An indictment was prepared against 11 politicians including People’s Democratic Congress (HDK) Co-Spokesperson Prof. Dr. Onur Hamzaoğlu and former HDP Co-Chair Serpil Kemalbay with imprisonment claims for up to eight years with the allegation of ‘inciting people towards hatred and hostility’ and ‘making terrorist organization propaganda’. Hamzaoğlu and Kemalbay have been dismissed from Kocaeli University with emergency decrees.
In the indictment prepared by Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, HDP party and organization spokespeople were claimed to have aimed to ‘defame the Olive Branch operation’ with their speech ‘publicly accusing the Republic of Turkey’ on 4 February 2018. Books found in the search at the residence of Hamzaoğlu, including “Grandma, I am Not Actually in Diyarbakır” by Tuğçe Tatari and “The Anatomy of a War,” “Democratic Society Congress Democratic Autonomy for the Resolution of the Kurdish Question” by Murat Karayılan were shown as crime evidence.
Onur Hamzaoğlu had been arrested in February together with Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) Deputy Chair Fadime Çelebi within the investigation before the 3rd Great Congress.
10.05.2018
cumhuriyet.com.tr