Please, for a moment stop rebloging cat videos, nature photos, food, porn, etc! I want to communicate with you, in a way for searching your help.
I’ve discovered today, by an email from Amnesty International UK, that since June 6th of 2017, Taner Kılıç, a Turkish lawyer AND citizen, and one of the great helpers of the refugee cases in Turkey. Even though he’s a lawyer, he chose to work on a lot refugees cases to help them, using his power and voice to make better the lives that once were taken by the suppressors leaders that started war in those refugee’s countries.
By making those actions, Taner was arrested by suspicious of involvement with a terrorist group -
Fethullah Gülen. By the suspicious that started by a investigation of Taner’s phone, police “found” that he has “connections” with that group, in a app that would link him to them (An app that he never ever heard about). He remained in a pre-trial detention
(in June 6th of 2017) that lasted almost 8 months and not more because it was decided, on January 31 of 2018 that since there was no proof that he had those connections he had to be released, and it was. Thus he got released, a day or a few days after a judge of the Istanbul court ordered,
(by no proof of charge or follow the laws or any right to do it) the rearresting of Taner Kılıç which, after almost 8 months away from his wife and two young daughters, remains in jails until these days.
The reviewing of the articles 13 and 15 proclaimed in the Constitutional of 1982, in Turkey, turns this second arrest illegal and it violates not only those articles of the Constitutional but it also violates the articles
3,7,9,11,12,18,19,28 and 30 from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948.
The articles states:
“All fundamental rights and liberties shall be restricted by law in accordance with the letter and the spirit of the Constitution for the purpose of the protection of national security, the indivisibility of the state with its nation and the territory, national sovereignty, the republic, public order, public interest, public moral, and health, and shall also be restricted by the specific reasons which are stated in the relevant articles of the Constitution. General and specific restrictions which are stated for the fundamental rights and liberties shall not be in conflict with the requirements of the democratic social order and they shall not be exercised except for their stated aim.” - Article 13 of the Constitutional of 1982, Turkey.
“In times of war, mobilization, martial law, or state of emergency, the exercise of fundamental rights and freedoms can be partially or entirely suspended, or measures may be taken, to the extent required by the exigencies of the situation, which derogate the guarantees embodied in the Constitution, provided that obligations under international law are not violated.
Even under the circumstances indicated in the first paragraph, the individual’s right to life, and the integrity of his material and spiritual entity can be inviolable except where death occurs through lawful act of warfare and execution of death sentences; no one may be compelled to reveal his religion, conscience, thought or opinion nor be accused on account of them; offences and penalties may not be made retroactive, nor may anyone be held guilty until so proven by a court judgment.”. -
Article 15 of the Constitutional of 1982, Turkey.
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Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.
“ - article 3 of the UDOHR
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All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.“
- article 7 of the UDOHR
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No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.“
- article 9 of the UDOHR
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(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.”
- article 11 of the UDOHR
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No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.”
- article 12 of the UDOHR
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Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.”
- article 18 of the UDOHR
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Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
- article 19 of the UDOHR
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Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.”
- article 28 of the UDOHR
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Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.“
- article 30 of the UDOHR
How can you help?
Sending a email, in this link - https://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions/free-taner-kilic - you can actual help increasing a number of requests for Taner’s release, that will be send to the minister of Justice of Turkey. In that same link there is information of the story of Taner Kılıç and the Crackdown in Turkey. All you have to do is send a email, how easy? You don’t need to pay or use any money, your voice and words have enough power to help!
References:
Universal declaration of Human Rights:
http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
A Guide to the Turkish Public Law Order and Legal Research:
http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Turkey.html#_Fundamental_Rights_and_Liberties
