{"id":991,"date":"2017-10-08T18:20:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T18:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/turkish-prosecutors-seek-prison-terms-for-amnesty-turkey-chief-10-other-activists\/"},"modified":"2017-10-08T18:20:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T18:20:30","slug":"turkish-prosecutors-seek-prison-terms-for-amnesty-turkey-chief-10-other-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/turkish-prosecutors-seek-prison-terms-for-amnesty-turkey-chief-10-other-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish prosecutors seek prison terms for Amnesty Turkey chief, 10 other activists"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nearly a dozen prominent rights activists in Turkey, including two foreign nationals, are facing up to 15 years in prison over charges of membership in terror groups and aiding them some three months after they were detained in Istanbul.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\n\tTurkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency reported on Sunday that Public Prosecutor’s Office in Istanbul had completed its investigation into nine Turkish activists, including Taner Kilic, Amnesty International\u2019s Turkey chief, and German Peter Steudtner along with Swede Ali Gharavi.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe suspects were detained at a workshop, organized by Amnesty, on digital security at a hotel in Buyukada of Istanbul’s Princes’ Islands on July 5 on charges of taking \u201cmembership in an armed terrorist organization\u201d and \u201caiding an armed terrorist organization\u201d in the meeting.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a 17-page indictment, which was approved by Istanbul Chief Prosecutor Irfan Fidan, prosecutors sought prison terms from seven-and-a-half to 15 years. The indictment was later sent to the Istanbul Heavy Penal Court.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe indictment charged Kilic with armed terror group membership, whereas the rest of the suspects were charged with aiding an armed terror group.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to the indictment, the suspects allegedly tried to incite violent and chaotic mass public protest rallies when Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the chairman of the main opposition Republican People’s Party, held \u201cJustice\u201d march between June 15 and July 15.<\/p>\n

\n\tKilicdaroglu and his fellow party members marched from the capital Ankara to Istanbul, calling for justice for people jailed for their purported connections to a number of terror groups, particularly the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), led by US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAnkara accuses Gulen of being the master mind of last year\u2019s mid-July failed coup in the country. The 76-year-old cleric has since strongly rejected the government\u2019s allegations, but Ankara labeled his movement as FETO and designated it as a terrorist organization.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmnesty, while denouncing the detention of the activists, describes Gharavi as an IT strategy consultant and Steudtner as a \u201cnon-violence and well-being trainer.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe jailing of the 11 activists, including Amnesty\u2019s director in Turkey, Idil Eser, has already sounded international alarm and amplified fears of waning freedom of speech under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.<\/p>\n

\n\tProsecutors charged Kilic with FETO membership, whereas the rest were accused of helping an armed terror group, including FETO.<\/p>\n

\n\tSince the botched putsch, Ankara has unleashed a massive crackdown across the country, suspending or dismissing more than 150,000 judges, policemen, teachers, and civil servants and arresting nearly 50,000 others.<\/p>\n

\n\tMany rights groups, including Amnesty and Human Rights Watch, have slammed Ankara\u2019s heavy clampdown on perceived putschists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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