveniles were detained in synchronised home raids of the police teams on the grounds that “they threw stones in the demonstrations” in Siirt Province on 7 November 2012.

(11/065) Home raids in Şırnak Province…

Eight people were detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in Şırnak Province on 7 November 2012.

(11/066) KCK Operation in Mardin Province…

Four members of the BDP -Enes Cancı, Hayzullah Doğan, Barış Emre and Hasan Bilgiç- out of the 7 people who had been detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in Midyat District of Mardin Province on 4 November 2012, were arrested in the framework of the KCK investigation on 7 November 2012.

09 November 2012

(11/067) Operations and clashes in South-east…

A soldier and 13 militants were killed and 1 militant was wounded in the clash in the rural part of Şemdinli Dsitrict of Hakkâri Province on 8 November 2012.

(11/068) Allegation of death in detention in Mersin Province…

Erkan Arslan (30) had been detained on the grounds that he had illegal drugs in Mersin Province on 8 November 2012. Erkan Aslan died by falling from the fifth floor after he had been sent to the prosecution office. Authorities claimed that he had been trying to run away.

(11/069) Operations and clashes in South-east…

Two civilians were killed and three others were wounded in the air attack on Northern Iraq on 7 October 2012.

(11/070) Hunger strikes in prisons…

After the racist attacks on the supporters of the hunger strikes between 28 October and 5 November 2012, Gendarmerie teams detained 13 members of the BDP in synchronised raids in Yıldırım District of Bursa Province on 8 November 2012.

Fifteen students were detained in home raids in Ardahan Province on 8 November 2012.

(11/071) Convicted person…

On 8 November 2012 Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 4 sentenced Ayşegül Ayaz who had been detained on the grounds that she participated in the protest against the decision of the High Election Board (YSK) in Diyarbakır Province on 19 April 2011, to 12 years of imprisonment on charges of “committing offence on behalf of an organisation although he is not a member” under Article 220/6 of TPC.

(11/072) Convicted person…

On 8 November 2012 Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 6 sentenced Zübeyde Zümrüt, BDP’s former Diyarbakır Branch Chairperson to 4 years 8 months and 7 days of imprisonment in connection with her speech in Diyarbakır Province in 2011 “committing offence on behalf of an organisation although he is not a member” under Article 220/6 of TPC.

(11/073) Convicted person…

On 8 November 2012 Erzurum Heavy Penal Court No. 2 sentenced İdris Ağbaba, BDP’s Kars Province Branch former Chairperson to 7 years and 6 months of imprisonment, on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” under Article 314 of TPC.

He had been detained in the operation in Ankara Province in March 2012.

(11/074) Tried former deputy…

On 7 November 2012 Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 7 went on hearing the case against Diyarbakır former Deputy Akın Birdal in connection with his election speech in Eğil Dsitrict of Diyarbakır Province on 19 March 2011 on charges of “making propaganda of an illegal organisation” under Article 7/2 of Anti-Terror Law.

The court adjudicated to postpone the prosecution against the defendant for three years basing its verdict to the Temporary Article 1/1-b of the Law No. 6352 which came into force as a part of the Third Judiciary Reform Package on 5 July 2012.

(11/075) Tried Deputy and party executive…

On 7 November 2012 Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 7 went on hearing the case against Hatip Dicle and Zübeyde Zümrüt in connection with the letter of Hatip Dicle that he had sent from the prison and she had read the letter in the election meeting on charges of “making propaganda of an illegal organisation” under Article 7/2 of Anti-Terror Law.

The court adjourned the hearing to obtain the missing documents.

Hatip Dicle had been elected as a deputy from Diyarbakır Province on the elections on 12 June 2011 and his deputyship was dropped with the decision of the High Election Board (YSK).

(11/076) Convicted newspaper executive…

On 8 November 2012 İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 17 sentenced Reyhan Çapan, the editor-in-chief of Özgür Gündem Newspaper, to 1 year and three months of imprisonment in connection with the news published in Özgür Gündem Newspaper on 18 February 2012 on charges of “making propaganda of an illegal organisation” under Article 7/2 of Anti-Terror Law.

(11/077) Acquitted journalists…

On 8 November 2012 İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 17 acquitted Fatih Polat, the editor-in-chief of Evrensel Newspaper, columnist Ender İmrek and reporter Özer Akdemir in connection with the news published in Evrensel Newspaper on 24 March 2012 on charges of “making propaganda of an illegal organisation” under Article 7/2 of Anti-Terror Law.

(11/078) Acquitted journalist…

On 8 November 2012 İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 17 acquitted Burhan Ekinci in connection with his article titled “confessions of an agent/informant journalist” published in Taraf Newspaper on 29 March 2012 on charges of “making propaganda of an illegal organisation” under Article 7/2 of Anti-Terror Law.

(11/079) Coercion in prison…

Lawyers Mazlum Dinç, Rezan Sarıca, and Hüseyin Boğatekin were not allowed to visit their client Abdullah Öcalan on 8 November 2012 on grounds that the ship that would carry them to İmralı Island was out of order.

10-12 November 2012

(11/080) Operations and clashes in South-east…

İbrahim Demir (17) who had been wounded in the bomb attack in Şemdinli District of Hakkâri Province on 4 November 2012 died in the hospital in Ankara Province on 9 November 2012.

(11/081) Hunger strikes in prisons…

Twenty-five students were detained in solidarity march in Van Province on 9 November 2012.

Right-wingers attacked on the public statement in Malatya Province on 11 November 2012. Two people were wounded in the intervention to the incident.

On 9 November 2012 Siirt Governorate banned the meeting of the Peace and Democracy Party’s (BDP) Siirt Branch which was planned to be held on 11 November 2012.

Deputies Aysel Tuğluk, Özdal Üçer and Diyarbakır Metropolitan Mayor Osman Baydemir quarrelled with the police teams on the grounds that they attempted to detain the protestors in Diyarbakır Province on 11 November 2012.

Several people including Bitlis Deputy Hüsamettin Zenderlioğlu, BDP’s Province Branch Chairperson Şahin Çoban ve İHD Bitlis Branch Chairperson Hasan Ceylan were wounded and 8 others were detained in the intervention to the march in Bitlis Province on 11 November 2012.

Twelve out of the 15 detainees who had been detained in connection with the solidarity action with the strikers in home raids Ardahan Province on 8 November 2012 were arrested in the framework of KCK investigation on 10 November 2012.

P.E. (17) and O.B. (17) two juvenile strikers in Mersin E Tipi Prison, were put into solitary confinement on the grounds that they were leading other juvenile prisoners reported on 10 November 2012.

Police teams interfered the group with gas bombs and pressured water in Yüksekova District of Hakkâri Province on 9 November 2012.

Ten people were detained on the grounds that “they have been walking together” after the action in Taksim in İstanbul Province on 11 November 2012.

Deputies Emine Ayna and Özdal Üçer had commenced permanent and irreversible hunger strike. On 10 November 2012 BDP’s Co-chairperson Gültan Kışanak and DTK Co-chairperson and Van Province Independent Deputy Aysel Tuğluk, BDP’s İstanbul Deputies Sebahat Tuncel and Sırrı Süreyya Önder, BDP’s Hakkâri Deputy Adil Kurt and Diyarbakır Metropolitan Mayor Osman Baydemir also commenced permanent and irreversible hunger strike.

B1 vitamins that were sent to the prisoners in Kürkçüler F Tipi Prison were rejected by the administration on ther grounds that the administration do not take medicines outside in Adana Province on 10 November 2012.

Gıyasettin Yalçın and Sait Kaya from Mersin E Tipi Prison who had been on hunger striker since 9 October 2012 declared that they convert their action death strike 8 November 2012.

(11/082) Operations and clashes in South-east…

Hakkâri Governorate announced on 9 November 2012 that 42 militants were allegedly killed in the operation against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) armed wing People’s Defence Forces (HPG) in the rural part of Şemdinli Province since 7 November 2012.

(11/083) Operations and clashes in South-east…

Three teachers who had been abducted by the HPG militants in Midyat District of Mardin Province on 9 November 2012 were released on 11 November 2012.

(11/084) Ongoing case on torture and ill-treatment in detention…

The case against the 4 police officers began to be heard on 9 November 2012. The officers had been convicted on charges of torturing Şenol Gürkan, the reporter of Atılım Newspaper, three times and the verdicts were annulled on the grounds that proceedings.

Ankara Heavy Penal Court No. 1 decided to comply with the annulment decision of the Supreme Court of Appeal and to ask the original forensic medicine report of Şenol Gürkan from Ankara Heavy Penal Court No. 11 that Gürkan had been tried before.

(11/085) Explosion in Diyarbakır Province…

Shepherd İbrahim Güzel (16) was seriously wounded with the explosion of the thing he found in the vicinity of Kırkpınar Village of Dicle District of Diyarbakır Province on 9 November 2012.

(11/086) Van’da Devam Eden Yargısız İnfaz Soruşturması…

Law-enforcement units had raided on Buğulukaynak (Kel) Village of Çaldıran District of Van Province on 6 October 2009 and killed HPG militants Sunullah Keserci, Necmeddin Ahmed Hasan and one of the peasants İbrahim Atabay (18). Former Ministry of Interior Affairs Beşir Atalay claimed the people were killed in the clash. A soldier made an official complaint and stated that they had been killed as extra-judicial killing.

Erciş Penal Court of Peace first arrested 18 soldiers and then released all except the former Van Province Gendarmerie Commander retired Major Vecihi Halil İyigün on grounds that “no possibility of flee” on 24 May 2012.

