The law, which was enacted without taking into account the emphasis that our newspaper brought to the agenda for days, and that even ordinary citizens, along with non-governmental organizations, would be considered terrorists with these definitions, now started to cause grievances.
Human Rights and Solidarity Association for the Oppressed (MAZLUMDER) prepared a report on the victims of the terrorism financing law.
The report dealt with how ordinary citizens were affected by this law and became victims one by one.
“AN AMBIGUOUS AND ARBITRARY CRIME AREA WAS CREATED”
In the report, it was stated that the authority to define "terrorism" in the law was given to an inconsistent and unfair structure such as the United Nations Security Council, "It is unclear by what criteria these committees are formed, and according to what they define terrorism and create lists. Moreover, the fact that Turkey has no savings on the lists to come from the UNSC is a clear violation of the principle of 'legal certainty'. Again, the acts defined as crimes in the law are of an uncertain nature, and the authority to determine the crime by referring to the conventions to which Turkey is a party has been left to the UN and committees before it. Thus, a gray and ambiguous crime area was created; the way to arbitrary interpretation and abuse has been opened," it was said.
HE IS TRIED BECAUSE THE CARGO COMPANY IS TRIED
The grievances experienced due to the law are included in the report as follows:
"E.R. works voluntarily in humanitarian organizations such as Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), the red crescent (Kızılay) and Search and Rescue (AKUT) in Diyarbakır. Knowing that E.R. was involved in aid activities in this way, his circle of friends provided cash assistance to the applicant and made sure that he delivered them to refugee children in the border regions. E.R. He transfers the aid money collected in his account to the account of a cargo company that also has offices in Syria in order to deliver it to the families on the other side of the border. The applicant was also included in the investigation due to the fact that an investigation was launched against the company in question for opposing the crime of financing terrorism. The indictment, which was prepared as a result of the prosecution investigation, was accepted by the Heavy Penal Court and the trial of E.R. continues."
AN INVESTIGATION OPENED BECAUSE THE CUSTOMER IS CONSIDERED CRIMINAL
"R.Y. is a textile engineer in Istanbul and trades fabrics. The fee of the products sold within the scope of this trade is deposited in his own bank account. Money transfers between the customer and the applicant as a result of the examination of the bank account of one of its customers by MASAK were also considered suspicious and were examined by MASAK. As a result of this examination, an investigation was launched against the applicant by the Terrorism and Organized Crime Investigation Bureau of the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office for the crime of "violating the law on the prevention of financing of terrorism," it was said.