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Ankara’s Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office announced that an investigation was launched against CHP Diyarbakır deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu for two separate crimes due to his speech in a program broadcast on TV100.
In a statement made by the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, it was said that an investigation was launched against Tanrikulu, who was linked by phone to the live broadcast of the Free Expression program broadcast on TV 100 on September 8, “Turkey’s For the offense of “insult”. the nation, the State of the Republic of Turkey, institutions and organs of the State” and “inciting or insulting the public to hatred and enmity”.
Tanrikulu criticized the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) in his broadcast on TV100, saying, “Everything the Turkish Armed Forces does is not free from criticism. We are members of the parliament, we question these,” and Continued as follows:
“Is this not the Turkish Armed Forces that carried out the fascist coup on September 12? Is this not the army that attempted a coup on July 15, burning villages… dozens of unsolved murders. There are such cases Which I follow. Is it not the Turkish Armed Forces that threw 15 villagers from the helicopter? ?This has been established by the judgment of the ECHR…”
Saying that he should be critical as an MP, Tanrikulu said, “We ask questions, we question whether it is true or not. We do this at least to eliminate such doubts about the Turkish Armed Forces. Ask for… They burned down many villages? Roboski has just become Uludere…”
The Ministry of National Defense also issued a statement, calling what was said “slander” and, without naming Tanrikulu, said, “Those who spread these slanders and those who are complicit in them are, at the very least, careless and misguided. “
Statement from CHP
CHP spokesperson Faik Oztrack said in his statement on his social media account that the issue will be discussed in the party’s authorized bodies.
“The statements of Diyarbakir deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu accusing the apple of our country’s eye, the Turkish Armed Forces, are unacceptable. This issue will be discussed in our authorized bodies,” Iztrak said.
Tanrikulu referred to two judgments of the ECHR
In his statement on his social media account after the investigation was launched, Tanrikulu said that the incidents he mentioned in his speech were in relation to the rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
“Referring to two cases in which the ECHR found Turkey guilty”, Tanrikulu said, “The first case is how 11 villagers were disappeared in a village in the Kulap district of Diyarbakir in October 1993. The state took this Denied that these were villagers, they were taken in the helicopter and then disappeared. However, they were disappeared.” He said, ”Relatives of 11 people saw that their relatives were being taken in the helicopter. The villagers were forcibly disappeared.
“The second case is the ECHR’s decision regarding the bombing by warplanes of the villages of Kuskonar and Kocagli in Sirnak and the killing of 33 villagers. These are not my decisions, but the decisions of the ECHR.”
Claiming that AKP members launched a corporate lynching campaign, Tanrıkulu said that “they accepted these grave violations ‘against the Kurds’, which took place before the establishment of the AKP and were declared against humanity by the ECHR decisions. The crimes were determined as being” …. “on the principle that continuity in the State is necessary.” He described it as “another admission that he is the new boss of the deep state” and continued as follows:
“Ankara CBS, which should take action against gangs, drug traffickers and profiteers, launched an investigation against me on a holiday and announced it to the public, which is a practice that should not be ignored.”
What happened?
Tanrikulu was linked to the broadcast following allegations made by Bizim TV editor-in-chief Saban Sevinak, one of the guests of the program on TV100 on Friday night.
“He believed the PKK’s claim of chemical weapons and submitted a motion to the parliament,” Ćević said of Tanrikulu.
Savinich also claimed that Tanrikulu had said in a phone conversation last year, “Ataturkist and nationalist minds destroyed the CHP.”
Tanrikulu, who said he had been a member of parliament for 12 years, denied the allegations and said, “If you find anything about Gazi Mustafa Kemal, the founder of the republic and the founder of our party, in my writings, visuals or He claims to have deleted any records of any meetings regarding what I said about Atatürk. “Let’s talk,” he said.
Tanrikulu then submitted a motion to parliament explaining his reasons and made comments about the Turkish Armed Forces, which led to an investigation.
What was the claim of chemical weapons?
The Ministry of National Defense denied these allegations with a statement that “they are completely baseless and unrealistic.”
In a statement in October, the PKK-affiliated People’s Defense Center (HSM) claimed that Turkish armed forces used “internationally banned bombs and chemical weapons that produce poisonous gases” in these operations.
Former HDP co-chairman Selahattin Demirtaş, who is jailed in Edirne, also gave a statement through his lawyers and said that “there are images of chemical weapons being used against the PKK” and said, “The Turkish Grand National Assembly and the opposition so We cannot remain silent about these images. To pass it by in silence is to admit a crime.”
Sezgin Tanrikulu, who was a CHP Istanbul deputy at the time, also said that he would submit a parliamentary question regarding whether the images that were the basis of the allegations were true or not.