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(DHKC) REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S LIBERATION FRONT: Mehmet Agar, The New Minister For Justice, Is Responsible For Torture And Murder ***** EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION: U.S. MILITARY AID TO TURKISH REGIME FUELS REPRESSION ----- U.S. arm sales and weapons continue to flow into Turkey at unprecedented levels; fuelling repression, torture and the suppression of human rights -- against the Turkish working class in general, and the Kurdish minority, in particular. Over the past decade, according to COVERT ACTION QUARTERLY, "Congress spent $5.1 billion in military aid under loan and Foreign Military Financing programs, placing Turkey behind only Israel and Egypt. Efforts in the House this spring to postpone aid to Turkey pending a presidential report on Turkey's human rights record failed." (Vera Beaudin Saeedpour, "Conflicted Kurdistan," COVERT ACTION QUARTERLY, Washington, D.C., Fall 1995, Number 54, p. 21). Among the items sold or provided to the Turkish state by Washington since 1992, are the following: -- 28 AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters; -- 2 squadrons of advanced F-16 fighter planes; -- 1,500 tanks; -- 500 armored personnel carriers; -- 150 howitzers; -- 29 F4-E fighter aircraft; -- 110 M-85 machine guns; -- 14 SH-2F LAMPS antisubmarine helicopters; recent purchases include: -- 5 AH-1W Super Cobra attack helicopters; -- 51 Blackhawk transport choppers; -- 74 armored vehicles; -- 493 CBU-87 cluster bombs; According to the CAQ report, the "'Peace Onyx' program -- the centerpiece of U.S.-Turkish military relations -- is an F-16 production deal valued at $7.6 billion. The planes are built in Turkey under a co-production agreement with Lockheed. By the deal's end in 1996, 240 planes will be built." (ibid.) Mass murder is viewed by both Ankara and Washington as a "growth industry." ----- The "liberal" Clinton administration justify their lavish economic and military "aid" packages to the Turkish state in terms that might have been lifted from the Reagan administration's script on "international terrorism" during the 1980s. When queried by reporters about the Ankara regime's abysmal human rights record, Vice President Al Gore said, [W]e intend to work with Turkey. It's not fair for us to urge Turkey to not only be a democratic country but to recognize human rights and then not to help the government of Turkey deal with terrorism within its own borders. And I think you will see some more cooperation between our two nations on this front. (ibid., p. 20) With Orwellian logic, President Clinton declared in 1994, as he welcomed Prime Minister Tansu Ciller to a White House meeting, "Turkey is a shining example to the world of the virtues of cultural diversity." (ibid.) This despite the fact that the Turkish state has destroyed hundreds of villages in Kurdistan or that the mere mention of the words "Kurd" or "Kurdistan" can land journalists in prison -- or dead. Since 1993, 74 journalists have been imprisoned for crimes against the state. During the 1993-1994 period, 14 journalists writing for the pro-Kurdish paper, OZGUR GUNDEM were the victims of so-called "mystery killings." News vendors, including small children as young as 12 have been attacked with hatchets. Extra- judicial murders and attacks such as these are widely believed to be the work of Turkish police/security agents or organized groups of fascists associated with the MHP or "Grey Wolves," an extreme rightist organization with ties to international neo-Nazi networks. In 1994 Kurdish parliamentary representatives were stripped of immunity and arrested, their legal party banned; 7 legislators were subsequently charged with crimes "against the state," a death penalty offense. As recently as May 1 of this year, police in Istanbul opened fire on a massive May Day protest, killing 3 and wounding more than one hundred demonstrators. None of this is of recent vintage, however; the history of Turkish repression against leftists and ethnic minority groups such as the Armenians and Kurds is an enduring legacy of anti- communist and racist hysteria. Nor should it come as a surprise that Hitler's genocidal Holocaust against European Jewry was inspired by the Turkish _Ittihad Party's_ 1915 genocide against Armenians. Historian Christopher Simpson writes: Hitler was well aware of Turkey's genocide of Armenians and of the failure of the international community to respond adequately to it. As early as June 1931, Hitler commented in an interview that the "extermination of the Armenians" had led him to "the conclusion that masses of men are mere biological plasticine" over which Aryans would eventually triumph. He returned to this theme in a formal talk to his commanding generals on the eve of their invasion of Poland in 1939: "Our strength is our quickness and our brutality," he exclaimed. "Genghis Khan had millions of women and children killed by his own will and with a gay heart. History sees in him a great state builder...Thus for the time being I have sent to the East...my Death's Head Units with the order to kill without mercy all men, women, and children of the Polish race or language. Only in such a way will we win the vital space that we need. Who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians?" (Christopher Simpson, "The Splendid Blond Beast: Money, Law, And Genocide In The Twentieth Century," 1995, COMMON COURAGE PRESS, Monroe, Maine, p. 76) It is also not surprising that savage domestic repression against the Turkish left coincides with the wider geo-political goals of U.S. imperialism -- the strategic control of the Middle East -- as it did during Hitler's day when the _Wehrmacht_ marched East in search of "breathing room." The point is, imperialism cares little whether or not it's clients maintain a "democratic" facade in their pursuit of organized plunder or apply police state tactics that can be characterized as fascist. Since the preservation and expansion of a system of profit for (U.S.) multinational corporations are the _sole criteria_ for achieving Washington's continuing support, human rights are one more "luxury item;" in other words, the Kurdish people, like the Armenians and Jews before them, are "mere biological plasticine." ----- The piece below, from the leftist DHKC (Revolutionary People's Liberation Front), describes in shocking detail the role played by Turkey's new Minister of Justice, Mehmet Agar, in the continuing war against the left and the Kurdish minority -- with political backing and encouragement from Washington. AFIB readers familiar with the murderous history of U.S. involvement in Central and South America, will recognize a similar pattern of complicity among police, security agents and armed fascists as they wage a "dirty war" to liquidate the left and popular movements perceived as threats to "the fundamental order of things." That an individual such as Agar presides over the administration of justice in a presumably democratic state, is an indictment of "actually existing capitalism" during the "post- communist" period that was ushered in by the collapse of the bureaucratically-deformed workers' states of the ex-USSR and Eastern Europe. The DHKC report is an horrific account of state repression, torture and extra-judicial murder in defense of class privilege and exploitation on a massive scale. Though largely unknown in the United States, this story deserves to be told. Why? Because with more than $8.5 billion in arms sales to Turkey since 1984 and billions more in "aid," Washington's role in preserving a monstrous system of repression must be exposed, contested, denounced and ultimately thwarted if human rights, economic justice, and cultural/religious freedom are to be more than empty words. ***** From: Subject: The Turkish Min. of Justice is a fascist killer Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 18:12:53 +0200 (MET DST) ----- MEHMET AGAR, THE NEW MINISTER FOR JUSTICE, IS RESPONSIBLE FOR TORTURE AND MURDER DHKC-Informationbureau Amsterdam The Turkish coalition-government of DYP and ANAP has appointed Mehmet Agar as its minister for Justice. This appointment is a blow in the face of all who believed in a process of democratization in Turkey. The name of Mehmet Agar stands for torture and massacres. His way into the department of Justice is paved with countless bodies. Mehmet Agar was born in Ankara, on September 31, 1951. He is of Kurdish origin and a Alevite. He began his professional career as deputy commissioner in the department of Security and the department of the prime-minister. He worked as a regional director in several provinces. In the 70's Mehmet Agar received a special training in the USA for special police tasks. In 1979 he resumed his old job as deputy police director. In that period he became known for his new methods of torture which he introduced himself. After 5 years he was appointed as the second in command in the Second Police Directorate in Istanbul. In 1988 he became police director of Ankara, and in 1990 he was appointed in the same position in Istanbul. In 1992 he became governor of Erzurum. The DYP-SHP government in Ankara appointed him in the same time as police chief of the whole of Turkey. The leader of the DYP, Tansu Ciller, proposed him in 1995 as a candidate for the elections of December 24, 1995. He was the candidate for Erzurum and he won a seat in parliament. After the elections he was appointed as minister of Justice by the coalition government of DYP and ANAP. The work of Mehmet Agar leaves a trail of blood begin in the history of Turkey since he became a member of the police force. The following documentation