The Case Has Ended, But The Prosecutor Doesn't Know!

BY MEHMET Y. YILMAZ
HURRIYET- Yesterday, while waiting for news of the Ergenekon indictment, I was reading through the newspapers.

Sabah daily's Mehmet Barlas wrote, 'Members of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) shouldn't look at Abdullatif Sener like Turhan Comez. Sener isn't setting up a gang or a group plotting a coup, but just a political party.'

When I read that, I said to myself, 'Alas!'

'While I was waiting for the indictment, was the case filed and concluded, and I missed it?'

Then, in a fluster, I looked at some small papers friendly to the AKP.

Yes, all of us were asleep at the wheel!

The case was filed, the trails were concluded, sentences were handed down, and the Supreme Court of Appeals approved the verdicts!

Because in those papers, there was no doubt as to just who was convicted of which crimes.

Then, at that very moment, Istanbul's republican chief prosecutor appeared live on TV!

Apparently, he also had no idea about thee developments!

If he had followed the AKP media, he could have found out that the trial had already ended, and he wouldn't have kept the media and its fleet of broadcasting vans so busy.

I found this very strange, how the prosecutor didn't know what was going on, when even European Parliament Greens member Cem Ozdemir already knew.

Ozdemir, thanks to his extensive knowledge of European law, even knew the sentence that would be handed down: If we hadn't banned the death penalty, they would have been executed!

P.S.: I remembered some things I heard back when I was studying criminal law. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Everyone has the right to a fair trial in open court. The prosecution has to prove its claims. And the like ...