Subject: Flash Bulletin!!!
From: Int. Initiative (info@freedom-for-ocalan.com)
Date: Thu Feb 24 2000 - 02:38:27 CST
24.02.2000
Flash Bulletin
1. "HADEP MUNIPCIPAL MAYORS ARRESTED!!", the municipals who
were taken by gendarme to Armed Forces Court were arrested.
2. "A Game By The War Facilitators", President of the PKK
Abdullah Ocalan states that the war facilitators are at work.
3. "Protests Continue", Public demonstrations to free Municipals
Mayors who they voted in.
4. "European Commission Reacts", reactions by Europe.
1. "HADEP MUNIPCIPAL MAYORS ARRESTED!!" :
The HADEP municipal Mayors, Diyarbakir
Greater City Municipality Mayor Feridun Celik, Siirt Mayor M. Selim Ozalp,
Bingol Mayor Feyzullah Karaaslan, who two days ago were taken in
unusual methods by gendarme and incacerated are arrested. The Mayors were
taken yesterday by gendarme through a back entrance to the Armed Forces
Court in which after 12 hours of investigation the three mayors were arrested.
The Mayors were accused of helping and bedding the PKK under this accusation
the Mayors if convicted will be gaoled to a minimum 4.5 years and maximum
6.5 years. European Parliamentarians codemned the arrests while the U.S
said that the Human Rights Report which is going passed on by Washington
to Turkey tomorrow said that the Human Rights Report like previous years
is going to be bulking.
2. "A Game By The War Facilitators" :
PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan stated that the incacerations
of the Municipal Mayors was a game by war facilitator forces and the public
could in legal boundaries express "without going into provocation"
their reactions. Ocalan pointed out that it is a period of undetermindness
and that if this period continues for long, it could endanger the peace
in the country
3. "Protests Continue" :
The public are continuing their protest and are on the streets against the incaceration of the HADEP Municipal Mayors even though the previous day they were attacked by police.
The continuing increasement of demonstrations the municipal and DGM (Government Security Court [GSC] ) buildings were blockaded by police, together with working personnel all were not permited to exit the municipal building.
Despite the intense rain approximately 500 demonstrators
from 12:00 noon who wanted to walk to the municipal building and
GSC were confronted by police attacks on the civillian demonsrators. The
demonstrators chanted with peace signs "Freedom For the Mayors", "Pressure
Will Not Stop Us" and presumed walking. The crowd who wanted to go to Dagkapi
Meydan (Area) were faced with police attacks again, in which one female
and five people were injured.
3. "European Commission Reacts" :
While the European Commisson demanded that the Municipal Mayors be released immediately, European Parliament President Fontaine said, in the event of the Mayors' arrest the peace solution will go into difficulty.
European Parliament Council Assembly President Lord
Russel Johnston, General Secratary Walter Schimmer, Regional Directing
Congress President Alain Chenard, made a statement on the incacerated Municipal
Mayors. In the statement, "the representitives were voted in by taking
the citizens trust in their administrated province, it was a suprise for
the current political atmosphere" and "the regional situation will be examined
immediately".
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