Anter Trial tomorrow: May result in impunity 

2022-09-20 15:30:15


	 

	ANKARA - In the 30 years since the murder of Kurdish scholar Apê Musa on September 20, 1992, no progress has been made in the trial. At the hearing to be held tomorrow, the court may drop the case due to the prescriptions.

	 

	Kurdish scholar Apê Musa (Anter) was killed in an armed attack on September 20, 1992 in Diyarbakır, where he came to attend the Culture and Art Festival. The Anter Case was combined with the JİTEM Main Case and the Ayten Öztürk case, who was killed by Mahmut Yıldırım, codenamed “Yeşil” in 1993, and the prescription was expected to drop. As Anter's murder turns 30 years today, his trial will be held tomorrow after the prescriptions expected by the court committee to drop.

	 

	In the hearings known as the Anter and JİTEM Main Case, the court board, which held hearings months later, drew attention to the fact that it gave a date set for the prescription. At the hearing held at the Ankara 6th High Criminal Court on September 15, the delegation gave the hearing date one day after the prescription, September 21.

	 

	AYKOL: THEY ARE TRYING TO CLOSED THE CASE

	 

	Journalist-writer Hüseyin Aykol, who has been following the Anter murder case since the beginning, reminded that the trial was requested to be postponed to September 20, when the case will drop due to the prescriptions, but was postponed to September 15 as a result of the objections of the lawyers. Aykol said: "It is clear from their behavior and attitude that they will decide to drop the case due to the prescription as soon as possible to close the case. We stand against this historical injustice, we, as the representatives of the Free Press, will be at the Ankara 6th High Criminal Court on September 21, 2022 at 16:00!”

	 

	'JITEM TRIALS ARE NOT INDEPENDENT OF THE POLITICAL PROCESS'

	 

	Underlining that the JİTEM trials are not independent of the political process, Türkdoğan said: “When these lawsuits were filed, there was a question of liquidation within the state of those accused of murders. These suspects became active within the state again with the start of the conflict process again in 2015. Political power also began to use them. In accordance with the conjuncture, they attempted to acquit them instead of punishing them. This issue comes before us as a judicial process that goes completely in line with the security policies of the state. It cannot be handled independently of the political process. We will do our best to ensure that the case does not drop due to prescription on the hearing day and we also call on the public to support it."