Assassinated journalist Musa Anter's family applies to top court following dismissal of case
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Thirty years after his assasination, Kurdish author and journalist Musa Anter's family and lawyers are still seeking justice and they have now brought the case to the Constitutional Court as announced by his son Dicle Anter.
Musa Anter's family and lawyers brought the unresolved murder case to the Constitutional Court on Wednesday (October 19).
The application came after the case was dropped due to statute of limitations on September 22, and the family has not received any response to their request for the detailed ruling for three weeks.
The family and the lawyers of Musa Anter had announced that they would be presenting their objections on the merits after the detailed ruling.
Dicle Anter, Musa Anter's son, said, "The detailed ruling of the Musa Anter case was not released. After we made our request to the court of appeal, on October 19, we made our application to the Constitutional Court together with lawyer Selim Okçuoğlu."
After the dismissal of the case, Dicle Anter had said, "They have killed my father the second time. My father was the victim of a political murder. The ruling has also been political. The empty rhetoric that "judiciary is independent" is now off the agenda. Judiciary is not independent. Unfortunately it is in the hands of politicians."
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), had met Dicle Anter in his party headquarters in Ankara on September 15, just before this final hearing of the Musa Anter murder case. Dicle Anter had said, following the meeting, "I have entrusted my father's file to Kılıçdaroğlu."
About Musa AnterAuthor, journalist and activist. Assassinated in the southeastern Diyarbakır city in 1992. On September 20, 1992, Musa Anter attended the Culture-Art Festival in Diyarbakır, signed his books. An armed attack was launched against Anter and his nephew, journalist-writer Orhan Miroğlu in Cumhuriyet Neighborhood. Anter died, Miroğlu was wounded. The attack was allegedly conducted by Gendarmerie Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism Organization (JİTEM), a controversial wing and intelligence agency of the gendarmerie. It was during the 1937-38 Dersim Revolt that he was taken into custody for the first time. He was among the founders of Revolutionary Eastern Culture Hearths, the Labor Party of People, Mezopotamya Cultural Center and İstanbul Kurdish Institute. After leaving the Faculty of Law in the third year, Musa Anter started writing for Şark Postası and Dicle Kaynağı. He was imprisoned in 1959 because of his Kurdish poem "Qimil/Kımıl" published on İleri Yurt newspaper. Anter was also faced with life imprisonment in the lawsuit known as 49s. He was arrested in 1963, sent to exile in 1967 and imprisoned after the military coups in 1971 and 1980. Throughout his life, Anter wrote for İleri Yurt, Dicle-Fırat, Barış Dünyası, Deng, Yön, Azadiye Welat, Yeni Ülke, Özgür Gündem, Rewşen and Tewlo. He also published seven books and one Kurdish-Turkish Dictionary. Born in Mardin in 1920, Musa Anter completed his secondary and high school education in Adana and studied law at İstanbul University. |
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