Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT/TIHV) – Full Report December 2013

01-02 December 2013 Daily Human Rights Report

(12/001) Extra-judicial killing attempt in Kilis…

A Turkish and a Syrian citizen were wounded with the fire of the soldiers on the grounds that they did not obey the stop warning as they were trying to cross the border for smuggling from Rojava Region (Syria) to Gülbaba Village of Kilis Province on 1 December 2013.

(12/002) Coercion in prison…

Kenan Kırkkaya, Tolga Bülbül, Utku Aykan and Haydar Yeşilbingöl were beaten by gendarmerie soldiers on the grounds that they covered the camera inside the prison shuttle with a paper handkerchief as they were transferred to Yuvacık Tooth Hospital from Kandıra (Kocaeli) F Type of Closed Prison No. 1 for their medical treatment on 20 November 2013, reported on 2 December 2013.

(12/003) Convicted editor-in-chief…

Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 8 sentenced Aydın Atar, the former editor-in-chief of Kurdish Daily Azadiya Welat Newspaper, to 11 years 3 months of imprisonment in connection with 9 articles on charges of “making propaganda of an illegal organisation” under Article 7/2 of Anti-Terror Law reported on 1 December 2013.

(12/004) Banned demonstrations, detained people, raided institutions in Muğla Province…

Muğla Governorate stated that all the meeting, demonstrations and public statements were banned for the visit of PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Muğla Province and its districts of Province between 29 November and 2 December 2013.

On 1 December 2013 Youth League of Turkey/Türkiye Gençlik Birliği (TGB) Milas Branch was raided after a “bomb warning”.

(12/005) Hate crime in Adıyaman Province…

Thirteen houses and 1 vehicle were marked in the Yeni Quarter in which Aleviis have been living in Adıyaman Province on 1 December 2013.

 

03 December 2013 Daily Human Rights Report

(12/006) Extra-judicial killing in Kilis Province…

Ela Şık Nayıf (7) was killed with the soldiers’ fire on the grounds that she and her family did not obey the stop warning as they trying to return back to Syria from Kilis Province on 2 December 2013.

(12/007) The case on the murder of Ethem Sarısülük…

On 2 December 2013 Ankara Heavy Penal Court No. 6 went on hearing the case against police officer Ahmet Şahbaz on the murder of Ethem Sarısülük. The court heard the legal argument of the defendant via Voice and Image Communication System/Ses ve Görüntü Bilişim Sistemi (SEGBİS).

Judges in the ongoing trial unexpectedly withdrew from the case and referred it to another court after lawyers for the Sarısülük family voiced their doubts over the impartiality of the court board. Ankara Heavy Penal Court No. 7 will evaluate this decision.

(12/008) The case on the murder of Musa Anter…

A suspect accused of murdering Musa Anter, a prominent Kurdish author, was arrested yesterday by a court in the south-eastern province of Diyarbakır.

Hamit Yıldırım, who was detained in the south-eastern province of Şırnak on June 29, some 20 years after the murder took place, denied all accusations in his interrogation in court. The court cited strong suspicion of offense in its arrest ruling. Anter was killed in an armed attack in 1992. The prime suspect, Yıldırım, was photographed recently for the first time in Şırnak by daily Sabah. The murder case, which would have been dropped in three months due to the statute of limitations, has been extended for 10 more years due to the new development.

Hamit Yıldırım, a member of Gendarmerie Intelligence and Fighting with Terrorism Department (JITEM), was arrested by Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 7 on 2 July 2012.

Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecution Office launched an indictment against 4 people -including Hamit Yıldırım- reported on 27 June 2013. The indictment was sent to Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 7 in order to be evaluated and the prosecutor asked for life sentence in solitary confinement and with no possibility of parole to 20 years of imprisonment for the defendants Hamit Yıldırım, Mahmut Yıldırım, Abdülkadir Aygan and retired colonel Savaş Gevrekçi. The court had accepted the indictment on 5 July 2013.

Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 7 went on hearing the case against on 2 December 2013. Pre-trial detainee Hamit Yıldırım who allegedly pulled the trigger in the murder participated for the first time in the hearing and interrogated.

The court adjourned the hearing to 24 January 2014.

(12/009) Coercion in prison…

Abdülkadir Bozkurt (20) who had been transferred from Mardin E Type of Closed Prison to Tekirdağ F Type of Closed Prison No. 2 against his will on the grounds that he objected to the cavity search by 7 guardians reported on 2 December 2013.

(12/010) People tried in connection with Gezi Park Actions…

The indictment against 170 people in connection with the solidarity action in Antalya Province on 1 June 2013 on charges of “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations”, “harming public goods”, “resisting public officers due to his duty” reported on 2 December 2013.

The first hearing will be in Penal Court of First Instance between 17 and 21 March 2014.

(12/011) Tried juveniles…

A case was launched against 6 juveniles -A.Y. (14), A.D. (15), S.E. (14), B.Y. (17) İ.Ş. (14) and M.S.F. (17)- who had been detained in a protest on the grounds that they threw stones to the law-enforcement in Mersin Province in July 2013 reported on 3 December 2013. The indictment evaluated the Molotov Cocktails as “nuclear, biologic and chemical weapon”.

On 20 November 2013 Mersin Heavy Penal Court No. 2 began to hear the case and heard the legal arguments of the juveniles before adjourning the hearing.

(12/012) Closure case against an association…

The indictment which was prepared against the Kurdish Language Research and Improvement Association-Komela Lêkolîn û Pêşvebirina Ziman Kurdî (KURDÎ-DER) Batman Branch on the grounds that “it is related with the illegal organisation” was accepted by Batman Law Court of First Instance No. 2 reported on 2 December 2013. The first hearing will be on 18 December 2013.

(12/013) Ongoing KCK case in Siirt Province…

On 2 December 2013 Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 9 went on hearing the case against 18 defendants including Siirt Mayor Selim Sadak -7 pre-trial detainees- who had been subjected to the KCK investigation in Siirt Province in 2012.

The court heard the legal arguments and released Dilber Sevim, Abdullah Aşkara, Siracettin Kayran and Mehmet Halit Kaçar and adjourned the hearing to 10 February 2014.

(12/014) Suspicious death of a soldier in Manisa Province…

Ünal Gündüz (20), who had been serving his compulsory military service in Kırkağaç District of Manisa Province, was found wounded under the window of his dormitory in the fifth floor on 1 December 2013. Ünal Gündüz died in the hopital.

(12/015) Hate crime in Ankara Province…

Trans woman İdil, was stabbed from her abdomen by a person who came to her house in Çankaya District of Ankara Province on 16 November 2013 reported on 3 December 2013. İdil had to spend ten days in hospital for her medical treatment.

 

04 December 2013 Daily Human Rights Report

(12/016) Impunity in Mehmet Uytun investigation…

The Cizre district governorate has refused to give permission for an investigation into a gendarmerie officer’s killing of an 18-month-old baby with a gas grenade, saying a probe was unnecessary due to insufficient evidence, daily Taraf has reported.

Mehmet Uytun was hit in the head by a gas grenade in 2009 while he was on his mother’s lap at their home, during a police intervention into a demonstration in the Cizre district of the southeastern province of Şırnak. Uytun died in the hospital after being kept in intensive care for 10 days.

According to the prosecutors’ report, Hakan Alkan, the specialist gendarmerie in question, fired his gun in line with his job definition. The incident took place as a result of Alkan performing within the defined line of duty.

The forensic medicine institution said the baby was killed due to a head trauma in its report.

Prosecutors applied to the Cizre district government to open an official investigation into Hakan Alkan’s role in the death. However, the application has been declined, as there was not deemed to be enough concrete evidence about the specialist gendarmerie.

The Public Prosecutors’ Office of Cizre has ended the process, saying a criminal investigation into the suspect could not be launched according to the law, pointing to the Cizre district government’s refusal to open an inquiry.

However, lawyer Rehşan Bataray Saman, a member of the Human Rights Association’s (İHD) Diyarbakır branch, has vowed to take the case to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

(12/017) The case on the murder of Hrant Dink…

The Supreme Court of Appeal’s Penal Chamber No. 9 had crashed the acquittal verdict of the local court against 18 defendants on the grounds that the structure that defendants had been established should be evaluated as “organisation established to commit crimes” under Article 220 of the TPC on 15 May 2013.

On 3 December 2013 İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 14 went on hearing the case and defendant Erhan Tuncel who had been arrested recently, stated that the structure that involves police directors Ramazan Akyürek, Sabri Uzun and Ali Fuat Yılmazer, had functioned in the murder. The court adjudicated to hear the other defendants on the decision of the Supreme Court and issued a caught warrant for Ahmet Iskender. The hearing was adjourned to 7 January 2014.

(12/018) Coercion in prison…

Thirty prisoners were transferred from Tekirdağ F Type of Closed Prison to Silivri (Istanbul) L Type of Closed Prison No. 6 against their will and they were placed in solitary confinement. Six of them started hunger strike to protest the coercion in the prison reported on 3 December 2013.

(12/019) Coercion in prison…

Fifteen prisoners in Edirne F Type of Closed Prison started hunger strike to protesting the cavity search and battering on 1 December 2013.

(12/020) People tried in connection with Gezi Park Actions…

On 3 December 2013 Izmir Heavy Penal Court No. 12 began to hear the case against 15 defendants -14 pre-trial detainees- in connection with the solidarity action in Izmir Province on charges of “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations”, “harming public goods”, “resisting public officers due to his duty”. After hearing their legal arguments the court released, pre-trial detainees Akgün Irgat, Cem Ekici, Emrah Akdağ, Cem Barış Çakıl, Sait Özdemir, Özgür Demirci, Çağlar Korkuz, Hakan Polat, Ali Hüseyin Ayırcı and adjourned the hearing to 10 February 2014.

(12/021) People tried in connection with Gezi Park Actions…

The indictment against 130 people in connection with the solidarity action in Kırklareli Province on 2 June 2013 on charges of “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations”, “harming public goods”, “resisting public officers due to his duty” reported on 3 December 2013.

The first hearing will be in Kırklareli Penal Court of First Instance No. 2 on 21 February 2014.

(12/022) People tried in connection with Gezi Park Actions…

On 3 December 2013 Izmir Heavy Penal Court No. 12 began to hear the case against 8 pre-trial detainees in connection with the solidarity action in Izmir Province on charges of “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations”, “harming public goods”, “resisting public officers due to his duty”. After hearing the legal arguments the court released Kubilay Iyit, Erhan Inal, Orhan Öztürker, Vedat Yeler, Elif Kaya, Ozan Adıyaman, Ibrahim Kaya and Izzet Uysal.

(12/023) People tried in Ankara Province…

Ankara Penal Court of First Instance No. 24 will be hearing the case against 13 students who protested the bombing in Reyhanlı District of Hatay Province by marching to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ankara 15 March 2013, on charges of “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations”, “harming public goods”, “resisting public officers due to his duty” on 21 April 2014.

(12/024) Ongoing KCK case in Siirt Province…

On 3 December 2013 Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 5 went on hearing the case against 27 defendants -8 pre-trial detainees- who had been subjected to KCK investigation in Kurtalan District of Siirt Province on 2011.

After hearing their legal arguments the court prolonged the pre-trial detention period of the defendants and adjourned the hearing to 4 February 2014.

(12/025) Ongoing KCK case in Batman Province…

On 3 December 2013 Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 8 went on hearing the case against 23 defendants -7 pre-trial detainees- who had been subjected to KCK investigation in Kurtalan District of Batman Province on 15 February 2012.

After hearing their legal argument of the prosecutor on the essence of the case the court released Ali Toptik and adjourned the hearing to 18 February 2014.

(12/026) Ongoing KCK case in Siirt Province…

On 3 December 2013 Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 4 went on hearing the case against 22 defendants -6 pre-trial detainees- who had been subjected to KCK investigation in Siirt Province on 2009.

After hearing their legal argument of the prosecutor on the essence of the case the court prolonged the pre-trial detention period of the defendants and adjourned the hearing to 20 February 2014.

