The United Nations respites 180 days to Turkey for the immediate release of Ismet Ozcelik and Turgay Karaman who were kidnapped and brought to Turkey with condonation of the Malaysian Government.
UN ASKS TURKEY TO PAY COMPENSATION FOR ARBITRARY DETENTION
The United Nations demanded immediate release of the educators Ismet Ozcelik and Turgay Karaman who were detained in Malaysia and brought to Turkey in 2017.
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights stated that the abductions due to Ozcelik and Karaman`s relations with the Hizmet Movement violated their freedom and called for action for the immediate release of the two persons.
The Commission gave Turkish authorities 180 days to comply with the decision. The UN Commission also adjudged a compensation payment due to arbitrary detention.
UN: TURKEY COULD NOT EXPLAIN HOW THESE INDIVIDUALS POSE A THREAT
Turkey is one of the signatories to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
“The State is under an obligation to immediately release the persons and pay sufficient compensation for the violations of their rights,” the UN Commision said and asked Turkish state to take action and provide an effective solution.
Turkey asked for an exemption due to the state of emergency and “the seriousness and complex nature of the alleged crimes” but the committee rejected Turkey’s request. UN said that Turkey could not explain how these individuals pose a threat.
Özçelik and Karaman lived 13 years in Malaysia before they were deported.
Turgay Karaman was a director at the Time International School recognized with the Hizmet Movement.
ONGOING WITCH HUNT IN TURKEY AGAINST HIZMET MOVEMENT
Two educators had been kidnapped and brought to Turkey with an operation by Malaysian Police and the National Intelligence Organization (MIT).
Since the failed coup attempts in 2016, the Erdogan government put at least 77 thousand people in jail and detentions and arrests still continue ceaselessly.
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu stated that 550,000 people are subject to investigations due to their connection with the Hizmet Movement in Turkey.
Among these 190,000 people were detained or arrested.
Currently, about 37,000 people are in Turkey’s prisons because of their connection with the movement.
773 babies and children up to 6 years old age stay in prisons with their mothers who are mostly in pretrial detention.
TURKISH INTELLIGENCE ABDUCTIONS ABROAD
Turkish authorities have asked for the extradition of hundreds of people connected with the movement.
Western countries such as Germany, the UK and the USA rejected these demands due to lack of convincing evidence.
A couple of countries including Malaysia, Kosovo and Pakistan, have accepted demands of the Turkish government or allowed covert operations of Turkish National Intelligence Organization to abduct people connected with the Hizmet Movement.
Last year in Kosovo, 6 Turkish teachers associated with the Hizmet Movement were abducted and taken to Turkey.
The incident resulted a government crisis in Kosovo. The Prime Minister of Kosovo fired interior minister and bureaucrats.
Pakistan also extradited a Turkish family which has ties to the Hizmet Movement to Turkey.
Since 2013, Erdogan’s regime has been carrying out a with hunt against people connected with the movement.
Institutions founded by people close to Fethullah Gülen, who has been living in self exile in Pennsylvania since 1999, run 2,000 schools around the world.