The indictment against 18 soldiers was accepted by Erciş Heavy Penal Court reported on 10 November 2012. The prosecutor asked life sentence in solitary confinement and with no possibility of parole three times for each of the defendants on charges of “homicide”.

(11/087) Coercion in prison…

Ercan Aslan (32), who had been detained and eventually arrested in KCK investigation in Antalya Province on 20 March 2010 was reportedly beaten by the guardians in Şakran (İzmir) T Tipi Prison on 10 November 2012.

(11/088) Convicted persons…

Twenty-two members of the Çanakkale Youth Association had been detained in the intervention to “the hunger strike tent” which was erected with the demand of “We Want Democratic High Schools Instead of Missile Shield” in Çanakkale Province on 24 December 2011.

The students were reportedly sentenced to 15 months of imprisonment on charges of “making propaganda of an illegal organisation” under Article 7/2 of Fighting with Terrorism Law on 11 November 2012.

(11/089) Attack on party building…

Material damage took place in the attack of the unidentified person(s) on the BDP’s District Branch Office in Üsküdar District of İstanbul Province on 10 November 2012.

(11/090) ıntervention to the public statement in İstanbul Province…

Twenty-nine members of the People’s Committees/Halk Komiteleri were beaten and detained as they attempted to make public statement on “urban renovation” in Beşiktaş Quarter where the finish point of the Eurasian Marathon was in İstanbul Province on 11 November 2012.

(11/091) Home raids in Van Province…

Five out of the 23 detainees who had been detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams on the grounds that they had participated in various meetings in Van Province on 7 November 2012, were arrested on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” under Article 314 of TPC on 11 November 2012.

(11/092) Home raids in Şırnak Province…

Three juveniles were detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in Şırnak Province on 9 November 2012. The authorities did not make any explanation on the reason of detention.

(11/093) Home raids in Adana Province…

Five juveniles were detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams on the grounds that they had participated in various meetings in Adana Province on 10 November 2012.

(11/094) Home raids in Ankara Province…

Ten students were detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in Ankara Province on 10 November 2012. The authorities did not make any explanation on the reason of detention.

13 November 2012

(11/095) Third KCK/TM main case ongoing in İstanbul Province…

Police teams had raided on news agencies mainly Dicle News Agency (DİHA) in the framework of the KCK investigation and 49 journalists had been detained on 20 December 2011.

İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 9 arrested 36 of the detainees on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” on 24 December 2011.

İstanbul Chief Public Prosecution Office finalised the indictment against 44 journalists and sent it to İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 15 to be evaluated on 27 April 2012. The court accepted the 800 paged indictment against 44 journalists on charges of “being a member or leader of an illegal organisation” under Article 314 of TPC on 11 May 2012. İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 15 went on hearing the case on 12 November 2012.

The court jury did not allow the salt and sugar to be given to the hunger strikers. The lawyers, defendants and audience left the court hall to protest the decision.

The court went on hearing the indictment and adjourned the hearing to 13 November 2012.

(11/096) The case of Zirve Press Massacre…

Malatya Chief Public Prosecution Office finalised the new indictment on the murder of Tilman Ekkehart Geske, Necati Aydın and Uğur Yüksel in Zirve Press in Malatya on 18 April 2007 sent it to Malatya Heavy Penal Court No. 3to be evaluated reported on 9 June 2012. Malatya Heavy Penal Court No. 3 accepted the indictment against 19 defendants on 22 June 2012.

On 12 November 2012 the court went on hearing the merged cases against 26 defendants and heard retired general Hurşit Tolon. The hearing was adjourned to 16 November 2012.

(11/097) Hunger strikes in prisons…

Pre-trial detainees and convicts from the PKK and PJAK cases launched permanent and irreversible hunger strike in prisons on 12 September 2012 “for the constitution of Abdullah Öcalan health, security and freedom conditions in İmralı F Type High Security Prison and for the democratic rights of Kurdish people” (on 2 November 2012 the number of strikers was 654 as far as the human rights organisations could determine). The strike reached its 63rd day on 13 November 2012.

Faruk Beyter and Aydın Akış who had commenced hunger strike on 5 October 2012 in Giresun E Type Prison stated to their families that the verbal and physical coercion was increased recently reported on 12 November 2012.

Two juveniles were wounded and three others were detained in the intervention of the police teams to the public statement and boycott to support the strikes in Cizrelioğlu High School in Kayapınar District of Diyarbakır Province.

(11/098) Coercion in prison…

Ercan Aslan a prisoner in Şakran (İzmir) T Type Prison No. 1, was not allowed to use his right to phone on the grounds that “there were missing documents” and he was beaten by the guardians due to his objection on 3 November 2012, reported on 13 November 2012.

(11/099) Home raids in Ankara Province…

Thirteen students who had been detained in connection with the fight between opposite groups in Faculty of Letters of Ankara University in Ankara Province on 11 November 2012, were arrested on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” and “wounding” on 13 November 2012.

(11/100) Home raids in Tunceli Province…

Police officers raided on Democratic Rights Federation and houses of its member in Tunceli Province on 13 November 2012 and detained 11 people.

14-15 November 2012

(11/101) Hunger strikes in prisons…

Pre-trial detainees and convicts from the PKK and PJAK cases launched permanent and irreversible hunger strike in prisons on 12 September 2012 “for the constitution of Abdullah Öcalan health, security and freedom conditions in İmralı F Type High Security Prison and for the democratic rights of Kurdish people” (on 2 November 2012 the number of strikers was 654 as far as the human rights organisations could determine). The strike reached its 65th day on 15 November 2012.

Police teams interfered the people waiting for the meeting with the participation of Selahattin Demirtaş, the Co-chairperson of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Kızıltepe District of Mardin Province on 13 November 2012, with gas bombs and pressured water.

Police teams interfered to the demonstration in Diyarbakır Province on 12 November 2012 and detained 27 people –including 13 juveniles.

Police teams interfered with gas bombs and pressured water to the action of the Dicle University students in Diyarbakır Province on 13 November 2012.

Police teams interfered to the public statement and school boycott of the students and detained 11 juveniles in Kayapınar District of Diyarbakır Province on 13 November 2012.

A person was wounded in the intervention of the police teams to the march of the Peace Mothers Initiative in İzmir Province on 13 November 2012.

Six members and executives of the İnsan Hakları Derneği/Human Rights Association’s (IHD) İstanbul Branch were detained on the grounds that they attempted to make sit-in strike in front of the prime ministry’s office in Dolmabahçe Palace in İstanbul Province on 14 November 2012.

Police teams hindered the sit-in strike of the Selçuk University students in Konya Province on 13 November 2012.

Police teams interfered to the demonstration organised by the Halkların Demokratik Kongresi/People’s Democratic Congress (HDK) in Nurtepe Quarter of Kâğıthane District of İstanbul Province on 14 November 2012 and detained 4 people.

Police teams interfered with gas bombs and pressured water to the solidarity demonstration in Diyarbakır Province on 14 November 2012 and detained 56 people.

The health of the hunger strikers in Kandıra (Kocaeli) F Type Closed Prison deteriorated so much so that they could not even drink water reported on 14 November 2012

Özgür Karagöz a cancer patient and a striker in Diyarbakır D Type Closed Prison was hospitalised on 14 November 2012.

Recep Özen, one of the 2 people who had been detained during the action in Kars Province on 30 October 2012 was arrested on charges of “making propaganda of an illegal organisation” on 14 November 2012.

Diyarbakır Deputy Leyla Zana also commenced permanent and irreversible hunger strike in her room in the TBMM announced on 14 November 2012.

Police teams interfered with gas bombs and pressured water to the march organised by the Democratic Independent Women’s Movement in Batman Province on 14 November 2012.

On 2 November 2012 police teams interfered to the students of Pamukkale University (Denizli) and detained 91 of them. All of the detained students were released later. The prosecutor objected to the release verdict and 30 students were arrested on 14 November 2012.

(11/102) Operations and clashes in South-east…

Two militants were killed and a temporary village guard was wounded in the clash between Turkish Armed Forces and Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) armed wing People’s Defence Forces (HPG) in the rural part of Genç District of Bingöl Province on 14 November 2012.

(11/103) Finalised Torture and ill-treatment in detention case…

On 14 November 2012 İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 20 went on hearing the case against police officer M.K. (28) on charges of torturing H.Ç. in Taksim Police Station in İstanbul Province on 8 July 2008.

The court after hearing the four witnesses who had been in detention with H.Ç. and beaten by the same officer, sentenced M.K. to 2 years 2 mounts 7 days of imprisonment on charges of “intentionally wounding”.

(11/104) Excessive use of force by law enforcement officers…

Çetin Aslan and Esat Aslan were beaten by the police officers and Esat Aslan’s nasal bone and Çetin Aslan’s skull were fractured on grounds that they objected to the detention in Muradiye District of Van Province. The detainees were arrested by the court on charges of “resisting police officers on duty” reported on 14 November 2012.

(11/105) Police Officer tried on charges of torture…

On 7 November 2012 Bakırköy Heavy Penal Court No. 7 went on hearing the case against police officer Muhammed Bağcı who had beaten Güney Tuna (21) on the grounds that he drank in a park in Avcılar District of İstanbul Province on 3 October 2009; Physician Ergin Ertan on the grounds that he gave healthy report and five police officers who had neglected their duty.

The prosecutor presented his legal argument on the essence of the case and asked for the imprisonment of the police officer Muhammet Bağcı and Samet Durmaz up to 15 years; Ergin Ertan to 5 years. The court adjourned the hearing to 18 December 2012 for the preparation of the defendants’ legal argument on the essence of the case.

