From: Press Agency Ozgurluk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 03:42:31 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: "[Ozgurluk.Org]" UN to investigating missing persons in Turkey Unsolved Deaths will be examined by UN Kurdish Observer February 12, 2001 United Nations (UN)'s Special Envoy for Unsolved Deaths is coming to Turkey. The UN Special Envoy will examine the cases in Istanbul and Ankara. The Special Envoy will also examine Batman Amed where hundreds of political assassinations took place over last decade. Ankara government allowed the UN Special Envoy to examine the Unsolved Death cases after 9 years of the first political assassination took place. UN Special Envoy Esma Jehangir will be in Turkey between February 19-28. Special Envoy Jehangir will meet the Interior Ministry officials, Justice Ministry officials, State Minister in the charge of Human rights, Turkish Grand Assembly's Human Rights Commission, Head of the Constitutional Court, head of Supreme Court, and officials from State Security Court (DGM) in Istanbul and Ankara. Special Envoy will meet government as well as NGO officials in Amed and Batman where hundreds of political assassinations took place between 1992-1998. Kirmizioglu is still missing In the meantime, members of TAYAD (The Association of Families of Detainees) released a statement in which they said that they have not heard anything from Yusuf Kirmizioglu who was born in 1974 in Hatay since January 6th. The statement said, "Yusuf Kirmizioglu, Serdar Tanis (HADEP Silopi Town Chairman who has been missing since he was taken into custody with Deniz) and Ebubekir Deniz (HADEP official in the town of Silopi) are being added to the missing person cases which is in thousands". -- Press Agency Ozgurluk In Support of the Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Struggle in Turkey http://www.ozgurluk.org DHKC: http://www.ozgurluk.org/dhkc _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
