With the end of the conflict in the Peace and Democratic Society Process, there has been an increase in special war policies such as drugs and agent imposition. Mehmet Salih Coskun stated that eight people had applied to them in the last month due to pressure to become agents, adding that the actual number was higher. 

 

Coskun said that those who applied had been subjected to coercion to become agents by individuals who identified themselves as police, intelligence officers, and gendarmes. Coskun noted that they had applied to the Ministry of Interior's Law Enforcement Oversight Commission and filed criminal complaints with prosecutors' offices regarding these applications. In their applications, Coskun stated that they requested that the individuals in question be identified and investigated for abuse of power. 

 

'THERE ARE MORE WHO DID NOT APPLY'

 

Coskun also pointed out that there are those who did not apply against these coercions because they were afraid, and said that as the Human Rights Association (İHD), they would support those who applied to them and would fight for the resolution of the issue. 

 

Coskun stated that administrative and judicial investigations should be conducted to prevent this situation.

 

'THESE KINDS OF PRACTICES HARM THE PROCESS'

 

Drawing attention to the fact that the practice of agent recruitment in the Peace and Democratic Society Process is a practice that disrupts the process, Coskun said: "We are in a peace process; but among the people being sought, there are also families whose children have joined the organisation. They are trying to obtain information through interrogations conducted by methods that are not legal and are not subject to judicial investigation. These practices are not practices of the resolution process. PKK guerrillas burned their weapons and are demanding legal regulations to return. Although there have been statements from authorised persons that these efforts are being made, no concrete steps have been taken. These practices will undermine the process. They need to abandon these practices immediately." 

 

111 WORKERS FILED COMPLAINTS

 

Coskun said that violations in prisons in Wan and the problem of workers dismissed by the trustee continue. Coskun said that 111 of the 223 dismissed workers had applied to them for legal support and that the IHD had also applied to the Human Rights Investigation Commission of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ombudsman's Office. "These workers were dismissed from their jobs without any legal justification. The right to freedom of work has been violated by the trustee's administrative action," he said. 

 

Coskun stated that human rights violations in Turkey are the result of racist policies, emphasising that politicians' racist rhetoric and approaches pave the way for human rights violations.

 

MA / Ozlem Yacan