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ANF in URFA Thursday, 22 Oct 2020, 16:44
Turkey demands aggravated life in jail for YPJ member Çiçek Kobanê, after 1 year already in jail.
Third Hearing
Prosecutor demanded aggravated life sentence in the third hearing of the case against Çiçek Kobanê, who was arrested after being taken prisoner in the invasion attacks launched by the AKP-MHP fascist alliance and its gangs on Rojava on October 9, 2019.
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The trial against prisoner of war Çiçek Kobanê (civil name: Dozgin Temo) continued on Thursday at the 5th Heavy Penal Court in the province of Urfa, Turkey.
The YPJ (Women’s Defense Units) member is accused of disrupting the unity and integrity of the state, membership of an armed terrorist organisation and deliberate murder attempt in several cases.
Çiçek Kobanê was captured last October in the village of Mishrefa near Ain Issa in northern Syria by the jihadist militia Ahrar al-Sham, which is part of Turkey’s jihadist proxy troops, the so-called “Syrian National Army” (SNA), and has participated in the invasion of Rojava alongside Turkish forces.
After her capture, the Raqqa-born Kurdish woman from Kobanê was deported across the border into Turkish territory. Since then she has been held on remand in a high-security prison in Urfa.
While Çiçek Kobanê was brought to the hearing from Urfa T Type Prison No 2, where she is detained, her lawyer was present in the courtroom.
Çiçek Kobanê, who made a defense with the help of a Kurdish interpreter, said that she was a YPJ fighter, did not participate in any armed conflict, and was shot in the foot after being caught.
Kobane’s lawyer Hidayet Enmek, who made a defense at the hearing, said that there was no due process of arrest, that the people who made the arrest were members of the groups called FSA (Free Syrian Army) and that this group does not have the authority to arrest a person.
The lawyer stated that the arrest procedure was not carried out based on the 90th article of the CMK (Turkish Code of Criminal Procedure) as there is no detail in the case file, and no record of who his client was detained by.
The prosecutor demanded an aggravated life sentence for Çiçek Kobanê in his opinion, while her lawyer asked for additional time to defend against the opinion.
After the break, the court ruled continuation of Çiçek Kobanê’s detention and adjourned the verdict hearing to 24 November.
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The FIRST HEARING..
The trial of prisoner of war Çiçek Kobanê, who was deported from Rojava to Turkey, has continued in Urfa. The YPJ member said in court that she was shot twice in the leg after being captured. Çiçek is one of tens of thousands of political prisoners in Turkey, many of them for years awaiting trial.
ANF in URFA Tuesday, 28 Jul 2020, 18:36
Second Hearing
The trial against prisoner of war Çiçek Kobanê (civil name: Dozgin Temo) continued on Tuesday 28th July at the 5th Heavy Penal Court in the province of Urfa.
The YPJ (Women’s Defense Units) member is accused of disrupting the unity and integrity of the state, membership of an armed terrorist organisation and deliberate murder attempt in several cases. Çiçek Kobanê was captured last October in Ain Issa in northern Syria by the jihadist militia Ahrar al-Sham, which is part of Turkey’s jihadist proxy troops, the so-called “Syrian National Army” (SNA), and has participated in the invasion of Rojava alongside Turkish forces.
After her capture, the Raqqa-born Kurdish woman from Kobanê was deported across the border into Turkish territory. Since then she has been held on remand in a high-security prison in Urfa.
Photos and videos of the capture of Çiçek Kobanê appeared on social networks, in which the gangs announced that the female fighter would be executed.
In court, Çiçek Kobanê again rejected the dubious accusations against her. She repeated the statement she had made at the start of the trial, according to which, at the time of her capture in northern Syria, she was not involved in armed action but was providing humanitarian aid to the civilian population.
For the first time she also commented on the background to her injuries and stated that she was shot twice in the leg after she had been wounded when she was captured. Prior to her transfer to the Urfa detention centre, Kobanê had a platinum plant inserted into her foot during an operation.
The operation was obviously unsuccessful, as she has not been able to stand up on her own and look after herself since then. It would not be the first time that medical operations on Kurdish prisoners have been deliberately botched.
Çiçek Kobanê’s lawyer Hidayet Enmek stated in court that there was not a single piece of evidence to support the accusations against his client. Only a transcript of her statement was part of the taking of evidence. In addition, the lawyer again criticised that it was still unclear who had “arrested” Kobanê and how the arrest had taken place.
“Nor does the bill of indictment indicate in what way she was injured,” said Enmek, and asked the court to request relevant documents from the competent military police. The judges agreed to the request and adjourned the trial. The trial will continue on 22 September.
Çiçek Kobane’s mother: “Our daughter is detained in Turkish prison under inhuman conditions”
updated on Çiçek Kobane’s mother: “Our daughter is detained in Turkish prison under inhuman conditions”
During the offensive launched on October 9th, 2019, in NE Syria, by the Turkish state, the Jihadist group under the flag of the Syrian National Army ( SNA), invaded Serêkaniyê and Tel Abyad (Girê Spî) regions.
The city of Serêkaniyê (Ain Issa) which was liberated by the YPG forces and taken from Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist in 2013, has been occupied and is now under control Turkish state and so-called SNA.
Local journalist Diyar Ahmed, affirms that: “[The SNA factions] don’t have a well-organized structure. There are 20 armed groups in the city, and they fight against each other. The only system which is there has been imposed by Turkey.”
The humanitarian impact of the war has been severe. There have been 250,000 people displaced from their homes, dozens of neighborhoods and crucial infrastructure destroyed by shelling and airstrikes, and the irretrievable loss of human life.
