ERGENEKON SUSPECT ANGRY OVER FIRST NAME ADDRESS
Today’s Zaman
Nov 7 2008
Turkey
A suspect in the Ergenekon trial, in which 86 suspects are accused of
a number of crimes committed with the ultimate intention of staging
a coup, became indignant during the trial’s ninth hearing yesterday
when a prosecutor referred to him by his first name.
The crisis broke when the prosecutor said "Kemal and Dogu’s
conversation" when reading the title of a section in the indictment
documenting transcripts of recorded phone conversations between
former Ä°stanbul University Rector Kemal Alemdaroglu and Workers’
Party (Ä°P) leader Dogu Perincek.
Perincek objected that the prosecutor should not refer to them on
a first name basis when the reading the section’s title. When the
prosecutor insisted on reading the first names only, Perincek rose from
his seat saying: "They have the last names there. They never call us
by our first names anywhere. Read our last names." The prosecutor,
Mehmet Ali Pekguzel, in response agreed to refer to the particular
suspect by his last name. "When there is only one suspect with a
single name, we use the name. Ä°P lawyers had requested a shortening
the indictment. OK. We’ll say Perincek," he said.
Because some of the suspects’ lawyers demanded shortly after the
beginning of the trial in October that the 2,455-page indictment be
read aloud, the court is spending a significant amount of time with
this process
The Ä°stanbul 13th High Criminal Court is hearing the case in a
makeshift courtroom inside Silivri Prison near Ä°stanbul. Among the
86 suspects are retired Gen. Veli Kucuk, lawyer Kemal Kerincsiz,
who is famous for filing suits against intellectuals over their
writings questioning or criticizing the state line on issues such
as the Armenian allegations of genocide, and retired Capt. Muzaffer
Tekin. Forty-six of the suspects are in custody, and the rest have
been released pending the outcome of the trial.
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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
