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>> 25th anniversary of the September 12, 1980 Military Coup
>>
>> Shameful heritages
>> of the military dictator****p
>> persist at the EU's doorstep
>>
>> September 12, 1980... The generals of the Turkish Army carried out a
military
>> coup to prevent the progress of the civil forces defending the social
and
>> economic rights of working population and the national rights of the
Kurdish
>> people. The process of democratization and adhesion to the European
Economic
>> Community (currently European Union) was stopped by force and the
country was
>> transformed into a huge concentration camp.
>>
>> In fact, the September 12 Coup was the second stage of the process of
the
>> militarization in all spheres of the country.
>>
>> The earlier military of March 12, 1971, had already destructed a lot of
>> democratic rights and institutions by applying an unprecedented
repression.
>>
>> We shall remind the shameful balance-sheet of the March 12 coup at its
35th
>> anniversary in 2006.
>>
>> Today, at the 25th anniversary, we remind once more the crimes
committed by
>> the putschistes of the September 12 military coup.
>>
>> Crimes committed by the putschistes of the September 12 Military Coup:
>>
>> * The Constitution 1982 imposed by the military junta abolished the
last
>> remnants of the freedoms that the 1961 Constitution had recognized.
>> * This constitution denies the fundamental rights of the Kurdish people
and
>> the Armenian, Assyrian, Greek minorities of Turkey.
>> * The Army's domination on the country's political, economic and social
life
>> was guaranteed by the privileges recognized by this constitution to the
>> National Security Council (MGK).
>> * Within two years, more than 650,000 people were taken into custody
and
>> subjected to torture.
>> * 500 people lost their lives in custody.
>> * Thousands of people were left disabled.
>> * 210,000 political cases were opened in military courts.
>> * A total of 98,404 people were tried because of their "thoughts."
>> * 6,353 people were triedunder the menace of capital punishment.
>> * 21,764 people were sentenced to heavy prison terms.
>> * Fifty people were executed at the end of political trials.
>> * Files were opened on 1,683,000 people.
>> * 348,000 people were banned from acquiring pass****ts.
>> * Universities were placed under the discipline of the Higher Education
>> Council (YOK), depended on political power.
>> * 15,509 people were ousted from their university posts under Law No.
1402.
>> * 18,000 public servants, 2,000 judges and prosecutors, 4,000 police
>> officers, 2,000 army officers and 5,000 teachers were forced to resign.
>> * All political parties were closed down.
>> * The activities of 23,667 associations were halted.
>> * The press was censored.
>> * 4,509 people were de****ted by the martial law administration.
>> * Many convicts lost their lives in prison due to maltreatment and
hunger
>> strikes to protest this maltreatment.
>> * 113,607 books were burned.
>> * 39 tons of books, magazines and newspapers were destroyed by the
State's
>> paper mills.
>> * 937 movies were banned.
>> * 2,792 authors, translators and journalists were tried.
>> * Journalists and writers were sentenced to a total imprisonment of
3,315
>> years and three months.
>>
>>
>> 25 years after the September 12, 1980 military coup:
>>
>>> 1. The putschist generals are still protected by the government and
the
>>> demand of the victims to bring them before tribunals are always
refused. A
>>> demonstration for this purpose on September 11, 2005, has been
forbidden by
>>> the Istanbul Governor. Writers and journalists are still judged for
having
>>> criticized the putschist generals even under the new Penal Code.
>>>
>>> 2. The undemocratic constitution preaching the superiority of the
Turkish
>>> race and language (Articles 3, 42 and 66) is always in force. Article
4
>>> declares that Article 3 can never be modified and even the
modification of
>>> this article can never be proposed. Moreover, an electoral system
imposing a
>>> national threshold of 10% is always maintained with the detriment of
the
>>> political parties representing different political opinions, in
particular
>>> pro-Kurdish or left-wing ones, so that the Islamist party remains in
power
>>> with an absolute majority in the Parliament in spite of its electoral
score
>>> less than 50%.
