{"id":1415,"date":"2017-10-26T18:44:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T18:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/court-in-izmir-orders-turkey-amnesty-chief-to-stay-behind-bars\/"},"modified":"2017-10-26T18:44:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T18:44:05","slug":"court-in-izmir-orders-turkey-amnesty-chief-to-stay-behind-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/court-in-izmir-orders-turkey-amnesty-chief-to-stay-behind-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Court in Izmir orders Turkey Amnesty chief to stay behind bars"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\tThe court in Izmir ordered on Thursday that Taner Kilic, who was detained in June, remain in detention pending trial.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tKilic is accused of\u00a0having links to a group led by US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara accuses of having masterminded the July 2016 coup attempt.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe latest hearing in Izmir comes a day after Kilic also went on trial in Istanbul via video link from a prison in Izmir\u00a0in another case along with 10 rights activists, including Amnesty\u2019s Turkey director Idil Eser, who were arrested while attending a digital security training workshop in July.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tKil\u0131c was not present at the workshop, because he was in prison after being arrested the previous month. However, he is accused of knowing about it.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tKilic is the voluntary chairman of Amnesty’s board of directors handling administrative affairs in Turkey and Eser is in charge of day-to-day business including Amnesty Turkey’s campaigns for human rights.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tEser and seven others were freed for the duration of their trial after the first hearing in Istanbul on Wednesday on charges of “aiding” an armed terror group. Two others had been released earlier.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThey are accused of links to Gulen and other outlawed groups including the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has waged an insurgency inside Turkey since 1984, and the far-left Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C).<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tFollowing the decision by the court in Izmir to keep the chair of Amnesty International Turkey – Taner K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7 – in jail, Salil Shetty, Amnesty International\u2019s Secretary General, said: \u201cThe Turkish authorities have repeatedly and publicly presumed Taner K\u0131l\u0131c\u2019s guilt, on the basis of innuendo and unsupported allegations.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\u201cWe will continue undaunted to campaign for the release of our chair and the dropping of the charges against all human rights defenders in Turkey,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tJohn Dalhuisen, Amnesty International\u2019s Europe director, who was attending the trial, said the prosecutions were aimed at silencing critical voices within Turkey.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\u201cWithout substance or foundation the Turkish authorities have tried and failed to build a case against \u0130dil, Taner and the other nine human rights activists,\u201d said Dalhuisen.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAmnesty said Kilic’s case in Izmir will be merged with the 10 activists’ case in Istanbul.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe next court hearing of the 11 human rights activists — including a German and a Swedish national who have been set free — is scheduled for November 22 in Istanbul.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tTens of thousands of people have been arrested or dismissed from office in a wide-ranging crackdown since the coup, prompting international criticism.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tCountries critical of Turkey, particularly Germany, consider some of their citizens jailed in Turkey, to be political prisoners.<\/p>\n

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