(11/106) Coercion in prison…

Lawyers Mazlum Dinç, Rezan Sarıca, and Hüseyin Boğatekin were not allowed to visit their client Abdullah Öcalan on 13 November 2012 on grounds that the ship that would carry them to İmralı Island was out of order.

(11/107) Third KCK/TM main case ongoing in İstanbul Province…

Police teams had raided on news agencies mainly Dicle News Agency (DİHA) in the framework of the KCK investigation and 49 journalists had been detained on 20 December 2011.

İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 9 arrested 36 of the detainees on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” on 24 December 2011.

The court jury did not allow the salt and sugar to be given to the hunger strikers. The lawyers, defendants and audience left the court hall to protest the decision.

The court went on hearing the indictment on 13 November 2012 and adjourned the hearing to 15 November 2012.

(11/108) Raids on association offices…

57 people were detained in the raids on the offices of the Democratic Rights Federation and on the houses of its members in Tunceli, Ankara, İzmir, Sivas, İstanbul, Uşak, Mersin, Adana, Antalya, Zonguldak, Çanakkale and Isparta Province on 13 November 2012. There is a secrecy decision on the investigation.

(11/109) Tried person…

On 13 November 2012 Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 4 went on hearing the case against Sevda Çağdaş a member of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) who had been detained in Koşuyolu Park after the activity organised by the Human Rights Association’s (IHD) Diyarbakır Branch for the “forced disappearance incidents” on 26 May 2012 and eventually arrested on 27 May 2012 on the grounds that she threw stones to the law-enforcement in the Newroz Celebrations in Diyarbakır Province on 18 March 2012.

The court declined the demands of the defendant’s lawyers and adjudicated to prolong the detention process till the next hearing on 24 January 2013.

(11/110) KCK Operation in İstanbul Province…

European Parliament’s Former Deputy Feleknas Uca was detained in the framework of the KCK investigation in Atatürk Airport in İstanbul Province on 13 November 2012. 248 boxes of B1 vitamins that were brought to Turkey by Feleknaz Uca to be given to the hunger strikers were confiscated. She was also subjected to the cavity search.

(11/111) Home raids in Şırnak Province…

Ten people were detained in Cizre District of Şırnak Province on 13 November 2012 and 6 people were detained in Uludere and Silopi Districts of Şırnak Province on 14 November 2012.

(11/112) Arrested juveniles…

Ü.T. (14) who had been detained in the raid on his school in Mersin Province on 9 November 2012 was arrested on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” and “making propaganda of an illegal organisation” and “throwing petrol bombs” after his age were altered with bone scan in Mersin State Hospital on 11 November 2012.

(11/113) Intervention to the protest…

Five Uludağ University students were beaten and cuffed as they attempted to protest the Minister of Culture and Tourism Ertuğrul Günay in Bursa Province on 14 November 2012.

16 November 2012

(11/114) Hunger strikes in prisons…

Pre-trial detainees and convicts from the PKK and PJAK cases launched permanent and irreversible hunger strike in prisons on 12 September 2012 “for the constitution of Abdullah Öcalan health, security and freedom conditions in İmralı F Type High Security Prison and for the democratic rights of Kurdish people” (on 2 November 2012 the number of strikers was 654 as far as the human rights organisations could determine). The strike reached its 66th day on 16 November 2012.

Seven detainees who had been detained in home raids of Fighting with Terror Department in Yıldırım District of Bursa Province after the incidents were arrested in the framework of KCK investigation on 15 November 2012.

Police teams interfered with gas bombs and pressured water to the march of the high school students in Yüksekova District of Hakkâri Province on 15 November 2012.

Ninety-one people –including 40 juveniles- were detained in the solidarity actions in Diyarbakır Province until 15 November 2012; 150 people were sentenced to a fine of 50 to 400 lira on the grounds that they protesting turning on and off their lights and hitting the pans.

Police teams interfered the solidarity action in Silvan District of Diyarbakır Province on 15 November 2012 and detained 8 juveniles.

Five people who had chained themselves in front of the courthouse were detained in Bayraklı District of İzmir Province on 15 November 2012.

(11/115) Convicted people…

On 15 November 2012 Zonguldak Penal Court of First Instance No. 2 sentenced İbrahim Damatoğlu to a fine of 6080 TL on the grounds that he had shared the news against the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in his facebook page on charges of “insulting a public officer due to the performance of his public duty” under Article 125 of TPC.

(11/116) Operations and clashes in South-east…

Two militants were killed and a soldier was wounded in the clash between Turkish Armed Forces and Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) armed wing People’s Defence Forces (HPG) in Ovacık District of Tunceli Province on 15 November 2012.

(11/117) JITEM case on the murder by unknown assailants in Cizre District…

Two ongoing cases on Gendarmerie Intelligence and Fighting with Terrorism Department (JITEM) – JİTEM Case with 15 defendants on the murders by unknown assailant, sabotages and bombings in Diyarbakır, Mardin, Batman and Şırnak Provinces in 1989 and 1994 and the JİTEM case with five defendants including Mahmut Yıldırım –whose code name is “Yeşil/Green” and the informant Abdülkadir Aygan- on the eight murders in Diyarbakır Province between 1992 and 1994- had been integrated on the grounds that the charges in both of the cases are the same. On 15 November 2012Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 6 went on hearing the integrated case against 16 defendants in total.

None of the defendants was present in the hearing and the court adjudicated to launch procedure for the extradition of Abdülkadir Aygan from Sweden and to send the documents on him to the Security Directorate.

(11/118) Third KCK/TM main case ongoing in İstanbul Province…

Police teams had raided on news agencies mainly Dicle News Agency (DİHA) in the framework of the KCK investigation and 49 journalists had been detained on 20 December 2011.

İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 9 arrested 36 of the detainees on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” on 24 December 2011.

The court jury did not allow the salt and sugar to be given to the hunger strikers. The lawyers, defendants and audience left the court hall to protest the decision.

The court went on hearing the indictment on 15 November 2012 and adjourned the hearing to16 November 2012.

(11/119) Coercion in prison…

Lawyers Mazlum Dinç, Rezan Sarıca, and Hüseyin Boğatekin were not allowed to visit their client Abdullah Öcalan on 15 November 2012 on grounds that the ship that would carry them to İmralı Island was out of order.

(11/120) Tried People…

On 29 January 2013 Mersin Penal Court of First Instance No. 11 will begin to hear the case against 37 people who had protested the KCK investigation in Mersin Province on 18 February 2012 on charges of “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations” and “resisting to the police officers on duty” reported on 15 November 2012. The prosecutor asked for the imprisonment of the defendants up to ten years each.

(11/121) Home raids in Bingöl Province…

Six people had been detained and then arrested in the intervention of the police teams to the members of the BDP in Bingöl Province on 23 September 2012. Six others were arrested on the grounds that “they had threw stones to the police teams” reported on 15 November 2012.

(11/122) KCK Operation in Hakkâri Province…

13 people -9 juveniles- were detained in home raids in the framework of the KCK investigation in Hakkâri Province on 15 November 2012.

(11/123) Intervention to the posters in Bursa Province…

Police teams detained three members of the Devrimci Gençlik (Revolutionary Youth/Dev-Genç) as they were allegedly hanging posters in Yıldırım District of Bursa Province on 15 November 2012.

(11/124) Intervention to the protest in Kars Province…

Police teams interfered Kafkas University students, who were protesting the attacks of the right-wingers, with gas bombs and pressured water and detained 40 of them Kars Province on 15 November 2012.

17-19 November 2012

(11/125) Hunger strikes in prisons…

Pre-trial detainees and convicts from the PKK and PJAK cases launched permanent and irreversible hunger strike in prisons on 12 September 2012 “for the constitution of Abdullah Öcalan health, security and freedom conditions in İmralı F Type High Security Prison and for the democratic rights of Kurdish people” (on 16 November 2012 the number of strikers was 786 as far as the human rights organisations could determine). The strike reached its 67th day on 17 November 2012. The hunger strike was over with the call of Abdullah Öcalan via his brother Mehmet Öcalan.

447 prisoners finalised their action in Diyarbakır D Type Closed Kapalı Prison in the morning of 18 November 2012 and 38 of them were hospitalised.

18 prisoners from Siirt E Type Closed Prison were hospitalised to Siirt State Hospital.

34 prisoners out of the 215 strikers who had finalised their action in Mardin E Type and Midyat (Mardin) M Type Closed Prison were hospitalised.

Ten out of the 60 prisoners in Kırıkkale F Type Closed Prison who had finalised their strike were hospitalised to Kırıkkale High Specialisation Hospital.

Seven people in Batman M Type Closed Prison, 17 people in Van F Type Closed Prison, 20 people in Bakırköy (İstanbul) Kadın Prison, 7 people in Kandıra (Kocaeli) F Type Closed Prison and 41 people in Tekirdağ F Type Closed Prison were hospitalised.

Meanwhile, five students were detained in the intervention of the police teams to the solidarity march in Diyarbakır Province on 16 November 2012.

Police teams interfered twice the hunger strikers in Gazi Quarter of Sultangazi District of Province on 17 November 2012.

The police team sprayed tear gas to the face of Asiye Kolçak, the BDP’s İstanbul Branch Chairperson, was hospitalised later in Sancaktepe District of İstanbul Province.

Police teams interfered to the group with gas bombs and pressured water in Denizli Province.

M.Ö. (15) from his head and N.K. (8) from his eye were seriously wounded with the gas bomb canisters during the incidents Yüksekova District of Hakkâri Province.

Necla Yıldırım, the BDP’s Central Executive Board member, was wounded and 9 others were detained in the intervention to the meeting in Van Province.

