DHKC/P keeps public prosecuter turkey hostage

[Sasha]

seems that DHKC/P militants stormed a courtbuilding in Istanbul and are keeping a public prosecutor hostage, they are demanding that the cops responsible for killing a kid during the Gezi protests by shooting him in the head with a teargas canister admit their guilt on live television (they got cleared of charges recently by the public prosecutor) and be tried by a peoples tribunal. they also demand the freedom of everybody arrested in the demonstrations that followed the killing of the kid.

link with pictures here; http://www.ntv.com.tr/turkiye/berkin-elvan-savcisi-mehmet-selim-kiraz-rehin-alindi%2c50RMUu710k-p-xVPHcN1Bw

i assume the cops will move in sooner than later and DHKC/P will have a few more martyrs...

[Sasha]

Vice is attempting to do some live reporting even though the cops shut down all the journo's; https://news.vice.com/article/live-updates-turkish-militant-group-takes-prosecutor-hostage-at-istanbul-courthouse?utm_source=vicenewsfb

[Palmares]

Istanbul prosecutor taken hostage in courthouse by far-left Turkish group (VIDEO)

Published time: March 31, 2015 11:27
Edited time: March 31, 2015 14:23 Get short URL (http://rt.com/news/245573-istanbul-prosecutor-hostage-situation/)

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An Istanbul prosecutor has been taken hostage by an armed leftist group threatning to kill him if their demands weren't met. The official was handling the case of the 15-year-old who died in a police gas attack. The standoff is curently underway.
The prosecutor, Mehmet Selim Kiraz, was leading the case of Berkin Elvan, 15, who died last March after being in a coma for nine months. He sustained his injuries during the anti-government protests of 2013.
As the situation unfolds, the Turkish PM is in an emergency meeting with the interior minister. Police have entered the courthouse earlier to evacuate the courthouse staff, and negotiators are now talking to the hostage-takers. Istanbul police chief Selami Altinok confirmed that a conversation with the two hostage-takers is still ongoing, after the deadline they'd given.
"We are trying to bring the incident to an end without anyone getting hurt. Negotiators are talking to the assailants," Altinok told reporters.
Meanwhile, a media blackout has been imposed on the hostage situation.
Sometime in the afternoon, the group, the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP/C), started posting Twitter pictures of one of its members holding a gun to Prosecutor Kiraz’s head.

It started issuing a 5-point list of demands, threatening to kill the official if they're not met by 15:36 local time (12:36GMT), although Kiraz is reportedly still alive.
Like many in Turkey, the group is unhappy with the police handling of the Belkin Elvan case and is fiercely anti-government. On its website it called for the policeman blamed for the boy’s death to “confess” on live television. It also wants the officers involved to face a “people’s court,” and for the government to drop all charges against the protesters who took to the streets over Elvan’s death.
A further request was the formation of a negotiation team that the terrorists would hand-pick, including prominent figures.
Finally, it requests a safe exit from the courthouse for the hostage-takers.

The father of the boy called on the hostage takers to set the prosecutor free. "My son is dead, the prosecutor must be released," reads a Turkish media tweet citing the father.
The group is a Marxist-Leninist outfit, founded in 1978. It’s responsible for a number of assassinations and suicide bombings, and is considered a terrorist group in Turkey, the United States, and the European Union. The group is said to be behind a number of suicide bombings. In 2001, it engaged in attacks against the Turkish police, and on September 10, 2001, carried out its bloodiest attack – a suicide bombing, which took the lives of three people along with that of the bomber’s.


http://rt.com/news/245573-istanbul-prosecutor-hostage-situation/

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[Atsumari]

Parents of dead children really do not like people fighting in their child's name.
https://twitter.com/abyasun/status/582873607828860928
I understand that this attack is mostly an attack on the corruption and injustice that infests Turkey so much, but this is rather embarrassing for both liberals and their cowardice and leftists with their rhetoric.
However, fuck the prosecutor. His death would be more celebratory than tragic for the world.

[Art Vandelay]

So the latest reports seem to indicate that following a shootout, the prosecutor is injured and has been taken to the hospital and all three of the militants are dead. I can't help but wonder what went on during the negotiations since their deadline came and went, yet they didn't execute their hostage as they had threatened.

[Sasha]

the prosecutor died as well, 5 bullet wounds of which 3 in the head, so the "taken to hospital injured" line was probably a spin to make it look less like dedicated militants executed him on the spot.

[Devrim]

I can't understand why anyone would think there is anything of interest here for the working class or class struggle.

A leftist gang has seized a hostage. What does that have to do with the price of bread?

Devrim.

[Sasha]

if we hadn't had the abysmal failures of supposed leftist to contribute anything helpful to the struggle to discuss, this board would miss out on 99 percent of its content.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Just saw this on Facebook.


‪#‎Istanbul‬: Militias of the various revolutionary organizations in the city's poorer neighborhoods take to the streets seeking justice for ‪#‎BerkinElvan‬ and in honor of the two DHKP-C activists Şafak Yayla and Bahtiyar Doğruyol who were martyred in the Istanbul courthouse operation on 31.03.15.

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Oops... Cheers. Didn't read Sasha's thread properly to realise it was the same thing. :o

[DOOM]

Istanbul really seems to have potential. It's a pity that tankies and Maoists are in charge of the left there.

[Sasha]

several new attacks took place on police stations and such, wonder why dhkc/p thought this was an opportune time to strike...

[Nautilus]

The so called 5 bullets which was found on prosecutor was a false report. In the autopsy they found 10 bullets. So AKP & Erdogan & Davutoglu lied, as always. I don't know why exactly, but almost everyone says because SWAT shot him, (prosecutor) and they told that to cover it up in the first time.

Most of liberal left front says: "it was unjust to kill him as he had a break through on Berkin Elvan's case, if you let him live he might have find the police who did that"

That statement is also proved unsound. Oya Aslan, lawyer who ruling the case, said to a newspaper that, "Sir Kiraz (prosecutor), had taken all expert opinions (finger prints and other criminology reports) from previous 4 prosecutors. Literally he did nothing but delaying process of case.

Here's the source of my last paragraph(turkish): http://m.ilerihaber.org/berkin-elvan-dosyasindaki-gercek/13204/