Do foreign powers have their people inside the Police? Serious words were uttered after the Kurd’s arrest

Photo: Jan Rychetský Caption: Doctor Yekta Uzunoglu, a great fighter for the rights of the Kurds.

 
The Turkish government and police abuse the agreement with INTERPOL to pursue undesirible persons. Based on that agreement, Turkey applied for the arrest of Sálih Muslim in the Czech Republic, as they were aware of the fact that they could not be successful with such an application in Germany. That was alleged by the well-known doctor, writer and translator Yekta Uzunoglu. Sálih Muslim, a prominent Kurdish politician and the former chairman of the Kurdish political Party PYD, was arrested in Prague on Saturday. The Kurdish politician had attended a conference in Brussels and gave a speech in Geneva before, without being arrested.

At that occasion, Yekta Uzunoglu mentioned the statement of the Constitutional Court less than a month ago. And he is full of criticism on Czech Police now again. “Turkey figured out an absurd assassination and now they blame Muslim on that. I myself was arrested last year and it was ordered by Turkey. Short time ago, the Constitutional Court stated that the arrest was anti constitutional,” Uzunoglu says.

At the beginning of February, the Constitutional Court stated that the arrest of Uzunoglu last year was anti constitutional. “I was sentenced in the case that bears similar features. I was bullied, from September 13, 1994 to July 31, 2007, i.e. for thirteen years, by the judiciary in the case that entered the history of Czech judiciary as ,Scandal Uzunoglu’,” Uzunoglu says.

The Constitutional Court, in the Uzunoglu Case,  stated (see enclosures): “The complainer objects in the Constitutional complaint that the decision regarding his detention was made by the judge of the District Court who had issued the order for house inspection in the previous stages of the proceedings, which is in contradiction with the Criminal Procedure. Thus she was excluded from further operations in the criminal proceedings in the phase after filing the lawsuit. The Regional Court did not take that error into consideration, though it was obliged to, according to the complainer’s opinion. For that reason the complainer suggested the Constitutional Court to cancel the opposed statement,” the statement of the Constitutional Court says.

“I was too naïve to believe that a similar scandal could not be repeated, if I had once gone down in the history of Czech jurisdiction, unintentionally, as a scandal, caused by the unlawful procedure of bodies involved in the criminal proceedings. And I was mistaken about that…” Uzunoglu wrote after the statement of the Constitutional Court.

Uzunoglu faced a trial for libel and false accusation. As the trial was adjourned, he left for Africa in January of 2017, as a specialist on radical Islam, i.e. Islamic terrorism. During the journey, however, he fell ill and informed the court about the situation. “I informed the judge JUDr. Jiří Wažik about that fact, after got his information through e-mail saying that a court hearing would be held!  I was not summoned regularly for the hearing at the Court Prague-East – the hearing he had talked about. In spite of the fact that I got just the “private” information about the hearing, I tried to appear at the court but I got infected by a sort of African virus. I communicated with the judge as much as it was possible in those African conditions. Not only did I have to overcome the telecommunication obstacles in the bad health condition, but also I had to be very careful about my safety in the Islamist territories. Everyone knew there how many articles I had published about the Islamist terror.

Then he was transported to Switzerland and informed not only the judge Jiří Wažik about his hospitalization but also sent him medical certificates. “When I came back, I met policemen from the Police C.R. Prague-East-South, Leoš Tománek or Kunc – I live near there. They often carry out different activities aimed against me that cannot be understood as anything else but bullying. I am not sure, maybe it was them who, deliberately, gave wrong information to the judge,” Uzunoglu continues. Subsequently he was arrested. “What did I do to deserve that a judge of a legal state ordered arresting me, ordered the policemen to put cuffs on my hands… I do not know. Just the one who ‘wished’ that knows. I appealed against it immediately, and the Regional Court in Prague, as the Court of Appeal, upheld the decision of the District Court Prague-East automatically, without looking into the case to find out if the decision is justified.  I had no other choice but to turn to the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic, which declared my arresting, confirmed even by the Court of Appeal,  as anti-constitutional,” Uzunoglu adds.

And he sees his story as a parallel to the contemporary arrest of the prominent Kurdish politician Sálih Muslim in Prague, in the Marriot Hotel. As for detention of the people placed in a special list of terrorists, the Turkish diplomacy and Secret Intelligence Service are very assertive, Uzunoglu states. Modus operandi of the Turkish authorities corresponds with the case of the detention of Sálih Muslim, the Kurdish politician and the former chairman of the Kurdish political party PYD. “The Turkish government and police abuse the agreement with INTERPOL to pursue troublesome persons. Based on that contract, Turkey applied for the arrest of Sálih Muslim in the Czech Republic, as they were aware of the fact that they could not be successful with that application in Germany,” Uzunoglu said soon after the Muslim’s arrest.

Sálih Muslim had been travelling in EU countries since the beginning of the week. First the Kurdish politician attended a conference in Brussels and gave a speech in Geneva. He was supposed to have several appointments in Prague on Saturday, but he was arrested. Uzunoglu says that a photograph of the Kurdish politician had appeared before his arrest. And the photo was apparently taken by means of intelligence technology. Uzunoglu was in Switzerland at that time, organizing humanitarian help. But he came back to the Czech Republic after Muslim’s arrest.   

Prague Police issued a communiqué after Sálih Muslim’s arrest saying that during last night (the night before Saturday), a sixty-seven-year-old foreigner was arrested and that he had been looked for by Turkish INTERPOL. “The arrested person was placed in the Police cell after the necessary legal acts had been performed. The staff of INTERPOL Ankara was informed about the arrest through international law cooperation,” Andrea Zoulová, the spokeswoman of the Prague Police.

Sálih Muslim has talks on detention ahead of him and then probably an application for his extradition to Turkey will be lodged. According to Uzunoglu, the German Police has already perceived, that it is impossible to respond to the biased Turkish applications, issued in the ranks of INTERPOL, regarding detention of Kurdish politicians.

“Turkish government and Turkish police abuse the agreement with INTERPOL to pursue unwanted persons outside Turkey. That is a well-known fact for all of the EU countries,” Uzunoglu said to a source of the ParlamentniListy.cz. A Turkish-German writer was arrested in Spain, not long time ago, and the German government has solved the problem. Turkey applied for the arrest of Sálih Muslim in the Czech Republic based on the same agreement as they knew that they would not succeed with it in Germany. “They had been waiting until he arrived in Prague, which happened in the end. It is no secret that a part of the Czech Police and Public Prosecutor office has some affinity towards Turkey,” Uzunoglu adds. The Kurds rank among the leading fighters against the Islamic State, for Turkey, however, Sálih Muslim is one of the terrorists wanted. The Turkish Ministry of Interior Affairs offered a reward on his apprehension valued one million dollars. Sálih Muslim has refugee status in Scandinavia – which could finally prevent his extradition to Turkey. Kurds and Kurdish media believe that Sálih Muslim was followed by Turkish Secret Intelligence Service, while he travelled around Europe, and they appealed to Czech security forces to arrest the former leader of the PYD party. The Turkish paper  Daily Sabah stated that he was seen in the Prague hotel and the news of his presence in Prague was soon published in Ankara pro-government media, which suggests some connection with the work of Turkish Secret Service.

*This article has been translated to English from the original Czech article that had been published in parlamentnilisty.cz 
original article:  https://www.parlamentnilisty.cz/arena/monitor/Cizi-mocnost-tu-ma-sve-lidi-u-policie-Po-zatceni-Kurda-padla-vazna-slova-525810