{"id":235408,"date":"2024-06-22T16:46:40","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T13:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kenanwatch.org\/?p=235408"},"modified":"2024-06-22T16:47:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T13:47:03","slug":"presseerklarung-der-verteidigung-kenan-ayas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kenanwatch.org\/de\/nachrichten\/presseerklaerungen\/presseerklarung-der-verteidigung-kenan-ayas","title":{"rendered":"Presseerkl\u00e4rung der Verteidigung Kenan Ayas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Federal Public Prosecutor demands 4 years and 6 months imprisonment for Kenan Ayas<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">On June 19, 2024, the 31st day of the main trial, the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court closed the hearing<br\/>of evidence in the criminal case against Kenan Ayas. Before this, the court had denied three additional<br\/>defense requests for evidence, which was not surprising since almost all of the more than 70 defense<br\/>requests for evidence had been denied so far. This concludes the phase of the trial in which evidence is<br\/>presented.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">The representative of the Federal Public Prosecutor then made his closing argument. As expected, he<br\/>saw the prosecution fully justified by the evidence: The PKK is a &#8222;foreign terrorist organization&#8220; and<br\/>Kenan Ayas is a &#8222;member of the PKK&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the prosecutor, the assumption that the PKK is a terrorist organization is &#8222;substantiated&#8220;<br\/>by more than 30 judgments of German higher regional courts. These judgments, however, only show<br\/>that Germany adheres to the assessment of the PKK as a &#8222;terrorist organization&#8220; regardless of the<br\/>specific political and historical circumstances. It is irrelevant for the Federal Public Prosecutor and the<br\/>courts whether the PKK is engaged in peace negotiations with the Turkish government, whether it is<br\/>fighting with the YPG\/YPJ against the Islamic States, or whether it is actually only defending itself in<br\/>northern Iraq against attacks by the Turkish army which are in violation of international law. It is this<br\/>ideological stance that Germany is exporting with the European arrest warrants to EU member states<br\/>that &#8211; like Cyprus &#8211; treat the PKK differently and do not prosecute its (alleged) members as terrorists.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">There is also no question for the prosecutor that Kenan Ayas was the regional leader of the PKK in<br\/>Hamburg and Cologne from 2018 to 2020. He based this charge only on intelligence information, which<br\/>could not be questioned by the defense, and one-sidedly interpreted text messages and phone calls,<br\/>which he attributed to Kenan Ayas. In fact, however, his plea showed that the evidence cited in support<br\/>of the prosecution&#8217;s allegations is not reliable and that the line of argument is informed by the objectives<br\/>of the prosecution and circular and contradictory.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">At the end of his plea, the prosecutor requested that Kenan Ayas be sentenced to 4 years and 6 months<br\/>in prison.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">This disproportionate sentence which the prosecutor asked for is an expression of harsh attitude of the<br\/>Federal Public Prosecutor towards the PKK. It also disregards the fact that Kenan Ayas has no criminal<br\/>record, that he was unjustly imprisoned in Turkey for many years, that he was severely tortured and that,<br\/>even according to prosecutor, he can only be accused of a few specific and non-violent acts. This is to<br\/>sanction the fact that Kenan Ayas has neither confessed nor repented, that has not called himself a<br\/>&#8222;terrorist&#8220;, but has taken a clear and unbending stance for the Kurdish cause.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">The closing arguments of Kenan Ayas&#8216; three defense lawyers will follow on July 2, 2024. At the next<br\/>hearing, probably on July 9th, Kenan Ayas will be granted the so-called last word. He will have the<br\/>opportunity to explain his view of the trial and the charges in detail.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Berlin\/Frankfurt\/Nicosia, June 19, 2024<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attorney Antonia von der Behrens, Berlin<br\/>Attorney Stephan Kuhn, Frankfurt am Main<br\/>Attorney Efstathios C. Efstathiou, Nicosia, Cyprus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generalbundesanwalt fordert 4 Jahre und 6 Monate Freiheitsstrafe f\u00fcr Kenan Ayas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-presseerklaerungen"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.kenanwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/peace.jpg?fit=999%2C562&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenanwatch.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenanwatch.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenanwatch.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenanwatch.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenanwatch.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenanwatch.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235413,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenanwatch.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235408\/revisions\/235413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenanwatch.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenanwatch.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenanwatch.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenanwatch.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}