(12/027) Home raids in Hatay Province…

Six people were detained in home raids in Samandağı District of Hatay Province on 3 December 2013.

(12/028) Detained people in Hakkâri Province…

Three people were detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in Hakkâri Province on 3 December 2013.

(12/029) Home raids in Şanlıurfa Province…

Leşker Akman, Kutbettin Saltan and Hikmet Yaygın were detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in the operation against the Peace and Democracy Party’s (BDP) Youth Assembly members in Şanlıurfa Province on 3 December 2013.

(12/030) Detained people in Diyarbakır Province…

BDP Province Branch executive Hüseyin Daş and Kayapınar Vice Mayor Mustafa Demir were detained as they were returning from Mersin to Diyarbakır Province on 2 December 2013.

(12/031) Arrested person in Hakkâri Province…

Ismail Temel who had been detained in Hakkâri Province on 29 November 2013 was arrested on charges of “helping and harbouring an illegal organisation” on 3 December 2013.

(12/032) Arrested person in Batman Province …

Batman Youth Assembly member Z.T. (17) who had been detained in Batman Province on 1 December 2013 was arrested on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” on 3 December 2013.

(12/033) Work accident in Konya Province…

Five workers were wounded with the crash of the scaffold in the construction site of the Konya Municipality Football Stadium in Konya Province on 4 December 2013.

 

05 December 2013 Daily Human Rights Report

(12/034) Ongoing murder by unknown assailants’ investigation in Muş Province…

Nine people from the same family -Nasır Öğüt (43), Eşref Öğüt (43), Sevim Öğüt (13), Sevda Öğüt (12), Şakir Öğüt (11), Mehmet Şirin Öğüt (8), Cihat Öğüt, Aycan Öğüt (1), Cihan Öğüt (4)- had been killed by burning their house on the grounds that they had been helping and harbouring illegal organisation in Korkut District of Muş Province on Altınova Municipality of 17 May 1993.

Muş Heavy Penal Court had accepted the indictment against Hasköy Gendarmerie Headquarters Commander Captain B.K., Infantry First-lieutenant H.A., Gökyazı Gendarmerie Headquarters Commander Master Sergeant T.N. and Special Task Force Department vice director Ş.U.

On 4 September 2013 the court began to hear the case and impose probations and ban of leaving Turkey on the defendants. The hearing was adjourned to 20 November 2013.

The case was transferred for security reasons by the Ministry of Justice to Kırıkkale Heavy Penal Court and the first hearing in Kırıkkale will be held on 4 December 2013.

Kırıkkale Heavy Penal Court began to hear the case on 4 December 2013 and the defendants claimed that they did not remember anything on the incident and the PKK could be the perpetrator.

Isa Öğüt who was heard as a witness stated that the soldiers came to the village before the fire and gathered everyone in the village square.

The court declined the demands to send back the case to Muş and arrest the defendants before adjourning the hearing to 19 February 2014.

(12/035) Death in prison…

K.A. (21) who had been a pre-trial detainee on charges of homicide in Sincan (Ankara) L Type of Closed Prison No. 1, was stabbed and then suffocated with a string reported on 3 December 2013.

(12/036) Coercion in prison…

Thirty prisoners had been transferred from Tekirdağ F Type of Closed Prison to Silivri (Istanbul) L Type of Closed Prison No. 6 against their will and they had been placed in solitary confinement. Six of them started hunger strike to protest the coercion in the prison reported on 3 December 2013. Two others started hunger strike on 5 December 2013.

(12/037) Coercion in prison…

The plants that three prisoners had planted between the manhole frame and the cover with the seeds that had been brought by the wind in Sincan (Ankara) Prison for Females were unrooted by the guardians on the grounds that it is forbidden reported on 4 December 2013.

(12/038) Intervention to the protest in Istanbul Province…

Seven members of the Solidarity Association of the Prisoners’ Families (Tutuklu Hükümlü Aileleri Yardımlaşma Derneği (TAYAD)) were beaten and detained in front of the Çağlayan Courthouse as they attempted to protest the “Return to Life Operation” in Istanbul Province on 4 December 2013.

(12/039) People tried in connection with Gezi Park Actions…

The indictment against 39 people in connection with the solidarity action in Istanbul Province on charges of “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations”, “harming public goods”, “resisting public officers due to his duty” reported on 4 December 2013. The indictment sent to Istanbul Penal Court of First Instance to be evaluated.

(12/040) Home raids in Bitlis Province…

Savaş Aydın and Serhat Yıldız were detained in home raids on the grounds that they are member of an illegal organisation in Bitlis Province on 4 December 2013.

(12/041) Workers died and wounded in traffic accident…

Twenty-four temporary seasonal workers were wounded in Çifteler District of Eskişehir Province on 4 December 2013.

(12/042) Workers died and wounded in traffic accident…

Two workers died and 30 others were wounded in the traffic accident on Menderes-Gümüldür road in Izmir Province on 4 December 2013.

(12/043) Suspicious death of a soldier in Istanbul Province…

Alparslan Taşçı (21) who had been serving his compulsory military service in Coast Guard Command, died after falling from the pier in Sarıyer District of Istanbul Province on 4 December 2013.

 

06 December 2013 Daily Human Rights Report

(12/044) The case on the extra-judicial killing of Cem Aygün…

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.

Ankara Chief Public Prosecution Office had decided nolle prosequi for police officer O.H. and for police officer Fatih Yılmaz had asked 2 years and 6 months of imprisonment on charges of “homicide with excessive use of force without intention and with reasons that annul penal responsibility”.

On 20 June 2013 Ankara Heavy Penal Court No. 4 went on hearing the case against police officer Fatih Yılmaz. The defendant claimed that “I fired my firearm aiming Cem Aygün’s leg in order to stop him”. Mustafa Sarı, the witness of the incident, claimed that the officer fired not aiming to his leg but his back.

The court had declined the demand of the Türkiye Insan Hakları Vakfı (TIHV) to be the intervening party in the previous hearing. The hearing was adjourned to 26 September 2013.

The court went on hearing the case on 5 December 2013 and the defendant Fatih Yılmaz did not participate the hearing. The court heard the statements of the lawyers on the examination of the crime scene and adjourning the case to 30 January 2014 for the preparation of the expert report.

(12/045) Ongoing hate crime case in Diyarbakır Province…

On 5 December 2013 Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 3 went on hearing the case on the murder of R.Ç. (17) who had been killed by his father M.Ç., and his two uncles Ş.Ç. and A.Ç. with a firearm in Diyarbakır Province in June 2012.

The court took back the right to be the intervening party from the Social Policies Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation Studies Association/Sosyal Politikalar Cinsiyet Kimliği ve Cinsel Yönelim Çalışmaları Derneği (SPOD) with the demand of the mother of R.Ç. and adjourned the hearing to 10 February 2014.

(12/046) Excavations for the people lost in detention in Mardin Province…

Mehmet Emin Atuğ, Abdulkadir Demir, Hizni Bilmen and Şakir Demir had been detained by the officers from Midyat Gendarmerie Command in Budaklı Village of Midyat District of Mardin Province on 14 May 1995 and no one knows their whereabouts since then.

Midyat Chief Public Prosecution Office launched an excavation without informing the families in the vicinity of Giremîra (Girmeli) Village and gave found the remnants to the families reported on 23 June 2013.

Midyat Penal Court of Peace examined the crime scene in Budaklı Village on 5 December 2013. The bullets marks were found from that period.

(12/047) Excessive use of force by law enforcement officers…

Selim Şen (27) made an official complaint against three police officers whom he had argued on the grounds that he did not give way and the officers sprayed tear gas on his face in Ordu Province on 3 December 2013.

(12/049) Ongoing KCK case in Bingöl Province…

On 5 December 2013 Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 8 went on hearing the case against 41 people -5 pre-trial detainees- who had been subjected to the KCK operation after the murder of Hacı Alan, the leader of the temporary village guards in Taşlıçay Village of Karlıova District of Bingöl Province on 28 July 2011.

The court heard the legal argument of the defendants in Kurdish and prolonged the pre-trial detention period of the defendants and adjourned the hearing to 18 February 2014.

(12/050) Ongoing KCK case in Batman Province…

On 5 December 2013 Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 8 went on hearing the case against 40 people -14 pre-trial detainees- who had been subjected to the KCK operation in Batman Province on 5 February 2012.

The court heard the legal argument of the prosecutor on the essence of the case and prolonged the pre-trial detention period of the defendants and adjourned the hearing to 18 February 2014.

(12/051) Home raids in Şanlıurfa Province…

Leşker Akman, Kutbettin Saltan ve Hikmet Yaygın who had been detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in the framework of the KCK investigation were arrested on charges of 5 December 2013.

(12/052) Detained party member…

The Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) member Osman Can Kazancıoğlu was detained after he had visited his freind İmran Aydın in Edirne F Type of Closed Prison on 5 December 2013 on the grounds that there was a warrant against him.

(12/053) Work accident in Bursa Province…

Hasan Bayrak (40) died in the accident in the Gemport Dock in Gemlik District of Bursa Province on 5 December 2013.

(12/054) Work accident in Zonguldak Province…

Mustafa Özalpuğan, Yaşar Özerdoğan and İsmail Altun died in the explosion in the un official coal mine in Kırat Region of Zonguldak Province on 5 December 2013.

(12/055) Work accident in Zonguldak Province…

Azmi Kara died and Hakkı Gebeş was wounded in the accident thet the locomative that was pulling the cola wagons was overturned in the coal mine in Gelik Municipality of Zonguldak Province on 5 December 2013.

(12/056) Kocaeli Work accident in Province…

Sixty workers working in DHL logistic/cargo firm in Güzeller Organised Industry Region were chemically poisoned in Gebze District of Kocaeli Province on 4 December 2013.

 

07-09 December 2013 Daily Human Rights Report

(12/057) Intervention to the protest Hakkâri Province and Extra-judicial killing…

Police teams interfered to the protest against the destruction of the cemetery of the PKK militants with real and plastic bullets and water cannons in Yüksekova District of Hakkâri Province on 6 December 2013.

Mehmet Reşit İşbilir (35) and Veysel İşbilir (34) were killed with real bullets. Police teams attacked on the people who went to Yüksekova State Hospital to be informed about the wounded people and fired gas bombs inside the hospital.

Van Forensic Medicine Institute stated that Mehmet Reşit İşbilir and Veysel İşbilir were shot with 8 bullets in total.

(12/058) Intervention to the protest Hakkâri Province and Extra-judicial killing attempt…

Police teams opened fire to the protest against the murder of Mehmet Reşit İşbilir (35) and Veysel İşbilir (34) and shot B.T. (25) in Yüksekova District of Hakkâri Province on 7 December 2013.

(12/059) Soldiers abducted in Diyarbakır Province…

An armed group made ID check on the road in the vicinity of Lice District of Province Diyarbakır on 8 December 2013 and abducted four soldiers Non-Commissioned Officers Melik Dikyol and Hakan Özer Specialised Servicemen Uğur Sert and Ali Akdemir.

The four soldiers were released in the vicinity of Sîsê Village.

(12/060) Excessive use of force by law enforcement officers…

Police officers argued with firemen and sprayed tear gas on their faces and detained one of them due to a parking area in Erzincan Province on 8 December 2013.

(12/061) Juvenile beaten by police officer…

Başakşehir Anadolu High School student S.K. (16) was beaten by the father (police officer) of F.D. who he had fight with in the school garden in İstanbul Province on 5 December 2013.

(12/062) Person detained in İstanbul Province…

İstanbul University Faculty of Letters student Tuğçenur Özbay was beaten and detained by the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in plain clothes waiting outside the faculty building on 6 December 2013.

(12/063) Impunity in torture and ill-treatment practice in İstanbul Province…

Police teams had interfered to the march of the TMMOB (the Union of the Chambers of the Architects and Engineers of Turkey) with gas bombs, plastic bullets and water cannons in İstanbul Province on 13 July 2013. Two journalists were wounded and six people were detained in the intervention. Osman Erden (39), a lecturer from Mimar Sinan University, was tortured as he was apprehended.

