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9th Sep 2020 from TwitLonger
Murat Agirel speaking.. Part 2
Your court decided for the continuation of my arrest on June 24. As for the reasoning, it listed witness accounts, possibility of evidence distortion and possibility of escape. I ask to the esteemed members of your panel here. What other evidence you hold other than one tweet I shared that we are not aware of? If the only evidence is a tweet how can i distort it if I had already acknowledged it? Who is the witness against me? Why haven’t we seen this person or heard this person in the first hearing? How did you deem a person who appear on tv for two days, came in to testify twice upon his own will, wrote in a paper for three days and with a permanent home and work address was intending to escape?
I would like to present here a photo of the person you think will escape. It is from aug 5, 2013. The final hearing in Ergenekon trial. It’s 05:30. The person next to me in the photo is journalist Fatma Sibel Yüksek and her husband. Although we were not under arrest, we’ve come with our suitcases, knowing we would be arrested. Which suspicion of escape are you talking about? Why am I under arrest?
Justice is like a lamp that keeps burning in a train car, being noticed only when the train enters a tunnel. It’s a crime against humanity to prevent justice to reign with cunning and treacherous plots. If we do not stand against it altogether, we, as the society, inevitably become a part in the collapse of law and judiciary, the two pillars of the Republic. Silence, under these circumstances, is also a crime. If not a crime, it’s a shameful act. Human can do without bread, water but not justice.
As Ugur Mumcu, my North Star, said, “Those who rule riding a lion, one day fall prey to that Lion.”
I am a journalist. The person who is defined a journalist is not one that writes as others please, flatters or sells his pen in fear. A journalist is one that stands with his people, shares the sorrows of the people and praises his flag greater than anything, who has internalized democracy and human rights. A journalist is the conscience of the society.
Those who lead the country into a dark tunnel have never favoured those that shed light throughout the history.
Our struggle against those who organize fear, use oppression, violence, unlawfulness, justice as instruments will continue today as it did yesterday. I promise that we will win over these darknesses and imprisonments.
Just like Diogenes waving a lantern in the middle of the day, screaming “I’m looking for a man” at times of Great Alexander, I now look for justice in the courtroom with a lantern in hand.
And I do believe day, one day, talking about Turkish Justice, I would be referring to judges of the Caglayan courthouse instead of the “Judges in Berlin”...