will give an impression of his doings. THE FIRST MASSACRES On July 2, 1980, three revolutionaries were executed in Topkapi. Faruk Tuna, accused of hanging a banner with a forbidden text, died in custody as a result of brain trauma, caused by torture. On September 20, 1980, Ahmet Karlangic was arrested. He died while he was tortured. Hayrettin Eren, arrested on November 20, 1980, was "disappeared". In police operations, under the responsibility of Mehmet Agar, people were executed without any trial: - On March 18, 1981, Abdullah Gozalan was murdered in Bakirdoz. - On April 3, 1981, Mehmet Selim was executed in Karakoy. - On April 7, 1981, Selcuk Kucukciftci was executed in Istanbul. - On July 1, 1982, Tahsin Elvan was murdered in Maslak. - In September 1987, Ala Demiralp was executed in Cengelkoy. - On April 30, 1988, Salih Kul and Ozturk Acar were executed Topkapi. MEHMET AGAR'S TIME AS POLICE CHIEF IN ANKARA In September 1990, the arrested Newroz Turkdogan lost her 2,5 month old un-born child as a result of torture. On October 5, the "Solidarity Association of the Relatives of Political Prisoners and Detainees" in Ankara was closed. On his orders the oppression and censorship against the socialist press were increased. Many papers and magazines were confiscated or banned, the publishers, editors and fellow-workers were arrested. Intellectuals and writers were sentenced to jail for more than 100 years together. MEHMET AGAR'S TIME AS POLICE CHIEF IN ISTANBUL On the night of January 31, 1990, thousands of policemen and soldiers surrounded the slum area of Kucuk Armutlu in Istanbul. The houses were destroyed, many inhabitants were wounded, and hundreds of people were arrested. On February 16, 1991, Ali Riza Erdogan, was thrown from the fourth floor of the police station in Beyoglu and murdered. On March 12, 1991, Esma Polat, was raped while in custody. On March 14, 1991, Yusuf Eristi "disappeared" in police custody. On May 19, 1991, Parihan Demirer was executed without trial. On July 12, 1991, ten revolutionaries were murdered in a police operation in Istanbul. On September 1, 1991, Ali Riza Karagoz was tortured to death by his torturers. On October 27, 1991, Huseyin Toroman was arrested in front of his house in Kocamustafapasa and he disappeared while in police custody in one of the torture centers. THE BALANCE OF HIS TIME AS POLICE DIRECTOR OF TURKEY Number of murdered people in operations against houses and on the streets: 124 Number of people who were tortured to death: 22 Prison sentences for journalists: 122 years Fines against journalists: 21 billion TL Number of murdered journalists: 8 Number of arrested journalists: 55 On April 30, 1992, Esma Polat was murdered in a police operation in Adana. On March 12, 1991, she was arrested by the Political Branch of the Police Directorate in Istanbul and raped in the police station. Esma Polat stated: "I was arrested, together with my husband. As soon as we arrived in the First Department in Istanbul, they began their measures of isolation. The first measure was to separate us and we were blindfolded. As far as I could see above the blindfold, 6 or 7 people started to ask me questions. They demanded that I should follow their wishes, I was to agree with the interrogation. They told me that statements like ""I don't know" or "I know nothing" didn't count here and in the case of a statement I would be given tea and coffee. I shouldn't make problems. they said. Otherwise they threatened to kill us, they could do so any time, they said, because they didn't record our personal data. When I refused to do as they demanded, they tied my arms on my back and hung me. They poured water on my hands and feet and connected wires to my fingers. Later they started to give me electrical-shocks. In the meantime they continued to interrogate me and when they didn't get an answer, they continued with the electrical-shocks. Phases of interrogation and electrical-shocks followed each other. Because my eyes were blindfolded, I couldn't see if it was day or night. As far as I can tell, two days passed until they took away my clothes with violence. Again I was hanged, again they started to give electrical-shocks. They removed the blindfold and they threatened to rape me. Then all of them, except one, left the room. I was raped by the one who remained in this room." On September 4, 1993, Mehmet Sincar and Metin Ozdemir were murdered. During the reactions of the people, 1500 people were arrested in Istanbul alone. In the whole country, the number of arrested people was several thousands. On September 8, 1993, Serhen Dehmen was "disappeared" while in police custody. On October 21, 1993, the police murdered 60 people in Lice during a massacre which lasted for four days, 300 people were wounded. On November 19, 1993, Serap Kalukirik was executed by the police. On November 23, 