State of Emergency Commission Rejects Application Based on ‘Prophecy’

"We want our job"

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The State of Emergency Commission has concluded the application of Nazan Bozkurt, who was discharged from public service by a Statutory Decree and has been protesting at Yüksel Avenue in Ankara to be reinstated.

Rejecting the application of Bozkurt, the Commission has referred to "the lawsuits and investigation launched into the protests where she requested her reinstatement in her job."

When she was discharged from public service by the Statutory Decree no. 683 on January 23, 2017, Nazan Bozkurt had been working as a registrar in Çankaya district since 2007. Since her discharge in 2017, she has been staging a protest of "I want my job back."

Bozkurt says that there was not a single investigation against her before that. "According to the decision of the State of Emergency Commission, the reason for my discharge in 2017 is the lawsuit filed against me in 2018!", says Bozkurt and continues as follows:

"And one more thing... Six years before I started working as a public officer, I apparently joined a community of public officers affiliated with a leftist organization and worked there for 15 years... But, within this period, not a single investigation was launched against me."

Two lawsuits, one investigation on the same charge

In its decision on the application of Nazan Bozkurt, the Commission for the Examination of Proceedings Under the State of Emergency has indicated that Bozkurt stood trial on charge of "membership of a terrorist organization" at Ankara 25th and 28th Heavy Penal Courts and added that there is an ongoing investigation against her on the same charge.

However, both the lawsuits and the investigation were launched due to her protests following her discharge in 2017.

The Commission has also argued that she was a member of the terrorist organization's structure of public officers from 2001 to 2016. However, there are no lawsuits or investigations against Bozkurt based on these allegations.

Commission has given a judgement like a court

The decision of the Commission itself has indicated that the protests of Bozkurt which led to the accusations brought against her were staged after she was discharged from public service.

Though there is no final court verdict on Bozkurt, the Commission has expressed a final judgement as a court would do.

Referring to the "information, documents and findings obtained as part of the file", the State of Emergency Commission has concluded that "the file of the institution has information which indicates the applicant's connection with the DHKP-C terrorist organization."

Within this context, the Commission has also referred to the files of the investigation and lawsuits against Bozkurt on charge of "membership of a terrorist organization" and alleged that "the information and documents in these files as well as other findings in the inquiry section reveal her connection with the terrorist organization."

Announcing its decision, the State of Emergency Commission has referred to Bozkurt as "the applicant who was discharged from public service due to her membership, affiliation or connection with terrorist organizations and structures, entities and groups considered by the National Security Council to act against the national security of the state."

The Commission has rejected the application of Bozkurt.

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