A case was launched against the six people who had been detained -Osman Erden, Gökhan İrez, Okan Ersoy, Onur Karataş, Gökhan Tanrıverdi and Şevket Tokdabayev- on charges of “resisting public officers due to his duty” and “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations” reported on 20 September 2013. The first hearing will be held in İstanbul Penal Court of First Instance No. 40 on 25 February 2014.

The official complaints of the 6 torture victims against the officers finalised with nolle procequi on the grounds that the prosecutor evaluated the incident as simple wounding on 6 December 2013.

(12/064) Coercion in prison…

Songül Enüştekin, Hülya Dursun and Meryem Akpolat were sentenced to solitary confinement for 20 days each on charges of “harming public goods” in Sincan (Ankara) Prison for Females reported on 8 December 2013.

(12/065) Coercion in prison…

Twenty-three prisoners were transferred from Muş E Type Closed Prison to Van F Type Closed Prison against their will on 7 December 2013.

(12/066) Intervention to the protest in İstanbul Province…

Police teams interfered to the protest against the murder of Aydın Erdem in Diyarbakır Province on 6 December 2009 with gas bombs and water cannons. The protest would start with a public statement in front of Galatasaray High School and go on with the march to Taksim Square in İstanbul Province on 6 December 2013.

(12/067) Intervention to the protest in Diyarbakır Province…

Police teams interfered to the protest against the murder of Mehmet Reşit İşbilir (35) and Veysel İşbilir (34) in Yüksekova District of Hakkâri Province on 6 December 2013, with gas bombs and water cannons in Diyarbakır Province on 7 and 8 December 2013 and detained 20 people. At least 20 others were affected due to the gas.

(12/068) Intervention to the protest in Kars Province…

Police teams interfered to the protest against the murder of Mehmet Reşit İşbilir (35) and Veysel İşbilir (34) in Yüksekova District of Hakkâri Province on 6 December 2013, with gas bombs and water cannons in Ağrı Province on 8 December 2013 and detained 40 people and wounded 5 others.

(12/069) Intervention to the protest in İstanbul Province…

Police teams interfered to the public statement of the İstanbul Medical Chamber in Taksim Square on 8 December 2013 and detained Etkin Haber Ajansı/News Agency’s (ETHA) reporter Emrah İligin.

(12/070) Intervention to the protest against the PM…

During the election visit of the PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, six members of the Youth League of Turkey/Türkiye Gençlik Birliği hanged a placard that protests the PM -“her yer boşbakan, ne güzel Başbakan, hüloğ”- to the third floor of a building in Tekirdağ Province on 7 December 2013 and they were eventually detained.

(12/071) Intervention to the protest against the PM…

During the election visit of the PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, five members of the Youth League of Turkey/Türkiye Gençlik Birliği hanged a placard that protests the PM to a building under contruction in Edirne Province on 8 December 2013 and they were eventually detained.

(12/072) Intervention to the protest against the PM…

During the election visit of the PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to the Keşan District of Edirne Province on 8 December 2013 police teams detained 15 people on the grounds that they could protest.

(12/073) Intervention to the protest in İstanbul Province…

Police teams interfered the members of the ultra-racist Büyük Birlik Partisi (BBP) who attempted to march to Taksim Square with national flags and detained 9 of them on the grounds that it is forbidden to realise actions in Taksim Square in İstanbul Province on 8 December 2013.

(12/074) Onging 3rd KCK/TM main case in İstanbul Province…

On 6 December 2013İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 15 went on hearing the case against 46 journalists -20 of them pre-trial detainees- who had been subjected to the KCK investigation against the journalists on 20 December 2011. The hearings were going on since 2 December 2013.

The court released Nilgün Yıldız and adjourned the hearing to 13-17 January 2014.

(12/075) Home raids in Hatay Province…

Six out of the eleven detainees -Ferit Meynioğlu, Gülnaz Muhammed, Nesrin Pihani, Mehmet Güzel, Hafız Kelahmetoğlu, Celal Nihadoğlu- who had been detained in home raids of Fighting with Terror Department in Samandağı District of Hatay Province on 3 December 2013 were arrested on charges of being a member of THKP-C Acilciler organisation on 6 December 2013.

(12/076) Attack on party building…

Unidentified people threw two handmade bombs to the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) Province Branch building and caused material damage in the surrounding in Diyarbakır Province on 8 December 2013.

(12/077) Home raids in Bitlis Province…

Savaş Aydın and Serhat Yıldız who had been detained in home raids of Fighting with Terror Department in Bitlis Province on 4 December 2013 were arrested on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” under Article 314 of TPC on 7 December 2013.

(12/078) People detained in Hakkâri Province…

Three detainees who had been detained in home raids of Fighting with Terror Department in Hakkâri Province on 3 December 2013 were arrested on charges of recruiting militants to the armed organisation on 7 December 2013.

(12/079) Home raids in Tunceli Province…

Eight people were detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in the framework of the KCK investigation in Ovacık and Pertek Districts of Tunceli Province and Elazığ Province on 6 December 2013.

(12/080) Home raids in Şırnak Province…

Ten people were detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in the framework of the YDG-H investigation in Cizre District of Şırnak Province on 6 December 2013.

(12/081) Work accident in Sivas Province…

Mustafa Turfan (19) ve Adem Yıldırım (43), Murat Karataş (43) and İsmet Sarıcı (37) were wounded in the landslide in the construction site in Sivas Province on 6 December 2013.

(12/082) Work accident in Samsun Province…

Operator of the caterpillar Erkan Akkaya (24) was wounded with the collapse of the vehicle in Canik District of Samsun Province on 8 December 2013.

(12/083) Work accident in Niğde Province…

Fireman Zeynel Doğan was wounded in the fire in a string factory in Bor District of Niğde Province on 8 December 2013.

(12/084) Suspicious death of a soldier in Muğla Province…

Cihan Yörük (21) was allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the third floor in Muğla Province on 7 December 2013. Only eight days were left to his release.

(12/085) Work accident in Sakarya Province…

Yılmaz Güney (40) was wounded after falling from the roof of the building in Sapanca District of Sakarya Province on 7 December 2013.

(12/086) Work accident in Zonguldak Province…

Kerim Fidanwas wounded in the landslide in the Kozlu Coal Mine in Zonguldak Province on 7 December 2013.

(12/087) Work accident in Zonguldak Province…

Sezgin Yanar was wounded in the landslide in the coal mine in Zonguldak Province on 7 December 2013.

(12/088) Work accident in Denizli Province…

Murat Yakıcı was wounded in the landslide in Bağbaşı Quarter of Denizli Province on 6 December 2013.

(12/089) Suspicious death of a soldier in Eskişehir Province…

Serviceman Hüseyin Acılıkaya was killed after he was shot from his chest due to a mistake by his friend T.G. in Eskişehir First Air Force Command on 6 December 2013.

(12/090) Work accident in Gaziantep Province…

İsmail Aksoy (55) died after falling from the fourth floor in the Mall he was working for in Gaziantep Province on 7 December 2013.

(12/091) Work accident in Ordu Province…

Excavator operator Hasan Hüseyin Deniz (25) died in the land slide in the stone mine on 6 December 2013.

 

10 December 2013 Daily Human Rights Report

(12/092) Turgut Özal Investigation…

On 16 April 2013, Ankara Heavy Penal Court No. 13 accepted the indictment against retired general Levent Ersöz on charges of “murdering” 8th President Turgut Özal on 17 April 1993 a day before the limitation of time. The prosecutor demanded life sentence in solitary confinement and with no possibility of parole for the only defendant Levent Ersöz.

Ankara Heavy Penal Court No. 13 went on hearing the case on 9 December 2013 and the only defendant Levent Ersöz did not participate the hearing. The court heard Ahmet Özal and adjudicated to hear the defendant via teleconference in the hearing on 19 March 2014.

(12/093) Violence in primary school…

Gürler Primary School Student S.K. (7) was beaten by his teacher on the grounds that he was fighting with his peers and his skull was fractured in Kırıkkale Province on 4 December 2013.

(12/094) Coercion in prison…

Some of the juveniles in Mardin E Type Prison were beaten by the guardians so that they were hospitalised to Midyat (Mardin) M Type Prison for medical treatment on 9 December 2013.

(12/095) Coercion in prison…

Selahattin Elma, Cemal Günsel and Mahmut Baran from Şakran (İzmir) T Type Prison No. 3 were beten by the soldiers in Yeşilyurt State Hospital and in the prison shuttle reported on 10 December 2013.

(12/096) People tried in connection with Gezi Park Actions…

The indictment against 255 people -7 foreigners- in connection with the Gezi Park action in İstanbul Province on charges of “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations”, “harming public goods”, “resisting public officers due to his duty”, “harming temples by smearing”, “using uniforms against its rules” reported on 10 December 2013.

The first hearing will be in İstanbul Penal Court of First Instance No. 55 in case of the court accepts the indictment.

(12/097) People tried in connection with Gezi Park Actions…

On 27 December 2013 Çanakkale Penal Court of First Instance No 1 began to hear the case B.T.İ. (13) in connection with the solidarity action in Çanakkale Province on 3 June 2013 although he does have the criminal capacity reported on 10 December 2013. B.T.İ. did not participate the hearing and the court ordered him to be brought by force and adjourned the hearing to 21 January 2014.

(12/098) Intervention to the protest in Antalya Province…

Police teams interfered to the protest against the murder of Mehmet Reşit İşbilir (35) and Veysel İşbilir (34) in Yüksekova District of Hakkâri Province on 6 December 2013, with gas bombs and water cannons inside the campus of the Akdeniz University in Antalya Province on 9 December 2013 and detained 10 students.

(12/099) Intervention to the protest in Hakkâri Province…

Police teams interfered to the protest against the murder of Mehmet Reşit İşbilir (35) and Veysel İşbilir (34) in Yüksekova District of Hakkâri Province on 6 December 2013, with gas bombs and water cannons in Şemdinli District of Hakkâri Province on 9 December 2013 and detained three juveniles.

(12/100) Home raids in Tunceli Province…

Five out of the eight people had been detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in the framework of the KCK investigation in Ovacık and Pertek Districts of Tunceli Province and Elazığ Province on 6 December 2013 were arrested on 9 December 2013.

(12/101) Detained party executive…

On 9 December 2013 Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Şemdinli District Co-chairperson Cabbar Taş was detained in Güzelkonak Village by gendarmerie soldiers as he was on his way to the funeral of Mehmet Reşit İşbilir (35) and Veysel İşbilir (34) who had been killed in Yüksekova District of Hakkâri Province on 6 December 2013.

(12/102) Work accident in Samsun Province…

Tuncay Başer (45) died due to the landslide as he was working in the infrastructure of İlkadım District of Samsun Province on 9 December 2013.

 

11 December 2013 Daily Human Rights Report

(12/103) Extra-judicial killing in Hakkâri Province…

Bemal Tokçu (25) who had been shot from his head in the protest in Yüksekova District of Province Hakkâri on 7 December 2013 died in the hospital on 11 December 2013. He was protesting the murder of Mehmet Reşit İşbilir (35) and Veysel İşbilir (34) in Yüksekova District of Hakkâri Province on 6 December 2013.

(12/104) Person beaten by police in home raid in Adana Province…

Police teams raided on a house on the grounds that there were “long barrelled rifles” and battered İ.Ö. (22) and M.R.Ö. (17) in Adana Province on 5 December 2013. The camera footage of the incident was revealed on 10 December 2013.

According to the footage M.R.Ö.’s hands were cuffed to a pillar in the garden of the house and a police officer was seen as pulling his hair and hitting his head to the pillar. Then another police officer punched him and hit his face and crotch with his knee.

(12/103) Extra-judicial killing in Hakkâri Province…

Bemal Tokçu (25) who had been shot from his head in the protest in Yüksekova District of Province Hakkâri on 7 December 2013 died in the hospital on 11 December 2013. He was protesting the murder of Mehmet Reşit İşbilir (35) and Veysel İşbilir (34) in Yüksekova District of Hakkâri Province on 6 December 2013.

