FOR THE CASE OF THE ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE OF BULUT YAYLA

URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT CONCERNING THE CASE OF THE ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE OF BULUT YAYLA*

Athens, 2.6.2013

On Thursday 30.05.2013 at 9.30pm, Bulut Yayla, a 24 years old, Turkish political refugee was detained, beaten and violently abducted by people aboard a private car at the center of Athens - Greece.

Through eyewitness testimonies and research conducted by the victim's comrades and lawyers, it was revealed that the license plate of the car in question belongs to the Greek Police. However, the police still claim they have nothing to do with the incident, despite the persistent and constant allegations of his comrades, lawyers and political actors.

Yesterday 01.06.2013, Bulut Yayla's family announced that he is kept in custody at Istanbul's Antiterrorist Unit. According to the victim’s allegations, a group of people speaking Greek, pushed him inside a car, using extreme violence, shutting his mouth and eyes. Then he was transferred in another car by a second group of people speaking Greek and Turkish and then a third group who spoke Turkish and English.

Par rapport au cas de «disparition forcée» de Bulut Yayla

ANNONCE URGENTE

2.6.2013

Jeudi 30.05.2013, à 21h.30, Bulut Yayla, 24 ans, réfugié politique d’ origine turque, a été immobilisé, violamment battu et enlevé en plein centre d'Athènes, et ce devant une multitude de témoins.

Les plaques d'immatriculation relevées par les témoins correspondent à des véhicules de la police grecque. Pourtant, la police nie tout lien avec l'incident, malgré l'insistance de ses camarades, d'avocats et d'acteurs politiques.

Hier, samedi 1 Juin 2013, à midi, les proches de Bulut Yayla ont annoncé qu’il est détenu au département Anti-Terroriste de la police à Istanbul. Bulut Yayla dénonce que des personnes qui parlaient grec l’ ont mis de force dans une voiture, en couvrant sa bouche et ses yeux. Par la suite, il a été transféré dans une seconde voiture. Cette fois, ses détenteurs parlaient grec et turc. Il est enfin passé aux mains d' un troisième groupe qui parlait turc et anglais.

Pendant toute la durée d’ otage B.Y. a été maltraîté, et a subi des violences extrêmes.

Annuncio urgente sulla sparizione forzata di Bulut Yayla

Annuncio urgente sulla sparizione forzata di Bulut Yayla*

Αtene, 2.6.2013

Alle 21:30 di Giovedì 30.5.2013, Bulut Yayla, un rifugiato politico turco di 24 anni, è stato arrestato, picchiato e brutalmente rapito da persone a bordo di una macchina privata nel centro di Atene – Grecia.

Dai testimoni oculari e dalle ricerche svolte dai compagni della vittima e da alcuni avvocati, è stato scoperto che la targa della macchina in questione appartiene alla polizia greca. La polizia, però, continua a sostenere di non aver niente a che fare con l’incidente, nonostante le accuse persistenti e costanti da parte dei suoi compagni, degli avvocati e di esponenti politici.

Ieri, 1.6.2013, la famiglia di Bulut Yayla ha annunciato che il ragazzo è detenuto presso l’Unità Antiterrorismo di Istanbul. Secondo le accuse della vittima, un gruppo di persone che parlavano greco lo ha trascinato su una macchina, usando una violenza estrema, chiudendogli la bocca e gli occhi. È stato poi trasferito su un’altra macchina con un secondo gruppo di persone che parlavano greco e turco, e poi con un terzo gruppo di persone che parlava turco e inglese.

Durante la sua detenzione, Bulut Yayla ha subito violenze, abusi e maltrattamenti. La sera di venerdì, Bulut Yayla è stato consegnato al Dipartimento di Polizia di Edirne, da dove poi è stato trasferito all’Unità Antiterrorismo di Istanbul.

