Am 12.7. The Monitor reported ARD program by a further case of a German prison in Turkey: Mehmet Desde (whose name is not obviously so perfect for the tabloid coverage) is sitting in a Turkish prison, without any "hard evidence" against him. His trial was nothing but a farce. Desde was threatened, tortured, and sits in a miserable conditions.
In July 2002 Desde went to Turkey to attend the funeral of his father. He then took a few days holiday on the southern coast of Turkey, where he met with the Berlin-based journalist Mehmet Bakir. At that time appeared in the region leaflets of a "Bolshevik party Nordkudistan / Turkey", which ranks the authorities as "hostile to Turks and dangerous. Supposedly, this group have had connections to Germany. The investigation began. Here they came across and Desde Bakis and arrested them. The Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported: "The fact that they swore to be neither terrorists nor have ever heard of the Bolshevik party that Desde refused to sign a confession preformulated, spurred the ambition of officials at only.. A certificate of physicians of the Foundation for Human Rights in Izmir presented afterwards laid traces of physical and psychological torture " Desde was sentenced Even the prosecutor spoke out in negotiating for the release of Desde but it urged the court not by on December 26, 2006, the Supreme Court in Ankara upheld the verdict Links to this post..
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