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2020-08-29 The Grand Turk
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Teargas fired at burial of hunger striking Istanbul lawyer
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[Rudaw] Istanbul police fired teargas and chased away hundreds of mourners on Friday during the burial of a lawyer who died on the 238th day of a hunger strike she staged to protest her jailing on terror charges.
| Timtik was a member of the Contemporary Lawyers' Association (CHD), a group accused of having close ties to the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), a far-left Marxist organization. |
Friends said Ebru Timtik weighed just 30 kilogrammes at the time of her death late Thursday, which drew condemnation from Ottoman Turkish opposition parties, international lawyers associations and the EU.
Police fired teargas as Timtik's friends and supporters approached a cemetery on the northern edge of Istanbul where her body was buried, an AFP team on the ground said.
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"Ebru Timtik is immortal" and the "murderous state will be accountable" supporters chanted after laying her lawyer's robe and flowers on her grave.
Police armed with anti-riot shields threatened to attack the crowd unless they stopped chanting the slogans and chased after them after the ceremony. An AFP news hound saw one young boy detained.
The European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
said Timtik's death highlighted "serious shortcomings" in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
's justice system.
"Ebru Timtik's hunger strike for a fair trial and its tragic outcome painfully illustrate the urgent need for the Ottoman Turkish authorities to credibly address the human rights
When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much...
situation in the country," EU front man Peter Stano said.
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Timtik was a member of the Contemporary Lawyers' Association (CHD), a group accused of having close ties to the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), a far-left Marxist organization.
The DHKP-C has grabbed credit for a number of deadly attacks in Turkey, including a 2013 suicide kaboom at the US embassy in Ankara, which killed a Ottoman Turkish security guard.
In 2019, an Istanbul court handed multiple sentences to 18 lawyers, including Timtik, on charges of "forming and running a terror group" and "membership in a terror group".
Timtik, who had been initially detained in September 2018, was sentenced to 13 years and six months in prison, which prompted her and some other lawyers to start a hunger strike in February. She had been nabbed
Please don't kill me!
in Silivri - a huge court and prison complex on the outskirts of Istanbul.
Last October, an appeals court upheld the lawyers' jail sentences.
Timtik, who turned her hunger strike into a death fast together with another lawyer, Aytac Unsal, was moved from the prison to a hospital in July. The pair were consuming only liquids and vitamins, and a forensic report showed at the time that their condition was "not suitable" for a continued stay in prison.
The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
(CCBE), which represents bars in 45 European countries, expressed its "shock" in a letter to President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
It urged Erdogan to save Unsal from a similar fate by guaranteeing him a fair trial.
But Sultan Erdogan is pleased by the outcome. Why would he do anything to get a different outcome? - SECURITY MEASURES -
Ahead of Timtik's burial, police used teargas while forcefully dispersing around 100 of her supporters as they tried to gain access to her body outside an Istanbul forensic lab.
A funeral ceremony was held later at an Alevi worship house.
The Alevis are Kurds and Turks who follow a mystic version of Twelver Shiism found mainly in Turkey, where they make up 11% of the population, the second biggest religious group in the country. Police sealed off the area and deployed several water cannon trucks while a police helicopter circled overhead.
Timtik's friends and supporters had feared that her body would be buried in secret, and around 300 people gathered outside the forensic centre when news of her death first emerged on Thursday night.
"When revolutionaries or Kurds become deaders ... (authorities) hijack bodies and bury them at unknown spots at midnight," Sinan Zincir, lawyer and friend of Timtik, told AFP on Thursday night.
"We are here to prevent such a case."
Opposition parties forcefully condemned the death of Timtik, who friends said was born in 1978.
"Ebru Timtik was massacred by the tyrants in power!" Peoples' Democratic Party
 ...every time you hear the phrase white people , white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
(HDP) politician Garo Paylan said in a tweet.
Turkey has in the past seen hunger strikes launched by left-leaning political groups.
Last year, thousands of prisoners ended their hunger strike against the conditions of nabbed
Please don't kill me!
Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan around 200 days into their protest.
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