Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party delegation will hold its meeting with Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunc tomorrow, which was expected to take place last week but was postponed. The delegation will include DEM Party Parliamentary Group Deputy Chairpersons Gulistan Kilic Kocyigit, Sezai Temelli and DEM Party Deputy Chairpersons and Co-Speaker of the Law and Human Rights Commission Ozturk Turkdogan.

 

During the meeting planned to be held at the Ministry of Justice, the DEM Party delegation will present a file containing their demands.

 

During the meeting, the demands for changes in the existing legal regulations will be discussed. In this process where the People's Alliance is preparing a new judicial package, the DEM Party delegation will state that this work should be shaped to meet the needs in the field. In this context, the delegation will present a dossier to Minister Tunç with the prioritised issues for the process.

 

RIGHT TO HOPE, ILL PRISONERS, EXECUTION LAW

 

The demands of the delegation include ending the isolation of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, improving working and living conditions and paving the way for the implementation of the "Right to Hope". The meeting will also focus on the situation of sick prisoners and the amendments to be made to the Law on Execution of Sentences regarding prisoners who have completed their sentences but have not been released and whose execution has been burnt. It will be demanded that additional sanctions are imposed on prisoners through structures such as the Administrative Observation Board (İGK), where court decisions are not actually implemented, and that such practices should be terminated.

 

'ANTI-TERRORISM LAW HAS LOST ITS FUNCTION'

 

The DEM Party delegation, which will point out that the regulations issued during the pandemic period created discrimination among convicts and that political prisoners were excluded from these regulations, will also express the elimination of these inequalities in the meeting. In addition, the Anti-Terror Law (TMK), trustee practices and some measures enacted during the State of Emergency (OHAL) period are also expected to be discussed. The delegation, which will share the idea that the Anti-Terror Law will no longer function if the dialogue process that started on 27 February evolves into a peace ground, will also share with the minister the legal amendment proposals that can be made within the scope of the Anti-Terror Law in the first place.

 

MA / Fırat Can Arslan