AMED, Kurdish Capital, — The observers at the KCK trial reacted against the prosecutor’s demand to transfer the prisoners of the KCK case. Lawyer Ahsen Coshar, President of Union Bars of Turkey, remarked that there isn’t an indispensable situation for the transfer of detainees.
While Demirtash said that the KCK case has been a case against the Kurdish language, Sırrı Sureyya Onder noted that such a situation can only be witnessed in colonialist countries.
Lawyer Ahsen Coshar, President of Union of Bars of Turkey, Amed Bar Association President M. Emin Aktar and lawyers from Izmir, Istanbul, Mersin, Mush, Dersim, Ankara, Bitlis and Batman Bar Associations gathered in front of the Amed 6th High Criminal Court to give support to the 26th trial of the KCK case in which 152 Kurdish politicians, deputies, mayors and human rights defenders are being tried for two years (104 are actually in prison).
RESTRICTION ON THE RIGHT OF DEFENSE
Reading a statement on behalf of the lawyers, Ahsen Coshar said; “We came to Diyarbakir [Amed] to support the regional bar associations. There are some problems here related with the freedom of defense, independence of bar associations and restriction of the right of defense. As the union of bar associations, we will be standing against all kinds of attacks on these freedoms.
‘KCK CASE HAS BECOME A TRIAL AGAINST THE KURDISH PEOPLE’
BDP Group Chairman Selahedin Demirtash said the followings; “Once again a KCK trial has resulted without putting defendants on trial and letting lawyers speak. The defendants want to make a defense and express themselves in their mother-tongue and the court board turns off the microphones. The KCK is trying the Kurdish language, not the defendants. The hearing ended without a trial. Interestingly, the court gave the prosecutor time for the transfer demand. The case might be referred to another court.
The court protects the 80-year-old preserved mentality of the state, not the law, judiciary and the people. The court’s attitude is political, not legal. We are once again facing the denials face of the state. I want to make a call to Mr. Prime Minister and Mr. Atalay, responsible for the Kurdish Initiative, to attend a hearing of the KCK case to see the trial in the country they govern. We want them to see the practice of their laws. The trial is blocked due to the attitude of the court, not of lawyers or defendants. The prohibition of the Kurdish language is a government decision.
Sırrı Sureyya Onder said; “The trials during the 12 September period were much more dignified than the KCK hearings. Those who claim that there is no assimilation and denial in the country must come and witness the trial for five minutes because the hearing lasts for five minutes only. There is no safety in this case because there is no law in it. In my opinion, not the defendants, but particularly the court board and this sense of judiciary need to be transferred from these lands at once. We need the universal law to drop by this territory for the release of these KCK prisoners”.