(12/104) Person beaten by police in home raid in Adana Province…

Police teams raided on a house on the grounds that there were “long barrelled rifles” and battered İ.Ö. (22) and M.R.Ö. (17) in Adana Province on 5 December 2013. The camera footage of the incident was revealed on 10 December 2013.

According to the footage M.R.Ö.’s hands were cuffed to a pillar in the garden of the house and a police officer was seen as pulling his hair and hitting his head to the pillar. Then another police officer punched him and hit his face and crotch with his knee.

(12/105) Coercion in prison…

Sami Hoştan had been a defendant in the Ergenekon case and sentenced to ten years. He had been arrested from another operation and reportedly had liver metastasis and he has medically treated in Edirne Medicine Faculty Oncology Department on 23 October 2013.

Four gendarmerie soldiers have been accompanying him in the hospital in last 28 days and his family applied for his release to Istanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 23. The court declined the application on 1 November 2013.

The court revaluated the situation of Hoştan and adjudicated to give a break to the execution of his sentence for six months in line with the report of the Forensic Medicine Institute. Sami Hoştan was released after the verdict.

(12/106) Tried journalist…

The committee of judges of Ankara Heavy Penal Court No. 13 made an official complaint against Zaman Newspaper’s reporter Ayşenur Parıldak in connection with her news on the “28 February Coup” case. Bakırköy (İstanbul) Prosecutor on Media Crimes had prepared an indictment against her reported on 11 December 2013. Bakırköy Penal Court of First Instance No. 2 accepted indictment on charges of ““trying to influence the jugdes” under Article 277 of TPC.

(12/107) Hinder statement on the human rights week in İstanbul Province…

Police officers in plain clothes and riot police hindered the public statement of the Human Rights Association (IHD) and the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT) for the human rights week in the stairs of Gezi Park in Beyoğlu District of İstanbul Province on10 December 2013. The statement was made in front of the IHD’s İstanbul Branch office due to the ban.

(12/108) Person detained in Adana Province…

Baran Doğan was beaten and detained by police officers in plain clothes in front of the Socialist Democracy Party (SDP) in Adana Province on 10 December 2013.

(12/109) Lynch attempt in Mersin Province…

Hüseyin Duman who had been battered by nine people, who were allegedly members of the ultra-racist Ülkü Ocağı Association in Erdemli District of Mersin Province on 5 December 2013, was arrested with his two brothers on 10 December 2013.

 

12-13 December 2013 Daily Human Rights Report

(12/110) Death in prison…

Murat Yavuzcan (35) in Ümraniye (İstanbul) T Type of Closed Prison allegedly committed suicide in the dormitory on 11 December 2013.

(12/111) Coercion in prison…

M.K. and F.T. were transferred from Mardin Closed Prison for Juveniles to Sincan (Ankara) Closed Prison for Juveniles against their will on the grounds that they will have tests to determine their ages. They were beaten during the transfer and in Sincan Prison, revealed out with the report of the IHD on 12 December 2013.

(12/112) Coercion in prison…

The letter of Ali Şimşek was confiscated on the grounds that it is inappropriate by the administration of Hacılar (Kırıkkale) F Type of Closed Prison on 12 December 2013.

(12/113) Coercion in prison…

Bayram Yaruk who had been transferred from Bolu F Type of Closed Prison to Kandıra (Kocaeli) F Type of Closed No. 2 for his psychological treatment in Bakırköy (İstanbul) Mental Hospital, was beaten by guards and subjected to cavity search reported on 11 December 2013.

(12/114) Tried journalist…

On 12 December 2013 İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 16 went on hearing the Oda TV case resumed with its 20th hearing this morning in Istanbul Courthouse where defendants Yalçın Küçük and Hanefi Avcı made their statements.

After that, the court ordered the release of defendants despite prosecutor’s request for the continuation of arrest terms. With the release of Küçük and Avcı, no defendants are being arrested within the case.

However, Küçük and Avcı will remain in prison as the former was convicted to 15 year 2 months and 15 days of prison for Devrimci Karargah case and the latter was convicted to 22 years and 6 months of prison. Both convictions were sent to the Supreme Court of Appeals. The hearing was adjourned to 1 April 2014.

(12/115) Restricted access to website…

Batman Peace Penal Court No. 2 restricted the access to the proxy server ktunnel.com with its decision dated on 8 November 2013, reported on 12 December 2013.

(12/116) Intervention to the protest in Antalya Kars Province…

Police teams interfered to the protest against the murder of Mehmet Reşit İşbilir (35) and Veysel İşbilir (34) in Yüksekova District of Hakkâri Province on 6 December 2013, with gas bombs and water cannons in Kars Province on 8 December 2013 and detained 40 people. Eleven out of the 40 detainees were arrested on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” under Article 314 of TPC on 11 December 2013.

(12/117) Intervention to the protest in Mersin Province…

Police teams interfered to the protest against the murder of Mehmet Reşit İşbilir (35) and Veysel İşbilir (34) in Yüksekova District of Hakkâri Province on 6 December 2013, with gas bombs and water cannons in Mersin Province on 12 December 2013 and detained 10 people -6 of them juveniles.

(12/118) People tried in connection with Gezi Park Actions…

On 27 September 2013 Istanbul Penal Court of First Instance No. 50 declined the indictment against 36 people in connection with the protests in Istanbul Province on charges of “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations”, “harming public goods”, “resisting public officers due to his duty” on the grounds that the evidences –mask, helmet, sea mask, motor biker’s helmet, etc.- mentioned in the indictment are not the weapons cited in the law.

The prosecutor rearranged the indictment and claimed that the suspects had occupied the Gezi Park; harmed the public and private property; attacked on the law-enforcement with sticks, Molotov Cocktails, sound bombs and sling and as a reply to the judges who had declined the indictment, the suspects had not been going to Taksim Square with sea masks to swim.

Istanbul Penal Court of First Instance No. 50 acquitted 23 defendants on 12 December 2013.

(12/119) People tried in connection with Gezi Park Actions…

On 12 December 2013 Kayseri First Instance Penal Court No. 8 began to hear the case against 161 defendants in connection with the solidarity actions in Kayseri Province with Gezi Park Protests in Istanbul Province on charges of “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations”, “harming public goods”, “resisting public officers due to his duty”.

The court checked the IDs of the 130 defendants and heard their legal argument and adjourned the hearing to 29 April 2014 to hear the rest. (12/120) People tried in connection with Gezi Park Actions…

On 11 December 2013 Ankara Court for Juveniles No. 4 began to hear the case against 11 juveniles in connection with the solidarity actions in Ankara Province with Gezi Park Protests on 1 June 2013 in Istanbul Province on charges of “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations”. The court acquitted 3 juveniles and adjudicated to postpone the pronouncement of the verdict for 5 years.

(12/121) Intervention to the protest in İzmir Province…

Police teams interfered to the fight between two rival groups with gas bombs and water cannons inside the campus of the Ege University in İzmir Province on 12 December 2013 and detained 4 students.

(12/122) Convicted people…

Six out of the 11 people who had been arrested in the home raids of the gendarmerie soldiers in the framework of the KCK investigation in Dêzê (Kırıkdağ) Village of Hakkâri Province on 19 December 2012 were detained on charges of “helping and harbouring an illegal organisation” under Article 220/7 on 22 December 2012.

On 12 December 2013 Van Heavy Penal Court No. 5 went on hearing the case against 12 defendants -3 pre-trial detainees and sentenced -Ahmet Yiğit, Şakir Adıyaman, Abdullah Adıyaman, İdris Gümüşlü, Aziz Akdoğan, Hediye Cami and Salman Adıyaman- to 6 years and 3 months of imprisonment each. Pre-trial detainees Ahmet Yiğit, Şakir Adıyaman ve Abdullah Adıyaman were released after the verdict.

(12/123) Arrested person in Batman Province…

Ferhat Babur, a member of the Peace and Democracy Party’s (BDP) Youth Assembly, who had been detained in home raid in Batman Province on 8 December 2013 was arrested on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” under Article 314 of TPC on 11 December 2013.

(12/124) Work accident in İstanbul Province…

Engineer Göksenin Gaye Dursun died in the explosion during the excavation for a construction site in Üsküdar District of İstanbul Province on 12 December 2013.

(12/125) Work accident in Zonguldak Province…

Özcan Öztürk who had been lost 35 days ago was found burned near an electricity panel in Gökçebey District of Zonguldak Province on 12 December 2013.

(12/126) Work accident in Tekirdağ Province…

S.C. (43) was wounded in the accident in a cargo firm in Çerkezköy District of Tekirdağ Province on 11 December 2013.

 

14-16 December 2013 Daily Human Rights Report

(12/127) Ongoing extra-judicial killing case…

Mehmet Eliveren (19) and Yılmaz Eliveren (17) had been killed by special task force police officers on the grounds that they had been “PKK militants attempted to invade the district” in Genç District of Bingöl Province on 17 April 1999. Also there were documents “on being terrorists” in their files Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecution Office heard 60 witnesses and consider that they were civilians and sent the file to Genç Chief Public Prosecution Office reported on 22 October 2013.

A case was luanched against five officers -Genç District Security Director Ahmet Koni, intendents Bülent Gümüşay, Ahmet Kenan Çayır and police officers Mehmet Atıcı, Mehmet Yolaçtı- in connection with the incident on charges of “planned homicide”, “threatening”, “conterfeiting” and Bingöl Heavy Penal Court will be hearing the case reported on 14 December 2013.

(12/128) Finalised case on the bomb attack on police shuttle in Diyarbakır Province…

Five people were killed and 25 others were wounded in the bomb attack on police shuttle in Diyarbakır Province on 8 October 2008.

On 12 November 2013 Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 5 went on hearing the case against 13 defendants in connection with the attack. The court declined the demand of the lawyers of the defendants to have more time to prepare their defences and adjudicated to separate the case of the pre-trial detainees who were not in the hearing -Neytullah Bayram, Murat Yıldeniz and Ramazan Benice.

The court sentenced Ali Nergiz and Halis Yıldeniz to six times life sentence in solitary confinement and with no possibility of parole and 375 years of imprisonment each. Halis Yıldeniz was also sentenced to 6 years and 8 months of imprisonment.

Defendant Mevlüt Özbey was sentenced to 8 years and 9 months of imprisonment. İhsan Bayram, Bayram Engin, Kamile Bayram, Refika Nergiz, Maşallah Yıldeniz, Şevki Yıldeniz, Emiş Bayram and Arap Yıldeniz were acquitted in the hearing.

The court went on hearing the case against Murat Yildeniz, Baytullah Bayram and Ramazan Benice on 12 December 2012.

The defendants claimed that the translator, who would translate thier argument from Kurdish to Turkish, is a police offocer. Due to this the court adjourned the hearing to 16 January 2014.

(12/129) Coercion in prison…

Okan Danacı a member of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) in Edirne F Type Prison was not medically treated on the grounds that he declined the treatment with his hands cuffed on 12 December 2013.

(12/130) Coercion in prison…

Five convicts fro the PKK case were sentenced to solitary confinement for 3 days in Burdur E Type Prison on the grumds that they had broken the surveillance cameras in the cells reported on 15 December 2013.

(12/131) People tried in connection with Gezi Park Actions…

The indictment against the 39 people -23 of them from the Zile District of Tokat Province- in connection with the Gezi Park Protests on 16 June 2013 in Istanbul Province on charges of “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations” reported on 15 December 2013. İstanbul Penal Court of First Instance No. 485 will be hearing the case.

(12/132) Intervention to the protest in İstanbul Province…

İstanbul 14 December 2013 Taksim Meydanı’nda kıyafetlerini çıkararak “Van üşüyor” sloganını atan bir kişi polis ekipleri tarafından gözaltına alındı.

(12/133) Person arrested in Muğla Province…

İ.G. who had been detained in a check point in Bodrum District of Muğla Province on 14 December 2013 was arrested on the grounds that he had been convicited to 3 years 6 months of imprisonment on charges of “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations”.

