Musa Anter murder case dropped due to statute of limitations
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The case concerning the 1992 assassination of the Kurdish author and journalist Musa Anter has been dropped due to the statute of limitations.
At the final hearing yesterday (September 21), the Ankara 6th Heavy Penal Court rejected a request for the case to be included within the scope of "crimes against humanity" so it wouldn't be dropped for that reason.
The court rejected the request and dropped the case.
Anter was assassinated on September 20, 1992. The 30-year statute of limitations expired on Tuesday.
At the hearing on September 15, the court had adjourned the hearing to one day after the expiry of the statute of limitations.
"My father was killed for the second time"
Speaking after the hearing, Dicle Anter, the son of the late journalist, said, "We had guessed what the result of the hearing would be. The judiciary is completely political. There can be no greater proof for that ... My father has been killed for the second time."
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Mithat Sancar and other MPs, Human Rights Association (İHD) Chair Öztürk Türkdoğan and members, representatives of the Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD), the Lawyers for Freedom Association (ÇHD) and unions also attended the hearing.
About Musa AnterAuthor, journalist and activist. Assassinated in the southeastern Diyarbakır city in 1992. On September 20, 1992, Musa Anter attended the Culture-Art Festival in Diyarbakır, signed his books. An armed attack was launched against Anter and his nephew, journalist-writer Orhan Miroğlu in Cumhuriyet Neighborhood. Anter died, Miroğlu was wounded. The attack was allegedly conducted by Gendarmerie Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism Organization (JİTEM), a controversial wing and intelligence agency of the gendarmerie. It was during the 1937-38 Dersim Revolt that he was taken into custody for the first time. He was among the founders of Revolutionary Eastern Culture Hearths, the Labor Party of People, Mezopotamya Cultural Center and İstanbul Kurdish Institute. After leaving the Faculty of Law in the third year, Musa Anter started writing for Şark Postası and Dicle Kaynağı. He was imprisoned in 1959 because of his Kurdish poem "Qimil/Kımıl" published on İleri Yurt newspaper. Anter was also faced with life imprisonment in the lawsuit known as 49s. He was arrested in 1963, sent to exile in 1967 and imprisoned after the military coups in 1971 and 1980. Throughout his life, Anter wrote for İleri Yurt, Dicle-Fırat, Barış Dünyası, Deng, Yön, Azadiye Welat, Yeni Ülke, Özgür Gündem, Rewşen and Tewlo. He also published seven books and one Kurdish-Turkish Dictionary. Born in Mardin in 1920, Musa Anter completed his secondary and high school education in Adana and studied law at İstanbul University. |
(AEK/VK)