Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris
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Hasan Ocak'smur<strong>de</strong>r<br />
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ANKARA- The case of Hasan Ocak, who went<br />
missing after his alleged <strong>de</strong>tention by police on<br />
March 21 and was discovered <strong>de</strong>ad in Istanbul on<br />
May 16, has led to angry reactions from human<br />
rights groups.<br />
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Ata joint press conference held in Ankara on<br />
Wednesday, Akm Birdal, the chairmanof the<br />
,Human Rights Association (IHD), and Yavuz Onen,<br />
chairman of the Human Rights Foundationof<br />
Turkey (TIHV), said the government was responsible<br />
for Ocak's mur<strong>de</strong>r. Önen also said Prime Minister TansüÇillerwas<br />
"the mur<strong>de</strong>rer of Hasan Ocak." , 'who have ~(lnc:;lissing," they said, and for prosecutors to s<strong>et</strong> up rnvesti-<br />
''The prime minister has to fmd out w?o mur<strong>de</strong>red Hasan Ocak ?r she gations to nnd out who is re~p~nsi~lefor people going missin~. .<br />
' has to resign. We willnot allQ.wcertam forces to turn Turkey mto a ' . Hasan Ocak, 27, went nussmg m Istanbul on March 21 aner calhng<br />
'country ofunsolved mur<strong>de</strong>rs," Onen ad<strong>de</strong>d. Birdal, who spoke on behalf his sister to say he would shortly be home. Nothing was heard from him<br />
of both the IHD and 'fI.HV at the press cönference, spoke .of ~e effort 'after that. ,<br />
ma<strong>de</strong> by human rights groups to find Hasan Ocak after his dlsappear- Although at least two people, who were <strong>de</strong>tained at the Istanbul police<br />
ance and the lack of results. ' <strong>de</strong>partment and later released, testified that they had seen Hasan Ocak in<br />
"In '1994 a total of 327 people were reported missing to the nID and the police center, officials <strong>de</strong>nied they had <strong>de</strong>tained Ocak. '<br />
unfortunat~ly none of the prosecutors i~ this cpuntry take action to The campaign to shed light on Ocak's whereabouts brought no results<br />
investigate the cases of missmg people," B1!dalsaid. . and finally on May 16 his relatives i<strong>de</strong>ntified his body from a photo-<br />
"It is said that villagers found hi~ bodY.I~the forest area of Istanbul- graph in the police forensic medicine <strong>de</strong>partment. Sources said a nurse<br />
' Beykoz and took him to the forenSIc medlcme <strong>de</strong>partment, then he was working in the <strong>de</strong>partment, who did not want to be i<strong>de</strong>ntified, called<br />
buried in the Küçük~ekmece paurers' cem<strong>et</strong>ery. The go~ernment has to Ocak's family and informed them about the corpse. The family then<br />
launch an investIgatIon and quesl1o~ tho~e ..yhofound his c?rpse, .those went to cheek the photographs. It emerged that Ocak's body was found<br />
who carried out the autopsy and buned him m a very short tune Without on March 26, five days after he disappeared, and he was buried on April<br />
'Conductingany checks," Brrdal <strong>de</strong>man<strong>de</strong>d. - 13 in Istanbul's Kü,ükçekmece distnct. '<br />
, The IHD chairman also pointed out that Hasan Ocak's case ..yasvery The Beykoz distnct prosecutor also confirmed that the corpse was that<br />
well known publicly and it was very hard ~oun<strong>de</strong>rstan~ the offiCialswho of Hasan Ocak, thatit had been found in Beykoz, and had remained at<br />
<strong>de</strong>ci<strong>de</strong>d to bury someone without mfomung the public that a body had the forensic medicine <strong>de</strong>partment for 29 days, then was buried in<br />
been found.' . Küçükçekmece cem<strong>et</strong>ery.' .<br />
He claimed that there was an organized group carrymg out torture and The prosecutor's office said Ocak's family i<strong>de</strong>ntified him from phomur<strong>de</strong>rs.<br />
. . . tographs, that the body had been examined before it was buried, and a<br />
" Both the IHD and TIHV caIled on nongovernmental orgarnzatlons to court or<strong>de</strong>r was necessary to exhume the body and carry out a second<br />
s<strong>et</strong> up a civil commission to investigate the H~sa~ Ocak case. Th.ey 'autopsy. '<br />
repeated their <strong>de</strong>mand for human righ~ n?w and myiled everybody'wlth, With Hasan Ocak's mur<strong>de</strong>r the list of people who have gone missing<br />
any piece of information about those Inlssmg to testIfy. '<br />
"We call on the government to disclose what has h~ppened to those<br />
in Turkey has been shortened but the list of unsolved killings has<br />
increased by one.<br />
Now, Ocak'sfamily is waiting for Irisgrave to be reopened and for an<br />
autopsy to discover how and when he was killed. ,.,<br />
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Columnist Altan charged<br />
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for satire about Kurds<br />
. By AIiza Marcùs I Reuter'<br />
ISTANBUL- A Turkish columnist who satirized<br />
the country's restrictions against Kurdish cultural and<br />
political rights has be.en charged with provoking<br />
racism,court officiaIs said onWednesday. .<br />
Ahm<strong>et</strong> Altan, who was fired from hisjob at the<br />
daily Milliy<strong>et</strong> because of the column, was charged<br />
this week with article 312 of the penal co<strong>de</strong>, un<strong>de</strong>r<br />
which it is a crime to promote differences among people<br />
based on race, religion, class or region.<br />
He faces up to six yearS in prison if convicted. The<br />
Ahm<strong>et</strong><br />
Altan<br />
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