(12/134) Intervention to the protest in İstanbul Province…

Police teams interfered to the protest against the murder of Mehmet Reşit İşbilir (35) and Veysel İşbilir (34) in Yüksekova District of Hakkâri Province on 6 December 2013, with gas bombs and water cannons in Boğaziçi University (İstanbul) on 13 December 2013.

(12/135) Home raids in Şırnak Province…

K.A. who had been detained with four others was arrested on charges of being a member of YDG-H in Cizre District of Şırnak Province on 14 December 2013.

(12/136) Workers died/wounded in traffic accidents…

Twenty five workers were wounded in the accident of the factory shuttle in Gaziantep Province on 15 December 2013.

(12/137) Work accident in Kütahya Province…

Ahmet Ovacık (43) died in the accident in a private coal washing facility in Tunçbilek Municipality of Tavşanlı District of Kütahya Province on 14 December 2013.

 

17 December 2013 Daily Human Rights Report

(12/138) Death in prison…

Hasan Yavuz who has been kept in solitary confinement in Giresun E Type of Prison was allegedly committed suicide on 12 December 2013.

(12/139) Torture and ill-treatment in detention…

B.Ö.O. who had been protested the state policy on the victims of the earthquake in Van Province by taking of his clothes and chanting “Van has been feeling cold” in Taksim Square in İstanbul Province on 14 December 2013. He was detained and beaten in the police vehicle and in the station where he was sentenced to a fine of 88 TL according to Law of Misdemeanour.

(12/140) Torture and ill-treatment in detention…

Bilal Şorli and Vedat Şorli were detained and beaten in the police station on the grounds that they were wearing scarves in yellow, green and red (the colours of the Kurdish opposition) in Esenler District of İstanbul Province on 13 December 2013.

(12/141) Tried editor-in-chief…

A case was launched against Özgür Gündem Newspaper’s editor-in-chief and owner Reyhan Çapan in connection with the news titled “Time to get results” published in the newspaper on 17 August 2013 on charges of “making propaganda of an illegal organisation” under Article 7/2 of Anti-Terror Law and the first hearing will be held İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 23 reported on 16 December 2013.

The first hearing will be held in İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 22 on 28 January 2014.

(12/142) Mahkûm Olan Gazete Yöneticisi…

On 21 November 2013 İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 23 sentenced weekly Demokratik Ulus Newspaper’s editor-in-chief Arafat Dayan to 4 years and 2 months of imprisonment in 5 different cases in connection with the news published in 5 issues of the newspaper in 2012 on charges of “making propaganda of an illegal organisation” under Article 7/2 of Anti-Terror Law and the first hearing will be held İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 23 reported on 16 December 2013.

(12/143) Tried editor-in-chief…

A case was launched against weekly Demokratik Ulus Newspaper’s editor-in-chief Arafat Dayan in connection with the news published in 2 issues of the newspaper in 2013 on charges of “making propaganda of an illegal organisation” under Article 7/2 of Anti-Terror Law and the first hearing will be held İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 22 on 28 January 2014.

(12/144) Tried editor-in-chief…

A case was launched against weekly Demokratik Ulus Newspaper’s editor-in-chief Arafat Dayan in connection with the news published in three issues of the newspaper in 2013 on charges of “making propaganda of an illegal organisation” under Article 7/2 of Anti-Terror Law and the first hearing will be held İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 23 on 11 February 2014.

(12/145) Work accident in Kütahya Province…

Şuayip Dönen (55) died after falling from the 4th floor of the building under construction in Kütahya Province on 16 December 2013,

 

18 December 2013 Daily Human Rights Report

(12/146) The exhumation of the tombs for two party executives subjected to forced disappearance…

HADEP Silopi District Branch Chairperson Serdar Tanış and Executive of the same branch Ebubekir Deniz had been subjected to forced disappearance after they had been called to the gendarmerie headquarters in Silopi District of Şırnak Province on 25 January 2001.

The exhumation of the tombs that are allegedly belonging to them was postponed due to the weather conditions in Dargeçit District of Mardin Province on 18 December 2013.

(12/147) Ongoing bomb attack case in İzmir Province…

Two soldiers had been killed and 12 others were wounded in the explosion of two bombs and in the clash after the bomb attack during an army shuttle had been passing by in Foça District of İzmir Province on 9 August 2012. Kürdistan Özgürlük Şahinleri/Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) undertook the attack and 8 people had been detained in connection with the attack and 7 of them were arrested.

On 17 December 2013 İzmir Heavy Penal Court No. 12 went on hearing the case on the incident. After hearing the arguments of the defendants the court prolonged the pre-trial detention period of the pre-trial detainees. The hearing was adjourned to 4 February 2014.

(12/148) Tried publishers…

Sel Publication owner Irfan Sancı and translator Ismail Yerguz had been tried in connection with publishing Guillaume Apollinaire’s Exploits of a Young Don Juan on charges of “obscenity “ under Article 226 of the TPC and acquitted. The Supreme Court of Appeal’s Penal Chamber No. 14 crashed the verdict of the local court. On 17 December 2013 Istanbul Penal Court of First Instance No. 2 adjudicated to postpone the pronouncement of the verdict for 5 years.

(12/149) Acquitted lawyer…

İbrahim Bilmez had been sentenced to 6 years and 3 months of imprisonment each on the grounds that he has been carrying information between his client Abdullah Öcalan and the PKK on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” under Article 314 of TPC.

The Supreme Court of Appeal’s Penal Chamber No. 9 crashed the verdict of the local court.

On 17 December 2013 İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 14 acquitted İbrahim Bilmez.

(12/150) People tried in connection with Gezi Park Actions…

The indictment against the 10 people in connection with the Gezi Park Protests in Beşiktaş District of İstanbul Province on 16 June 2013 on charges of “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations”, “harming public goods” and “resisting public officers due to his duty” had been accepted by İstanbul Penal Court of First Instance No. 11.

On 17 December 2013 İstanbul Penal Court of First Instance No. 11 heard the legal argument of defendants. The footage on the incident could not be watched because the CD was harmed. The hearing was adjourned to 26 March 2014.

(12/151) Tried people…

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who came to Ortadoğu Teknik Universitesi (ODTÜ)/Middle East Technical University (METU) with 105 guards, 3600 police officers, 20 armoured vehicles and 8 vehicles to interfere social incidents (TOMA) to watch the Göktürk-2 satellite’s launch from China, was protested by the students on 18 December 2012. Police teams interfered to the students with pressured water and gas bombs. Two students -Barış Barışık was seriously wounded with the hit of the gas bomb canister- were wounded and 45 students were detained.

A case was launched against 45 students on charges of “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations” and “resisting officers on duty” reported on 16 September 2013.

On 17 December 2013 Ankara Heavy Penal Court No. 13 began to hear the case and heard the legal argument of defendants. The hearing was adjourned to 3 April 2014.

(12/152) Intervention to the protest in Mersin Province…

Police teams interfered to the protest against the murder of Mehmet Reşit İşbilir (35) and Veysel İşbilir (34) in Yüksekova District of Hakkâri Province on 6 December 2013, with gas bombs and water cannons in Mersin Province on 12 December 2013 and detained 10 people -6 of them juveniles.

Three detainees -Vedat Şentürk, Turan Bozkurt and Zeki Uçakyıldız- were arrested on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” on 16 December 2013.

(12/153) Hindered human rights week statement in İstanbul Province…

The march organised by the Human Rights Association (İHD) and Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) for the end of the human rights week was hindered by police teams in Beyoğlu District of İstanbul Province on 17 December 2013.

(12/154) Home raids in Şırnak Province…

Four out of the five detainees who had been detained in home raids on charges of being a member of YDG-H in Cizre District of Şırnak Province on 14 December 2013 were arrested on 16 December 2013.

(12/155) Work accident in Sivas Province…

Mine Engineer Nafız Faruk Yener (47) died in the accent in the mine he had been working in Divriği District of Sivas Province on 17 December 2013.

(12/156) Work accident in Erzurum Province…

Atıf Yılmaz (25) died due to electricity contact in Karasu-1 Hydroelectric Power Plant Aşkale District of Erzurum Province on 17 December 2013.

 

19 December 2013 Daily Human Rights Report

(12/157) Lynch attempt in Kayseri Province…

A racist group attacked on the public statement of the Peoples’ Democratic Party/Halkların Demokratik Partisi’ (HDP) and attempted to lynch the participants in Kayseri Province on 18 December 2013. They also attacked on the office of the party with stones.

(12/158) Threat against the news website…

Two shotgun bullets were left in front of the entrance of Yüksekova (Hakkâri) News Centre bureau on 18 December 2013.

(12/159) Tried attacker with chopper….

On 18 December 2013 İstanbul Penal Court of First Instance No. 53 began to hear the case against 4 people -Sabri Çelik, Murat Ertik, Şeyhmus Kırmızı and another person- who had attacked on protestors with choppers during Gezi Park Protests on 6 July 2013 on charges of “attempting to intentional wounding”. The court heard both sides and declined the demand for the arrest of the defendants.

(12/160) Restriction of access to the website…

The access to the website (yenidonem.com) which has been publishing news on smuggling, money laundry, etc. was restricted by The Telecommunication Communication Presidency/Telekomünikasyon İletişim Başkanlığı reported on 18 December 2013.

(12/161) People tried in connection with Gezi Park Actions…

On 18 December 2013 Sakarya Penal Court of First Instance No. 2 went on hearing the case against 46 people in connection with the solidarity actions in Sakarya Province on 4 June 2013 with the Gezi Park actions in İstanbul Province. The court acquitted all the defendants on the grounds that it is a right under the protection of the constitution.

(12/162) People tried in Kocaeli Province…

On 11 February 2014 Kocaeli Penal Court of First Instance No. 4 will be hearing the case against Mesut Yılmaz (20), Emre Akpınar (20) and Adem Süzen (24) in connection with the protest against the murder of Ahmet Atakan (22) in Hatay Province on 9 September 2013 in the same day in Kocaeli Province on charges of “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations”.

(12/163) Detained people…

Turgay Şahin and Halil Top were detained in Çorum and Amasya Provinces in the operation against DHKP/C on 18 December 2013.

(12/164) Home raids in İstanbul Province…

Twelve people were detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in the framework of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front -Devrimci Halk Kurtuluş Parti/Cephesi (DHKP/C) in Maltepe District of İstanbul Province on 19 December 2013.

 

20 December 2013 Daily Human Rights Report

(12/165) Intervention to the protest in Diyarbakır Province…

Police teams interfered to the protest of the members of Dicle University Free Students Association (DÜÖ-DER) against the security point constructed in Dicle University in Diyarbakır Province on 19 December 2013.

Two students were wounded, and ten others were detained in the incident.

(12/166) Ongoing 2nd KCK/TM Main Case İstanbul Province…

On 19 December 2013 İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 16 went on hearing the case against 50 defendants -46 lawyers Century’s Law Office/16 pre-trial detainees- who had been subjected to KCK investigation in İstanbul Province on charges of “being a member and executive of an illegal organisation” under Article 314 of TPC and “helping and harbouring an illegal organisation” under Article 220/7.

The court heard the defendants in Kurdish and released pre-trial detainees – Mehmet Sani Kızılkaya, Asiye Ülker, Muhdi Öztüzün and Bedri Kuran. The hearing was adjourned to 8 April 2014.

(12/167) Intervention to the protest in İstanbul Province…

Police teams interfered to the protest against the “Back to Life Operation”, which was resulted with the death of 32 people in 20 prisons on 19 December 2000, with gas bombs and water cannons in Taksim Square in İstanbul Province on 19 December 2013. Ten were detained in the incident.

(12/168) People tried in connection with Gezi Park Actions…

The indictment against 29 people in connection with the solidarity messages and the news that give information on the new developments during the Gezi Park action in social media in İzmir Province on charges of “inciting people to hatred and enmity” under Article 216 of TPC reported on 20 December 2013.

The first hearing will be in İzmir Penal Court of Peace No. 1 on 24 February 2014.

