Radikal, 27/01/2012
Daha önce olayı görmediğini söyleyen tanık asker ifadesini değiştirerek, "Kıvanç silahı Sevag'a doğrulttu ve tetiğe bastı. Ailesi, Kıvanç lehine ifade vermemi istemişti" dedi.
Showing posts with label military. Show all posts
Showing posts with label military. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Sevag'ın ölümündeki sisi dağıtan pişmanlık
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Hakkari'de iki askerin şüpheli ölümü
Şevket ALTINAYAR-Behçet DALMAZ, Radikal, 30/12/2011
Hakkari'nin Yüksekova İlçesi'nde görev yapan iki asker, iddiaya göre kaza kurşunuyla birbirlerini vurarak öldürdü.
| Yaşamını yitiren askerlerden Ahmet sezgin’in Aydın’ın
Nazilli İlçesi’nde oturan ailesi, çocuklarının ölüm haberiyle yıkıldı.
Baba Abdurrahman Sezgin, askeri yetkililerden oğlunun ölümüyle ilgili
yeterli bilgi alamamaktan yakındı. Hakkari’nin Yüksekova İlçesi 34’üncü Piyade Tugay Komutanlığı’nda görev yapan 21 yaşındaki er Ahmet Sezgin ve ismi henüz öğrenilemeyen bir askerin birbirlerini vurarak öldükleri iddia edildi. Askerin cenazeleri, otopsi yapılmak üzere öğle saatlerinde Malatya Adli Tıp Kurumu’na kaldırıldı. Yetkililer, iki askerin kaza sonucu hayatlarını kaybettiğini belirtirken, savcılık konu ile ilgili soruşturma başlattı. 35 gün sonra terhis olacaktı Terhisine 35 gün kalan er Ahmet Sezgin’in ölüm haberi, Aydın’ın Nazilli İlçesi’ndeki, Prof. Muammer Aksoy Mahallesi, 1211 Sokak’ta oturan Sezgin Ailesi, terhisine 35 gün kalan Ahmet Sezgin’in ölüm haberiyle yıkıldı. Askeri yetkililerden saat 15.00 sıralarında acı haberi alarak yıkılan aile, olayın nasıl olduğu konusunda yeterli bilgi verilmemesine tepki gösterdi. Baba Sezgin: Kafamız çok karışık Aslen Batmanlı olan ve 2’si kız toplam 8 çocuğu bulunan 57 yaşındaki Abdurrahman Sezgin, "Kafamız çok karışık. Olayın nasıl gerçekleştiğini bilmek istiyoruz" derken, acılı anne 46 yaşındaki Güler Sezgin ağıtlar yaktı. Yakınları terhisine 35 gün kalan Ahmet Sezgin’in birkaç gün önce ailesini arayarak dönüş için uçak biletini dahi aldığını söylediği öğrenildi. Sezgin’in cenazesi yarın Nazilli’ye getirilecek. (DHA) |
Thursday, December 29, 2011
"Our New-Born Babies did not Wear Uniforms"
The fourth hearing of the "Everybody is born as a
baby" trial against Savda, Aydemir and Atak, supporters of
conscientious objector Aydemir, was held on 14 December. The defendants'
request to consult a gynaecologist on the topic was dismissed.
Defendants Ahmet Aydemir, father of Enver Aydemir, lawyer Davut Erkan, Halil Savda and Mehmet Atak stand accused of "alienating the public from military service" pursuant to Article 318 of the Turkish Criminal Law (TCK). They are being prosecuted on the grounds of a press release issued on 21 January 2011 in support of conscientious objector Enver Aydemir subsequent to one of his hearings.
The sentence "Everybody is born as a baby, nobody is born as a soldier" was part of the press release and is the bone of contention of the trial.
The sentence "Everybody is born as a baby, nobody is born as a soldier" was part of the press release and is the bone of contention of the trial.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Do Ask, Must Tell: Turkey's military doesn't just discriminate against gays -- it humiliates them.
