{"id":74568,"date":"2011-03-11T11:45:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T07:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=74568"},"modified":"2011-03-11T11:59:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T07:59:21","slug":"students-jailed-in-turkey-for-protesting-killing-of-fellow-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/03\/11\/students-jailed-in-turkey-for-protesting-killing-of-fellow-students.html","title":{"rendered":"Students Jailed in Turkey for Protesting Killing of Fellow Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five students from Dicle University who boycotted their school because of the killing of two fellow students Mahsun Karao\u011flan\u00a0and\u00a0Ayd\u0131n Erdem by the police were sentenced to a total of 57 years in prison for several of offences, reports BIA News Center.<\/p>\n<p>Defence lawyer\u00a0Mehmet Nuri Deniz\u00a0talked to\u00a0Bianet\u00a0about the hearing before the Diyarbak\u0131r 6th High Criminal Court held on Mar. 6. Deniz said that the students were convicted of &#8220;committing a crime on behalf of an illegal organization without being a member of the organization,&#8221; &#8220;spreading propaganda for an illegal organization,&#8221; &#8220;obstructing education,&#8221; and &#8220;harming public property&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Detained defendants\u00a0Abdullah Nas,\u00a0Talat U\u00e7ar,\u00a0Sinan Kaplan\u00a0and\u00a0Cihan Bahar\u00a0received prison terms of eleven years and eight months each. Defendant Mehmet Ayd\u0131n, tried un-detained, was handed down a prison sentence of ten years and five months.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer announced their intention to appeal the latest decision.<\/p>\n<p>Karao\u011flan and Erdem, third year students at the Math department of the Dicle University, were killed in the course of an armed intervention by the police during a protest march in Urfa in 2009. The demonstration marked the birthday of Abdullah \u00d6calan, imprisoned leader of the outlawed armed Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party\u00a0(PKK).<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five students from Dicle University who boycotted their school because of the killing of two fellow students Mahsun Karao\u011flan and&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[23242,23241,23245,20372,23240,23246,23244,23243,10222],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74568"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}