 

21-23 December 2013 Daily Human Rights Report

(12/169) Ferhat Gerçek case…

Bakırköy Heavy Penal Court No. 9 concluded the case of Ferhat Gerçek, a young man who became paralyzed in 2007 due to police fire at the age of 17. It also turned out that he received longer prison sentence than his shooters concerning the incident that led to his paralysis. He was convicted of “damaging a police vehicle and insulting policemen”. “Ferhat Gerçek is the victim of the incident. Therefore we requested his acquittal and the conviction of policemen. The investigation did not continue according to procedures. There was not even an investigation at the crime scene. No witnesses were heard,” advocate Aycan Çiçek told bianet. The court, however, decided to abandon the announcement of verdict. Policemen Cengiz Çalış, Yavuz Özer, Aydın Özdere, Hasan Bayraktar, Emre Taşkın, Can Koçbülbül and Muzaffer Ünal each received 2.5 years of imprisonment. “The defendants put the victim into a life-threatening situation and caused him to suffer from a life-long condition,” the verdict said. It also underlined that policemen acted with a “possible” purpose. However, they still benefited sentence reductions due to the “possible effect of sentence on the defendants”. On 7 October 2007, distributors of the Yürüyüş magazine were beaten by the police in Yenibosna (Istanbul). Ferhat (17) was shot at this back when he was trying to run away.

A Bakırköy district court opened a trial against police officers Cengiz Çalış, Yavuz Özer, Aydın Özdere, Hasan Bayraktar, Emre Taşkın, Can Koçbülbül and Muzaffer Ünal. The police officers are facing imprisonment of up 10.5 years on charges of “misconduct of office”. Ferhat, on the other hand, faced 15 years of prison under allegations of “opposing the law on meetings and demonstrations”, “resistance to obstruct duty”, “insult of a public official” and “intentional property damage”. The bullet shell and Gerçek’s t-shirt were sent to the Forensic Medicine Institute in order to determine the weapon the bullet was shot from and to be able to proof that Gerçek was shot from a short distance.

However, both the bullet and the t-shirt got lost at the Forensic Medicine Institute and were not included in the case file. The court had applied to the police to appoint an “expert” for the investigation of the footage. The court rejected the policemen to be tried under “attempted homicide”, ruling that Gerçek was shot as they fired in the air. “We took his legs. We will also take his arms,” suspect policemen said when faced with Ferhat Gerçek during a hearing in 2011. An additional trial was opened against Gerçek regarding a compensation claim for the “cost of repair” of the police cars that were damaged on the day of the incident. The General Police Directorate affiliated with the Ministry of the Interior claimed TL 2,242 (€ 900) in compensation from Gerçek and four other people to cover the cost of damage that occurred at two police cars when they allegedly threw stones at the cars.

(12/170) Ongoing murder by unknown assailants’ case in Ankara Province…

The 3rd investigation on the 3 murders by unknown assailants -Savaş Buldan and his two friends- in 1990s in the vicinity of Ankara Province was finalised, reported on 20 December 2013.

The indictment which is prepared by Ankara Judicature (Authorised by the Article 10 of the ATL) is against 19 suspects including Mahmut Yıldırım, Mehmet Ağar and Korkut Eken and sent to Ankara Heavy Penal Court No. 13.

(12/171) Fire in prison …

Two women were hospitalised due to the fire after the prisoners set their beds on fire in Bakırköy (İstanbul) Prison for Females on 21 December 2013.

(12/172) People tried in connection with Gezi Park Actions…

The indictment against 5 people -3 pre-trial detainees- in connection with the solidarity actions with Gezi Park action in Antalya Province on 1 June 2013 on charges of “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations”, “harming public goods”, “resisting public officers due to his duty”, reported on 22 December 2013.

The first hearing will be in Antalya Heavy Penal Court No. 5 on 6 February 2014.

(12/173) Intervention to the protest in İstanbul Province…

Two people who attempted to protest the “Back to Life Operation” which was resulted with the death of 32 people in 20 prisons on 19 December 2000 from the roof a mall were detained in İstiklal Street in İstanbul Province on 20 December 2013.

(12/174) Intervention to the protest in İstanbul Province…

Police teams attacked on the “City Meeting” with gas bombs, plastic bullets and water cannons in Kadıköy District of İstanbul Province on 22 December 2013. A person was wounded with plastic bullet from his eye, Elif Çarmık (64) had cardiac attack due to gas bombs. At least ten people were wounded in the incident.

(12/175) Intervention to the protest in Mardin Province…

Police teams interfered to the Meeting of the BDP to protest the wall that has been constructed in the borderline between the Kurdish region of Syria and Turkey with gas bombs, real bullets and water cannons in Cizre District of Şırnak Province on 22 December 2013.

(12/176) Intervention to the protest in Şırnak Province…

Police teams interfered to the Meeting of the BDP to protest the wall that has been constructed in the borderline between the Kurdish region of Syria and Turkey with gas bombs in Nusaybin District of Mardin Province on 22 December 2013.

(12/177) Hinder commemoration…

Police teams hindered the meeting to commemorate the “Maraş Massacre” in its 33rd anniversary in Kahramanmaraş Province on 21 December 2013 on the grounds that there are some missing documents. A person was detained from the bus in the entrance of Nurhak District. At least 150 people were killed in the massacre by right wingers between 19 and 26 December 1978.

(12/178) Finalised KCK case in Batman Province…

On 20 December 2013 Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 6 finalised the case against 16 defendants -5 of them pre-trial detainees- who had been subjected to 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 Batman Province on 28 December 2009.

M. Şirin Bağlı and Aydın Kılıç were sentenced to 9 years of imprisonment on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” under Article 314 of TPC; Rıdvan Aslan, Selamet Akyüz and İlyas Sağlam were sentenced to 7 years 3 months of imprisonment with the same charges; Ahmet Solmaz, Şeyhmus Yaşar and Nesrin Kılıç sentenced to 6 years 3 months of imprisonment; Gülizar Kalmış, Cahit Kanbay and Veysi Gülseren 7 years 6 months of imprisonment with the same charges. Five defendants were acquitted in the case.

(12/179) Ongoing KCK/TM Main Case in İstanbul Province…

Istanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 15 went on hearing the case against 205 defendants and 23 of them were fugitives- on 20 December 2013.

Prof. Dr. Büşra Ersanlı is among the defendants and charged with “being the executive of the illegal organisation”.

Istanbul Chief Public Prosecution Office had finalised the indictment against 193 people -147 of the pre-trial detainees- who had been detained in various dates in the framework of KCK investigation and sent the 2401 pages of indictment for the evaluation of Istanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 15 on 19 March 2012. Writer Ragıp Zarakolu had been charged with “helping and harbouring an illegal organisation” under Article 220/7 and Prof. Dr. Büşra Ersanlı had been charged with “being an executive of illegal organisation”.

Istanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 15 had released Writer Ragıp Zarakolu, Muhsin Yenisöz, Irfan Hülakü, Lütfü Balbal, Ali Geritli, Songül Karatagna, Nahit Onat, Zeynal Çelik, Neci Elmas, Burhanettin Toprak, Ismail Zeybek, Evrim Öztürk, Yasin Yalçın, Cemalettin Görbegir, Alaattin Güneş on the grounds that the probability that the qualification of the charges could be change and the conditions of the evidences as well as taking the period of time spent in prison as pre-trial detainees.

The court released Mehmet Cevat İnce, Nizamettin Açıkça, Meyrem Yiğit, Hatice Vural, Ayşe Hacımirzaoğlu (Berktay), Seda Aktaş taking their long pre-trial detention process, after hearing the arguments of the defendants and adjourned to 31 January 2014. The hearings will be successive till 14 February 2014.

(12/180) Home raids in Şanlıurfa Province…

Salih Şahin, Ferit Akpolat and Derviş İnan who had been detained in home raids of Fighting with Terror Department in Suruç District of Şanlıurfa Province on 19 December 2013 were arrested in the framework of KCK investigation on 20 December 2013.

(12/181) Attack on party building…

Unidentified people attacked on the Peace and Democracy Party’s (BDP) District Branch office with stones and Molotov cocktails in Bodrum District of Muğla Province on 21 December 2013.

(12/182) Detained juvenile…

An unidentified juvenile was detained by the police team in an armoured vehicle and taken to Siteler Police Station in Akdeniz District of Mersin Province on 19 December 2013.

(12/183) Home raids in Ağrı Province…

Six members of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) were detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in Diyadin District of Ağrı Province on 21 December 2013.

(12/184) Suspicious death of a police officer in Ankara Province…

Security General Directorate Fighting with Smuggling and Organized Crime Department Superintendant Hakan Yüksekdağ was found shot in his car in Dikmen Street on 21 December 2013.

(12/185) Work accident in Adana Province…

Tuncer Kılıçkan died after he was subjected to electric shock in Adana Province on 20 December 2013.

 

24 December 2013 Daily Human Rights Report

(12/186) Violence in primary school…

Atatürk Primary School student E.A.’s (9) ear was torn after his teacher pulled it on the grounds that he went out with his friends to put the garbage out in Develi District of Kayseri Province on 23 December 2013. Six centimetres of laceration was found in E.A.’s ear and his wound was sutured 11 times. His father C.A.A. stated that they made an official complaint against the teacher.

(12/188) Fire in prison…

Five women were hospitalised due to the fire after the prisoners set their beds on fire in Bakırköy (İstanbul) Prison for Females on 23 December 2013.

(12/189) Coercion in prison…

Bahoz Tanhan’s letter revealed out that the administration of Kırıklar (İzmir) Prison has been asking for doctor’s report to give additional clothes to the prisoners to protect them from the cold, reported on 24 December 2013.

(12/190) Coercion in prison…

The central heating system was not working in Elbistan (Kahramanmaraş) E Type Prison and they were medically treated in the hospital with their hands cuffed reported in the letter of Hasan Göksungur on 24 December 2013.

(12/191) Coercion in prison…

Seven juveniles -H.D., R.D., B.T., F.E., S.D., M.K. and D.A.- in Hakkâri Closed Prison were transferred to Sincan (Ankara) Prison for Juveniles against their will on 11 December 2013.

(12/192) People tried in connection with Gezi Park Actions…

During the Gezi Park actions, İstanbul province branch office of the Socialist Democracy Party (SDP) had been raided and 72 people had been detained on 11 June 2013. SDP’s Central Executive Board member Ulaş Bayraktar was arrested on charges of “being a member of an armed organisation”; party assembly member Doğukan Öci and members Furkan Tombul and Ceyhun Dönmez were arrested on charges of “committing offence on behalf of an organisation although he is not a member” under Article 220/6 of TPC on 15 June 2013.

The indictment against 36 people -4 pre-trial detainees- in connection with Gezi Park actions in İstanbul Province on 11 June 2013 on charges of “being a member and an executive of an illegal organisation –Revolutionary Headquarters” under Article 314 of TPC was finalised and sent to İstanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 22 reported on 24 December 2013.

(12/193) Ongoing KCK Case in Şırnak Province…

On 23 December 2013 Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 7 went on hearing the case against 85 defendants -32 pre-trial detainees- who had been subjected to KCK investigation in Cizre District of Şırnak Province on charges of “being a member and executive of an illegal organisation” under Article 314 of TPC and “helping and harbouring an illegal organisation” under Article 220/7.

After hearing the defendants, the court prolonged the pre-trial detention period of the defendants and adjourned the hearing to 24 February 2014.

(12/194) Detained person in Kırklareli Province…

Police teams detained members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party/Halkların Demokratik Partisi’ (HDP) Murat Mollaoğlu, Gizem Kuzuk and Cem Arda in Kırklareli Province on 24 December 2013 without giving information.

(12/195) Work accident in İzmir Province…

Ten people (8 of them soldiers) died and 17 people were wounded in the accident in Alaybey Navy Docks in Karşıyaka District of İzmir Province on 23 December 2013.

