Memik Horoz unjustly sentenced June 12

MIM received the following news update from our comrades at a Turkish newspaper called Isci-Kyl Kurtulusu. Memik Horoz has faced state repression in Turkey before. A copy of U.N. comments on an earlier case of repression can be found at http://wwwserver.law.wits.ac.za/humanrts/commission/torture94/cat-turkey.htm

The journalist Memik Horoz, worker of our newspaper who has been arrested since the 18th of June 2001 was today because of the statement by the spy Erol Cetin sentenced to 15 years in prison. This decision was made in Ankara at the second court of the National Security Court.

And also again he was charged because of the documentation that was made in the year 2000 under the name "Two weeks in the mountains of the Black Sea with TKP/ML - TIKKO." He is also being charged of doing the interviews himself. Even though there have been so many evidences and proofs that Memik was in Istanbul at the time the documentation was made, the court only accepted the statement made by the spy Erol Cetin and charged Memik under the 168/2 law of the Turkish Republic (member of an illegal organization) to fifteen years of prison. The court also said the punishment is made because he has been on probation since 1991. This shows us again the real face of the National Security Court which has sentenced many prisoners like that to many years in prison. [Text removed here by MIM.]

That is how the complot of Memik Horoz has ended, but it is not going to bring the newspaper up from its line nor will it put down our workers in the newspaper. Memik Horoz has been in prison to Sincan/ Ankara for one year in an isolation cell. We are outside today and we are protesting against the sentence of Memik Horoz, and are calling all revolutionaries, democrats, press, associations to protest against this Injustice sentence.

You can't silence the press!

MIM adds: Please FAX or EMAIL your letters of concern to the Turkish Embassy and consulates in the united $tates:

• Washington D.C. Embassy Fax/ Email: 202-612-6744 info@turkey.org
• Washington D.C. Consulate Fax/ Email: 202-319-1639 tcwash.cons@erols.com
• Los Angeles Consulate Fax/Email: 323-932-0061 turkcgla@pacbell.net
• Chicago Consulate Fax/Email: 312- 263-1499 chicago@trconsulate.org
• New York Consulate Fax/Email: 212- 983-1293 tcbkny@worldnet.att.net

You can also send faxes to the following authorities in Turkey:

• Ankara Interior Ministry Fax: 01190 312 418 1795
• Ankara Justice Ministry Fax: 01190 312 417 3954