content tagged with JÎTEM

Musa Anter murder case adjourned to after expiry of statute of limitations

Musa Anter murder case adjourned to after expiry of statute of limitations

The case concerning the 1992 assassination of the Kurdish author and journalist will drop due to the statute of limitations on September 20. The court scheduled the next hearing for September 21.

15 September 2022 Ayça Söylemez

All defendants acquitted in Dargeçit extrajudicial killings case

DARGEÇİT JİTEM CASE

All defendants acquitted in Dargeçit extrajudicial killings case

Another case about the extrajudicial killings purportedly committed by the JİTEM has ended in acquittal.

Musa Anter case: Next hearing scheduled for 15 days before statute of limitations expires

Musa Anter case: Next hearing scheduled for 15 days before statute of limitations expires

The court has refused to separate the Anter case from the JİTEM case about the extrajudicial killings in the 1990s.

Extrajudicial killings | Statute of limitations risk in Dargeçit JİTEM case

Extrajudicial killings | Statute of limitations risk in Dargeçit JİTEM case

The court has refused to arrest the defendants and adjourned the case until July 4. The plaintiff attorney has said there is sufficient evidence in the case file.

Musa Anter murder case | ‘Ministry of Justice hinders progress in the file’

Musa Anter murder case | ‘Ministry of Justice hinders progress in the file’

Prosecutor demanded that Yıldırım, the only arrested defendant later released on probation, be relieved of judicial control measures. Court rejected the request. Ahead of the expiry of statutory limitations in September, the next hearing will be held in June.

Court of Cassation upholds acquittal of eight accused of 21 extrajudicial killings in Diyarbakır

CİZRE JİTEM CASE

Court of Cassation upholds acquittal of eight accused of 21 extrajudicial killings in Diyarbakır

The defendants, including former military officers, were accused of perpetrating extrajudicial killings in Cizre, Diyarbakır between 1993 and 1995.

21 December 2021

Request for hearing former intelligence chief Eymür as a witness in Midyat JİTEM case

Request for hearing former intelligence chief Eymür as a witness in Midyat JİTEM case

In the wake of his remarks on enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings, lawyer Kuzu requests that Eymür, a former head of the counterterrorism department of the National Intelligence Organization, be heard as a witness in the Midyat JİTEM case.

10 November 2021

New confessions about 1993 Lice massacre on parliamentary agenda

New confessions about 1993 Lice massacre on parliamentary agenda

Seventeen people, including a brigadier general, were killed and many homes and businesses were set on fire in the Kurdish-majority province of Diyarbakır in 1993.

1 September 2021

‘Why is the Ministry of Justice silent on the Musa Anter case?’

HDP MP KERESTECİOĞLU

‘Why is the Ministry of Justice silent on the Musa Anter case?’

HDP MP Filiz Kerestecioğlu has addressed a Parliamentary question to Minister of Justice Gül about the trial over the assassination of journalist Musa Anter in 1992, underlining that the requests of the court are left unanswered.

Impunity in Kızıltepe JİTEM case as appeals court upholds acquittals

Impunity in Kızıltepe JİTEM case as appeals court upholds acquittals

The appeals court has upheld the ruling because the "lapse of time is imminent" in the case concerning 22 extrajudicial killings.

Mehmet Ağar to stand trial again over 19 unidentified murders

Mehmet Ağar to stand trial again over 19 unidentified murders

The court of appeals has reversed the acquittals in the trial over the unidentified murders in Ankara. Among the defendants of the case are also Mehmet Ağar, a former Interior Minister of Turkey.

Dargeçit Jitem Case: Prosecutor demands acquittal

Dargeçit Jitem Case: Prosecutor demands acquittal

Despite the evidence indicating that the defendants committed the offense charged, the prosecutor has demanded their acquittal. The families whose children were disappeared in the 1990s have denounced the prosecutor’s opinion.

‘Gökhan Güneş’ statement by law organizations

‘Gökhan Güneş’ statement by law organizations

Six law organizations have released a statement about Gökhan Güneş, who was forced to get in a car in İstanbul on January 20 and released six days later. In a statement yesterday, Güneş announced that he had been systematically tortured.

27 January 2021

‘The state has admitted that the murder was an official crime’

‘The state has admitted that the murder was an official crime’

Governor’s Office paid the attorney fees of village guards put on trial in the Kızıltepe JİTEM case filed into the murder and enforced disappearance of 22 people. “It means the state has taken the blame for charges such as murder,” says attorney Kuzu.

18 September 2020

Non-prosecution for JİTEM killings in Dargeçit

Non-prosecution for JİTEM killings in Dargeçit

In 1993, a village was burned down and seven people were killed in Mardin, southeast Turkey.