1993, three workers were kidnapped by civilian units of the contra-guerrilla. Their bodies were found in a bush, three days later. All the bodies showed signs of torture. On November 26, 1993, Erol Yalcin en Selma Dogan were executed. On December 17, 1993, two pupils of a primary school were crushed and murdered by a speeding police car when the wanted to cross the street. On January 5, 1994, Ali Efeoglu was "disappeared" while in police custody. On January 27, 1994, a bomb exploded in fornt of the offices of the Ozgur Gundem paper in Ankara. The orders for this attack were given by Mehmet Agar. On February 21, 1994, the lawyer Metin Can and physician Hasan Kaya were kidnapped by civilian units of the contra-guerrilla. There bodies were discovered on February 27. On February 9, 1994, Bahattin Anik was executed. On March 12, 1994, 5 guerrilla fighters were killed in Ordu. On March 1994, 3 other guerrilla fighters were murdered. On April 9, 1994, 3 bodies were discovered in Diyarbakir, the hands tied to the back. They were half buried in the ground and had been shot through the head. On May 12, 1994, Madsut Polat was shot in Adana. On May 4, 1994, 2 guerrilla fighters were shot in Dersim. On July 5, 1994, the body of Ikran Muhyaz was found in Izmir-Bornova. His body was shot 4 times from close range. On July 16, 1994, 4 guerrilla fighters were shot in Sivas. On August 4, 1994, 3 revolutionaries were killed in Bacilar. On September 16, 1994, a reporter from the paper Mucadele, Rifat Ozgungor, was killed in Sivas. On September 3-4, 1994, 5 guerrilla fighters were killed during a fight between soldiers and the guerrilla. On September 29, 1994, Elmas Yalcin, Furat Erdogan and Ismet Erdogan were killed in Besiktas. On October 2, 1994, "Lutfiye Kacar "disappeared" while in police custody. On October 8 , 1994, Guler Ceylan and Ibis Demir were killed in Sultanciftligi. Kenan Bilgili, arrested on September 12, 1994, has not been seen since. On September 27, 1994, Ahmet Bascarus and Nurettin Topal were murdered in Sivas. On October 26, 1994, the former fellow-worker of Mucadele, Ahnet Ozturk, was executed in his house in Adana. In October 1994, the 60 year old village chief of Bilkli, Muslim Kovun, was found dead after 20 days of detention. During his arrest, his house, his belongings and his bee-hives, about 200, were set on fire. In the regions of Saray and Ozalp and in the villages near Van, democrats and patriots were mistreated by special units of the police, acting like the Nazi's in Germany, to intimidate the population. On the walls of the houses of inhabitants, known as democrats, secret signs were put in red paint to brand the inhabitants. In September 1994, 5 guerrilla fighters were killed in Dersim. On December 1994, 9 guerrilla fighters of the DHKC were massacred in Dersim. On March 12, 1995, the police committed a slaughter in Istanbul which lasted for five days. In the neighborhood of Gazi 12 people were murdered by the police, and 6 other people were killed by the police in the neighborhood of Umraniye. On March 21, 1995, the arrested Hasan Ocak was killed in custody. On April 7, civilian policemen shot Muzaffer Kaza while he was distributing leaflets. On June 9, 1995, Sibel Yalcin was killed in Okmeydani. On September 17, 1995, Saban Erol, Osman Akcicek and Sefik Kaplan were murdered under torture. On March 31, 1995, 2 revolutionaries were executed. Duzgub Tekin disappeared while in police custody. On August 8, 1995, Haydar Efe was arrested in Ankara. As a result of the severe torture he fell in coma and he died in hospital. The police stated he had committed suicide. On August 29, 1995, Seyfettin Tepe died under torture in police detention in Bitlis. On July 23, 1995, Fatih Beyazcicek died during a hungerstrike in the prison of Yozgat. Tarik Ziya Yildirim, who was wounded during a fire fight with the police, died after he was arrested on July 26, 1995, as a result of torture. On July 27, 1995, Ali Riza Kurt was executed. Zehra Baysal, 52 years old and mother of 6 children, was arrested in her house in Kasimpasa on December 6, 1995. She died as a result of torture. Signs of severe torture were found on her body and the right half of her head showd signs of heavy blows. Ala Ormana, arrested for theft, died in the prison of the Police Directorate in Bursa. The police reported a heart attack as cause of death. Also the statements by Mehmet Agar show that after his appointment as minister of Justice, a men is at the top of the Justice department who is not willing to keep the laws. Human rights do not count for Mehmet Agar: "Our police organisation is, contrary to the police organisations in other countries, in a envieable position". "The affairs of our country are no business for the outside world". "The guard and defender of the human rights, that is the police". "We can not let others fulfil this