Police teams interfered with gas bombs and pressured water to the solidarity hunger strike in Cizre District of Şırnak Province.

Police teams interfered with gas bombs and pressured water to the solidarity hunger strike in Esenyurt District of İstanbul Province.

Police teams interfered with gas bombs and pressured water to the solidarity hunger strike in Diyarbakır Province on 17 November 2012.

Hunger striker Ümit Aslan (32) from Diyarbakır D Type Closed Prison was hospitalised on 16 November 2012 on the grounds that he had internal bleeding.

Mehmet Yayan’s informative letter on the hunger strikes to the international institutions from Kırıklar (İzmir) F Type Closed Prison No. 2 were appropriated by the administration on the grounds that the letters are “inappropriate” reported on 16 November 2012.

Police teams who had detained two juveniles from the group that has been waiting in front of Diyarbakır D Type Closed Prison beat them in the armoured vehicle.

Five people –including 2 juveniles- were detained in the intervention to the celebration of the end of the strike in Nusaybin District of Mardin Province on 18 November 2012.

Two members of the BDP were wounded in the attack of the right wingers on the group that attempted to make a public statement in Bandırma District of Balıkesir Province on 18 November 2012.

(11/126) Operations and clashes in South-east…

Five soldiers and 8 militants were killed; a soldier and a militant were wounded; and 5 militants were apprehended in the clash between Turkish Armed Forces and Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) armed wing People’s Defence Forces (HPG) in Ortaklar Village of Şemdinli District of Hakkari Province on 18 November 2012.

(11/127) Operations and clashes in South-east…

Peasants found the remnants of the six militants who had been killed in the previous clashes in Kazan Valley of Çukurca District of Hakkâri Province on 17 November 2012.

(11/128) Clash in Tunceli Province…

Twenty-four militants of the Maoist Communist Party-People’s Liberation Army (MKP-HKO) and the person who guided to the soldiers were apprehended in a cave in Ovacık District of Tunceli Province on 15 November 2012.

(11/129) The case of Zirve Press Massacre…

On 16 November 2012 the court heard the legal argument of retired Major Mehmet Ülger, former Malatya Gendarmerie Commander. The hearing was adjourned to 14 January 2013.

(11/130) The case of Emrah Barlak…

On16 November 2012 İzmir Heavy Penal Court No. 6 began to hear the case against the police officer İ.K. on charges of killing Emrah Barlak (26) and wounding 4 others with his firearm in Karabağlar District of İzmir Province on 12 August 2012

The court heard the legal argument of the defendant and also heard the demands. The hearing was adjourned to 1 February 2013.

(11/131) Coercion in prison…

Kemal Seven’s letter to Doğan Erbaş in Kandıra (Kocaeli) F Type Closed Prison No. 2 was confiscated by the administration of Silivri (İstanbul) L Type Closed Prison No. 2 on the grounds that the letter on the issues in the prison is “inappropriate” reported on 18 November 2012.

(11/133) Confiscated newspapers and journals…

On 12 November 2012 Gaziantep Penal Court of peace No. 5 adjudicated to confiscate and appropriate all the copies of the weekly Sosyalizm için Kızıl Bayrak Newspaper’s issue dated on 2 November 2012 and monthly Özgür Bir Gelecek için Liselerin Sesi Journal’s issue dated on 15 October 2012 and weekly Atılım Newspaper’s issue dated on 2 November 2012 without showing any reason reported on 16 November 2012.

(11/134) Tried journalists…

On 16 November 2012 İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 16 went on hearing the OdaTV case against 13 defendants -including Nedim Şener and Ahmet Şık- on charges of “founding, executing, helping being a member of armed organisation”; “inciting people to hatred and enmity”, “obtaining confidential documents”, “violating the secrecy of private life”, “recording personal documents” and “attemting to influence the fair trial”. Pre-trial detainee Kaşif Kozinoğlu died in the prison.

Pre-trial detainees Soner Yalçın, Hanefi Avcı and Yalçın Küçük made their legal argument. The court adjudicated to wait the reply for the merging of the case with the “Ergenekon Case” and adjourned the hearing to 27 December 2012.

(11/135) Third KCK/TM main case ongoing in İstanbul Province…

Police teams had raided on news agencies mainly Dicle News Agency (DİHA) in the framework of the KCK investigation and 49 journalists had been detained on 20 December 2011.

İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 9 arrested 36 of the detainees on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” on 24 December 2011.

The court jury did not allow the salt and sugar to be given to the hunger strikers. The lawyers, defendants and audience left the court hall to protest the decision.

The court went on hearing the indictment on 16 November 2012 and the reading of the indictment was finalised. The court adjourned the hearing to 4 February 2013 without stoping till 8 February 2013.

(11/136) Home raids in Şırnak Province…

6 people who had been detained in Uludere and Silopi Districts of Şırnak Province on 14 November 2012 were arrested on 17 November 2012.

(11/137) KCK Operation in İstanbul Province…

Feleknaz Uca who had been reportedly detained on the grounds that she had brought several B1 vitamins without informing the authorities was released and then extradited on 16 November 2012.

(11/138) ıntervention to the protest in İstanbul Province…

Eight members of the Socialist Democracy Party (SDP) were detained on the grounds that they chained themselves to free Sinem Şahin (who had been detained in Okmeydanı Quarter of İstanbul Province on 30 October 2012) in front of the prime ministry’s office in Dolmabahçe Palace in İstanbul Province on 16 November 2012.

(11/139) Attack on party building…

Right-wingers attacked on BDP’s District Branch with stones in Bodrum District of Muğla Province on 17 November 2012.

(11/140) Raids on association offices…

Twenty-eight out of the 61 people who had been detained in the raids on the offices of the Democratic Rights Federation and on the houses of its members in Tunceli, Ankara, İzmir, Sivas, İstanbul, Uşak, Mersin, Adana, Antalya, Zonguldak, Çanakkale and Isparta Province on 13 November 2012, were arrested on 17 November 2012. There is a secrecy decision on the investigation.

(11/141) Home raids in Diyarbakır Province…

Four people were detained in home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams without making any explanation in Diyarbakır Province on 18 November 2012.

(11/142) Home raids in Ardahan Province…

D.Ç., (14) and H.Ç. (16) who had been detained in home raids of gendarmerie teams in Gölbaşı Village of Ardahan Province on 16 November 2012, were arrested on charges of “helping and harbouring an illegal organisation” on 18 November 2012.

(11/143) Home raids in İstanbul Province…

Six people detained in the raids of Fighting with Terror Department on Gülensu rights Association and on houses in Gülsuyu Quarter of Maltepe District of İstanbul Province on 19 November 2012.

(11/144) Dormitory raids in Diyarbakır Province…

Police teams raided on Mehmet Akif Ersoy Student Dormitory for Females and detained Şener Morkuzu without making any explanation in Diyarbakır Province on 17 November 2012.

(11/145) Home raids in Diyarbakır Province…

Police teams raided on the house of Dicle University student Berat Karataşlı and detained him without making any explanation in Tepe Municipality of Bismil District of Diyarbakır Province on 17 November 2012.

(11/146) Attack on the association’s tent…

Right-wingers set the tent of the Pir Sultan Abdal Kültür Derneği for the Muharrem Fast to fire in Erzincan Province on 18 November 2012.

20 November 2012

(11/147) Extra-judicial killing attempt in Hakkâri Province…

Kemal Adıyaman was wounded with the soldiers’ fire in the raid on Talê (Oğul) Village of Hakkâri Province on 19 November 2012. Kemal Adıyaman, Sekvan Adıyaman and Yusuf Zirek were detained after the incident.

(11/148) Ongoing case on prison operations …

On 19 November 2012 Üsküdar Heavy Penal Court No. 1 went on hearing the case against 399 pre-trial detainees and convicts who had been in Ümraniye (İstanbul) Prison in connection with the “Back to Life Operation” in which 32 people were killed in 20 prisons on 19 December 2000 on charges of “rioting against the administration of the prison”, “having explosives” and “wounding”. Seven prisoners had been killed during the operation in Ümraniye Prison that day.

The court adjudicated issue warrant of apprehension for the defendants who did not make legal arguments and adjourned the hearing to 28 Mayıs 2013.

(11/149) Operations and clashes in South-east…

A soldier was wounded in the explosion as an army vehicle was passing by in the vicinity of Ortaköy Village of Uludere District of Şırnak Province on 19 November 2012.

(11/150) Operations and clashes in South-east…

HPG militants raided on Akarsu Primary School and abducted Principal Hüseyin Mete and Teacher Eray Yıldız in Akarsu Municipality of Nusaybin District of Mardin Province on 19 November 2012.

(11/151) Person died in the attack on the solidarity action for hunger strikes…

Police teams interfered to the group that attempted to place a black wreath in front of the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) Yıldırım District Branch office in Yıldırım District of Bursa Province on 28 October 2012. After the intervention racists attacked on the group with stones and sticks.

On 30 October 2012 approximately 200 racists gathered in front of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Yıldırım District Branch office and attempted to attack. Police teams interfered the fight with real bullets, gas and pressured water and three people were wounded. İlker Kaya (31) who had been shot from his head died in the hospital on 19 November 2012.

(11/152) Suicide attempt in prison…

Eyüp Işık a prisoner in Bolu F Type Closed Prison, attempted suicide in the prison claiming that he has been tortured by the guardians on 19 November 2012. The prosecutor of the prison convinced Eyüp Işık to finalise his action.

(11/153) Tried people…

On 19 November 2012 Adana Heavy Penal Court No. 7 began to hear the case against 7 people including Figen Yüksekdağ, the chairperson of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), in connection with the commemoration of Yasemin Çiftçi (22) in front of her grave in Adana Province, on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation -Marxist Leninist Communist Party (MLKP)” under Article 314 of TPC. The court adjourned the hearing to 25 February 2013 after hearing the legal arguments of the defendants.

