ANKARA - Stating that the isolation imposed on PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan is unprecedented in the world, Öztürk Türkdoğan said: "This situation creates a dual system in Turkey and that it should be abandoned as soon as possible."

 

The 26th year of the international conspiracy, which PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan described as "the beginning of the Third World War", has entered. Abdullah Öcalan, who left Syria on October 9, 1998, with the conspiracy that was the first step of the intervention of global powers in the Middle East, was brought to Turkey, where he was wanted with the death penalty, on February 15, 1999, after a "battue" that continued for 130 days. Abdullah Öcalan, who was placed in the specially designed İmralı Type F High Security Prison during the conspiracy process, was sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment through show trials. In the deepened Imrali isolation system, the laws changed with the policy of "Do not let Öcalan benefit" have formed the basis of execution law at this stage.

 

As a matter of fact, the practices defined by lawyers as the Imrali legal system have spread throughout Turkey, especially in prisons, over the 25-year period. In İmralı, which started on the grounds of "broken coaster" and " weather conditions", the obstructions to vision are continued with penalties given under the name of "discipline" for family and lawyer applications. The reflection of this practice on prisons is the decisions of the established Administrative and Observation Boards to postpone release. At least 313 prisoners have been released more than once for 6 and 3-month periods since December 29, 2020, on the grounds of "not peace of good" blocked with the decision of the Administrative Observation Boards, defined as "parallel courts", reflected in the reports of the Human Rights Association.

 

Former IHD Co-Chairperson and lawyer Öztürk Türkdoğan evaluated the İmralı isolation system and its reflections on the legal system.

 

POSTPONE OF RELEASE

 

Underlining that all these practices are not independent of the isolation put in place after PKK Leader Öcalan was brought to Turkey,  Türkdoğan said: "The İmralı isolation system has no other example in the world. Öcalan is not allowed to meet with his lawyers and family. Disciplinary punishment is constantly given. There is no judge in the country who is on the side of justice and says 'these penalties are arbitrary and let's end this lawlessness'. Where did you have laws? This means that some things cannot be written into laws. The dual system is implemented in Turkey, this dual system must be abandoned. As we approach this issue, it is necessary to take into account the other laws I have mentioned because they are all interconnected. The practice called burning has become the last part of this."

 

'DOUBLE STANDARD IMPLEMENTATION'

 

Stating that the practice of burning executions, which he described as the last part of the Imrali isolation, creates double standards, Türkdoğan said: “The IGK decisions are currently taking effect for every convict, but when we look at the practice for the convicts, there is a serious injustice. Criminal convicts will serve 5 years in prison, for example, if they were sentenced to 10 years in prison. At first, they were benefiting from probation for the last 3 years. They increased this to 5 years with a law passed this year. There is no ward in prisons. Of course, an IGK decision is required. In other words, many rules are relaxed regarding judicial prisoners and in implementation they allow them to be released. Due to this implementation, there is an explosion in drug crimes. There are no people in prison anywhere for theft, injury and assault crimes. Where are your IGK Boards? I want to ask the Ministry of Justice. You established the IGKs, this board was going to evaluate these prisoners, but it is releasing the prisoners detained from all judicial files. These people continue to commit crimes outside. The intended IACs cannot provide successful examples for judicial prisoners, but on the other hand, they constantly play an obstructive role in the release of political prisoners who should not be in prison at all."

 

MA / Hakan Yalçın