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[Obtained from the website of Halkin Sesi (Voice of the People) TV, April
10, 2002]
Statement from the chairman of Marmara TAYAD Tekin Tangun
Here is another example of it. They are trying to put Marmara TAYAD chairman
Tekin Tangun under psychological pressure by following and harassing him. We
are passing on Tekin Tangun's statement, made yesterday:
"The people who were detained were told, as a way of threatening me, that 'I
will be killed'."
I am Tekin Tangun. For a year I have been chairman of the ruling body of
Marmara TAYAD (Marmara Association for Aiding the Families of Prisoners and
Convicts).
Our association was founded in conformity to the laws of the land, and in the
framework of its rulebook it is an association engaging in democratic
activities. With this understanding and aims, it aids and shows solidarity
with the families of prisoners and contributes to resolving the problems
experienced in the prisons....
As everybody knows, on December 19, 2000 a bloody operation was carried out
in the prisons of Turkey under the name "Return to Life". Following this
operation political prisoners were transported to the F-Type prisons. The
prisoners are now under severe isolation in one or three person cells in the
F-Type prisons and are continuing Death Fasts in order to resist this
treatment.
During this resistance our association Marmara TAYAD has also worked to have
isolation in the prisons lifted and to stop the deaths. As chairman of the
association I have also taken part in various discussion panels and
activities and expressed our views and put forward proposals for a solution
on TV and in the newspapers. I have come out in opposition to isolation
practices in the F-Type prisons. Up to the present, because I have come out
against isolation and wanted to stop the deaths, I have been arbitrarily
detained imprisoned and threatened on numerous occasions. As part of this
process, people I know who have shown sensitivity on the subject of the
prisons were taken to the anti-terror branch of the Istanbul Security
Department and there compelled to make statements against me, and attempts
are being made to concoct a plot against me on the basis of these lying
statements. The people who were detained were told, as a way of threatening
me, that "I will be killed". Of these people, Gamze Mimaroglu, Orhan Eski and
Fadik Adiyaman later reported to the Prosecutor's Office what they had
experienced in the anti-terror branch of the Istanbul Security Department
with a view to opening legal proceedings, and the illegality they were
subjected to was officially documented. But in spite of this no legal
proceedings have been instituted.
Over a considerable period I have been followed periodically by people whose
name and identity I do not know but whom I believe to be police because I
have seen them in the political branch or hanging around at socio-political
events. However, since April 5, 2002 this tailing has become much more
sustained and continuous. I have been followed day and night, by car or on
foot. When I go on visits or meet people, my friends and relatives have also
been disturbed by these events. There are dozens of people who have witnessed
what I have been experiencing. Members of our association's governing body
and friends and relatives of prisoners who have come back and forth from our
office have seen all this.
Here are the types and licence plates of vehicles that have been following
me:
A grey Fiat Uno, licence plate 34 YDF 71, a grey Renault, licence plate 34
GRY 80, a green Dogan, licence plate 34 BYT 79, and a grey Dogan, licence
plate 34 AB 4291.
Here are descriptions of people who have been following me:
- a tall man with black hair greying in places, no moustache, aged 30-35,
wearing a leather jacket;
- a medium-sized man (about1.70 metres), plump, black moustache, aged 30-35,
a man aged 40-45, balding, remaining hair greying, medium height, moustache;
- A man, aged about 30, dark hair, wheat-coloured complexion, short, wearing
a suit of beige-coloured cloth, no moustache;
- A tall man aged about 30, light brown, short hair combed back, glasses,
wearing a leather jacket;
- A man of medium height, a week's growth of beard, light brown complexion,
aged about 30,
- A man aged about 45, hair greying, medium height, rather fat, no moustache
- A man aged about 30, 2-3 days growth of beard, wearing a cap, rather fat,
no moustache, chubby facial features,
- A man of medium height, aged 25 to 30, long hair, light brown hair tending
towards blond, bearded and rather dirty looking,
- A man of medium height, blonde, no moustache, about 25;
- And a grey-haired man aged about 30, hair combed back, light brown
complexion, wearing a leather jacket.
On April 8, 2002 I told my lawyer Behic Asci of these occurrences and we went
together to the Republican Prosecutor's Office in Sisli (in Istanbul) in
order to table charges against the people following me. At first the
prosecutor did not accept my application on the grounds that I live
elsewhere. We told him that a vehicle with some of the people who have been
following me was parked in front of the Sisli Justice Department at that very
moment. By dint of our persistence, our application was accepted. Our
petition was lodged at the Sisli Republican Prosecutor's Office, preparation
number 2002/14429.
However, despite this, the tailing and harassment is continuing. They are
trying to put me and those close to me under psychological pressure. My life
is not safe.
I appeal to everyone to oppose the Susurluk gangs, lawlessness and injustice,
to be sensitive and to support human rights.
April 9, 2002
Tekin Tangun
March of Dimes has degraded into an orange juice advertising service. The following is left to you as an exercise: Name five foods that have more folic acid than a glass of orange juice. Use google if you need to.
MoD should be focusing on providing quality information rather than promoting fads.