Yasemin Çiftçi (22) died in the explosion of the bomb that she allegedly had been carrying in Sancaktepe District of İstanbul Province on 9 February 2012.

(11/154) Tried persons…

On 19 November 2012 Bursa Region Heavy Penal Court No. 6 went on hearing the case against 6 defendants who had been detained in connection with the Labour Day celebrations and the Grup Yorum Concert in Eskişehir Province on 9 May 2012 on charges of “being an executive of an illegal organisation” under Article 314 of TPC and “making propaganda of an illegal organisation” under Article 7/2 of Anti-Terror Law

Sevil Sevimli Erasmus Exchange Student from Lumiere Lyon University (France) was also present in the hearing and the court heard the legal arguments of the defendants and adjourned the hearing to 16 January 2013.

(11/155) Home raids in Şırnak Province…

C.B. (17), Y.Z. (17) and H.K. (17) out of the 10 detainees who had been detained in home raids of Fighting with Terror Department in Silopi District of Şırnak Province on 17 November 2012 were arrested on charges of “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations”, “resisting public officer” on 19 November 2012.

(11/156) Intervention to the workers act in İstanbul Province…

Police teams interfered to the workers of the Hey Textile who had been laid off and whose salaries were not paid, attempted to protest the employer in front of the Union of Chamber and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB) in İstanbul Province on 19 November 2012. Eleven demonstrators were detained and five lawyers were beaten by the police teams.

(11/157) ıntervention to the university students action in İstanbul Province…

Police teams interfered the students of the İstanbul University in Beyazıt Campus with gas bombs on 16 November 2012.

Several students had affected from the gas and a different type of gas was allegedly used.

(11/158) Home raids in İstanbul Province…

Thirteen people were detained in the raid on the Gülensu Rights Association and home raids of Fighting with Terror Department in Gülsuyu Quarter of Maltepe District of İstanbul Province on 19 November 2012 on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation -Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front -Devrimci Halk Kurtuluş Parti/Cephesi (DHKP/C)” on the grounds that they have been coercing drug seller in the leadership of Mikail Önel code name ‘Maykıl’”.

(11/159) KCK operation in Hakkâri Province…

Three juveniles -A.A., M.E. and A.Ö.- out of the 13 detainees who had been detained in home raids of Fighting with Terror Department in Hakkâri Province on 15 November 2012 were arrested in the framework of KCK investigation on 19 November 2012.

21 November 2012

(11/160) Case on the 12 September military coup…

The indictment that was prepared by a republican prosecutor in Ankara with special authority listed two of the five generals that were still alive, Kenan Evren and the then Commander of the Air Force, Tahsin Şahinkaya as suspects and charged them under Article 146 of the Penal Code (Law 765) and Article 80 demanding aggravated life imprisonment. On 10 January 2012 Ankara Heavy Penal Court 12 accepted the indictment and issued a ban on the defendants to leave the country. On 20 November 2012 the Court continued to hear the case of Kenan Evren and Tahsin Şahinkaya.

Because the defendants were unable to attend the hearing for reasons of bad health, the statements of them were taken by installing a camera into their rooms in hospital. The court took the testimony of the defendants and started to read the indictment. The hearing was adjourned to 21 November 2012.

(11/161) Operations, Attacks in the South-east…

On 19 November 2012 HPG militants had come to Mardin-Nusaybin district, Akarsu town and abducted the head teacher of Akarsu Primary School Hüseyin Mete and the teacher Eray Yıldız. They were released on 20 November 2012.

(114/162) Trial on the massacre on Kertê (Bilge) village…

In the massacre in Mardin province, Mazıdağı district, Kertê (Bilge) village 44 people had been killed and 7 people had been injured on 4 May 2009. Since the victims were all from the same family it had been concluded that the attack had been conducted by temporary village guards. The trial against 8 people in pre-trial detention, one of them under 18 years old and five not imprisoned defendants had ended at Çorum Heavy Penal Court on 26 April 2010. The court had sentenced M.Ç., A.Ç., M.E.Ç., M.S.Ç., S.Ç. and Ö.Ç. to 44 times aggravated life imprisonment. The sentence against M.Ş.Ç. (14) had been reduced to 44 times 15 years’ imprisonment; A.Ç. who had been in possession of an arm was sentenced to 15 imprisonment and M.Ç., who had shot in the air was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. The defendants M.A.Ç., A.Ç., A.Ç. and A.Ç. who had not been imprisoned, had been acquitted.

On 16 February 2012 the First Penal Chamber of the Court of Cassation had reviewed the verdict, confirmed the convictions but quashed the verdict against the main perpetrator M.Ç. He had alleged that his wife had had a relationship with Fesih Çelebi, whom he killed and that his children were from him. The Court ordered that a DNA test should be done by the Forensic Institute and one should wait for the result.

Following this decision the trial against M.Ç. started again at Çorum Heavy Penal Court and continued on 20 November 2012. In the hearing before it had been disclosed that the DNA test had shown that one of the children was from Fesih Çelebi’s relationship to the wife of M.Ç. The court adjourned the hearing to 21 December 2012 in order that the fault in the telephone conference system be repaired and the lawyer of the defendants can prepare their final defence.

(11/163) Pressure in the Prisons…

Between 27 July 2011 and 20 November 2012 the PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan had not been allowed to meet his lawyers for 481 days. On 20 November 2012 the lawyers from the Law Office of the Century, Mazlum Dinç, Rezan Sarıca and Hüseyin Boğatekin who had come to the command of the gendarmerie in Gemlik (Bursa) were again not allowed to go to İmralı Island, because the newly bought coaster for transport to the hight security prison on İmralı was out of order.

(11/164) Pressure in the Prisons…

On 21 November 2012 it was learned that in Kırıkkale F-type Prison the prisoner Talet Şanlı had painted portraits of Mahir Çayan and Che Guevera. On 28 August 2012 the prison administration had confiscated the drawing since they could be used for propaganda for an illegal organization.

(11/165) Development after the end of the hunger strike…

On 12 September 2012 prisoners of the PKK and PJAK had started a hunger strike demanding to secure the health, security and freedom condition of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and to give the Kurdish people their democratic rights. The had terminated the hunger strike on the 67th day on 17 November 2012, following the call of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan who had seen his brother Mehmet Öcalan in the F-type prison on İmralı Island.

The prisoners with poor health were taken to hospital after the end of their action and their treatment started. Two days later 21 prisoners from Kandıra F-type Prison were taken to İzmit Seka State Hospital. On 20 November 2012 it was learned that they had been kept waiting in one room for six hours while being handcuffed. After that they had been sent back to prison without any treatment.

The governor in Diyarbakır held a press conference on intensified actions in support of the hunger strike and said that between 12 and 17 November 2012 152 people had been detained, 100 of them minors. Among them 15 people had been arrested, while the interrogation of nine people continued.

In Van a meeting was held on 17 November 2012 in which the joint chair of the BDP, Selahattin Demirtaş participated. The police intervened with gas bombs and pressurized water when a group started to march. Among the detainees 6 people were arrested on 20 November 2012 on charges of having conducted an action in the name of an illegal organization and caused damage to public property.

(11/166) Trade unionists on trial…

On 28 March 2012 the Ministry of the Interior had sent a letter to the governors of all provinces concerning protest actions of the Confederation of Trade Union in the Public Sector (KESK) on 28 and 29 March 2012 related to the “Draft Education Law 4+4+4” and the “Draft Law 4688 on Trade Unions in the Public Sector”. The strike actions that KESK planned for 28 and 29 March 2012 and the protest in Ankara had been prevented by the Police on order of the Interior Ministry of 28 March 2012. In Izmir the police intervened with truncheons, pressurized water and pepper gas, when a group had tried to gather. As a result of the interventions 35 members of KESK were indicted for having resisted so that public servants could not carry out their duty. On 20 November 2012 their trial started with a demand of three years’ imprisonment. İzmir Penal Court 2 heard the testimony of the defendants and adjourned the hearing to 7 February 2013.

(11/167) Case to close an association…

On 10 November 2010 the governor of Ankara had applied to the prosecutor’s office in Ankara demanding that the Association for building a Cemevi in Çankaya should be closed because in its statute it was said that they wanted to worship there. On 24 November 2010 the Presidency for Theological Affairs had issued a fatwa on closing the association and the case had been terminated on 4 October 2011. Ankara Judicial Court 16 rule that although the prosecutor had argued that a Cemevi was no place of worship and had asked for the closure of the association he had rejected the case.

After the 7th Civil Law Chamber of the Court of Cassation had quashed the verdict the retrial started on 20 November 2012. The judge at Ankara Judicial Court 16 stated that for hundreds of years the Cemevi had been known as the places of worship of Alevis and society had accepted that. The expression in the statute of the association “Cemevi is the place for worship” was not in contravention to Article 2 of the Constitution and had not been prohibited by law. As a consequence the court insisted on its original verdict. Subsequently the verdict was sent to the General Assembly of the Court of Cassation to pass a final verdict.

(11/168) KCK/TM trial in Şanlıurfa continued…

During parallel house raids in several provinces, Şanlıurfa province being the centre, but also involving Istanbul, Ankara, Eskişehir, Muş and Diyarbakır 28 people including BDP members and executives were detained on 8 May 2012. On 11 May 2012 19 of them had been arrested on charges of being members of the illegal organization KCK town parliament.

