{"id":32813,"date":"2013-01-25T15:46:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T13:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=32813"},"modified":"2013-01-29T11:30:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T09:30:15","slug":"sociologist-pinar-selek-sentenced-lifetime-prison-for-bombing-claims-turkey-news-32813","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/sociologist-pinar-selek-sentenced-lifetime-prison-for-bombing-claims-turkey-news-32813\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociologist Pinar Selek sentenced lifetime prison for bombing claims \/ Turkey News"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/h1>\n

An aggravated life imprisonment sentence was issued to famous sociologist Pinar Selek.<\/h1>\n

Pinar Selek\u00a0is accused of bombing Istanbul\u2019s famous Spice Bazaar in 1998 despite being acquitted three times, after the court withdrew its own verdict in November 2012.<\/p>\n

Pinar Selek said she was shocked by the verdict.\u00a0\u201cI am shocked by the verdict; it is the first time the court found me guilty. I have been acquitted three times before. This is a first, tomorrow I will have a press meeting ” Selek said<\/p>\n

“I know that people won’t let me be sacrificed”, Selek said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want my acquittal back. It is so hard to express what I feel about this scandalous legal situation. It is like asking a woman how she feels after she was subjected to violence but I can tell you how I remain standing after 15 years. There is incredible solidarity with me,\u201d Selek said today.<\/p>\n

An arrest warrant was also issued for Selek, who has been living in Strasbourg, France pursuing her academic studies. Along with more than 30 nongovernmental organizations and political party representatives from France, human rights activists from Germany, Italy and Austria attended yesterday\u2019s hearing at Istanbul\u2019s \u00c7a\u011flayan Courthouse.<\/p>\n

Nearly 150 people staged a protest before and during the trial. Abd\u00fclmecit \u00d6zt\u00fcrk, another suspect, was also issued lifetime imprisonment.<\/p>\n

Selek\u2019s case has been ongoing since 1998, when she was detained in July by the Istanbul police department. Selek was detained during her studies regarding the Kurdish issue and sent to prison, where she refused to name the people she had interviewed during her research and underwent severe torture in addition to her work being confiscated. After two and a half years in prison, she was released in December 2000.<\/p>\n

Despite the guilty verdict issued today, the chief judge expressed his dissenting opinion.<\/p>\n

In its June 2000 report, Istanbul University\u2019s Analytic Chemistry Department wrote, \u201cThe prosecutor\u2019s report is not scientific, it is written with an intention to mislead the court. Nitrocellulose can be found in several substances, but it is not proof of the presence of a bomb.\u201d<\/p>\n

Similarly, in its July 2000 report, Cerrahpa\u015fa Medical Faculty\u2019s Forensic Department also said the prosecutor\u2019s report was not scientific, concluding, \u201cNone of the evidence matches with injuries inflicted by the explosion of a bomb.\u201d Three expert professors assigned by the court declared the explosion was definitely due to a gas leak, not because of a bomb.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An aggravated life imprisonment sentence was issued to famous sociologist Pinar Selek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,171,194,173],"tags":[40908,44375,44380,44377,44376,44379,77182,44378,44381,30813],"class_list":["post-32813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-turkey","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","tag-life-imprisonment","tag-pinar-selek","tag-pinar-selek-bombing-claims","tag-pinar-selek-sentenced-lifetime-prison","tag-sociologist-pinar-slek","tag-spice-bazaar-bombing","tag-turkey","tag-turkey-court","tag-turkey-human-rights","tag-turkey-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}