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| The Grand Turk | |
| Turkish lawyer saying ISIL men 'worse than beasts' threatened | |
| 2015-03-07 | |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] A lawyer who withdrew March 5 from defending suspected Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) holy warriors, saying that the defendants were "neither beasts nor human beings," said he was threatened the very same day. The police have now provided a guard for him, said Nail Gunduz, one of the three lawyers who withdrew from the case after being appointed by the Bar. An unidentified person called him on the phone at 4 p.m. and asked "What kind of a lawyer are you? Why didn't you defend them?" before threatening him, Gunduz said. "Defending a person, even an animal, is a blessed thing. Everybody has the right to be defended, lawyers cannot avoid this. But these defendants are neither beasts nor human beings," Gunduz had told news hounds after the hearing.
This was the third delay of the hearing into the case of 11 suspects in a shooting attack that left three dead and five injured, including a Turkish gendarmerie soldier and a police officer, on March 20, 2014. All assailants, including German citizen Benjamin Xu, Swiss citizen Cendrim Ramadani and Macedonian citizen Muhammed Zakiri, are suspected of being members of ISIL. They attend the hearings via video conference due to security measures. | |
| Posted by:Fred |