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Davutoğlu: They Shall See They Will Pay Heavy Prices

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Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has spoken at the Justice and Development Party (AKP) Extended Provincial Presidents Meeting.

“Those who enter other forces’ services, long for mandate government, don’t believe we can be independent and sovereign, sub-supplier organizations, ditches, holes, traps of the ones who produce nothing but violence and hatred will not bring Turkey to its knees”, PM Davutoğlu said.

Operations

Here are some headlines from Davutoğlu’s speech:

“Those who try to lose Turkey’s footing by digging holes, laying ambushes, detonating explosives. Turkey will not return from its intended path.

“There are political staff going into orbit of terror organizations after the election. There are sauceboxes who pay condolence visit to terrorists, dare to threaten this nation through rostrums but we know how to cut them down to size”.

Parliamentary immunities

“Here was the plan of HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) and CHP (People’s Republican Party); AKP wouldn’t lean towards lifting parliamentary immunities, thus the MPs supporting terror will be saved.

“Or, they will block the parliament together by claiming their (HDP) MPs’ parliamentary immunity will be lifted, and won’t allow our reform drafts pass as they did last year with internal security law. Furthermore, they will play the victim.

“We’ve invalidated these games with a single move. While they deal with little pawns, we said ‘check’ and they are checkmated”.

Summary of proceedings

“We’ve offered to discuss all the summary of proceedings referred to the parliament. By doing that, we’ve showed that first, AKP has no file to fear anyone. Even if there is, we know to settle a score.

“Secondly, HDP will never in no way play the victim, they are not victim, they are cruel and treacherous that associate with murderers.

“Now the ball is on CHP’s field, we wait for what they will say. We wait for what MHP (Nationalist Movement Party) will say. What HDP to say is already known. Their words have no value before the nation or us”.

Attack in Brussels

“There is no double standard in our world, in our system of values. The lives of those who lost their lives in terror attack in Kızılay in Ankara and the people who lost their lives in Brussels, no matter if they are Muslims or Christians, have the same value to us.

“Now everyone should their lessons from these painful incident. Those who are worried about their short-term interests by making my terrorist-your terrorist distinction, shall see or started to see that they will pay heavy prices in middle and long term.

“Europe has no other partner than Turkey to ensure regional security. They need to see this fact and act in accordance with it”. (AS/TK)

Constitutional Amendment Draft Submitted to President Erdoğan for Approval

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Parliamentary Deputy Speaker Ahmet Aydın has submitted the Constitutional Amendment Draft which has 18 articles to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for assessment.

How does the process continue?

Erdoğan has 15 days to assess the draft.

If he approves it, the draft will be published in the Official Gazette.

Following the publish on the Official Gazette, the referendum will be held on the first Sunday after 60 days.

Depending on the date of publish on the Official Gazette, the referendum could be held on April 9 or 16. Governmental authorities had already mentioned earlier, that the referendum could be held on one of these dates. (AS/DG)

TRIAL OF ACADEMICS: Academics from Boğaziçi University Stand Trial

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Two academics from Boğaziçi University, who have been charged with “propagandizing for a terrorist organization” for signing the declaration “We will not be a party to this crime” prepared by the Academics for Peace, had their first hearings today (March 28) at 14th Heavy Penal Court in İstanbul Çağlayan Courthouse.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özlem Beyarslan from the Department of Mathematics at Boğaziçi University did not attend the hearing as she was abroad. Nevim Borçin, a PhD student at the Department of Philosophy at Boğaziçi University appeared before judge.

A large number of academics as well as students of Boğaziçi University were also at the courthouse to watch the hearings.

Both hearings have been adjourned to June 19, 2018. The court board has rejected the immediate acquittal requests. As for the requests that the lawsuits of academics at 14th Heavy Penal Court be joined, the court board has ruled that these requests shall be evaluated after the statements of defence, but shall be rejected at this stage. The board has also ruled that the documents in the court files of four academics, whose lawsuits have been continuing at 13th Heavy Penal Court, shall be requested.

The hearings against signatory academics started on December 5, 2017. As of March 28, 166 people had their first hearings and 30 of them had the second. Three academics were sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison, and the sentences were suspended.

The members of the court board were as follows:
Presiding Judge: Atila Öztürk,
Members: İrfan Şancı, Hasan Aydın,
Prosecutor: Seçkin Yılmaz

What happened?

On January 10, 2016, 1,128 academics published a declaration entitled “We will not be party to this crime” on behalf of the Academics for Peace initiative.

On March 10, 2016, Asst. Prof. Dr. Esra Mungan, Asst. Prof. Dr. Muzaffer Kaya, Assoc. Prof. Dr Kıvanç Ersoy and Asst. Prof. Dr. Meral Camcı read out the press statement at a press conference that was was held on behalf of the Academics for Peace/Istanbul group regarding the developments which had occurred since the declaration was first shared with the public.

The first three of these academics were arrested on the charge of “terrorist propaganda” on March 15, 2016, and the last, Camcı, who was abroad at the time, was arrested on March 31 when she returned to Turkey. The four academics were released on April 22, 2016 upon their first hearing, in which the prosecutor of the trial changed the charges pressed against the academics to the crimes regulated under Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code (insulting Turkey, the Turkish nation, or Turkish government institutions) and applied for authorization from the Ministry of Justice to hold the trial under the new article.

Another bill of indictment was prepared in October 2017 regarding at least 148 academics who signed the declaration. The academics were charged with “terrorist organization propaganda” under Article 7/2 of the Turkish Anti-Terror Act (#3713) in the bill of indictment prepared by Prosecutor İsmet Bozkurt. The first hearings were held on December 5, 2017.

As of March 28, 166 people had their first hearings and 30 of them had the second. Three academics were sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison, and the sentences were suspended. (TP/SD)