On 20 November 2012 the trial of 24 people, 19 of them in pre-trial detention started. Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court 7 rejected the demand of the defendants to testify in Kurdish, heard the requests of the lawyers and having decided to release the defendants Mehmet Kılıç, İzettin Gök, Rukiye Mercan, Medine Ete, Perihan Yılmaz and Sevgihan Yıldıztekin adjourned the hearing.

(11/169) House raids in Ağrı…

On 20 November 2012 police teams conducted parallel house raid in Ağrı and detained 15 students of the İbrahim Çeçen University. No reason was given for the operation.

(11/170) House raids in Şırnak…

On 19 November 2012 police teams raided houses in Şırnak and Cizre district and detained seven minors, but did not provide a reason.

(11/171) House raids in Ardahan…

On 20 November 2012 teams of the gendarmerie conducted parallel house raids in Ardahan-Göle district, Hacıali village and detained four people without providing a reason.

(11/172) House raids in Diyarbakır…

In Diyarbakır police teams of the department to fight terrorism conducted parallel house raids on 18 November 2012 and detained six people. Five of them were arrested on 20 November 2012.

(11/173) Intervention in funeral in Şanlıurfa…

For the HPG militant Hasan Denktaş, who had been killed in the rural areas of Ağrı-Doğubayazıt district a funeral was conducted in Şanlıurfa-Suruç district on 20 November 2012. Police teams intervened and in the ensuing tumult five people were injured including two police officers.

(11/174) Intervention in an act of protest in Izmir…

On 20 November 2012 police teams intervened in Izmir when female members of the Socialist Democracy Party (SDP) had chained themselves to the clock tower to exhibit violence against women and get attention to the court case of G.A. who had been killed. Five women were detained under beatings.

(11/175) Raids of public buildings and houses…

On 20 November 2012 the police conducted raids of houses of members of the Right Association in Antalya, Malatya, Gaziantep, İstanbul, İzmir, Kocaeli and Manisa and detained 12 people. Because of secrecy of the file information on the reasons for the operation could not be established.

22-30 November 2012

(11/176) Operations, Attacks in the South-east…

In a clash that occurred in the rural areas of Ağrı-Doğubayazıt district on 10 November 2012 one militant was killed.

(11/177) Intervention into a protest action in Samsun…

On 21 November 2012 police intervened in Samsun where women, members of the Socialist Democracy Party (SDP) had chained themselves to the iron fences of the Regional Administrative Court in protest at violence against women and detained four women under beatings.

(11/178) KCK operation in Şırnak…

On 21 November 2012 police teams of the department to fight terrorism conducted parallel house raids in Şırnak in the name of the “KCK investigations” and detained 23 people.

(11/179) Case on the 12 September military coup…

On 12 September 1980 the Turkish Armed Forces under the leadership of the Commander of the General Staff, Kenan Evren had conducted a military coup d’etat within the chain of command. The investigation into this event had finished and an indictment had been sent to Ankara Heavy Penal Court 12. The indictment that was prepared by a republican prosecutor in Ankara with special authority listed two of the five generals that were still alive Kenan Evren and the then Commander of the Air Force, Tahsin Şahinkaya as suspects and charged them under Article 146 of the Penal Code (Law 765) and Article 80 demand aggravated life imprisonment.

On 10 January 2012 Ankara Heavy Penal Court 12 had accepted the indictment and issued a ban on the defendants to leave the country. On 21 and 22 November 2012 the Court continued to hear the case of Kenan Evren and Tahsin Şahinkaya. Because the defendants were unable to attend the hearing for reasons of bad health, the statements of them were taken by installing a camera into their rooms in hospital. After hearing the testimony of the defendants and reading the indictment the court took the questions of the intervening lawyers that they wanted to be asked from the defendants and adjourned the hearing to 17 January 2013.

(11/180) Persons convicted…

On 4 December 2011 the police had intervened against a tent of hunger strikers erected under the slogan “we don’t want a missile shield, but a democratic university” in Kocaeli. In protest against this intervention Meral Dönmez and Gülşah Işıklı, member of Kocaeli Youth Association had put up a banner from a lawyer’s office. They had been arrested on 6 December 2011 on charges of having violated the inviolability of housing in the name of an organization. On 26 November 2012 their trial on charges of having committed a crime in the name of the illegal Revolutionary People’s Party/Front (DHKP-C) without being members of it, having made propaganda for an illegal organization and having deprived a person from liberty and violated the inviolability of housing continued. Çağlayan (Istanbul) Heavy Penal Court 15 heard the final statement of the prosecutor and the defendants and sentenced the defendants according to Article 220/6 of the Turkish Penal Code (TPC) and Article 7/2 of the Anti-Terror Law to six years and eight months’ imprisonment. Regarding the time that they had spent in pre-trial detention the court ordered their release.

(11/181) KCK Operation in Muş…

On 28 November 2012 Orhan Artunç, former member of the BDP party assembly, who had been detained by police teams of the department to fight terrorism conducted raids in Muş-Malazgirt district in the frame of “KCK Investigations” was arrested by a court in Erzurum on charges of being a member of an illegal organization.

(11/182) Operations, Attacks in the South-east…

Following an attack in Mardin-Ömerli district on the gendarmerie station in Ünsalı village a clash occurred during which one soldier and two militants were killed, one soldier was injured.

(11/183) KCK operation in Erzurum…

Following raids of the police and soldiers in Erzurum-Karayazı district nine people were detained in the frame of the “KCK Investigations” on 27 November 2012.

(11/184) KCK operation in Hakkâri…

On 22 November 2012 police teams of the department to fight terrorism conducted parallel house raids in Hakkâri-Şemdinli and Yüksekova district and detained 20 people in the frame of the “KCK Investigations”. Among the detainees nine were arrested on 26 November 2012.

(11/185) House raids in Şırnak…

Of the five people that had been detained in Şırnak-İdil district on 20 November 2012 during parallel house raids two were arrested on 22 November 2012.

(11/186) Intervention into a protest action in Ankara…

On 22 November 2012 the police intervened when women, members of the Socialist Democracy Party (SDP) opened a banner in front of the courthouse in Ankara in protest at violence against women and detained five women.

(11/187) Raids of public buildings and houses…

On 20 November 2012 the police conducted raids of houses of members of the Right Association in Antalya, Malatya, Gaziantep, İstanbul, İzmir, Kocaeli and Manisa and detained 13 people on the allegation that they were preparing an assassination attempt on Korkut Eken, former member of a special team. Of the 13 detainees seven were arrested on 24 November 2012 on charges of being members of the DHKP/C and having made propaganda for an illegal organization .

(11/188) Operations, Attacks in the Southeast…

On 25 November 2012 it was announced that during a clash that occurred in the rural areas of Diyarbakır-Lice district two militants had died.

(11/189) Operations, Attacks in the South-east…

On 25 November 2012 it was announced that during a clash that occurred in the rural areas of Osmaniye-Hasanbeyli district two militants had died.

(11/190) KCK operation in Van…

As the result of police operations from the department to fight terrorism in Van 28 people were detained on 26 November 2012 in the frame of the “KCK Investigations”. Six of the detainees were arrested on 29 and 30 November 2012.

(11/191) People detained…

On 25 November 2012 police teams detained Ali Gülmez and Meltem Vayiç in İstanbul-Kadıköy district and took them to the anti-terror department. They did not provide any reason for it stating that a decision of secrecy had been taken on the file. Of the detainees Ali Gülmez was arrested on 28 November 2012.

(11192) Pressure in the Prisons…

Between 27 July 2011 and 22 November 2012 the PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan had not been allowed to meet his lawyers for 483 days. On 22 November 2012 the lawyers from the Law Office of the Century, Mazlum Dinç, Rezan Sarıca and Hüseyin Boğatekin who had come to the command of the gendarmerie in Gemlik (Bursa) were again not allowed to go to İmralı Island, because the coaster for transport to the hight security prison on İmralı was out of order.

(11/193) Death in Custody…

On 23 November 2012 thieves who had come to a house in İstanbul-Üsküdar pushed the woman S.A. when they left building. One of the two people Kamil Yoksul (51) was beaten by people in the neighbourhood. Instead of being taken to hospital Kamil Yoksul was taken to Doğancılar Police Station where he died from a heart attack.

(11/194) Intervention into a protest action in Istanbul…

On 23 November 2012 police teams detained four women who had staged a protest on the Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul on the international day of struggle against violence against women.

(11/195) KCK operation in Şırnak…

Police teams that conducted operations in Şırnak-İdil district on 23 November 2012 in the frame of the “KCK Investigations” and detained nine members of the Patriotic Democratic Youth Parliament (DYGM).

(11/196) Operations, Attacks in the South-east…

During a clash that occurred on 12 November 2012 in Hatay-İskenderun district, Hamamçınar town two militants lost their lives.

(11/197) Detained artist…

On 23 November 2012 the artist Rojda was detained at Atatürk Airport in Istanbul when she wanted to go to Germany. Reportedly a search warrant existed against her for having violated Law 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations.

(11/198) Raids of public buildings…

On 13 November 2012 police teams in Tunceli, Ankara, İzmir, Sivas, İstanbul, Uşak, Mersin, Adana, Antalya, Zonguldak, Çanakkale and Isparta had raided houses of member of the Federation for Democratic Rights. On 17 November 2012 31 of the 61 detainees had been arrested. On 23 November 2012 it was learned that another 10 people of the 30 people that had been released had also been arrested on objection of the prosecutor.

(11/199) Violations as a result of extreme use of force of the uniformed forces…

On 22 November 2012 it was learned that Zübeyde Çalışkan (65) had not been allowed to see her step-son imprisoned in Van-Erciş district, because of different surnames. She had gone to the containers of the courthouse and wanted to ask the prosecutor for permission, but was beaten by police officers because she spoke Kurdish. Zübeyde Çalışkan was taken to court and arrested on charges of having resisted in order to prevent the judiciary of carrying out its duty.

