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3. demande fennement à la Turquie de retirer immédiatement ses troupes du nord de l'Irak et
de se mettre en quête d'une solution politique propre à apaiser, dans le droit fil des règles du droit
international, la tension qui règne dans ses provinces orientales;
4. demande à l'Union européenne et à ses États membres d'aider financièrement et
techniquement le Haut Comité des Nations unies pour les réfugiés dans ses efforts afin de
secourir les populations menacées .par les récentes explosions de violence;
5. invite instamment les États membres à ne procéder à l'extradition d'aucun réfugié kurde
aussi longtemps qu'Ankara affichera un tel comportement à l'encontre de ce peuple, à
l'exception des responsables des mouvements terr'jlÎstes;
6. prie les États membres de subordonner, à l'exemple de l'Allemagne, la fourniture de
nouveaux équipements militaires à la Turquie au retrait de ses troupes;
7. presse le Conseil et la Commission d'établir une stricte réglementation des exportations de
matériels militaires, de manière à éviter que des armes provenant d'États membres ne soient
utilisées contre les Kurdes ou dans des conflits similaires;
8. demande que les délégués de la Croix-Rouge soient autorisés à se rendre dans le Nord de
l'Irak pour veniren aide aux populations civiles, notamment aux personnes blessées ou détenues;
9. renvoie à sa résolution précitée du 16 février 1995;
10. charge son Président de transmettre la présen~ résolution à la Commission, au Conseil, au
Conseil de l'Europe. à l'OSCE. au Secrétaire géliéral des Nations unies. au Haut Comité des
Nations unies pour les réfugiés. au Comité international de la Croix-Rouge ainsi qu'aux
gouvernements de la Turquie et de l'Irak.
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Lawyers for Democracy Party
file appeal of convictions
Petition: Advocates argue that Constitutional Court's
decision was la political decision, not a juridical one'; claim
they were not shown evidence against their clients
By Aytül Gürta~
Turkish Daily News
ANKARA- Lawyers for the banned pro-
Kurdish Democracy Party (DEP) presented
last Wednesday a detailed 106-page appeal
to the Appeals Court.
According to the DEP appeal, the trial
process of DEP deputies Ahinet Türk, Hatip
Diele, Leyla Zana, Orhan Dogan, Selim
Sadak, SlITlSalak and independent Mahmut
Ahnak, was unjust and the imprisoned
deputies should be released.
. DEP was closed down by the
.Constitutional Court in June 1994 and the
d~p~ties' membership in the Turkish
.Rarhament was revoked. Seven DEP
deputies were then imprisoned, but six others
fled to Europe to avoid prosecution. Pro-
Kurdish but independent deputy Mahmut
Almak's parliamentary immunity was also
lifted at the demand of the state prosecutor
and he was tried with the DEP deputies.
The DEP members and Ahnak were sentenced
to between three and 15 years of
imprisonment.
In their appeal, DEP lawyers Yusuf
Alata~, Haslp Kaplall, AydIn Erdogan,
Selahattin Esmer, Nuri Ozmen, speaking for
a committee of, 300 lawyers in support of
DEP, claimed that "justice in Turkey was
not independent of the administration" by
recalling Prime Minister Çiller's statement
on.the DEP case while the trial process was
gomg on.
In a statement on March 16, 1994. Prime
Minister Ciller said, "I talked to the judges.
Maybe I shouldn't have, but I needed to talk
and I told them, 'finish the job immediate-
. ", The DEP appeal said Prime Minister
iller' s statement proved that justice in
~ urkey was dependent upon the administration
.and ar,gued that the Constitutional
Court's decision was "a political decision,
not ajuridical one."
The DEP appeal also claimed that affidavits
on which the trial was based -were not
given to the defense, effectively preventing
DEP lawyers from seeing or chalfenging the
state's evidence. "Our demands to expand
the investigation and to hear the witnesses
in the courtroom were rejected by the Court.
This is another sign of the unjust process of
the trial," the ap~ said.
The lawyers said all the demands of the
defense lawyers were turned dowJl by the
Court. They also said that the principle of
individuality of the crime was also violated
and the deputies were punished collectively.
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