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oseE delegation wants
DEP MPs to be released
Turkish Daily News
TUESDAY, MAY 2,1995
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TDN Parliament
Bureau
ANKARA- Will Wimmer, leader of a
delegation from the O~gan!zation of
Securit.y and CooperatIOn In Europe
(OSCE), on Mond.ay requested that the
jailed former depunes of the now defunct
Democracy Party (DEP) be set free.
The delegation is on a one week visit to
Tur,key ~t t~e invitation of Speaker
Hüsamettm Cmdoruk.
Cirrdoruk's reply to Wimmer's request
was;' "I cannot relay your request to the
chief judge of the HIgh Appeals Court.
However the press will ens~re ~at your
statement is brought to the Judge s attention.
I don't know whether your words
will influence him or not but I cannot
intervene in the judiciary." The visiting
OSCE delegation also met with the undersecretary
of the National Intell}gence
Organization (MIT), DemocratIc L~ft
Party (DSP) Chairman Bülent EcevI.t,
Necmettin Erbakan of the pro-IslamIc
Welfare Party (RP) and main opp~sition
MOtherland Party (ANAP) ChaIrman
Me~ut Yllmaz. They later visited the
Kurdish deputies in pnson. .
The OSCE delegation wIll today meet
with the Turkish parliamentarianswho are
OSeE members and later with Hikmet
Çetin, deputy 'pri!lle minis.t~r and chairman
of the Jumor coalItIOn partner
Republica!) Pe6ple's Party (C~J, yekta
Güngör Ozden of the ConstItutIOnal
Court, Foreign Minister Erdal1nön~, State
Minister ~gan Hacal~glu, resP9nsIbl~ for
hU.~.~h nghts, ~nd fmally WIth Pnme
MinIster iansu ÇIl1er.' . .
On 'May 3, the delegatIOn l!lembers WIll
go to DiyarbakIr and meet WIththe emergency
rule regional governo~, DiyarbakIr
mayor and the chamber of mdustry and
commerce. On May 5, they, willooreturnto
Ankara and meet with Yavuz Onen, the
head of the Human Rights Foundation and
former Foreign Minister MümtazSoysal.
After meeting with New Democracy
Movement (YDH) leader Cern Boyner ~d
Dogu Perinçek of the Labor Party (IP) ill
Istanbul, the OSCE delegation willleave
Turkey on May 7.
During their visit to Cindoruk, Wimmer
said he and his colleagues were pleased
with the content of the itinerary prepared
for them, Wimmer, who is also the deputy
president of the OSCE Parliamentarian
Assembly started by requesting a meeting
closed to the press, noting that he had
some special remarks to make. C:r&oruk
replied, "We have nothing secr,etf~timth~
press. You can say what you lik.elß fI9nt
of them." Wimmer drew attentIon to the
press comme~~sthat .he.anq,his colleagues
,were on "a cntIcal ffilSSIon. "
Wimmer said, "The purpose of our visit
is linked with three issues which caused
the Parliamentarians" Assembly .to focus
its attention on Turkey. The first is the
critical situation in some regions of
Turkey. The second is to emphasize the
utmost im~ortance the Assembly attaches
to Turkey s integrity and protectÙln of its
borders. The third is linked with the case
of the imprisoned former deputies."
Wimmer said it was not only he and his
colleagues who had concerns about the
j~led dep'uties but that some Turkish parlIamentanans
had the same concerns. He
said he and his colleagues did not have
any hi~den agen4a against Turkey i~ ~eir
respectIve countnes. He quoted a ffilnIster
of the Turkish government as saying that
the "state should be tolerant." Wimmer
repeated that he and his colleagues were
ready to give political support for the protection
ofTurkey's borders and its integrity.
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not only military measures but also economic,
social and political measures.
Wimmer said that the sentences given
io former'
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' . pärliamentarians in the Turkish courts,
wl1ich he described as being the most
active member of OSCE, exceeded the
, decisions of the courts in the OSCE member
countries,
','We request that the jail~d p~liamentanans
be sel free. CertaJ.nlyIt WIllbe you
who makes the decision and, as friends,
we hereby express our wish that you will
take this decisIOn,"Wimmer said.
Cindoruk said Turkey is 'â democratic
country, that it is an open regime and that
there' IS no censorship in the country.
Cindoruk said, "The members of the press
have also heard your request. There are 17
pri vate TV stations which broadcast
nationally.
'
. The rating of the state TV has dropped
to 10 percent. There are more than 2000
radio stations. Citizens inquire why the
OSCE delegation has come to Turkey.
Now the press will relay this to them. You
have requested that former PEP deputies
be released. The judici'!IY is independent
in Turkey. I could not have relayed your
request to the chief judge of the High
Appeals Court. Your call will be aired on
TVs. The chief judge of the High Afpeals
Court will also listen. I wonder i your
words will have any effect or not but I can
hav~ no influ~pce on the independent judi-
Ciary in this regard." Cindoruksaid
Greece had put the mufti of Xanthi in
Western Thrace in jail however since he
believed in the independence of the judiciary
he could not intervene in, Greece for
the correction of the relevant court ruling.
DSP Chairman Bülent Ecevit, who met
with the OSCE delegation, stressed that
the National Security Council (MGK) did
not put any pressure on the government. .
Ecevit said be had worked with MGK
when he was in office as prime minister
and that except for the militlll)' eras there
was no pressure involved.' He said there
were similar organizations in other countrles
and that tbe organization of such
nature was in the most respectable position
in the United States.
The OSCE members later visited
~evket Kazan, deputy chairman of the RP
parliamentary 8TOUP. In reply to a question,
Kazan SaId, "At present, the southeast
Anatolia, region is not represented in
Parliament.
Sixteen of the 22 vacant seats in
Parliament are in that region. For the past
eight months, we have oeen proposing to
hold an election however our proposals
are not taken into consideration, No reaction
has comdrom Europe in this regard
because OSCE does not perform its duty."
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