(11/200) Home raids in Istanbul…

On 19 November 2012 police officers of the department to fight terrorism carried out raids of houses in Istanbul-Maltepe district, Gülsuyu quarter and detained 13 members of Gülensu Rights Association for having put pressure on the gang of Mikail Öncel, code named ‘Maykıl’ that was selling drugs and being members of the illegal organization DHKP/C. On 22 November 2012 six out of the 13 detainees were arrested.

(12/201) KCK/TM trial in Izmir continued…

On 22 November 2012 the case against 28 people, 12 of them in pre-trial detention who had been detained in March 2012 in İzmir-Bornova district in the frame of the “KCK Investigations” and who are charged with being members of the formation KCK/TM continued. İzmir Heavy Penal Court 8 conducted the hearing against the 28 defendants. When the secret witnesses were unable to identify the defendants the court decided to release the 12 pre-trial detainees and adjourned the hearing.

(11/202) House raids in Ağrı…

On 20 November 2012 police officers of the department to fight terrorism conducted house raids in Ağrı and detained 15 students of İbrahim Çeçen University. On 23 November 2012 three of the 15 students were arrested.

(11/203) KCK trial continued in Mersin…

On 27 November 2012 the case against 52 people, 17 of them in pre-trial detention, who had been detained in Mersin in October 2010 and are being charged as members of Koma Ciwaken Kurdistan (Union of Kurdish Communities) KCK/TM (Turkey Assembly) continued. Adana Heavy Penal Court rejected the demand of the defendants to defend themselves in Kurdish and adjourned the hearing.

(11/204) Person convicted…

In the case against the driver Kadri Pervane who had been put on trial in Diyarbakır for having made propaganda for an illegal organization when he listened to Kurdish music in a public bus Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court 5 sentenced him to two years’ imprisonment during the final hearing on 25 November 2012.

(11/205) Operations, Attacks in the South-east…

During a clash that occurred in the rural areas of Hakkâri-Çukurca district on 25 November 2012 one soldier was injured.

(11/206) Extra-judicial execution in Uşak…

During a tumult that occurred in Uşak on 21 November 2012 when the police tried to capture an alleged thief Kenan Kapısız, who had tried to calm down the situation was hit by a bullet from the pistol of a police officer and heavily wounded to his head. He died in İzmir Tepecik Hospital.

(11/207) Intervention into protest demonstration against a government official…

On 25 November 2012 five women were detained under beatings and handcuffed, when they wanted to protest against the participation of the Minister for Family and Social Politics, Fatma Şahin in a conference of the Journalists and Writers’ Foundation in Istanbul on the subject of “Family and Violence”.

(11/208) Operations, Attacks in the South-east…

In a clash that occurred in the rural areas of Bingöl-Genç district on 23 and 24 November 2012 seven militants died.

(11/209) Attack on tent of an association…

Material damage occurred when on 18 November 2012 a racist group attacked the tent that the Pir Sultan Abdal Culture Association had erected in Erzincan on behalf of the month of Muharrem. Of the three people that were detained on charges of having attacked the tent, two were arrested on 24 November 2012.

(11/210) KCK operation in Iğdır…

As the result of parallel police operations from the department to fight terrorism in Iğdır on 26 November 2012 16 people were detained in the frame of the “KCK Investigations”. On 29 and 30 November 2012 five of them were arrested.

(11/211) KCK operation in Mersin…

As the result of police operations from the department to fight terrorism in Mersin 13 people were detained on 26 November 2012 in the frame of the “KCK Investigations”.

(11/212) People on Trial…

As the result of a raid on the Idil Culture Center in Istanbul-Bakırköy district police teams had detained 13 people including the members of the music group Yorum, Ali Papur, Caner Bozkurt and Ali Aracı. Meanwhile the public prosecutor of Istanbul finished the indictment and sent it to the chief public prosecutor’s office in Istanbul. In the indictment the 13 people stand accused of being members of the illegal Revolutionary People’s Party/Front (DHKP-C), resisting civil servants and creating damage to public property. Following the acceptance of the indictment the trial of the 13 people including five members of the group Yorum started on 26 November 2012. Istanbul Heavy Penal Court 15 heard Anıl Osman Özcan as witness. He identified the wrong defendants. Witness Baran Furkan Gül stated in court that she had testified under the pressure of the police. The court heard the testimony of the defendants charged with membership of an illegal organization and ordered that the defendants who had not appeared because of a sanction not to leave their homes should be present during the next hearing that was scheduled for 2 April 2013.

(11/213) Intervention in a demonstration of students in İzmir…

On 26 November 2011 the police intervened when students of the Ege University (İzmir) tried to opened a banner calling for “freedom for the members of Dev-Genç” and erect a tent using gas bombs and detained 12 students.

(11/214) Operations, Attacks in the South-east…

As the result of the explosion of a mine that had been planted earlier six soldiers were injured in a vehicle on the way from Diyarbakır-Hani district to Lice district on 26 November 2012.

(11/215) Trial on torture and ill-treatment in custody continued…

On 9 December 2011 it had been learned that on 16 July 2011 F.C. (37) who had come to a music hall in Izmir to enjoy herself with her family had been detained since she had no ID on her. She had been taken to Karabağlar police station, where the police officers Hakan Yörük and Beyit Sezgin had beaten her for several minutes. A camera also recorded that the police officers sexually assaulted her and that the other police officers did not intervene. Following the incident F.C. filed an official complaint. In return the police officers filed an official complaint alleging that she had resisted and cursed them.

Subsequently F.C. was indicted for having injured and insulted police officers. A sentence of 6.5 years’ imprisonment was asked against her. During the hearing on 13 June 2012 İzmir Peace Court 15 heard the witnesses of F.C. After that the judge stated that there was no subject left that needed clarification, but that the character of the crime had changed and the file needed to be sent to a penal court. On 26 November 2012 İzmir Penal Court 10 decided to combine the case against the police officers with this case and sent the file to Izmir Heavy Penal Court 6.

(11/216) Ongoing trial on operation in prison…

On 28 November 2012 the court case against 39 soldiers from the Command of the Gendarmerie in Elazığ in connection with the operation “return to life” that had been conducted on December 2000 in 20 prison aiming at facilitating the transfer to F-type prisons and putting an end to hunger strikes and that had resulted in the death of 32 people, among them 12 prisoners from Bayrampaşa Prison, continued. Bakırköy Heavy Penal Court 13 decided that the commanders of the operation, General Engin Hoş who died on 14 November 2012, Major Burhan Ergin and the assistants of Engin Hoş, Mehmet Ay, Major Kubilay Aktaş and Major Mehmet Polat, the retired General Osman Özbek, retired General Aytaç Yalman, the then prosecutor in Üsküdar, Kemal Canbaz, the then director for prisons, Ali Suat Ertosun and his deputy should be present during the next hearing that was scheduled for 15 May 2013.

(11/217) People on Trial…

On 12 June 2011 a protest had been conducted in Izmir against the fact that the High Election Council had vetoed candidates for the Block of Labour, Freedom and Democracy to participated in the general elections. On 27 November 2012 the case against 27 people, eight of them in pre-trial detention, continued. During the hearing at İzmir Heavy Court 8 the prosecutor summed up the case against the defendants charged with membership of an illegal organization, violation of Law 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations. The court adjourned the hearing to 7 March 2013 giving time for the defendants to prepare their final statements.

(11/218) House raids in Şırnak… In Şırnak-Cizre and İdil district police officers from the department to fight terrorism conducted raids on 27 November 2012 in the frame of the “KCK Investigation” and detained 16 people including five minors. Of the four people detained in İdil four people, including tow minors were arrested on 28 November 2012 on charges of having shouted illegal slogans during the Newroz celebrations on 20 Mach 2012.

(11/219) Pressure in the Prisons…

Between 27 July 2011 and 27 November 2012 the PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan had not been allowed to meet his lawyers for 488 days. On 27 November 2012 the lawyers from the Law Office of the Century, Mazlum Dinç, Rezan Sarıca and Hüseyin Boğatekin who had come to the command of the gendarmerie in Gemlik (Bursa) were again not allowed to go to İmralı Island, because the coaster for transport to the hight security prison on İmralı was out of order.

(11/220) Intervention in an action in İzmir…

On 27 November 2012 students from Ege University opened a stand. The police teams interfered and detained 20 students for having put up posters on behalf of the 34th anniversary of the foundation of the PKK.

(11/221) Publisher on trial…

On 27 November 2012 Diyarbakir Heavy Penal Court 6 continued to hear the case of Bedri Adanır, owner of Aram Publishing House and editor-in-chief of the newspaper Hawar. He is charged together with Abdullah Eşit and Seyithan Emen with making propaganda for an illegal organization because of articles that appeared in the newspaper on 18, 21, 22 and 25 May 2009. At the end of the hearing the court sentences Bedri Adanır, imprisoned since 8 January 2010 to six years, three months’ imprisonment for having conducted an action in the name of an illegal organization without being a member of it. Seyithan Emen received a prison term of three years, one month and 15 day on the same charges. Abdullah Eşit was acquitted. Regarding the time that he had spent in pre-trial detention the court ordered the release of Bedri Adanır.

(11/222) Person convicted…

During the hearing of 27 November 2012 Erzurum Heavy Penal Court 2 passed its verdict on İbrahim Kaya, charged with having thrown stones on police officers during the Newroz celebrations in Ağrı on 20 March 2012. The Court sentenced İbrahim Kaya to 10 months’ imprisonment for having violated Law 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations.