>>>
>>> 3. In spite of the so-called "demilitarization" of the National
Security
>>> Council (MGK), the military continue to dictate their militarist
choices by
>>> well-publicized declarations of the Chief of the General Staff or the
>>> commanders of the land, air and naval forces. Moreover, the Higher
Military
>>> Council (YAS), charged to manage the interne work procedure of the
Army,
>>> continues to dismiss certain officers considered "anti-secular" in
spite of
>>> the opposition of the government. The military carry out their control
on
>>> the country's economic life by their sui-generis finance holding OYAK
and a
>>> series of war industry companies.
>>>
>>> 4. In Turkish prisons, there are still thousands of political
detainees.
>>> The Justice Ministry has announced on August 12, 2005, that the number
of
>>> the prisoners for " offences of terror" climbs to 3,788 and that they
are
>>> kept in 73 grand prisons of the country including 11 prisons of
type-F.
>>>
>>> 5. The summary execution and torture under arrest are always being
>>> practiced. Very recently, a number of Kurdish demonstrators were shot
dead
>>> by security forces. Moreover, ultra-nationalist mobs are encouraged to
lynch
>>> those who attempt to hold public meetings for defending Kurdish
peoplešs
>>> rights or for protesting prison conditions of political detainees.
>>>
>>> 6. The new Turkish Penal Code, so applauded by the European Union,
always
>>> constitutes a threat against the freedom of press. Journalists are
always
>>> judged for insult to the Army, the government or the security forces
because
>>> of their criticisms, under the terms of article 302 (old article 159)
of the
>>> TPC. Recently, famous Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk was indicted under
>>> Article 301 of the same code for insulting Turkish nation because he
had
>>> talked of the massacre of Armenians and Kurds.
>>>
>>> 7. In spite of some cosmetic reforms, the equal rights (teaching,
>>> audio-visual expression, association) are still not recognized as well
for
>>> the Kurdish people as for the ethnic or religious minorities of the
country,
>>> in particular Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks and Alevis. All the pacific
>>> initiatives of the Kurdish national movement in order to arrive at a
>>> peaceful solution is systematically declined and the military
operations
>>> continue in order to satisfy the voracity of the Army and the industry
of
>>> war.
>>>
>>> 8. Ankara does not show any intention to recognize the injustices and
>>> atrocities committed in the Turkish history and follows an absolutely
policy
>>> of negation. According to the statement of reasons for Article 305, a
>>> citizen who demands the withdrawal of Turkish soldiers from Cyprus or
>>> declares that the Armenian genocide actually took place during the
First
>>> World War, can be pursued by Justice. Moreover, the diplomatic
missions of
>>> Ankara often instigate the Turkish nationals and even the deputies or
>>> candidates of Turkish origin of the European political parties
(Socialists,
>>> Liberals, Ecologists or Christians) to take part in the demonstrations
of
>>> negation.
>>
>> Despite these facts, The European Commission spokesmen, yielding to
Ankarašs
>> blackmail, declare that Turkey has already fulfilled all conditions for
>> starting the talks of adhesion from October 3, 2005. For them, the only
>> problem that remains is the Turkish refusal to recognize the Republic
of
>> Cyprus.
>>
>> Is it really the only problem that remains?