 

25 December 2013 Daily Human Rights Report

(12/196) Ongoing case on the bomb attack in Gaziantep Province…

On 24 December 2013 Adana Heavy Penal Court No. 10 went on hearing the case against 12 people -7 pre-trial detainees- in connection with the bomb attack in Gaziantep Province on 20 August 2012 which killed 11 people and wounded 70 people.

The court heard the defendants and released pre-trial detainees Hurşit Filiz, Rüstem Filiz, Yusuf Orçu, Barış Tutuş and Yusuf Aktoprak on bail.

(12/197) Acquitted student…

İ.A. (17) had written a message to Ankara Metropolitan Mayor Melih Gökçek using twitter.com with “#EdepsizsinMelihGokcek” hash tag and she had been detained by police teams from her school on 27 February 2013.

On 24 December 2013 Ankara Court for Juveniles No. 3 went on hearing the case against her on charges of “insulting a public officer due to the performance of his public duty” under Article 125 of TPC. The court heard the lawyer of İ.A. and acquitted her.

(12/198) Intervention to the protest in Istanbul Province…

On 24 December 2013 Police teams interfered to the protest of the Demokratik Öğrenci Dernekleri Federasyonu (DÖDEF) against the attacks of the civilians on the students in Forest Faculty of Istanbul University in Galatasary Square with gas bombs and water cannons and detained 4 students.

(12/199) People tried in connection with Gezi Park Actions…

The indictment against 255 people -7 foreigners- in connection with the Gezi Park action in Istanbul Province on charges of “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations”, “harming public goods”, “resisting public officers due to his duty”, “harming temples by smearing”, “using uniforms against its rules” reported on 10 December 2013.

On 24 December 2013 Istanbul Penal Court of First Instance No. 55 accepted the indictment and the first hearing will be 9 May 2014.

(12/200) Ongoing DHKP/C investigation…

On 3 July 2013 Istanbul Chief Public Deputy Prosecutor Oktay Erdoğan who is responsible from the terror crimes, had approved the indictment against 22 lawyers -9 pre-trial detainees- who had been detained by Fighting with Terror Department police teams in the operation on the Contemporary Lawyers Association in the context of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front -Devrimci Halk Kurtuluş Parti/Cephesi (DHKP/C) on 18 January 2013. On 18 July 2013 Istanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 23 accepted the indictment in which Selçuk Kozağaçlı and Taylan Tanay are charged with executives of the illegal organisation and the other lawyers were charged with being a member of the same organisation.

On 24 December 2013 Istanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 23 began to hear the case the court decided that the summary of the indictment to be read in the hearing. After that Selçuk Kozağaçlı stated that the would like to make joint defence and finalise it in three days and made the defence on behalf of 22 lawyers -9 of them pre-trial detainees.

The pre-trial detainees are as follows Çağdaş Hukukçular Derneği (ÇHD) Chairperson Selçuk Kozağaçlı, ÇHD Istanbul Branch Chairperson Taylan Tanay, ÇHD Istanbul Şubesi Executive Board member Güçlü Sevimli, ÇHD members Naciye Demir, ÇHD members and the members of the People’s Law Bureau Barkın Timtik, Ebru Timtik, Şükriye Erden, Günay Dağ ile ÇHD Ankara Branch Executive Board member Betül Vangölü Kozağaçlı. The other defendants Oya Aslan, Özgür Yılmaz, Güray Dağ, Gülvin Aydın, Efkan Bolaç, Serhan Arıkanoğlu, Zeki Rüzgar, Mümin Özgür Gider, Metin Narin, Sevgi Sönmez, Alper Tunga Saral, Rahim Yılmaz, Selda Yılmaz.

(12/201) Ağrı Home raids in Province…

Four out of the six detainees -Mustafa Yaşar, İhsan Çiftçi, Adem Aslan and Sıddık Çiftçi- who had been detained in home raids of Fighting with Terror Department in Diyadin District of Ağrı Province on 21 December 2013 were arrested on 25 December 2013.

(12/202) Students detained in Adana Province…

Police teams interfered to the students as they were distributing communiqués on Roboskî Massacre in the garden of the Çukurova University in Adana Province and detained 26 of them on 24 December 2013.

(12/203) Workers died/wounded in the accident…

Twenty-four workers were wounded in the traffic accident in Yüreğir District of Adana Province on 24 December 2013.

(12/204) Work accident in Sakarya Province…

Nuri Daloğlu lost his arm in the accident in a private rock mine in Karapürçek District of Sakarya Province on 24 December 2013.

(12/205) Suspicious death of a police officer in Isparta Province…

Isparta Province Security vice Director Abdi Altınok was allegedly committed suicide in Isparta Province on 24 December 2013.

 

26 December 2013 Daily Human Rights Report

(12/206) Death in Prison…

Şahin Özek (37), a pre-trial detainee in Kürkçüler (Adana) F Type of Closed Prison on charges of homicide, allegedly committed suicide in his cell on 24 December 2013.

(12/207) The case on the forced disappearances in Kulp…

The prosecutor who has been working on the investigation on 11 villagers who had been subjected to forced disappearance after they had been detained from their village, Alacakaya Village of Kulp District of Diyarbakır Province on 9 October 1993, finalised the indictment on 24 October 2013.

Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 7 accepted the indictment and will be hearing the case soon. The prosecutor asked 11 times life sentence in solitary confinement and with no possibility of parole and 25 years of imprisonment for Yavuz Ertürk, Bolu 2nd Commando Brigade former Commander retired Major General.

On 25 December 2013 the court began to hear the case and the defendant who was not present in the hearing ask the court to transfer the case to another province for security of him. The court heard the witnesses and adjourned the hearing to 27 December 2013.

(12/209) Fire in Prison…

Nine guards were hospitalised due to the fire in Pozantı (Adana) M Type of Closed Prison on 25 December 2013.

(12/210) Coercion in prison…

Murat Akıncı, a member of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) in Kürkçüler (Adana) F Type of Closed Prison as a pre-trial detainee, was not medically treated on the grounds that he declined the treatment with his hands cuffed on 24 December 2013.

(12/211) Acquitted people…

On 25 December 2013 Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 8 began to hear the case against 5 members of the organisation committee of the commemoration activity for Sheikh Said in Diyarbakır Province on 28 June 2013 in connection with placard with the photograph of Abdullah Öcalan on charges of “making propaganda of an illegal organisation” under Article 7/2 of Anti-Terror Law.

The court acquitted Şaban Turhan, İmam Taşçıer, Süleyman Ekinci, Civanroj Ceyhan and Aziz Mahmut Ak.

(12/212) Intervention to the protest in Istanbul Province…

Police teams detained 2 people who chained themselves to the iron fence to demand the release of their friends in Taksim Square in Istanbul Province on 25 December 2013.

(12/213) Mardin Intervention to the protest in Province…

Police teams interfered to the protest against the government in Adana Province on 26 December 2013 with gas bombs and water cannons and detained 6 people.

K.A. (17) and İ.A. (16) who had been detained in the intervention to the protest against the border wall between Nusaybin District of Mardin Province and Qamişlo Region in Syria on 22 December 2013 were arrested on 25 December 2013.

(12/214) Intervention to the protest in Istanbul Province…

Police teams interfered to the protest against the government in Kadıköy District of Istanbul Province on 25 December 2013 with gas bombs and water cannons and detained 46 people.

(12/215) Ongoing KCK case in Erzurum Province…

On 24 December 2013 Erzurum Heavy Penal Court No. 2 began to hear the case against 8 members of the Demokratik Yurtsever Gençlik Meclisi who had been detained in the framework of the KCK investigation in Erzurum Province on 23 June 2013.

The court declined the demand of the defendants to make their legal argument in mother tongue and adjourned the hearing to 3 February 2014.

(12/216) Ongoing KCK case in Diyarbakır Province…

On 25 December 2013 Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 5 went on hearing the case against 95 people including BDP Bağlar District Chairperson Ali Yüce and Diyarbakır Metropolitan Assembly member Abdulkadir Göktumur -30 pre-trial detainees who had been subjected to KCK investigation in Diyarbakır Province on 22 November 2011.

The court prolonged the pre-trial detention period of the defendants and adjourned the hearing to 12 March 2014.

(12/217) Workers died/wounded in the accident…

Ten agriculture workers from Syria were wounded in the accident in the vicinity of Çukurköprü Village of Kadirli District of Osmaniye Province on 25 December 2013.

(12/218) Attack on the charity campaign in Istanbul Province…

İbrahim Taşkın was wounded from his leg in the attack of the right wingers with choppers on the carity campaign for Van in Aydın University in Istanbul Province on 25 December 2013.

(12/219) Hate crime in Mersin Province…

Deniz, a transgender woman was wounded in the attack of a mob with sticks and knives in Mersin Procince on 23 December 2013.

 

27 December 2013 Daily Human Rights Report

(12/221) Suicide attempt in prison…

Pre-trial detainee İbrahim Benzer (28) attempted to hang himself with the sheet of his bed in Adıyaman E Tipi Type of Closed Prison on 18 December 2013.

(12/222) The condition of ill prisoners…

“Ankylosing spondylitis” illness was diagnosed in Remzi Bayram, a convict in Midyat (Mardin) M Type of Closed Prison, but he was not hospitalised reported on 26 December 2013.

(12/223) Coercion in prison…

Ciwan Şayık, Serhat Şavluk, Emin İrmez and Şahin Sümbül were transfered from Mardin E Type of Closed Prison to Kırıklar (İzmir F Type of Closed Prison No. 1 against their will reported on 26 December 2013. The guardians beat the prisoners on the grounds that they objected to the cameras in the units.

(12/224) Intervention to the protest in Adana Province…

Police teams interfered to the protest against the government in Adana Province on 26 December 2013 with gas bombs and water cannons and detained 6 people.

(12/225) Ongoing DHKP/C investigation…

On 3 July 2013 Istanbul Chief Public Deputy Prosecutor Oktay Erdoğan who is responsible from the terror crimes, had approved the indictment against 22 lawyers -9 pre-trial detainees- who had been detained by Fighting with Terror Department police teams in the operation on the Contemporary Lawyers Association in the context of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front -Devrimci Halk Kurtuluş Parti/Cephesi (DHKP/C) on 18 January 2013. On 18 July 2013 Istanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 23 accepted the indictment in which Selçuk Kozağaçlı and Taylan Tanay are charged with executives of the illegal organisation and the other lawyers were charged with being a member of the same organisation.

On 26 December 2013 Istanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 23 went on hearing the case. The court released pre-trial detainees Güçlü Sevimli, Naciye Demir, Betül Vangölü Kozağaçlı and Şükriye Erden. The next hearings will be between 15-17 April 2014.

(12/226) Van Home raids in Province…

Nine members of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) were detained in synchronised home raids of the Special Task Force Department teams on the grounds that they have been “helping and harbouring an illegal organisation” in Saray and Özalp Districts of Van Province on 27 December 2013.

(12/227) Home raids in Kars Province…

Seven people were detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams on the grounds that they had resisted in the protest in Kars Province on 27 December 2013.

(12/228) Home raids in Şanlıurfa Province…

Three Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) members, İbrahim Öztürk, Hoşnav Ata and Ferit Süer, were detained in synchronised home raids of the Special Task Force Department teams in Viranşehir District of Şanlıurfa Province on 26 December 2013.

(12/229) Home raids in Mardin Province…

Fikret Aksoy was detained in home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in Dargeçit District of Mardin Province on 26 December 2013. The authorities did not make any explanation on the reason of detention.

(12/230) Suspicious death of a police officer in Diyarbakır Province…

Çetin Özkan (45), a police officer from the Special Task Force team, was found shot with his M16 in the locker room in Diyarbakır Province on 26 December 2013.

(12/231) Work accident in Tekirdağ Province…

Nesrin Çakır (23) died in the accident in Velimeşe Organised Industry Region in Ergene District of Tekirdağ Province on 26 December 2013.

 

28-30 December 2013 Daily Human Rights Report

(12/232) Extra-judicial killing attempt in Mardin Province…

Sileman Ehmed Yusif (25) who tried to enter Turkey from Rojava Region of Syria was wounded by soldiers on the grounds that he did not obey stop warning near Şenyurt Village of Kızıltepe District of Mardin Province on 29 December 2013.

