The Socialist Platform of the Oppressed organised a Court of Justice in Amed on December 6 under the title 'From Susurluk to Semdinli , from Semdinli to Ergenekon , those responsible for the war crimes must be convicted'. The fictional court, established to convict dirty war crimes in Kurdistan such as forced disappearances and murders by so-called unknown assailants, by the people was joined by many victims, witnesses of the counter-guerrilla massacres and human right activists. {divide}
The banner read 'From Susurluk to Semdinli, from Semdinli to Ergenekon, those responsible for the war crimes must be convicted. We want justice and freedom.' was hanged up in the hall of the court.
Representative of the ESP stressed the importance of this court in her speech and said that today, the Turkish state continues with its policy of annihilation and denial in terms of the Kurdish question. She declared that with this court, they give the revolt a voice and said that these fictional courts will be real courts in future for peace and freedom. At the court where mass massacres, the total destruction of villages and migration, murders by so-called unknown assailants, forced disappearances under arrest and extra-judicial killings were discussed, Seferi Yilmaz, owner of the bookstore bombed in Semdinli, said that although it is known that the bombing had been realised by Jitem, the Turkish state tries to hide this fact. The mother, sister and uncle of 12-year old Ugur Kaymaz who had been shot with 13 bullets said that the boy had been killed to prevent him become a witness of the murder of his father. Hasan Ocak's brother Huseyin Ocak told how they found the body of their brother who had been disappeared under arrest at a cemetery for unknown people and how ICAD was founded as a result. Mehmet Tursun, father of Baran Tursun who had been shot in Izmir by the police with the pretext that he had not stopped when the police asked him to, Ayse Yumli Yeter, wife of the unionist Suleyman Yeter who was killed under torture, mothers of guerrillas, the wife of Vedat Aydın and Dicle Anter, the son of Ape Murat held speeches in which they convicted the dirty war crimes committed against the Kurdish people and progressive forces and demanded justice.
In the final declaration of the Court of Justice the foundation of Courts for war Crimes was demanded which should be open to the people and it was stressed that all responsible forces for the war including army forces and governments must be convicted. Other demands were the dissolution of JITEM and the punishment of all its activists, the conviction of those responsible for the forests and villages burnt down, financial and psychological help for those who were forced to leave their villages, the enlightment of the fate of the forced disappearances and the approval of sexual assault and rape as a form of torture and war crime.