H\u00fcrriyet Daily News<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\nThe suit filed at the European court pertains to such matters as treatment in detention, the legal and material basis for the arrest and access to case files and evidence, rather than the trial process itself, in accordance with the requirements prescribed in the fifth article of the European Convention on Human Rights, which established the court, according to K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe KCK trial is going to be the case with the largest number of suspects in Istanbul since the military coup of 1980. It is still too early to comment on the course of the trial,\u201d K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7 said.<\/p>\n
Tuncay \u00d6zkan, another suspect in the ongoing Ergenekon trials, had already applied to the European court last week on the grounds that his right to a fair trial had been violated and that he had been detained for an extensive period. The European court, however, rejected his complaint regarding the right to a fair trial but gave an interim decision addressing claims regarding the period of his arrest, indicating that the charge would be examined later.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are going to cite as the preamble our inability to access the documents and information in the file due to the \u2018order of secrecy,\u2019 the basing of the evidence and the accusations on [slippery] facts, the refusal of objections to the arrest without citing any serious and reasonable justification and the fact that no suit has yet been filed despite the passage of more than three months,\u201d K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7 said.<\/p>\n
Cem Halavurt, one of the lawyers in the high-profile case of Hrant Dink, a Turkish journalist of Armenian origin murdered in 2007, also said the European court\u2019s ruling on \u00d6zkan did not constitute a precedent because the court examines each file separately.<\/p>\n
Domestic judiciary processes have to be completely exhausted before a file can be brought before the European court. Some 180 suspects will stand trial in the KCK probe, including Zarakolu, who continues to remain behind bars at a high-security prison in the northwestern province of Kocaeli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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