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tv   Close up  Deutsche Welle  July 17, 2019 9:30am-10:00am CEST

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yes it. forests and money. tragic reality behind the exploitation starts july 24th. july 15th 2016 tanks occupy the bosphorus bridge in istanbul. military jets find a parliamentary buildings in ankara. president obama calls on the turkish population to resist the tanks. sit in there to missing me don't know that assemble on the squares and at the airport. then let this little group come at us
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with their tanks and grenade launchers i know no power stronger than that of the people some of them would look at that. a state of emergency is declared followed by large scale arrests thousands of people are accused of being terrorists and planning the attempted coup. the one threatens to hunt them down across the globe. we will penetrate their caves. they will be perched. kuala lumpur malaysia may 2017. this surveillance camera of
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a multistory car park records the kidnapping of a techie citizen. kristen across a march 28th chain a surveillance camera films turkish teaches being dragged off in the middle of the street. kishi now republican all day september 28th seen a film on a mobile phone shows a turkish citizen being bundled into a car. ankara the turkish capital. is the old one regime pursuing a global kidnapping policy for several months research networking. and from tel 21 i've conducted research based on this suspicion speaking to victims and witnesses everyone is afraid few people talk. one who does is told it's not his
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real name he tells us that he was also abducted. i was on the street and suddenly someone appeared in front of me waving his arms 2 or 3 people came from behind grabbed me and dragged me into a van. they shoved a sack over my head and threw me to the ground. then they started pummeling me with their fists. they tied my hands and feet with cable straps. my left ankle was injured you soon realize how serious it is. i thought they were going to kill me. i thought they were going to take me to a place i'd never return from i didn't think i'd ever see my loved ones again. says that in the building he was brought to there were 5 cells in a row and separate interrogation rooms.
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we meet another man who tells us how he was kidnapped we called him ali. people in my circle were being arrested because the rule of law had been abolished i was forced into hiding i was hiding for about a year the kidnapping took place in a matter of seconds a group of men suddenly grabbed me on the street and forced me into a van they put a sack over my head i could barely breathe they were yelling insults at me you're a terrorist you're a traitor then they punched me i was incredibly frightened during the kidnapping. when we arrived they pulled me out of the van and stripped me down to my underwear . tells us how he was the prison. there was a microphone and they could hear every sound in the cell. there was also
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a camera watching you 247. that you had to obey were shouted through the loudspeaker there was unbearably loud music. after a while you can't take it anymore. you can't stand up any longer you fall down and they come into your cell and 2 or 3 people beat you up saying didn't we tell you not to fall over. and i was punched and kicked especially kicked in the cell imagine how that is what happens every day your feet swell up your whole body swells up. the torture methods they used in the cell or hunger and thirst isolation and insults they only gave me food when they felt like it just enough to keep me alive the same with water i lost over 20 kilos.
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couldn't imagine i would ever get out alive. really thought i would die in there and started mentally preparing myself for death i just hope that if they killed me they dumped my body somewhere my family would find it so they wouldn't have to look for me for years. tolga and supporters of the good men movement since the attempted coup in the summer of 2016 the turkish government has declared them enemies of the state for a long time the muslim glenn movement was a partner. but now tens of thousands of soldiers teaches scientists and civil servants are being arrested as the alleged rebels behind the attempted coup we will punish them so hard that they will beg us to slaughter them to stop their suffering we'll have them begging for death. to one
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runs the human rights organization i h t in ankara he's documented up to 15 kidnapping so far only a few families did to talk to him about the disappearance of their relatives. should you believe these are the actions of the secret service. most of the families of the disappeared tell us that the victims were abducted from the street into a black van with darkened windows. very many victims who were held captive for a long time and later released sadly do not talk about it. their families told us that they were subjected to very serious torture. and. i believe the families also told us that some of the victims could not handle the situation and committed suicide. question and that one of them he thought it. also speaks of torture. they put an object in my
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hand and asked me what it was it was a dildo a sex toy. then they said you know what we're going to do with it they stripped me below the waist and forced me into a stress position on the floor. then they pinned me down as if they were. to use this. any minute. they threaten me with it constantly. so hard in the face of my teeth broke. i was in such pain i could barely stand my face was beaten black and blue then they threaten me bring your family in here to do the same to your wife your mother your father as we're doing to you will make your children watch i was mentally and physically tortured so i would confess to a crime or denounce acquaintances. describes the abuse that he suffered
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sometimes they put me in a kind of box they call it the coffin put a sack over my head and handcuffed me you lose all sense of orientation you can't breathe properly you can't tell if you've been inside for a minute or several hours then they take you out and continue torturing you. if you don't answer their questions they give you electric shocks on your back your feet your arms in other places the longer it lasts the worse the pain. we show our reports to vincent. director of the organization human rights watch. i have to assume that this is systematic we have documented individual cases which are very typical. we know about many more cases but we have not made them public partly because people are afraid to talk about it but. a confidential report from the german foreign office 2017 verified the human rights violations in turkey after