task". "We risk our lives to arrest them, and the courts set them free again". "Shoot, my lions, don't shoot below the belt, shoot at their heads". "Down with human rights". After laboratorium investigations, which proved that Newroz Turkdogan lost her 2.5 month old baby as a result of torture, Mehmet Agar stated: "This woman could have lost her child because of the cold or undernourishment, our policemen on duty are very careful with this, and they are experienced". Concerning the police operation, in which 10 fighters of Devrimci Sol fell, he let know: "Do not take them alive, we will not have an opportunity like this again". "From now on no more if and when. When we catch them, we will shoot at their heads'. He told some journalists: "Do not write so much about the terror in Istanbul. Do not exaggerate so much with these terror organisations. Write extensively about the successes of the police. I will consider your wishes in other fields". In his first statement after taking over his new post, Mehmet Agar stated he would restore order again inside the prisons. It is justifiably feared that there will be new massacres inside the prisons by the police. As a first measure Mehmet Agar ordered the transfer of political prisoners to several prisons with solitary confinement. The appointment of Mehmet Agar as minister of Justice signifies clearly that the Turkish government will increase its state terror in the future against the democratic and revolutionary opposition. In the person of Mehmet Agar one of the biggest bloodhounds in Turkey is at the top of the department which is supposed to guarantee the keeping of the law to protect democratic rights. The Turkish state couldn't have expressed more clearly that it is not willing to grant the people even one of these rights. PROTESTS AGAINST THE APPOINTMENT OF MEHMET AGAR The appointment of Mehmet Agar as minister of Justice caused a wave of protests in Turkey. Lawyers, representatives of the prisoners, writers and spokespersons of democratic organisations demand the stepping down of Mehmet Agar. We publish some of the statements: Lawyer A. Duzgun Yuksel, People's Law Office: "The deeds of Mehmet Agar during his time as police director, and those which will follow after his appointment as minister of Justice can be seen clearly. Hundreds of people were executed without any trial, hundreds of cases making people disappear while in custody, the continuous attacks against the political prisoners, the massacres in the prisons, all this is Mehmet Agar's responsibility. As a result of his appointment as minister of Justice, Mehmet Agar will participate even more active in the repression, and precisely that's the reason why they made him minister of Justice. We can already see that Mehmet Agar's appointment as minister of Justice will support the viewpoint of the police which they want to plant inside the heads of the people. In their view the prisons are "bases of the organisations. To end the terror, they must learn to see reason", and so they create the conditions for new attacks against the prisons. They push this through, Mehmet Agar was appointed as minister of Justice. These are the tasks and responsibilities he was given by the government. When we look at the conduct of the new government, we conclude that the people will witness even more state terror in future." Lawyer Ergin Cinmen: "Turkey is a country full of daily violations of human rights. A person, responsible for this, is now placed at the top of the Department of Justice. This will cause serious problems. I'm not speaking just as a lawyer, judges have the same opinion. Agar will be the chairman of the high council of judges. He is the former chief of police. That's impossible. Especially in a country like Turkey, this will cause severe repercussions and protests, I think. A person who presents people who are not guilty as guilty, is now becoming minister of Justice. All judicial institutions should protest." Lawyer Levent Tuzel, chairmen of the Contemporary Association of Lawyers in Istanbul: "The fact that Mehmet Agar pointed to the prisons in his first statement as minister of Justice, is a clear sign that there will be new attacks there in the near future. The judicial people reacted were outraged after Mehmet Agar was appointed as minister of Justice and they initiated the first steps to have him sacked." Sadi Ozbolat, prisoner in Bayrampasa-prison: "To reach its goal of breaking the resistance inside the prisons, fascism will especially want to destroy the organising of the "Free Prisoners" in the prisons. To reach this goal, soon separations and bannings will be on the agenda again. A strong organisation is necessary so our peoples will be able to survive the attacks by the enemy and for developing counter attacks. We must develop our own organisation, against the organisation of the