[Turquie] Arrestation et torture d'un militant @

[Nico37]

Un anarchiste turc du mouvement et journal "Ozgur Hayat" a été attaqué par
la police à Istanbul le 26 juillet.

Il a d'abord été arrêté pour un contrôle d'identité, puis visiblement
suivi et embarqué violemment dans une voiture par trois policiers cinq
minutes plus tard. Amené en voiture dans un lieu inconnu, Sinan Tekpetek a
subi des violences d'une dizaine de policiers pendant environ une heure et
demi avant d'être lâché d'un véhicule qui roulait à environ 40km/h.

Seul, Sinan s'est rendu à l'hôpital où deux cotes cassées ont été
constatées, ainsi que de nombreuses contusions.

Les anars stambouliotes pensent que l'attaque était préméditée et
indiquent que là où le premier contrôle d'identité a eu lieu des caméras
de surveillance tournaient, tandis que là où les violences étaient faites,
il n'y avait ni caméras, ni témoins.

Ils annoncent aussi que les "droits" des policiers turcs ont récemment été
élargis et que depuis quelques mois 22 cas de violences similaires ont été
constatés (et que surement une voile de silence en cache d'autres).

Solidarité internationale,
jocelyne, la rue râle / r.int.





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Objet: Istanbul: Police kidnapped an anarchist, beat him, and threw from
the moving police car
De: Özgür Hayat <ozgurhayat1@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 31 juillet 2007 17:11
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*POLICE KIDNAPPED OUR COMRADE, BEAT HIM AND THREW FROM THE MOVING POLICE CAR
*

**

Sinan Tekpetek, legally responsible of biweekly anarchist newspaper "Ozgur
Hayat" and the youth movement %52's magazine "%52 Ofke", was attacked by
police on July 26th. That's how the incident happened:



On that evening at 11:30 pm., in Taksim, one of Istanbul's central
districts, Sinan was stopped by police and asked his ID Card. Police checked
his records on police's database, afterwards gave back him his ID Card, and
quite politely let him go. Sinan went on walking, but after 5 minutes a
police car approached him and three policemen took Sinan into the car
violently. In the car they consistently hit Sinan, used pepper gas on his
face repeatedly. Sinan couldn't raise his head and so he couldn't see where
he was taken. After almost 15 minutes, the car stopped in a place where
Sinan could only see the historical 'city wall's. Here the violence went on,
and two more police cars came, 10 or 11 policemen in total hit Sinan
repeatedly with fists and batons, kicked, sweared him, used pepper gas on
him, and threatened him ("we'll kill you") with their guns. This violence
went on about one and a half hour. Then they took him again in one car and
drove. While the car was moving (with a speed like 40 km/h) they threw Sinan
from the car without stopping. The time was approximately 01:30 am.



Sinan stayed lying there for some time, and after he recovered a bit, went
to a hospital.



Sinan's two ribs are broken, his body is full of severe bruises (his face,
especially his left ear, and his back is full of baton traces). When he was
thrown from the car, he fell on his back, so it's only a chance that he was
not injured worse, even dead!



It seems the attack was planned, as when Sinan's ID was taken, there were
surveillance cameras which can view the police car, but where he was taken
by force, there were no cameras or nobody around. Also, police did not take
any records, so it was not custody in its legal sense. Police kidnapped
Sinan in the heart of Istanbul, tortured, and attempted to kill him!



In recent weeks, with the pretext of "security against terror" the
government made changes in the police law, which henceforth extends police
authority. After this change, police repression increased. Only in
Taksim-Beyoglu district at least similar 22 incidents occurred in recent
months ? these are only the ones that Human Rights Association recorded; HRA
and we are sure that there are more incidents in which the aggrieved are
scared and so stayed silent.



This "perfect murder" attempt is a part of systematic attack of the police.
Not only the social strugglers, many people have been attacked, beaten,
tortured in similar ways.



We are not silent, it won't be that easy for the state to attack people! The
campaign is going on. So far we made the attackl heard by many people, the
incident was published in many newspapers and on many websites.



We see that police longs for the days in the 1990's, in which they
kidnapped, "punished", and killed many people. Today we and many people, who
advocate freedom and humanity, raise voice against this systematic attack
and support Sinan. And as the support and solidarity rises, the
state repression on us is also increasing.



We want all anarchists and anti-authoritarians know what's happening in
Istanbul nowadays. Evidently, the state repression will increase, but we'll
confront. And we want you to be sure that our rising struggle for freedom
will prevent the state's attack on people!



*In solidarity,*

*Ozgur Hayat [ www.ozgurhayat.org ]*

*&*

*%52 [ www.yuzde52.org ]*



*p.s.: You can see the photos of Sinan on these websites, and also watch the
developments. Websites are in Turkish, we'll try to make declarations in
English also. *

[rosa.]

tu parles, l'état turque a du l'avoir mauvaise qu'une bande d'anars vienne foutre la zone pendant le sommet de l'otan. maintenant ils se vangent...


j'ai l'impression qu'ils sont actifs (photos de tables de presses, manifs, propa..), ça fait plaisir