ISTANBUL — As the United States considers repealing the ban on gays serving in the military, they might want to consider consulting their allies in NATO with whom they serve in Afghanistan and Iraq. The vast majority of the organization's 28-member states allow gays to serve openly. But Turkey offers an instructive, and extreme, contrast.
Where the U.S. "don't ask, don't tell" policy has been the subject of fierce political debate since it was launched by Bill Clinton's administration two decades ago, Turkey's ban has seen few public challenges. When Turkey's minister for women's and family affairs, Selma Aliye Kavaf, declared this March that homosexuality is a "disease that needs treatment," she wasn't just pandering to popular belief; she was repeating the official stance of the Turkish armed forces. Indeed, Turkey's gay conscripts are routinely forced to endure humiliation and abuse at the hands of their country's military authorities.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Turkish-Armenian conscript was killed on 24th April 2011.
Turkish-Armenian soldier to be laid to rest Wednesday
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
ISTANBUL – Daily News with wires
A Turkish-Armenian soldier who died Sunday when his friend’s gun allegedly discharged accidentally will be laid to rest Wednesday in Istanbul’s Şişli district.
Sevag Şahin Balıkçı had only 23 days left on his military service in the southeastern province of Batman when he was allegedly shot by mistake by his friend as the two were joking around, daily Radikal reported Tuesday.
Sevag Balıkçı and other soldiers at the garrison were trying to fix the surrounding fences damaged by floods and were joking with each other when his best friend’s weapon discharged a bullet that struck the soldier in the stomach.
The Gendarmerie General Command announced Tuesday that it was planning to invite the dead private’s family to the police station where he died for a private meeting with his commanders and friends, Anatolia news agency reported.
An official ceremony was organized Monday for the dead soldier in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.
An account of the event sent to the family by the military said the soldier had died “a martyr.”
“I don’t see my son as a martyr. A martyr does not die from a bullet in an accident,” the soldier’s father, Garabet Balıkçı, told daily Radikal.
While many media outlets noted that the incident occurred on April 24, the day Armenians remember their kin who were killed during World War I in the Ottoman Empire, the soldier’s family members have refused to relate the two events to one another.
“It is a pity that the press is emphasizing the subject by connecting my son’s death with the anniversary of the 1915 events,” Garabet Balıkçı told the Hürriyet Daily News & Economic Review on Tuesday.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
A Documentary
I just got to know about a documentary movie on the great dilemma of Turkish military and the compulsory military service imposed on gays in Turkey. It is worth watching...
The documentary gives us a precise overview on the trilemma of being rotten, soldier or objector.
Thank you Aydın Oztek for your work...
TRILEMMA: ROTTEN, SOLDIER, OBJECTOR.
A documentary from Turkey examining how gays and the powerful Turkish military view each other in a complex and changing society in which military service is considered a rite of passage for every man
The Turkish army regards gays as sick or diseased and issue medical exemption reports to gays known as “rotten” reports. Gays have to decide whether to try to get such a report, do their military service, or become conscientious objectors. None of these is an easy choice…
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Yönetmen - Senaryo - Kurgu:
Director - Screenplay - Editing:
AYDIN ÖZTEK
Görüntü Yönetmeni:
Director of photography:
ÖVÜNÇ ANĞUN
Proje Danışmanı:
Project consultant:
MEHMET TARHAN
The documentary gives us a precise overview on the trilemma of being rotten, soldier or objector.
Thank you Aydın Oztek for your work...
TRILEMMA: ROTTEN, SOLDIER, OBJECTOR.
A documentary from Turkey examining how gays and the powerful Turkish military view each other in a complex and changing society in which military service is considered a rite of passage for every man
The Turkish army regards gays as sick or diseased and issue medical exemption reports to gays known as “rotten” reports. Gays have to decide whether to try to get such a report, do their military service, or become conscientious objectors. None of these is an easy choice…
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Yönetmen - Senaryo - Kurgu:
Director - Screenplay - Editing:
AYDIN ÖZTEK
Görüntü Yönetmeni:
Director of photography:
ÖVÜNÇ ANĞUN
Proje Danışmanı:
Project consultant:
MEHMET TARHAN
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