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the attempted coup quote as part of the investigations against those involved in the attempted coup allegations of torture have been made against the turkish police and judiciary according to human rights organizations that are indications that violence and abuse another longer occurring in police stations but elsewhere including public areas. ukraine journalist and blogger yunus who has been living with his family here for 35 years. however he no longer feel safe since has been openly threatening the opposition. this. quite frankly it's very dangerous for me here the turkish secret service is present here in ukraine and is able to act freely. abducted a turkish correspondent use of iran from ukraine and. send. the correspondent was
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a nuisance to the airline system and the turkish secret service were able to kidnap him from here because the ukrainian and turkish authorities made a deal. at least. no grounds were given for the arrest of a journalist this man had lived in ukraine for 3 years and was simply deported to turkey without reason. conditional based petition on at. his family along with 9 other turkish citizens his name is on the list of people who ukraine is supposed to deport he stands accused of writing for a terror organization on social media yeah. yeah so i saw it in the turkish media and immediately spotted my name on the list of everyone's enemies most of the people whose names were also on the list have already fled to the european union. just a few like me have stayed here but i don't know how it should go on i have decided
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to stay here and i've already written my will i will stay here and die here. yes this are still you right. because ed is afraid of being arrested on the street by ukrainian police the family mostly stays at home in their flat. used basic story there are lots of turks walking around in ukraine because they don't need a visa and most of them are followers of arda want. greater even more they know about me through social media my website and my blog. media source said you made the i.e. more site. i write with the news and that's why they're against me i get a lot of threats on social media. that's why it's dangerous for me to live here i've been at home for 5 months now i don't go out on the streets anymore. new.
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kuala lumpur malaysia december 26th police arrest a man who fled to his son in malaysia after the attempted coup in turkey. his name is a physics teacher his son. had hoped that his parents is met and had a child would be safe in malaysia but malaysian security forces help to enforce the will. to do catch even then. the police showed us a document from the turkish embassy saying that my father was a member of a terrorist organization. and his passport had been an old on august 21st 2016 supporting. the family managed to film the arrest. of. the son is
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released after 16 days but he sponsor is to tell. in malaysia for 51 days. son in shock that it took the conditions and there were inhumane they did all kinds of brutal things to us in prison we were stripped naked and searched their heads were shades of. our clothing was taken away put us if. we didn't have any cops or cutlery. we couldn't even fill our most basic human needs to 1000000 sunny hostin love them over to. finally the father is released yet soon afterwards on may 2nd 2017 malaysian police break down the door of his home to rest isn't it isn't like once again he's not than. 2 days lined up the father and son stop at
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a gas station plainclothes officers are waiting for them. banderas just suddenly get a leak just as soon as we drove into the gas station 4 or 5 cars surrounded us. $25.00 maybe 30 men got out. of them looked like a policeman with the insults some of them had long hair or were wearing shorts. that short looked. almost at the same time 2 more turks are arrested by undercover police in kuala lumpur surveillance cameras film one of them being abducted in an underground carriage. the malaysian police then handed over his neck is chilling and 2 other men to the turkey secret police. you keep you my stock. on may 12th my father was flown to turkey along with 2 other men who had been arrested
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on may 2nd. you were not informed of this at all. since then they have only had contacts through letters it takes one and a half years from his a wrist for the trial to begin. one thing is clear my husband has a heart condition he's not that young and has diabetes they have refused to medicine for a long time. and his mother has moved to sweden as they no longer feel safe in malaysia. i'm worried because turkey uses mafia methods but sweden would never do what they did to us in malaysia here there is democracy and justice. turkish citizens kidnapped worldwide one announces that he will hunt down his political opponents. followers of who have fled and believe they are now safe will be brought back here one by one
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we will hand them over to the judicial system we will pursue the fight against the supporters who have caused our country so much social political and economic damage until we have wiped them out. believe. in more than $700.00 turkey civil servants have applied for asylum in germany since the attempted coup they say from the regime here one thing is certain the turkish secret service is also looking for them here the german government confirms this in their answer to an inquiry from the free democratic party quote the core activities of the turkish secret service mit in germany consist of investigating the opposition the mit has been closely following the movement behind the islamic preacher. since the attempted coup in the summer of 26 staying. in september 25th that had germany according to turkish media he demanded the extradition of
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regime opponents which the german government denies. that the german chancellor addressed the issue of human rights abuses in turkey but would tolerate no criticism. i do not have the right to interfere with the german legal system any more than you have the right to criticize the turkish judiciary. our justice system is independent and its verdict have to be respected. as a member of the united nations turkey has signed the general declaration of human rights . states that people cannot just disappear and that torture is not allowed. me violating these a very clearly defined human rights for.