Press Release - No Political Refugee must be extradited to Turkey

SOLIDARITY WITH THE TURKISH AND KURDISH POLITICAL REFUGEES AND ACTIVISTS THAT ARE AT IMMINENT RISK OF EXTRADITION TO TURKEY


NO POLITICAL REFUGEE MUST BE EXTRADITED TO TURKEY

19 APRIL 2013 AT AREIOS PAGOS (09:30 am) – SUPREME COURT ON THE APPLICATIONS FOR THE EXTRADITION OF ZEKI GORBUZ AND COMERT BULENT AYTUNC

The deterioration in the protection of civil, political and social rights and freedoms has been continuing under the current Greek Government, partially due to the economic crisis. Against this background, and following Prime Minister Samaras' visit to Ankara and the announcement of closer co-operation between the Greek and the Turkish Government, the Greek authorities, which in the past only reluctantly enacted international arrest warrants against Turkish refugees, have over the past two months engaged in a real witch hunt against all those wanted for their political actions in Turkey.

Pursuant to this governmental agreement, the Greek authorities have so far arrested five refugees with a view to extradite them. Their detention continues until today. At least one of them has been deprived of his liberty since 12 February, more than two months.

Parallel to these arrests of Turkish and Kurdish activists, an alarming number of publications in the Turkish press have referred to agreements between the two governments on the extradition of the wanted people and to secret bilateral anti-terrorist agreements with financial rewards, while portraying specific refugees in Greece, publishing their names and predicting their arrests by the Greek authorities.

Greece Becomes Outpost in Turkey’s “Anti-Terror” Campaign

ATHENS, Apr 13 2013 (IPS) - Zeki Gorbuz, a Turkish asylum seeker in Greece, who was arrested on Feb. 12, remains detained today due to an international warrant that was transmitted by Turkish authorities to Greece just one day before his asylum interview. Turkish media were quick to report the arrest, describing Gorbuz as a radical leftist and regional leader of the Marxist Leninist Communist Party (MLCP), which has been designated as a terrorist organisation by the Turkish government.

On the same day that Gorbuz was detained, Bulent Aytunc Comert, who arrived in Greece as an asylum seeker in 2002, was also arrested. His request for asylum was approved in 2003 but was never cleared by the ministry of police.

Branded by Turkish authorities as a member of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), Comert is a fugitive. He was imprisoned in the notorious solitary confinement units known as the “White Cells” on what he says was a fabricated murder charge.

Invitation to screening - Wednesday 3 April

The Group of Lawyers for the Rights of Migrants and Refugees
invites you to the screening of the award-winning documentary film ‘Nowhere Home’ made by the Norwegian film maker Margreth Olin.

The screening will take place on the 3rd of April 2013 at 7.30 pm in the group’s building Ktirio 11 at 11 Rethymnou street and Ioulianou opposite of the Park Hotel in Athens.
The documentary will be shown in Norwegian language with English subtitles.

Mass arrests of Lawyers in Turkey- Fact finding mission of 4 international lawyers' associations

A group of 8 lawyers from different European Countries (Germany, Greece, Holland, Italy, Switzerland), from Egypt, and the U.S.A. are visiting Turkey from 7th till 12th March to investigate the circumstances of the recent wave of arrests of lawyers and trade unionist. The lawyers have been sent by two European lawyers organisations, The European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (ELDH) www.eldh.eu  and the European Democratic Lawyers AED-EDL http://www.aeud.org/ , by the Arab Lawyers Union (Egypt) and by the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) www.iadllaw.org.

The above mentioned lawyers organisation have taken notice of the new mass arrest of lawyers in Turkey, among them the President of ÇHD Selçuk Kozağaçlı, with utmost concern. For the same reason on February 11, IADL submitted a statement to the Human Rights Council to bring to its attention IADL’s grave concern over the arrest of lawyers in Turkey. Immediately after the arrests happened, ELDH and IADL alarmed the public with their protests. For many years ÇHD has been a member organisation of ELDH and also of IADL, struggling with both organisations for the defence of Human Rights. It is the duty of these organizations to give ÇHD all possible legal and political assistance for the exoneration of their president and their other arrested members.

Read here the rest of the Press Release of ELDH
Read here a relevant report by ÇHD