File spoon-archives/marxism-general.archive/marxism-general_1997/marxism-general.9712, message 348


Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 01:01:10 +0200 (EET)
From: "Res.Ass.Funda Basaran" <Funda.Basaran-AT-media.ankara.edu.tr>
Subject: M-G: Students in prison, gangs are free in Turkey



Students in prison, gangs are free in Turkey
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Students from the Universities of different cities in Turkey gathered in
the Kizilay square of Ankara to give
support their firends who  sentenced to 96-year imprisonment for opening a
banner in the Parliament last year for tuition-free education. 
University Teacher's Union,Public Servants Federations,Workers,
NGOs supported the demonstration of the students. 

The police warned the students to disperse, and the students answered that
with slogans "students in prison, gangs are free" and "if the firman
belongs to the state, the universities belong to us". The police encircled
the students and the students made a press statement. 
Escaping students threw stones to the Police.

students and protested the police by chanting slogans "gangs are proud of
the police". Glasses of a police auto was broken by some demonstrators. 
The Policestopped the students near the Centre of Ankara and students
there defended themselves with paving stones. 

A group of university students, coming from Istanbul to Ankara to protest
the 96-year imprisonment decision of the students-- who opened a banner in
the Parliament
building--and watch the appeal trial of the students were taken in
custody. 

The group is said to come to Ankara make demonstration during the trial of
the students, who had been sentenced to 96-year imprisonment, in the Court
of Appeals. The
group wanted to walk from the train station to the Kizilay square of
Ankara. The Police did not let the group march and ordered them to
disperse. The group did not obey
the Police's order and the police took 438 in custody, most of whom are
students. The Police said that the demonstrators would be set free, after
their identification. 

On the other hand, many  student buses coming from diffrenet cities for
demonstration were stopped before Ankara were not let enter
into Ankara. 

In Istanbul, a group of some 150 students from the Yildiz Technical
University held another demonstration in support of the same fellow
students., sentenced to total of
96-year imprisonment. 

Meanwhile, as the demonstartions were going on, the appeal trial of the
eight students, including the five who opened a banner in Parliament,
began in the Court of Appeals in Ankara. 





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