>>
>> INFO-TURK FOUNDATION
>>
>>
>> ***************************************
>>
>> All lates news on the situation of human rights in Turkey:
>>
>> http://www.info-turk.be
>>
>> FONDATION INFO-TURK
>> 53, rue de Pavie
>> 1000 BRUXELLES
>>
>> Tel: (32-2) 215 35 76
>> Fax: (32-2) 215 58 60
>>
>> E-mail:
>> Fondation@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
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12, 19=
80 Military Coup<BR>
</B><BR>
</SPAN><FONT COLOR=3D"#FE0000"><FONT SIZE=3D"5"><SPAN
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<B>Shameful heritages <BR>
of the military dictator****p <BR>
persist at the EU's doorstep<BR>
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<B>September 12, 1980... The generals of the Turkish Army carried out a
mil=
itary coup to prevent the progress of the civil forces defending the
social =
and economic rights of working population and the national rights of the
Kur=
dish people. The process of democratization and adhesion to the European
Eco=
nomic Community (currently European Union) was stopped by force and the
coun=
try was transformed into a huge concentration camp.<BR>
</B><BR>
In fact, the September 12 Coup was the second stage of the process of the
m=
ilitarization in all spheres of the country.<BR>
<BR>
The earlier military of March 12, 1971, had already destructed a lot of
dem=
ocratic rights and institutions by applying an unprecedented
repression.<BR>
<BR>
We shall remind the shameful balance-sheet of the March 12 coup at its
35th=
anniversary in 2006.<BR>
<BR>
Today, at the 25th anniversary, we remind once more the crimes committed
by=
the putschistes of the September 12 military coup.<BR>
<BR>
<B> Crimes committed by the putschistes of the September 12 Military
Coup:<=
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</B><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><UL><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'f=
ont-size:12.0px'>The Constitution 1982 imposed by the military junta
abolish=
ed the last remnants of the freedoms that the 1961 Constitution had
recogniz=
ed.=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-=
size:12.0px'>This constitution denies the fundamental rights of the
Kurdish =
people and the Armenian, Assyrian, Greek minorities of Turkey.=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-=
size:12.0px'>The Army's domination on the country's political, economic
and =
social life was guaranteed by the privileges recognized by this
constitution=
to the National Security Council (MGK).=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-=
size:12.0px'>Within two years, more than 650,000 people were taken into
cust=
ody and subjected to torture.=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
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size:12.0px'>500 people lost their lives in custody.=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-=
size:12.0px'>Thousands of people were left disabled.=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-=
size:12.0px'>210,000 political cases were opened in military courts.=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-=
size:12.0px'>A total of 98,404 people were tried=A0 because of their
"tho=
ughts."=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-=
size:12.0px'>6,353 people were triedunder the menace of capital
punishment.=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-=
size:12.0px'>21,764 people were sentenced to heavy prison terms.=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-=
size:12.0px'>Fifty people were executed at the end of political trials.=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-=
size:12.0px'>Files were opened on 1,683,000 people.=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-=
size:12.0px'>348,000 people were banned from acquiring pass****ts.=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-=
size:12.0px'>Universities were placed under the discipline of the Higher
Edu=
cation Council (YOK), depended on political power.=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-=
size:12.0px'>15,509 people were ousted from their university posts under
Law=
No. 1402.=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-=
size:12.0px'>18,000 public servants, 2,000 judges and prosecutors, 4,000
pol=
ice officers, 2,000 army officers and 5,000 teachers were forced to
resign.=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-=
size:12.0px'>All political parties were closed down.=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-=
size:12.0px'>The activities of 23,667 associations were halted.=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-=
size:12.0px'>The press was censored.=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-=
size:12.0px'>4,509 people were de****ted by the martial law
administration.=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-=
size:12.0px'>Many convicts lost their lives in prison due to maltreatment
an=
d hunger strikes to protest this maltreatment.=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-=
size:12.0px'>113,607 books were burned.=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-=
size:12.0px'>39 tons of books, magazines and newspapers were destroyed by
th=
e State's paper mills.=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-=