(12/234) The case on the forced disappearances in Kulp…

The prosecutor who has been working on the investigation on 11 villagers who had been subjected to forced disappearance after they had been detained from their village, Alacakaya Village of Kulp District of Diyarbakır Province on 9 October 1993, finalised the indictment on 24 October 2013.

Diyarbakır Heavy Penal Court No. 7 accepted the indictment and will be hearing the case soon. The prosecutor asked 11 times life sentence in solitary confinement and with no possibility of parole and 25 years of imprisonment for Yavuz Ertürk, Bolu 2nd Commando Brigade former Commander retired Major General.

On 27 December 2013 the court went on hearing the case and the defendant who was not present in the hearing again. The court heard the witnesses and adjudicated to bring the defendant to the next hearing by force which will be on 26 February 2014.

(12/235) Coercion in prison…

Murat Akıncı, a member of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) in Kürkçüler (Adana) F Type Prison, was beaten by the guardians on the grounds that he demanded the snickers his family had sent him reported on 30 December 2013.

(12/236) Approved verdict against the party co-chairperson…

Halkların Demokratik Partisi (HDP) Co-Chairperson and Istanbul Deputy Sebahat Tuncel had been sentenced to 8 years and 9 months of imprisonment by Istanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 10 on charges of “ being a member of an illegal organisation on 18 September 2012.

On 27 December 2013 The Supreme Court of Appeal’s Penal Chamber No. 9 unanimously approved the verdict.

(12/237) Convicted People…

On 30 December 2013 Bursa Heavy Penal Court No. 6 finalised the case against 21 executives or member of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) including Writer Ayşegül Devecioğlu in connection with the Newroz Celebration in Yalova Province on 20 March 2012 on charges of “making propaganda of an illegal organisation” under Article 7/2 of Anti-Terror Law.

The court sentenced Ayşegül Devecioğlu to 23 months of imprisonment with 5 years on probation; the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Province Chairperson İhsan Çoşkun to15 months of imprisonment with 2 years on probation; BDP members Siban Eminoğulları, Nadire Baran, Berivan Ayral, Ayhan Polat, Ömer Polat, Kaptan Alpyürük and Hasan Güneş sentenced to 10 months of imprisonment and acquitted 12 people.

(12/238) People tried in connection with Gezi Park Actions…

On 27 December 2013 Elbistan Penal Court of First Instance No. 1 began to hear the case against 3 people in connection with the solidarity actions with Gezi Park action in Nurhak District of Kahramanmaraş Province on 27 June 2013 on charges of “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations”.

The court heard the legal arguments of the defendants -Ebu Hamza Çelik, Ali Orak and İrfan Gül- and adjourned the hearing to 21 February 2014.

(12/239) People tried in connection with Gezi Park Actions…

Ankara Penal Court of Peace No. 19 will be hearing the case against A.S. in connection with his solidarity messages he write in social media with the Gezi Park action in Istanbul Province on charges of “insulting Turkish Nation, the Republic of Turkey, the organs and institutions of the State” under Article 301 of TPC reported on 27 December 2013.

(12/240) People tried in connection with Gezi Park Actions…

On 27 December 2013 Adana Heavy Penal Court No. 10 began to hear the case against 7 people in connection with the solidarity actions with Gezi Park action in Gaziantep Province on charges of “opposing to the Law No. 2911 on Meetings and Demonstrations”, “harming public goods”, “resisting public officers due to his duty”. The court adjourned the hearing after determining the identities of the defendants.

(12/241) Intervention to the protests against corruption and bribery…

Several protests were organised to demand the resignation of the 61st government after the operations of corruption and bribery on 27 December 2013.

Police teams interfered to the protests with gas bombs and water cannons and 70 people in Beyoğlu and Kadıköy District of İstanbul Province, 3 people in Ankara, 19 people in İzmir were detained. No one detained ni the protests in Hatay, Adana, Edirne, Kocaeli, Kahramanmaraş, Mersin, Zonguldak, Uşak, Eskişehir, Afyonkarahisar, Karabük.

Nine reporters were wounded in Istanbul. Two people were wounded by right-wingers in Kocaeli Province.

Eighty demonstrators were sentenced to a fine of 343 TL each on charges of “opposing to the Traffic Law” in Eskişehir Province.

Cevdet Oğuz, a month old baby, effected from the gas bomb that was thrown inside his house in Firuzağa Quarter of Beyoğlu District. Seven years old child was wounded with a gas bomb canister in Gazi Quarter of İstanbul Province.

A person with a long knife attacked on the demonstrators in Beşiktaş District of Istanbul Province on 29 December 2013.

(12/242) Intervention to the protest against PM…

Seven people were detained on the grounds that they will protest the PM in his visit to Sakarya Province on 27 December 2013.

(12/243) Intervention to the protest against PM…

Seven people were detained on the grounds that they will protest the PM in his visit to Manisa Province on 27 December 2013. Nurhan Gül who showed a shoe box from her balcony during the speech of the PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was detained in Akhisar District.

(12/244) Intervention to the protest in Istanbul Province…

Six members of the High Scool Anarchist Activity/Lise Anarşist Faaliyet group were detained after they hanged a placard for Berkin Elvan (14) on the roof of a mall in İstiklal Street on 29 Kasım 2013.

Berkin Elvan (14) has been in coma in last 196 days after he was hit by a gas bomb canister during the Gezi Park protests in Okmeydanı Quarter of Şişli District of İstanbul Province.

(12/245) Intervention to the protest in Mersin Province…

Eight people -7 juveniles- were detained in the intervention to the protest in Mersin against the massacre in Roboski Village of Uludere District of Şırnak Province on 28 December 2011 in which 34 people had been killed on the grounds that they are smugglers.

(12/246) Home raids in Siirt Province…

Six people were detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams on the grounds that they “resisted to the public officers due to his duty” in a protest and are “members a of an illegal organisation” in Kurtalan District of Siirt Province on 27 December 2013. Another person was detained in Manisa Province in the same operation.

(12/247) Home raids in Şırnak Province…

Eighteen people were detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in the framework of the YDG-H investigation in Cizre District of Şırnak Province on 28 December 2013.

(12/248) Political party sentenced to a fine…

The District Branch of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) sentenced to 300 TL in connection with the bulletin they stuck to the lighting posts on charges of polluting according to the Law on Misdemeanours in Fındıklı District of Rize Province on 29 December 2013.

(12/249) Workers died/wounded in the accident…

Eight workers died and five workers were wounded in the traffic accident in Alanya District of Antalya Province on 28 December 2013.

(12/250) Workers died/wounded in the accident…

Five workers died and 19 workers were wounded in the traffic accident in Döşemealtı District of Antalya Province on 28 December 2013

(12/251) Work accident in Nevşehir Province…

Ahmet Kızılkan (39) died after falling from the second floor in the building under-construction in Hacıbektaş University in Nevşehir Province on 29 December 2013.

(12/252) Work accident in Zonguldak Province…

Yüksel Yüksel (42) died in the coal mine in Kilimli Municipality of Zonguldak Province on 29 December 2013.

 

31 December 2013 Daily Human Rights Report

(12/253) Extra-judicial killing in Mardin Province…

Sileman Ehmed Yusif (25) who tried to enter Turkey from Rojava Region of Syria was wounded by soldiers on the grounds that he did not obey stop warning near Şenyurt Village of Kızıltepe District of Mardin Province on 29 December 2013. He died in the hospital on 30 December 2013.

(12/254) Person beaten by private security officer…

Aykut Kelek (20) had been wounded by the private security officer with metal detector as they argued on the grounds that they attempted to use the metro without paying it because he and his brother were broke in Taksim Metro Station in Istanbul Province on 30 December 2013.

(12/255) Coercion in prison…

Ten prisoners in Diyarbakır Open Prison who have been working in the courthouse as tea sellers were sent to E Type Prison on the grounds that they objected to carry cabinets reported on 30 December 2013.

(12/256) Tried people…

On 30 December 2013 Samsun Heavy Penal Court No. 3 went on hearing the case against soldier Utku Kalı in connection with leaking the intelligence report on the bomb attack in Reyhanlı District of Hatay Province. The court adjudicated to exempt the defendant after evaluating the expert report. The hearing was adjourned to 3 March 2014.

(12/257) Intervention to the protest in Hakkâri Province…

Ten villagers were wounded in the intervention of the gendarmerie soldiers to the villagers who have been protesting the coercion of the headquarters in last ten days in Navberojan (Yeşiloba) Village of Şemdinli District of Hakkâri Province on 30 December 2013.

(12/258) Ongoing KCK case in Ankara Province…

Thirteen out of the 61 detainees -Tuncay Gökçen, Ahmet Demirer, Birhat Şimşek, Mehmet Aydın, Mehmet Budak, Mustafa Akın, Özgür Mert Bakan, Fatih Sultan Altın, Recep Kar, Zülküf Akelma, Perişan Akan, Mustafa Karakut, Ahmet Karer- who had been detained in the KCK investigation on the health sciences students on 6 June 2012 were arrested on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” under Article 314 of TPC and “praising crime and criminal” under the Article of 215/1 of TPC. The arrested students were released afterwards.

On 30 December 2013 Ankara Region Heavy Penal Court No. 13 went on hearing the case against the 43 defendants and the lawyers asked for additional time for the defences. The hearing was adjourned to 7 April 2014.

(12/259) Home raids in Şırnak Province…

Three out of the 18 people -Ali Tetik, Nurettin Erkul, Agit Can and İzzet Yıldız- who had been detained in home raids in Cizre District of Şırnak Province on 28 December 2013 were arrested on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” and “helping and harbouring an illegal organisation” on 30 December 2013.

(12/260) Home raid in Şırnak Province…

Peace Mothers Initiative/Barış Anneleri İnisiyatifi activist Fatma Deniz was detained in home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in Silopi District of Şırnak Province on 30 December 2013.

(12/261) Home raids in Kars Province…

Six out of the 7 detainees who had been detained in home raids of Fighting with Terror Department in Kars Province on 27 December 2013 were arrested on charges of “resisting public officers due to his duty” in a protest on 30 December 2013.

(12/262) Racist attack in Bolu Province…

Abant İzzet Baysal University student Rıdvan İşler was stabbed by right wingers on the grounds that he was talking Kurdish with his cell phone in Bolu Province on 30 December 2013. Rıdvan İşler was detained from the hospital. Two other Kurdish students were threatened with a firearm in the same day.

(12/263) Torture and ill-treatment in detention…

Şerife Erbay, Erkan Salduz, Cebrail Gündoğdu and Barış Boğazkaya were detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in Istanbul Province on 31 December 2013. They were subjected to saliva sampling against their will in Haseki Training and Research Hospital reported by Law Bureau of the Oppressed.

(12/265) Home raids in Diyarbakır Province…

Sur Municipality Assembly member Ali Rıza Çiçekli, Province General Assembly member Mehmet Güzel and Mehmet Yalçın were detained in synchronised home raids of the Fighting with Terrorism Department teams in Diyarbakır Province on 31 December 2013.

(12/266) Work accident in Siirt Province…

Driver of the cement mixer Aydın Özcan (50) died in the accident on his way to the Miran Hydroelectric Power Plant in Eruh District of Siirt Province on 31 December 2013.

(12/267) Racist attack in Konya Province…

Necmettin Erbakan University student Mesut Bengi was beaten by a racist group in Konya Province on 31 December 2013.

(12/268) Convicted People…

Yusuf Demir and Ünal Şengezer who had been detained with another person -Muhammed Demir- in home raids in Istanbul Province on 18 October 2012 were arrested on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation -TKP ML/TİKKO” under Article 314 of TPC on 20 October 2012.

On 31 December 2013 Istanbul Heavy Penal Court No. 23 sentenced Yusuf Demir and Ünal Şengezer to 12 years and 6 months of imprisonment each on charges of “being a member of an illegal organisation” under Article 314 of TPC and “having explosives” and acquitted Demir.