system, we must unify our forces in this organisation, we must resist, fight and win." Lawyer Muhittin Koyluoglu: "Nowhere in the world there was ever a former police chief appointed as minister of justice. This minister of Justice was himself accused of conducting executions without trial. Because of his position, he is already responsible for the torture and the disappearances of people in custody. It is very sad that Mehmet Agar uses every opportunity to portray those who talk about the torture and the extrajudical executions as traitors of their country, as members of terrorist organisations. Almost all human rights organisations, judicial associations and chambers barristers confirm that torture and extrajudicial executions are reality in Turkey." Professor Dr. Haluk Gerger: "The fact that Mehmet Agar is minister of Justice, that police chiefs become members of parliament and government, this is of course a characteristic of this system, it fits its nature, I even see it as unavoidable. I think this situation perfectly fits the system, it shows its true face even more clearly, in short, it fits the system, like a lid fits a pan." Lawyer Ali Riza Dizdar: "What makes me nervous is that there were so extremely many murders committed by unknown persons, so much torture while he was police chief in Ankara, as well as in Istanbul. It is a fact that Agar left behind a trail of massacres etc. His goal is not to apprehend people, he wants them murdered." Journalist Ahmet Sik: "Mehmet Agar, made minister of Justice for their own political benefit, is also part of the play they want to show. The system, which doesn't function and is built on incapability, will only be able to increase this incapability. And in fact, Mehmet Agar fits quite well in his position in this government. Because someone who makes a travesty of justice, the law and rights, someone who oppresses human rights, someone like that can take his place as a "good" minister of Justice." Lawyer Yuksel Hos: "It isn't confusing that a policemen is appointed as minister of Justice. This perfectly fits the character of the state. That a chief of police becomes minister of Justice shows clearly how its character and capability to function look like. The people were able to know the truth. This appointment is very meaningful because the prisons, where the honorable children of the people are jailed, are part off the responsibility of the Justice Department. That's the main point of this case. It looks like that's the reason why they isolate the prisoners, to attack their identity. Whatever they do, they will not succeed. The revolutionary tradition and the resistance will prevent this ploy." The chamber of barristers in Istanbul: "... at the beginning we want to state that our friends, who are judges, lawyers and public prosecutors, are very concerned with the appointment of Mehmet Agar as minister of Justice. In the same time we say that we do not give our own opinion when we state this, it is an opinion which is spread in the circles of Justice. In fact we have been witnesses of the stated concerns as officials in two cities in Turkey, as well as in Istanbul. Of course, in a fully grown democracy every elected person should be called as a minister. But in a painful democracy, which has serious problems with a independent justice and violations of human rights, there are problems from the very beginning. And now a minister of Justice who critizised that "the police arrests, and the courts let them go again", a minister with this notion will become chairman of the high council of judges and public prosecutors." Lawyer Yucel Sayman: "To appoint a former chief of police as minister of Justice shows the false understanding of justice and law by the government. The government has chosen the way to solve the judicial problems from the viewpoint of the police. With this notion the judicial problems can not be solved. I think the government will from now on take new "security" measures against the search of the people for justice, calling it "judicial reforms". Contemporary Lawyers Association: "Mehmet Agar is one of the first policemen who got a training in the USA as torturer. While he was in office he tried the fill the special commandos with MHP-fascists. He had the policemen who worked under his command march with the slogan "Down with human rights". During his time as chief of police he was not held accountable for all those cases of extrajudical executions, the cases of disappearances of people who were in custody or the cases of torture of detainees. Mehmet Agar, who once said "We arrest them, and the courts let them go again", said in his first statement as minister of Justice that order had to be restored inside the prisons. This indicates that new attacks against the prisoners are planned. 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