“SALAM” IS A WORD OF PEACE AND LOVE, AND IS NEVER TO BE CONSIDERED A “MAJOR THREAT” This is our statement related to our concerns about the effort to label every action related to love as criminal in regard to the most natural, normal and humane
The new session of hearings started on June 23, 2020, and required the attendance of the defendants. Considering that the threat of Covid-19 persists, we had explained the danger to the Court, demanding the postponement of the hearings until a safer time. However, it was not
The basic idea in the indictment is the claim that there exists an armed criminal organization and therefore the indictment claims that our group meets the criteria necessary for the existence of an armed criminal organization. However, our group of friends doesn’t match the criteria of
On June 4, 2020, a detention review was made over the file and it was decided to continue with the detention of all detained defendants: Regarding 73 defendants, who have been detained for 22 months and who had already been heard and interrogated by the court
A hearing was held on May 4, 2020, to review the detention of all detained defendants, who did not come to the courtroom due to the Corona measures but connected to the court through video conferencing. Only the judges and the lawyers were present in
TMSF (Saving Deposit Insurance Fund, which took over the Global publishing house after the police operation and appointed trustee to the company) demanded that the books legally labeled and published by Global Publishing with the approval of the Ministry of Culture, be sold as junk,
Merve Bozyigit, a defendant who previously wanted to benefit from the effective remorse law, was heard and interrogated on March 9, 2020. She withdrew her previous testimony, which she gave in October 2018 at the police station, and said that she did not want to
During the hearing on 25 February, 2020, the Prosecution requested that those defendants who wanted to benefit from the effective remorse law be heard without the presence of the other defendants in the courtroom. The Prosecutor referred to CMK (Turkish Code of Criminal Procedure) article which
Murat Ersan, a defendant pending trial, was detained on February 11, 2020. His detention was grounded on the reason that “the file contains concrete case and evidence pointing at the existence of strong criminal suspicion of the alleged crime; there are many defendants in the
After the police operation of July 11, 2018 against TBAV community, there has been a considerable effort to produce baseless, groundless and fake crimes in an attempt to portray Mr. Adnan Oktar and his friends as a so-called criminal organization. Since there is no real or
