Cases against HDP politicians provide the starkest evidence that authorities bring criminal prosecution and use detention in bad faith and for poltical purposes.
The ECtHR is expected to give its ruling in the first half of Turkey also hosts asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries. The Istanbul governor announced in July that Syrians and others not registered in Istanbul would be transferred to other provinces. The Turkish authorities unlawfully deported some Syrians from Istanbul and other provinces to Syria, including after coercing some of them through violence, verbal threats and the threat of indefinite detention into signing voluntary return forms.
The border with Syria remains closed to new asylum seekers. The EU recognized the negative climate in Turkey in various statements, and in its May progress report. The ECtHR ruled in April that former member of the constitutional court Alpaslan Altan had been wrongfully deprived of his liberty because there was a lack of reasonable suspicion to justify his initial arrest after the July coup attempt.
In a September decision relevant to many prisoners held far from their families, the European Court found that transfer to distant prisons constituted a violation of the right to respect for private and family life. Human Rights Watch. World Report Donate Now. Turkey Events of Supporters and relatives of human rights defender Osman Kavala and 15 others on trial for allegedly organizing the Gezi Park protests queue outside the Silivri Prison court house, Istanbul, June 24, Available In: Available In.
The Gulen movement's presence in the state structure is deep-rooted and hard to trace. President Erdogan vowed to cleanse the country of what he called a "terrorist parallel state", carrying out arrests and waging a targeted campaign at certain points.
But he has admitted that it is taking time. Still, Mr Erdogan seemed to be in control with top-ranking officials on his side. It looks as if the coup attempt of 15 July was staged mainly by the gendarmerie and air force personnel. Key parts of the military fiercely condemned the coup attempt. The chief of the armed forces and two generals from the naval forces were reportedly taken hostage by the junta.
The armed forces chief has reportedly been released, but the whereabouts of the naval generals is still unknown. There are several theories as to who was behind this failed coup attempt.
One theory suggests it was a "false flag" event staged by President Erdogan to gain more power, but common sense dictates the event went too far to be a false flag. Another theory embraced by the Kurdish movement is that Kemalists - secular followers of the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk - in the army tricked the Gulenists into staging a coup.
They knew it would fail and that it would lead to a long-awaited cleansing of Gulenists from the military. Another theory stems from a police source, who said that the AKP government had been planning to arrest Gulen-supporting army officials on 16 July. The source claims that when the coup-plotters learned about this, they went ahead and initiated the coup earlier than planned - hence the sloppiness. President Erdogan and his ministers blame the Gulen movement for the coup, and say that this attempt is the group's last gasp.
Thus, before Terzi came to Ankara and took over the office, his special forces were implicated with the attempted coup. At pm, CSF called one of his deputies and instructed that he not allow anyone else to enter the quarter except for Terzi. Terzi landed at Diyarbakir at pm and took off to fly to Ankara by pm. CSF called and gave a death order for the over 40 staff on July 15, including a colonel and a brigadier from special forces.
He was shot by Halisdemir right after he entered the quarter of special forces. Terzi was wounded and taken to the hospital, but Halisdemir was shot dead by another officer of the special forces. He removed all evidence as to why Terzi was targeted and silenced, and why he had assigned Halisdemir to kill Terzi. Whereas his death time was recorded as pm in military hospital report on July 15, it was am in the report of special forces on July However, she was told that the hospital did not have such a name and that in turn created shadows that the report had been prepared well before Terzi died.
Perincek visited Iran last year and gave information to the Iranian government about how NATO-oriented staff were purged. They are all Americanist.
One possible answer: his communist followers have infiltrated Turkish judiciary and military. The so-called coup plotters consisted of two groups: real plotters who were scared of being purged and trapped plotters who only complied with military directives.
So-called coup plotters were poorly orchestrated, and they even lacked a coup plan. They appeared as a small group of uncoordinated soldiers committing political and military suicide. On the other hand, the counter-coup plotters were knowledgeable about prior attempted coups before the events occurred and they were clearly better prepared to benefit from its results.
They planned to kill as many people as possible in order to make the coup scenario seem more realistic, and their plan is confirmed by the efforts of naval and air forces. They kept their positions or had promotions after the coup attempt, even though they failed to prevent it.
To date, whoever questions the murky, dark and suspicious points of the government storyline about the attempted coup has been imprisoned. The attempted coup investigations, based statements of tortured officers, is far from being objective. Even though the attempted July 15, is under cloud of multiple conspiracy theories, there are suspicions of an involvement of foreign forces. As opposed to underground American connections to so-called plotters, Russian connections with counter-coup plotters appear stronger.
Who is the likely culprit among all the theories? The counter-coup plotters. Considering the current political atmosphere in Turkey, it may take a decade to learn what actually happened on the fateful night of July With the hope of a more open society and government in Turkey, one hopes the mystery unfolds sooner. End Notes. The dataset is comprised of 7 interviews conducted with military officers. The respondents were experts on July 15 uprising. They were selected through a snowballing technique because it was the best way to find experts on the topic.
The respondents voluntarily participated in the research, and each interview lasted two hours. For instance, MO1 symbolizes the first military officer and MO2 is the second military officer.
Cengiz has international field experience where he has delivered capacity building and training assistance to international partners in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe. He also has been involved in the research projects for the Brookings Institute, European Union, and various U. Mahmut Cengiz The July 15 military uprising of has continuously served as a pretext for the Turkish government to crackdown its opponents. Timeline of July 15 Incidents With the hour of its start, this attempted July 15, coup differs from coups staged in different countries.
Why did they not involve in the coup over , civil servants who were purged? Why did the plotters attempt to commit a military coup with only a handful of military staff? Several questions regarding contradictions are as follows: [54] Who ordered and wanted an abduction team soldiers to wait four hours but sent them to the hotel, knowing the hotel was empty? Who protected the mysterious helicopters who wounded and killed people? Who trapped the abduction team? Undoubtedly, the impossibility of taking a society which is at a certain level of civilization to a much higher level in no time is obvious.
It is definitely essential to get rid of the mentality that cannot accept it. The fabricated nonsense in the minds will surely be expelled. Unless it is completely expelled, it is impossible restore the mind to its true light.
A destructed country on the edge of the cliff Bloody battles against many enemies Year long war And then, a new motherland, a new society, a new government that are esteemed at home and abroad, and continuous revolutions to reach these goals Here is a summary of the Turkish revolution. Which one should be preferred for Turkey, gradual or sudden progress? There are two ways. One of them, as you all know, is the way of the French Revolution: Regimes would change, counter revolutions against revolutions would be made, a century and a half would pass while the left thrashing the right, the right stomping on the left
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