REPORT| Judges and prosecutors losing their lives due to the persecution of Erdogan’s government under coup pretext
In Turkey, where the independence of the judiciary’s completely disappeared in the past two years, almost 4500 judges and prosecutors were dismissed from the post of judge, thousands were arrested and some were exiled.
The detained judges and prosecutors’ve been subjected to ill treatment and torture both under pre-trial detention period and prisons like rear-hundcuffing, insulting, threat, holding in solitary confinement, confiscation of their assets, not granting right to have a legal advice and also right of a health and family visitation etc.
Some of the judges and prosecutors who were declared as “terrorists” unduly in only one night while exercising judicial task reputably passed away in a way of not being able to stand for the real and moral coercion they were exposed to.
Seyfettin Yiğit
In this period, first death news came through from the province of Bursa on September 16, 2016. According to the official announcement, arrested prosecutor Seyfettin Yiğit committed suicide hanging himself in a prison toilet. His family, on the other hand, claimed he had not committed suicide but killed due to the investigations he carried out in the past so that he was kept silenced (1).
Mehmet Tosun
The death of judge Mehmet Tosun was another heartbreaking incidence which was announced by former CHP Tunceli deputy Hüseyin Aygün in his twitter account. Tosun, rapporteur judge in Council of Satate, was only one-month married when he was detained and had a health problem with his immune system. It was reported that he’d had a medical care for two years and his disease worsened after he was dismissed. Some time after he was released on probation, judge Tosun passed away in hospital (2).
Mustafa Erdoğan
Mustafa Erdoğan, senior judge and former member of Court of Cassation, was taken to hospital on December, 2016 in his home town Antalya with a diagnosis of brain tumour. Having a brain surgery here, Erdoğan received medical treatment escorted by police officers due to a detention warrant issued about him. His assets, salary and bank accounts were taken with a cautionary judgement. After the brain surgery, Erdoğan was arrested by the decision of Antalya 3rd Penal Court of Peace with no grounds and held in the arrestee ward of the hospital for 6 months under paraplegia. Dating from his arrest, both his release requests and applications for family visits were rejected. The lawyer of Erdoğan lodged an application with the Constitutional Court for his release on the grounds of his health problems. However, the Supreme Court dismissed the application on the grounds that “he was not hanged by any thread”. Erdoğan was taken into intensive care on August 2017 upon progression of his disease. Judge Erdoğan, not allowed to have a family visit even in intensive care unit, was released after he had lost his conscious. Being unconsciously fighting for his life in intensive care unit, judge Erdogan passed away at the end of fourth day of his release (3).
Teoman Gökçe
Teoman Gökçe, former member of first department of HSK, was one of the judges arrested following July 15 coup attempt under terrorism pretext. He was known with his opponent stance against removal of the prosecutors from 17/25 December corruption investigations in which Erdogan and his cabinet members’ names were also involved. Being allegedly subjected to insulting and psychological torture continually in Sincan Prison, judge Gökçe lost his parents at six months intervals. Upon it was realized that Gökçe, who was held under arrest in solitary confinement for nearly 2 yeras, had a heart attack in prison cell, it was alleged that other prisoners staying in prison cells next to that of Gökce called the prison wardens immediately, however, the calls were not responded in time, on the contrary, too late. It was announced by Sincan Prison administrative that Teoman Gökce had lost his life due to a heart attack (4).
Abuzer Kara
Abuzer Kara, exiled to the province of Ordu on October 11, 2017 without his demand and against the settled practices while he was a judge of Istanbul Penal Court of First Instance, passed away due to a heart attack. A tape record regarding judge Abuzer Kara fell into press allegedly passing between the justice minister of that time and prime minister Erdoğan. Former head of Istanbul Bar and lawyer Turgut Kazan said in a statement he made after the death of judge Kara “the news reflected to press was not forgotten. In that news, Erdogan asked how a case presenting importance for him concluded with an acquittal. In response, the justice minister told that the judge of the court was Alevi. That aforementioned judge was Abuzer Kara. Accordingly, the well-known penalizing method became inevitable for him which was that he was exiled to Ordu. A life full of stress, stemming from the separation because he was in Ordu and his family was in İstanbul, was expectedly resulted in death” (5).
Adalet Betül Çağdır
Adalet Betül Çağdır, an english teacher, was wife of a dismissed judge about whom a detention warrant was issued after coup attempt. Their all assets were seized and bank accounts were blocked just like other dismissed judges. Çağdır, a mother of two, fell into depression in this period and she committed suicide one and a half year after the coup attempt jumping out of the window of her apartment on the 9th floor (6).
Sources:
4. grihat.com
from FreeJudges https://freejudges.wordpress.com/2018/06/12/report-judges-and-prosecutors-losing-their-lives-due-to-the-persecution-of-erdogans-government-under-coup-pretext/
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