AHMET TURK TO FACE TRIAL
PanARMENIAN.Net
22.12.2009 19:43 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A Turkish state prosecutor opened an inquiry
targeting Ahmet Turk, Chairman of banned pro-Kurdish Party (DTP)
on Tuesday after he said that a jailed militant PKK leader advised
the party’s legislators to stay in parliament.
The Ankara State Prosecutors’ Office said in a statement that it
had opened a judicial inquiry based on allegations that Turk had
glorified criminals and their acts and encouraged hatred in society,
state-run Anatolia news agency reported.
In the meantime, the Turkey’s Criminal Intelligence and Investigative
Bureau is conducting investigation under Article 215 (Praising the
offense or the offender) and 216 (Provoking people to be rancorous
and hostile) of the country’s criminal code.
"Turkey’s democratic forces, intellectuals, writers and scholars
stressed the importance continuing discussions over Kurdish issue
in Parliament. I met my lawyer Wednesday on Imrali Ocalan island and
said I disapproved the waiver of parliamentary mandates,", Anatolia
news agency quotes Ahmet Turk as saying.