size:12.0px'>937 movies were banned.=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-=
size:12.0px'>2,792 authors, translators and journalists were tried.=20
</SPAN></FONT><LI><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font-=
size:12.0px'>Journalists and writers were sentenced to a total
imprisonment =
of 3,315 years and three months. <BR>
</SPAN></FONT></UL><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYLE=3D'font=
-size:12.0px'><BR>
<BR>
<B>25 years after the September 12, 1980 military coup:<BR>
</B><BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STYL=
E=3D'font-size:12.0px'>1. The putschist generals are still protected by
the go=
vernment and the demand of the victims to bring them before tribunals are
al=
ways refused. A demonstration for this purpose on September 11, 2005, has
be=
en forbidden by the Istanbul Governor. Writers and journalists are still
jud=
ged for having criticized the putschist generals even under the new Penal
Co=
de.<BR>
<BR>
2. The undemocratic constitution preaching the superiority of the Turkish
r=
ace and language (Articles 3, 42 and 66) is always in force. Article 4
decla=
res that Article 3 can never be modified and even the modification of this
a=
rticle can never be proposed. Moreover, an electoral system imposing a
natio=
nal threshold of 10% is always maintained with the detriment of the
politica=
l parties representing different political opinions, in particular
pro-Kurdi=
sh or left-wing ones, so that the Islamist party remains in power with an
ab=
solute majority in the Parliament in spite of its electoral score less
than =
50%. <BR>
<BR>
3. In spite of the so-called "demilitarization" of the National
S=
ecurity Council (MGK), the military continue to dictate their militarist
cho=
ices by well-publicized declarations of the Chief of the General Staff or
th=
e commanders of the land, air and naval forces. Moreover, the Higher
Militar=
y Council (YAS), charged to manage the interne work procedure of the Army,
c=
ontinues to dismiss certain officers considered "anti-secular"
in =
spite of the opposition of the government. The military carry out their
cont=
rol on the country's economic life by their sui-generis finance holding
OYAK=
and a series of war industry companies.<BR>
<BR>
4.=A0 In Turkish prisons, there are still thousands of political
detainees. T=
he Justice Ministry has announced on August 12, 2005, that the number of
the=
prisoners for " offences of terror" climbs to 3,788 and that
they=
are kept in 73 grand prisons of the country including 11 prisons of
type-F.=
<BR>
<BR>
5. The summary execution and torture under arrest are always being
practice=
d. Very recently, a number of Kurdish demonstrators were shot dead by
securi=
ty forces. Moreover, ultra-nationalist mobs are encouraged to lynch those
wh=
o attempt to hold public meetings for defending Kurdish people’s
right=
s or for protesting prison conditions of political detainees.<BR>
=A0 <BR>
6. The new Turkish Penal Code, so applauded by the European Union, always
c=
onstitutes a threat against the freedom of press. Journalists are always
jud=
ged for insult to the Army, the government or the security forces because
of=
their criticisms, under the terms of article 302 (old article 159) of the
T=
PC. Recently, famous Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk was indicted under
Article=
301 of the same code for insulting Turkish nation because he had talked
of =
the massacre of Armenians and Kurds.=A0 <BR>
=A0 <BR>
7. In spite of some cosmetic reforms, the equal rights (teaching,
audio-vis=
ual expression, association) are still not recognized as well for the
Kurdis=
h people as for the ethnic or religious minorities of the country, in
partic=
ular Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks and Alevis. All the pacific initiatives
of=
the Kurdish national movement in order to arrive at a peaceful solution
is =
systematically declined and the military operations continue in order to
sat=
isfy the voracity of the Army and the industry of war. <BR>
<BR>
8. Ankara does not show any intention to recognize the injustices and
atroc=
ities committed in the Turkish history and follows an absolutely policy of
n=
egation. According to the statement of reasons for Article 305, a citizen
wh=
o demands the withdrawal of Turkish soldiers from Cyprus or declares that
th=
e Armenian genocide actually took place during the First World War, can be
p=
ursued by Justice. Moreover, the diplomatic missions of Ankara often
instiga=
te the Turkish nationals and even the deputies or candidates of Turkish
orig=
in of the European political parties (Socialists, Liberals, Ecologists or
Ch=
ristians) to take part in the demonstrations of negation. <BR>
</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE=3D"Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
STY=
LE=3D'font-size:12.0px'><BR>
Despite these facts, The European Commission spokesmen, yielding to
Ankara&=
#8217;s blackmail, declare that Turkey has already fulfilled all
conditions =
for starting the talks of adhesion from October 3, 2005. For them, the
only =
problem that remains is the Turkish refusal to recognize the Republic of
Cyp=
rus. <BR>
<BR>
Is it really the only problem that remains?<BR>
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