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    The arrest warrant against Dogan Ozgüden remains in force

    Journalist Emin Karaca condemned
    for insult to the Army chiefs

    Journalist and writer Emin Karaca was condemned on September 13, 2005
    by the penal court of first instance N°2 of Istanbul to a 5-month
    imprisonment old according to Article 301/2 of the new Turkish Penal
    Code (replacing Article 159/1 of the old Turkish Penal Code) because
    of his criticisms as regards the putschist generals of March 12,
    1971. The prison sentence was later commuted to a suspended fine of
    900 YTL (New Turkish Liras).

    The court also decided to acquit the responsible editor for the
    Türkiye' review of ve Avrupa' da Yazin (Literature in Turkey and
    Europe), Mehmet Emin Sert, who had published Karaca's article on the
    occasion of the 30th anniversary of the execution of three leaders of
    progressive youth.

    In the same case started in 2002, Dogan Özgüden, chief editor of
    Info-Türk, had been indicted for his article entitled "After 30
    years", appeared in the same review, and accused of having insulted
    the Army chiefs. On September 27, 2002, the court sent to all border
    check points an arrest warrant ordering that Özgüden, exiled in
    Belgium, be immediately arrested and submitted to the justice as soon
    as he enters to Turkey. Up to now, this arrest warrant has been
    renewed five times by the same court, but Özgüden refused to surrender
    to Turkish justice.

    At the audience of June 22, 2005, the public prosecutor asked that the
    lawsuit file against Dogan Özgüden be separate until its arrest in the
    event of its return to the country so that the lawsuit against Karaca
    can continue separately. The court thus decided to separate Özgüden's
    file and to suspend his trial until his arrest in the event of his
    return to Turkey. (For more information on the case:
    http://home.scarlet.be/~ozguden/322.htm )


    The condemnation of Karaca shows that, in spite of the modification of
    the Turkish Penal Code, so appreciated by the European Union, the
    indictment and condemnation of writers and journalists for "opinion
    crimes" continue as before.

    The independent communications network (BIA) announced on September 13
    2005, that under the Article 301 (old article 159) of the TPC a number
    of journalists are always tried for insult against the Turkish nation,
    the Army, the government or the forces of security simply because of
    their criticisms. It gives like examples the following recent cases:

    Novelist Orhan Pamuk, for insult to the Turkish nation

    Journalist Ragip Zarakolu, publisher of Belge Yayinlari, for insult to
    the State, the Republic and Atatürk Journalist Hrant Dink, editor of
    the Armenian newspaper Agos, for insult to the Turkish nation

    Journalist Dogan Özgüden, for insult to the Army
    Journalist Emin Karaca,, for insult to the Army

    Lawyer Sehmus Ulek, vice-president of the Association for the defense
    of the oppressed (Mazlum-DER), for insult to the Turkish nation
    Journalist Rahmi Yildirim, for insult to the Army Journalist Ersen
    Korkmaz, editor of Demokrat Iskenderun, for insult to the government.



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