Aksu: Nearly 1600 People Applied To Benefit From Reassociation Law

ISTANBUL - Interior Minister Abdulkadir Aksu said on Wednesday that nearly 1600 people applied to benefit from Reassociation Law as of today.
Aksu replied questions of reporters at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport.
Aksu said that the applicants had to give important information regarding the terrorist organization and their situation to benefit from the law.
Aksu said, ''nearly 1600 people applied as of today. Most of the applicants are still in prisons. These are also important for us. We are expecting these. Because, we will have very important information about organizations with the information they gave. Some unsolved murders and other murders will be solved and runaway murderers will be captured by depending on these information. It is also important to reveal many unknown things about organizations. On the other hand, an important uneasiness will occur within the organizations as well.''
When asked whether this law will reach its aim, Aksu said that all of previous laws could not reach to current figures and a total of seven similar laws were adopted in the past, adding that the number of those, who benefited from previous seven laws, could not reach current number.
Aksu said that it was necessary to fulfill some activities in the region and on the base of organization in the north of Iraq to make the law more effective and added that they were considering this.

NUMBER OF TERRORIST ORGANIZATION MEMBERS WHO APPLY ISTANBUL DGM TO BENEFIT FROM REASSOCIATION LAW REACHES 80
The number of terrorist organization members who applied to Istanbul State Security Court (DGM) Chief Prosecutor's Office to benefit from Reassociation Law reached 80 on Wednesday.
The number of people who applied to benefit from the law increased 80 as of today while this number was 59 five days ago.
Most of the applications were made by members of terrorist organization PKK/KADEK while DHKP/C, Hizbullah and IBDA/C terrorist organizations follow these applications.
The applications were conveyed to concerned courts for necessary procedures.
(GC-AÖ) 13.08.2003