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journalists demonstration in the chancery for freedom of the press should out by german place is clearly. visiting berlin so called plane spotters discovered this chat. thursday 27th of september 28th 10 to 11 am. challenges 6 o 5 descending towards. this is no ordinary a craft. on the morning of march 29th 20 challenge. landed in the capital. just a few minutes beforehand this surveillance camera filmed an abduction. a police car stops the. family's car on a main road and drags the occupants out. was
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one of them. she's a teacher and pushed her and tried to prevent her husband being kidnapped. that was when all the lot of little one of the policeman grabbed my son by the neck and dragged him outside. we rattled him until he lost consciousness was i saw him sit on my son and then a scuffle broke out. what is this who is all that time is. the only policeman dragged my husband out of the car handcuffed him from behind and put him in a police car so that. eyewitnesses saw the kidnapping. however the policeman grabbed the boy and forced him out of the car but i missed the man and the plain clothes person aboard your ground. they arrested the man saying that they had a warrant for his arrest you know a young boy he got out with his wife and was handcuffed. by no language so i tried
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to stop a car that was passing and told them to go in and form the school so that they could help us i asked the passing motorists for hope. for the same that's me on the road. along with the use of carob enough 5 more men are abducted on the same day 5 of the kidnapped a teaches a private schools of the glen movement such as the mehmet a key college that was their downfall this woman's husband is one of the kidnapped ready she does not wish to be recognized her husband was summoned to the police station in pristina. usually it isn't there about 100 meters in front of the police station plainclothes policemen were waiting for and they had a photo of him so you're not really they put him in a car allegedly to take him to police headquarters to give a speech but he was taken directly to pristina airport my husband was tied up with
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cable straps last character. christian airport while their relatives search for them the man a taken through security controls and handed over to the turkish secret service their hands are bound. they are forced to get on the turkish plane. to kimmie to shoot out the cutest m.i.t. staff were waiting on the plane. the men were subjected to verbal abuse it one of them was violently forced onto the plane. he fought back. they probably gave him an electric shock when. the plane takes off at 10 o'clock the official destination is the military airport of ankara. yeah the after he was lying on the floor the whole flight and apparently was still unconscious
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when he arrived in turkey. the challenger t.c. k.l.a. is registered with the tourism company in ankara. the company address is directly next to the residential campus of the turkish secret service the m.i.t. . laurie among those cited that in the 1st 24 to 48 hours the lawyers had no contact with our men. first we didn't believe that our men had already been deported to turkey because we had no reliable source of information though we didn't want to believe that the course of our authorities supported this illegal action that. kosovo is dependent on investments from turkey one example the firm lemak which operates the airport of christian or is own by a turkish businessman with close links to. this is where the kidnapping plane took
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off the opposition parliamentarian chairs the parliamentary investigations committee he's convinced that kosovar authorities assisted the regime with the kidnapping. i just say the documents point towards the kidnappings being the greatest violation of the sovereignty of kosovo since our declaration of independence has sought on it. and kosovo own authority as are responsible for this violation. abbas authority is an accessory to a crime of the turkish state during his visit to pristina the turkish foreign minister demanded that costs about should extradite more teachers who were killed in the girl in schools. there's these terrorists are fired on people from military helicopters. or they could do the same things in kosovo. that's why we must not allow these terrorists
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to penetrate because of our authorities by abusing their educational institutions of course we don't want our neighbor across the border harboring these rebels. is that these. at least the relatives of the abducted no with a man are incarcerated. here in this a livery prison in istanbul. on the streets of istanbul there is a show of hatred for those who allegedly attempted the coup followers of the preacher for to look in here hanged in effigy thousands of his followers assiduous spent years behind bars false testimonies by the kidnapped a supposed to help our witnesses report they wanted me to betray my friends they used force to try to make me cooperate work for the state gather information for us and then we'll give you back your freedom it was their goal to use me as
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a spy within the goulet movement as a witness i was supposed to confirm made up crimes and trials i was tortured so i would denounce acquaintances. because they appeared to agree to the offer tolga and ali was set free they were then able to fly. lawyer aaron kreskin was present at trials against the alleged coup rebels she confirms that anonymous witnesses were used in court. what do you mean a lot you anonymous witnesses were used to strengthen the court's position because there is hardly any evidence. that's why the courts use this method yet it's a 90 dimmock radek procedure which does not exist in a country operating under the rule of law you know my own.
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videos and documents verify that the turkish secret service attacks political opponents abroad witnesses report kidnappings from public streets that end in secret prisons they talk of torture and face to witness accounts. turkey is an important partner for the german government what do they say about the serious allegations in their reply to an inquiry from the left party about abductions perpetrated by the turkey secret service there is no mention of kidnapping and torture quote in the vast majority of cases as far as the german federal government is aware the force deportations are official measures of the respective host countries. although they were initiated by turkey they were not independently carried out by turkey on foreign territory. mist and i thought that the given the severity of these cases i do not have the
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impression that the german government is publicly or vehemently standing up for these people to stop such things from happening. those of germany's reluctance to seek clarification on the matter leaves opponents of the erdogan at the missi of his regime wherever they live. it's close the toppling of the president. triggered issa who. don't know the none of these united fruit company. the history of the u.s.
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