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DER EUROP=C4ISCHE GERICHTSHOF URTEILT =DCBER DIE GERICHTSBARKEIT DER =
T=DCRKEI

HANS BRANSCHEIDT

-----Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Ilkka Jaakkola <ilkka.jaakkola at kolumbus.fi>
An: Harawazi s=E4hk=F6postilista <harawazi-l at utu.fi>
Datum: Mittwoch, 3. M=E4rz 1999 08:35
Betreff: 2-3-99-TDN-EU-court-questions-tky

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European Court questions independence of State Security Courts=20
Complainants charge Turkey violated their freedoms of speech and=20
thought and rights to a fair and independent trial=20

Ankara - Turkish Daily News / March 2, 1999=20

In three separate sessions the European Court of Human Rights once again =
questioned=20
the independence and neutrality of Turkey's State Security Courts (DGM), =
the Anatolia=20
news agency reported on Monday.=20

The Court listened to both parties in the three sessions held after =
Kamil Tekin Surek,=20
Gunay Arslan and Munier Ceylan filed complaints against Turkey.=20

The complaints stated that DGM trials violated freedom of speech and =
thought as well as=20
the right to a fair and independent trial, in violation of Article No. =
6.9.10 of the Human=20
Rights Agreement, which Turkey has signed.=20

All three complainants were prosecuted by the Istanbul DGM. Surek was =
charged with=20
making separatist propaganda for an article on Southeast Anatolia that =
appeared in the=20
magazine "Both News and Interpretation is Real." Arslan was prosecuted =
on the same=20
charges stemming from his book, "Mourning History, 33 Bullets." Ceylan, =
former=20
chairman of Petrol-Is, was accused of making provocations based on =
ethnic and regional=20
differences in an article published in the newspaper "New Country."=20

Last year, in cases brought to the European Court of European Human =
Rights by Ibrahim=20
Incal of the now-closed People's Labor Party (HEP) and Cengiz Ciraklar, =
who was=20
arrested in connection with a student demonstration in Izmir, the Court =
found Turkey=20
guilty and ordered the country to pay financial compensation, =
maintaining that Incal and=20
Ciraklar were correct to suspect the independence and neutrality of the =
DGMs, each of=20
which have one military judge serving on its panel.=20
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Click Back To Return To Headlines News=20

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<DIV> </DIV>  European Court =
questions=20
independence of State Security Courts=20
Complainants charge Turkey violated their freedoms of speech and =
 thought=20
and rights to a fair and independent trial=20
Ankara - Turkish Daily News / March 2, 1999=20
In three separate sessions the European Court of Human Rights once =
again=20
questioned the independence and neutrality of Turkey's State =
Security Courts=20
(DGM), the Anatolia news agency reported on Monday.=20
The Court listened to both parties in the three sessions held after =
Kamil=20
Tekin Surek, Gunay Arslan and Munier Ceylan filed complaints against =
Turkey.=20

The complaints stated that DGM trials violated freedom of speech and =
thought=20
as well as the right to a fair and independent trial, in violation =
of=20
Article No. 6.9.10 of the Human Rights Agreement, which Turkey has =
signed.=20
All three complainants were prosecuted by the Istanbul DGM. Surek was =
charged=20
with making separatist propaganda for an article on Southeast =
Anatolia that=20
appeared in the magazine "Both News and Interpretation is =
Real."=20
Arslan was prosecuted on the same charges stemming from his book,=20
"Mourning History, 33 Bullets." Ceylan, former chairman of =

Petrol-Is, was accused of making provocations based on ethnic and =
regional=20
 differences in an article published in the newspaper "New=20
Country."=20
Last year, in cases brought to the European Court of European Human =
Rights by=20
Ibrahim Incal of the now-closed People's Labor Party (HEP) and =
Cengiz=20
Ciraklar, who was arrested in connection with a student =
demonstration in=20
Izmir, the Court found Turkey guilty and ordered the country to pay=20
financial compensation, maintaining that Incal and Ciraklar were =
correct to=20
suspect the independence and neutrality of the DGMs, each of which =
have one=20
military judge serving on its panel. ******************* Click=20
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