January 14, 2006 President of DISK (The Confederation of Progressive Turkish Trade Unions) Süleyman Çelebi released a press statement reactıng to the release of the fascist murderer Mehmet Ali Ağca from prison. Çelebi drew attantion to the fact that Ağca’s release from prison coincided with the Holiday so it could not be legally contested and […]
January 14, 2006
President of DISK (The Confederation of Progressive Turkish Trade Unions) Süleyman Çelebi released a press statement reactıng to the release of the fascist murderer Mehmet Ali Ağca from prison. Çelebi drew attantion to the fact that Ağca’s release from prison coincided with the Holiday so it could not be legally contested and said, “All the facts in Ağca’s case must be brought to open and clarified. The scenario written for ‘The Valley of the Wolfs’ (Kurtlar Vadisi”- a TV show) has become real. Every flower that was thrown to him as he left the prison means ‘Shoot again’; it means not Ağca’s release from prison but the release of the fascist ideology, it means declaring him a ‘national murderer’. It is telling our children, ‘Don’t be a doctor, lawyer, judge, attorney, engineer, be a murderer. Then you will be applauded and become a hero. A judicial system that has imprisoned a professor for months, and caused his assistant to commit suicide in shame, saw nothing wrong in setting a confirmed murderer and thief free.”
Çelebi stated that Ağca’s release was proof that the courts were not independent, judgement was not fair and the judicial sysytem had collapsed. He also said in summary, “The minister of justice should immediately stop this unjust release and send Ağca back to prison where he belongs. Every minute that Ağca is free, the confidence felt for justice, judiciary and the criminal system will suffer.”
From: Cumhuriyet
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