Subject: Flash
From: Internationale Initiative (info@freedom-for-ocalan.com)
Date: Sat Oct 07 2000 - 09:14:43 CDT
International Initiative
Freedom for Ocalan - Peace in Kurdistan
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Campaign "No tho the death penalty - peace now":
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- Turkish Daily News - "Justice Minister Turk supports scrapping death penalty":
a.. Turk: Turkey is definitely in a position to scrap the death penalty in the long term. This should be done without riding roughshod over the sensitivities of the people but in a calm, cool-headed manner without getting drawn into the emotionalism of the coalition government or Parliament
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Ankara - Turkish Daily News
Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk has said that Turkey is definitely in a position to abolish the death penalty in the long term, the Anatolia news agency reported yesterday. Speaking to journalists after attending a meeting of the Black Sea Countries' Bar Association at the Ankara Hilton, Turk said that the Justice Ministry commission looking into how to amend the Turkish Penal Code (TCK) in its entirety had nearly completed its studies.
"The work is not quite finished yet," he said. "Turkey is definitely in a position to abolish the death penalty in the long term. The death penalty has no place in a modern penal system. The only European Council member country to still have the death penalty is Turkey. Its very existence prevents criminals who have fled abroad from being extradited back to Turkey. For this reason, the death penalty has to be reassessed and brought into line with modern thought.
This should be done without riding roughshod over the sensitivities of the people but in a calm, cool-headed manner without getting drawn into the emotionalism of the coalition government or Parliament." He added that the new draft envisages replacing the death penalty with an extended life sentence under severe conditions, just as in the previous 1997 draft.
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