(11/223) Death in Prison…

It was alleged that Veysel Yıldırım (23), imprisoned in Siirt E-type Prison who had been sent to an open prison, since less than one year of his sentence remained committed suicide on 28 November 2012 after he had been convicted in another trial to 19 years’ imprisonment.

(11/244) Violations as a result of extreme use of force of the uniformed forces…

On 28 November 2012 it was learned that Murat Yıldız, born in Idil, had had a discussion on parking space in İstanbul-Esenler district on 30 October 2012. After that he had been beaten by a group of people unknown to him. Finally police officers beat him when they wanted to detain him.

(11/225) Pressure in the Prisons…

On 20 July 2012 police officers had opened fire on a taxi in which Sultan Işıklı and Hasan Selim Gören were travelling in Istanbul, where they were wanted for having conducted bomb attacks in the name of the Revolutionary People’s Party/Front (DHKP-C). The police had tried to stop the taxi in Gazi quarter in Istanbul-Sultangazi district but the taxi had driven off with high speed. Hasan Selim Gören was heavily wounded by the fire of the police and taken to Okmeydanı Hospital where he died on 21 July 2012. During the incident that was termed a clash Sultan Işıklı had been wounded to her shoulder. She had been arrested on 23 July 2012 although her treatment had not been finished. On 29 November 2012 the Office for People’s Law declared that Sultan Işıklı was still held at Bakırköy Women’s Prison. Her wounds had not healed, her treatment was obstructed and in her room civilian dressed and uniformed police officers were to be found.

(11/226) Concluded KCK Trial in Iğdır…

On 29 November 2012 the case against 23 members of the YDGM, who had been detained in Iğdır in 2011 and are being charged as members of Koma Ciwaken Kurdistan (Union of Kurdish Communities) KCK/TM (Turkey Assembly) continued. Erzurum Heavy Penal Court rejected the demand of the defendants to defend themselves in Kurdish and sentenced Ufuk Demir, Yakup Erdoğan ve and Rıza Yamlı to 13 years, 6 months’ imprisonment; Hikmet Çarlı, Zahide Perin and Nazan Salgın were sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment; Cihan Şit to 10.5 years, Melek Aras to nine years; Pınar Tilüt to 7.5 years; Orhan Abay to 13 years; İsmet Mapu to 11.5 years; Ahmet Kikir to nine years; Yılmaz Yıldız, Semih Budak, Abbas Binal, Emrah Batın, Fatma Turan and Ferhat Akbay were sentenced to 7.5 years’ imprisonment. Cihan Önal, Burcu Önal, Fatma Abay, Sinan Savaş and Necdet Durdu were acquitted.

(11/227) Attack on Kurdish workers in Istanbul…

On 17 November 2012 a group of textile workers in a workshop in Istanbul-Bayrampaşa district who listened to Kurdish music were attacked by a racist group. Two workers were injured. One of them, Mehmet Sadık Çoban had to be treated with nine stitches to his head and was given a report to be unable to work for 26 days.

(11/228) House raids in Mersin…

Five out of seven minors who had been detained during house raids in Mersin on 19 November 2012 were arrested on 21 November 2012 for having thrown a Molotov cocktail at a police car.

(11/229) Persons convicted…

On 30 November 2012 the court case of nine people put on trial after a visit of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Mersin in 2006 because they had thrown eggs at him in protest at this health and education politics concluded. Mersin Penal Court sentenced Mahir Unsuroğlu and Okay Kınık to 21 months’ imprisonment for having insulted a public servant because of his duty. Ozan Güner, Şenol Yalçınkaya, İbrahim Polat, Ramazan Tunç, Ufuk Kurtulmaz, İlknur Çiçek and Ozan Gül were sentenced to 11 months, 20 days’ imprisonment.

(11/230) Home raids in Istanbul…

Of the five people that had been detained in Istanbul-Esenyurt district on 27 November 2012 during house raids BDP Esenyurt executives Muhacir İlhan, Atilla Coşkun and Rojin Uğurlu were arrested on 30 November 2012 on charges of membership of an illegal organization.

(11/231) Operations, Attacks in the South-east…

It was declared that during a clash in Hakkâri-Şemdinli district, Aktütün region eight militants died on 29 November 2012.

(11/232) Operations, Attacks in the South-east…

As the result of an explosion that occurred in Şırnak-Uludere district, near Ortaköy village on 19 November 2012 the soldier Duyal Ceylan had been injured when a military vehicle passed. He died on 30 November 2012.

(11/233) Torture and Ill-treatment in detention…

It was alleged that Haluk Çetinkaya, who had been shot at in his car in Hakkâri-Şemdinli district on 26 November 2012, stopped and been detained was beaten by police officers at the police headquarters of the district and that he had a broken nose.

(11/234) House raids in Mardin…

On 27 November 2012 police teams conducted house raids in Mardin-Dargeçit district and detained nine people. No information was given on the reason for the operation.

(11/235) Pressure in the Prisons…

Between 27 July 2011 and 29 November 2012 the PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan had not been allowed to meet his lawyers for 490 days. On 29 November 2012 the lawyers from the Law Office of the Century, Mazlum Dinç, Rezan Sarıca and Hüseyin Boğatekin who had come to the command of the gendarmerie in Gemlik (Bursa) were again not allowed to go to İmralı Island, because of bad weather conditions.

(11/236) Violations as a result of extreme use of force of the uniformed forces…

After the visit of the deputy chair of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), Gürsel Tekin and the CHP Adana deputy Ali Demirçalı to a job market in Adana on 27 November 2012 police tried to shout down the vehicle for transport of workers. The ensuing discussion resulted in the detention of 15 workers under beatings.

(11/237) Detained person…

On 29 November 2012 Mustafa Ekrem Polatsoy, member of parliament in the municipality, was detained in Şanlıurfa-Suruç district because a search warrant existed against him for having violated Law 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations.

(11/238) Person on trial…

On 30 November 2012 it was learned that the trial against Yılmaz Özbay who had deposited money for his friend Mehmet Yıldırım, staying in Kırıklar (İzmir) F-type Prison 1 in January 2012 and instead of his own name had put P-K-K on the receipt. He is being tried for having made propaganda for an illegal organization. İzmir Heavy Penal Court 10 was unable to determine whether the signature belonged to Yılmaz Özbay and, therefore, took sample of his signature and sent them to the Forensic Institute to compare the letter P-K-K. The hearing was adjourned.

(11/239) Party official convicted…

The final hearing against Mehmet Doğan, chair of the BDP in Kars-Kağızman district on trial for a press statement he made in April 2011 was held on 29 November 2012. Erzurum Heavy Penal Court 2 sentenced Mehmet Doğan to 7.5 years’ imprisonment for having made propaganda for an illegal organization and having violated Law 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations.

(11/240) Intervention against a group waiting in Van…

As the result of police operations from the department to fight terrorism in Van 28 people had been detained on 26 November 2012 in the frame of the “KCK Investigations”. On 29 November 2012 they were taken to the courthouse where a group of people were waiting for the end of the procedure. The police intervened resulting in injuries of four people and two police officers.

(11/241) Operations, Attacks in the South-east…

It was announced that one militant died in a clash near Fis village on the road from Diyarbakır to Bingöl on 22 November 2012.

(11/242) Banned activities in Şanlıurfa…

Prior to the visit of a delegation from the BDP to Şanlıurfa-Ceylanpınar district in order to research the attack of the Free Syrian Army on Kurdish groups in Serêkaniyê (Ras el-Ayn) town in Syria the governor in Ceylanpınar banned all activities to be conducted between 23 November and 23 December 2012.

(11/243) People detained in Batman after a demonstration…

Following a demonstration in Batman on 25 November concerning the day of international solidarity and struggle against violence against women five people were detained, but reasons were not given.

(11/244) Case against members of JİTEM…

On 28 November 2012 it was learned that an investigation to 10 killings in Şırnak-Cizre district between 1993 and 1995 had been terminated. During the investigation Sergeant Burhanettin Kıyak who had used the code name ‘Yavuz Hoca’, when in 1994 he had been working for the gendarmerie in Cizre had been detained in Ankara and arrested in Diyarbakır. It was alleged that Burhanettin Kıyak had been in the JİTEM team for interrogation. Together with him the defectors Adem Yakin, Abdulhakim Güven (Fırat Altın) and Hıdır Güven were also indicted.

Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Code accepted the indictment asking for 10 times life imprisonment for the defendants. The indictment pointed at the similarity of killings by unidentified assailants, the way in which the victims had been detained, the fact that the people carrying out the detention had always been the same, had used a Renault car in white colour, that the victims had been killed by Kalashnikov rifles or pistols in similar places and after the killings had been buried under 8 to 10 cm of eart and covered with stones and no ID papers had been found on them. The indictment mentioned the killing of Ramazan Elçi on 14 February 1994, the killing of İbrahim Adak and Mehmet Gürri Özer on 14 March 1994, the killings of Süleyman Gasyak, Abdulaziz Gasyak, Yahya Akman and Ömer Candoruk on 8 March 1994, the killing of Abdurahman Afşar on 31 March 1994 and the killing of a foreigner on 3 September 1995 and also pointed to witnesses for the killings. It was stressed that during these actions “Yavuz Hoca” code named Burhanettin Kıyak and the defectors Adem Yakin, Abdulhakim Güven (Fırat Altın) and Hıdır Güven participated. The hearing of these four people together with “Tuna” code named Gündür Güler and two persons code named “Selim Hoca” and “Cabbar”, whose identities could not be established will start in the near future.

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