On the 17th October, the so-called “ceasefire agreement” was signed and announced following the USA and Turkish negotiations. Five days later another agreement between Turkey and Russia was announced and the so-called “security zone” was put under their control.
Never the less the Turkish attacks on NE Syria haven’t stopped. Crimes and atrocities are constantly committed against the population.
On a daily basis, villages are bombed and thousands of hectares of fields are burned. Many civilians have been hurt and killed, including numerous children. In this occupied region, houses of people have been plundered and women kidnaped, raped and killed.
The Turkish state and its Jihadist proxies, through this barbaric ethnic cleansing practice, are forcing demographic changes in the region and opening space to all kinds of terrorist groups in this area.
During this occupation, Çiçek Kobane, was in Rojava, her homeland, when the Turkish invaded and occupied Gire Spî. She was wounded and captured on the 21st of November by one of the allied jihadist groups and sent to a Turkish prison.
This fact also proves the direct connection between the Turkish state and Jihadist groups. Video of her being captured was sent directly to her family and also spread through social media.
We have conducted an interview with her mother who after 7 years living in Turkey, has come back to NE Syria:
What can you tell us about the current situation of your daughter and how she ended up in a Turkish prison?
“In the beginning, we didn’t have have any information for 4 days and when she disappeared, we thought she must have been killed. After four days a video was sen to my husband’s phone of her being captured. We immediately also informed everyone we knew in Rojava and started looking for her.
At this time we were living in Turkey, however, we were able to find a Kurdish lawyer and went to a government establishment with her picture. We were afraid of also getting arrested but wanted to find out where she was and confirm if she was alive.”
In the time of corona, many prisoners were released but she and other political prisoners were not. She was wounded and because of this, she should’ve been released.
There is constant oppression on the Kurdish population and their rights within the Turkish state. The Kurds are the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East and one of the most persecuted minorities of our time. Nowhere is their future more threatened than in Turkey where Kurds are one-quarter of the population.
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After some days in the hospital and another week Urfa prison Çiçek was brought to Hilwan prison without any medical care and still with metal in her leg.
How are her health and psychology could you communicate with her?
“Her leg is in a really bad state. She can’t move around properly, walk, or change her clothes. She’s really worried about her health. We’ve been struggling to get her medical treatment for her leg but for 6 months, but she still hasn’t received any. She’s unable to be self-sufficient and this is affecting her psychology. The biggest priority is for her leg to be treated.
In the time of corona, many prisoners were released but she and other political prisoners were not. She was wounded and because of this, she should’ve been released.
All visitations were suspended and no precautions against the virus were taken; not even medical checks.”
We received threats and have been humiliated. My husband and two sons were arrested and tortured. They even broke my husband’s fingers.
Turkey has also been implementing various measures to fight COVID-19 within prisons across the country, including a highly contested special amnesty law that enabled the release of some 90 thousand convicts.
According to reports by human rights and prison monitoring organizations, the conditions of prisons have worsened with the pandemic¹.
Turkish authorities do not follow principles and guidelines specified by the World Health Organization, the Committee for Prevention of Torture (CPT), or the human rights commissioners of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. The lives of prisoners are highly at risk.
How often were you able to see Çiçek? How your family was treated?
“We could visit her once a month and speak on the phone once a week for 10 minutes. We’ve lived with the constant pressure of the Turkish police being in our house every month. We received threats and have been humiliated. My husband and two sons were arrested and tortured. They even broke my husband’s fingers.
Our lawyer was also arrested and received the same treatment.
Because of this constant pressure and threat, three months ago we decided to leave Turkey and come to Rojava, where we’re originally from. We haven’t seen our daughter since.”
The Turkish government has not suspended it’s anti-Kurdish policies even under the conditions of a global pandemic. On the contrary, the government is using the pandemic as an opportunity to further repress Kurdish democratic institutions; their municipalities in particular.
Do you want to send any message to the international population?
“ Human rights organisations should not remain silent, because Turkey is violating international law. Cicek was not arrested in Turkey. She was wounded and kidnapped in her country. She was kidnapped in front of the world by jihadist mercenaries and handed over to Turkey. This makes it obvious that Turkey cooperates with jihaddist groups and supports them.
The trial of our daughter was set for July 28, 2020. We want the human rights organisations to be aware of her situation and intervene to help her to come back home to her family.”
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Çiçek was used in a Turkish propaganda video on TRT World
The Turkish site ‘TRT World’ made and aired a propaganda video accusing the YPJ and Çiçek of being KURDISH TERRORISTS for resisting Turkey’s continuing totally illegal and criminal invasion, occupation and massacres in their own country of Syria. see here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jty_NebNKY
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Report on 1st court appearance. by ANF
..The first hearing in the case against Temo was held at the 5th Heavy Penal Court in Urfa. Temo gave her statement in Kurdish, translated into Turkish by an interpreter. She said that she joined “the most organized force in Northern Syria” of her own accord, used no weapon and took part in humanitarian missions.
Temo’s lawyer Hidayet Emek asked who captured and arrested his client, saying that the case file did not include this information. The lawyer said: “It is not clear who from the FSA groups brought our client in. There is no information either on how our client was injured.
The FSA does not have a law enforcement mission, nor the authority to arrest. There is an unlawful and illegal detention in question, which reveals a deficiency in the indictment. Our client comes from Raqqa, Syria. In consideration of the accusations directed at her, it is essential to understand who she was illegally arrested by. On this basis, we demand the identification of those involved in her arrest.”..
The lawyer’s plea was dismissed and the case adjourned till July 28th.
See also..this week:
Turkish army kills six civilians in Manbij
case now adjourned till Nov 24th 2020. see update above
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