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Arrested Police Officer's Lawyers Protest Delay Of Indictment By 8 Months

06.03.2015 19:23

Lawyers for police officers who have been under arrest since they were detained in July as part of an operation that targeted members of the police force have harshly protested their clients' prolonged detention periods and the delay of their indictment, which has failed to be presented for eight months.Twenty.

Lawyers for police officers who have been under arrest since they were detained in July as part of an operation that targeted members of the police force have harshly protested their clients' prolonged detention periods and the delay of their indictment, which has failed to be presented for eight months.

Twenty police officers who formerly worked in the intelligence units of their police departments have been kept at Silivri Prison for eight months on charges of spying and illegal wiretapping in two separate probes. They have been waiting for an indictment to be prepared by Prosecutor Okan Özsoy, who is conducting the investigation, since then.

The lawyers for the police officers came to the İstanbul Courthouse to meet with Prosecutor Özsoy to express their dissatisfaction on Friday. After meeting with the prosecutor, the lawyers released a press statement in front of the courthouse.

Speaking on behalf of the lawyers, Fatih Şahinler said they told the prosecutor that their clients have been waiting in prison for an indictment to be prepared for eight months and asked when the prosecutor plans to write the indictment.

Şahinler said that the prosecutor said in response that the indictment had already started to be written. Pointing out that the prosecutor used a passive construction, Şahinler said this gave the impression that the indictment was being prepared by someone else, rather than the prosecutor himself.

The lawyer also said the prolonged, eight-month detention period is against both the provisions of the Turkish Constitution and the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), adding that the detention period was turned into a punishment.

More than 115 police officers and senior police chiefs were detained in the early hours of July 22 on charges of spying and engaging in illegal wiretapping in two separate probes, and most of them were later arrested. However, the arrests, dubbed the “parallel state operation,” are widely seen as an act of revenge by the government for a corruption investigation that became public on Dec. 17, 2013 and targeted the sons of now-former ministers, bureaucrats and businessmen close to the government.

The term “parallel state” was invented by then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to refer to sympathizers of the faith-based Gülen movement, popularly known as the Hizmet movement, whom he sees as responsible for the Dec. 17 graft probe.

MÜRSEL GENÇ, İSTANBUL (Cihan/Today's Zaman)



 
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