Educator Ismet Ozcelik was abducted on May 4, 2017 in Malaysia through some elements of the Malaysian intelligence, who are cooperating with MIT. Ozcelik, who was given a protection card by the United Nations, was brought to Turkey on May 12 after his forced abduction and arrested in Ankara on May 24. The United Nations has demanded Ozcelik’s release. However, Ozcelik, who received a 10-year prison sentence, is still under arrest, despite the fact that he had a heart attack and was seriously ill with heart and diabetes.

Ismet Ozcelik, who was sentenced to 9 years and 11 months in prison on charges of depositing money to Bank Asia, which the Constitutional Court ruled would not be evidence for membership in a terrorist organization, and membership in the organization on the grounds of Bylock, suffered a heart attack twice in Denizli T-Type Prison in July 2019. He was taken to the doctor 15 days after the heart attack. Requests for release were denied.
Ismet Ozcelik was living his life as an educator before the July 15 coup attempt. He was in the administration of Konya Mevlana University. His wife Hatice Ozcelik was a teacher at a private school. After the closure and confiscation of both the university and the private school by the decisions of the KHK and OHAL, the Ozcelik family decided to go to their son in Malaysia.

Ismet Ozcelik, who became the target of witch hunts and capture attempts against members of the Hizmet Movement abroad, was released after his first detention with his son Suheyl. The Malaysian authorities did not take the charges against Ozcelik seriously. Ozcelik applied for UN protection during this process and was accepted. However, Turgay Karaman, the director of the international school at Ipoh, and Ihsan Aslan, a businessman, were detained on May 2, 2017 by ‘unidentified persons’. The Turkish side and MIT, which cannot bring any reasonable charges against the educators, have almost set up a new trap this time with the slander of ISIS. The reason why the Malaysian authorities tried to explain the unlawful detention with the reference to ‘MALAYSIA’s security’ and ‘ISIS activities’ was because of this game of MIT and kidnapping gang. On May 4, 2017, university administrator Ismet Ozcelik, who was this time in Malaysia, was detained on similar charges. Ozcelik had been detained with his son before and was later released by the Malaysian authorities. However, Turkey brought him to Ankara by resorting to all kinds of lawlessness and kidnapping 3 educators in front of the eyes of the world public.

While these developments were taking place, the South and East Asia office of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Center expressed ‘serious concerns’ about 3 Turkish citizens detained illegally in Malaysia via a text posted on Facebook and Twitter on May 2 and 4. “We are concerned that these people have been targeted because of their alleged links to the Gulen Movement, which was accused of the coup in July 2016,” said Laurent Meillan, the director of the office headquartered in Bangkok. As an example, in October 2016, two Turkish citizens were detained on their way back to Turkey from Malaysia and sent to Turkey for arrest. Meillan also called on the Malaysian government to ‘give three people in custody a fair trial’ and said that ‘if they are extradited to Turkey, concerns will be raised about their safety’. However, despite being placed under UN protection, Özçelik, along with two other names, was smuggled to Turkey.
Ozcelik, who was arrested on charges of depositing money to Bank Asia and using Bylock, was sentenced to 9 years and 11 months in prison on July 25, 2019 after almost two arrests. After the charges against Bylock and Bank Asya were dropped, Ozcelik was sentenced to crimes that were not included in the court indictment.
THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION’S DECISION TO RELEASE HIM HAS NOT BEEN IMPLEMENTED
The United Nations Human Rights Commission on the abduction and arrest of Ismet Ozcelik had called for his immediate release and given the Turkish authorities 180 days to comply with the decision. In addition, the UN Commission ruled that Ozcelik be compensated for arbitrary detention. The main noteworthy element in the UN resolution was that no arrests could be made due to Bylock and Bank Asia.
The UN resolution was raised at the previous hearing, but Konya 2. The Criminal Court did not take into account the decision. At the sentencing hearing today, a remarkable development took place. In its reasoned decision, the court did not include charges of using Bylock and depositing funds to Bank Asia.
WITNESS STATEMENTS WERE NOT INCLUDED IN THE DECISION
8 Witnesses testified in the indictment against Ozcelik, but all of these witnesses retracted their statements. After that, a witness was brought to the hearing again and renewed his testimony which he gave at the Police Station. Ozcelik had opposed the claims of this witness in his defense. The verdict also did not include the testimony of the last witness left in the hands of the prosecutor’s office.
During the trial, the prosecutor presented a review of the new crimes not included in the indictment. He demanded that Özçelik be sentenced to the upper limit on charges of membership and organizational propaganda. In dictum; Ozcelik’s work as an insured in institutions belonging to the Hizmet Movement and sharing links to media institutions that were closed in 2015 in his shares on Facebook were shown as evidence of his membership and propaganda.
Ismet Ozcelik had been returned to Turkey by the UNHCR despite having a protection card.
THE DECISION WAS WRITTEN BEFORE HE COULD MAKE HIS DEFENSE
At the hearing on July 27, 2019, Ozcelik was unable to attend the hearing due to a malfunction in the SEGBIS system, while the prosecutor’s office opinion was submitted. In the meantime, the court has begun to write the deci-sion. Contrary to the procedure of the trial, the verdict began to be written before the final defense of the accused was received, while the technical problem was solved and Ozcelik was connected to the trial.
Ozcelik’s last words were briefly taken. Because he could not hear the new charges made in the dictum, Ozcelik had to defend not against them, but against the old crimes that were not put in the opinion.
Then the court panel sentenced him for membership in the organization and propaganda in accordance with the prosecutor’s request. Ozcelik was sentenced to a total of 9 years and 11 months in prison.
Hatice Ozcelik told Kronos about what happened in an interview she gave on March 19, 2020. Ozcelik stated that her husband was abducted 9 months after leaving for Malaysia, and explained the illegalities they experienced during this process as follows:
“During this time, they tried to abduct my husband twice. We crossed into Malaysia on August 17th. On December 13, 2016, five people in civilian clothes arrived at our door. When we asked who they were, they said that a paper had been sent to them by the Turkish Embassy without showing us their identity and that the Turkish government wanted my wife. They said they wanted to deliver my husband to Turkey. After that, we asked for an official document, but they started beating my wife without showing a document. By the way, we called the police right away. My son was not at home, so I called my son and called a few acquaintances. They kept hitting my husband. These took place in front of the eyes of my daughter, who was 12 years old at the time. Then the police came. He introduced himself as a civilian policeman and asked us for a passport. We trusted him because he was a policeman and we gave him our passport because we have a visa, there is no situation that we will hesitate about. There was a discussion because those who came earlier did not show us an identity card or an official document, but when the civilian police showed their identity, we trusted them and gave it to them. However, the civilian police gave the passport to one of the other five people who arrived. That’s how the police took my husband, son and three friends we called away in handcuffs. Of course, they took my husband away by kicking and slapping her.”
THEY ACCUSED HIM OF CANCELING THE VISA AND SAYING THAT HE IS STAYING WITHOUT A VISA
The day after Ismet Ozcelik was taken away, first his passport and then his visa were canceled. After the cancellation of his visa, Ismet Ozcelik was put in a prison in Malaysia, the conditions of which were quite severe, saying “he is staying without a visa”.
Ismet Ozcelik’s son and a friend were detained for 15 days while Ozcelik stayed 51 days. “During this time, we contacted the United Nations, and my husband was released on parole on the initiative of the UN, but his passport was not issued. The UN issued a card to my husband. Despite this card, they released him on parole and said that the trial would continue. On May 4, my husband was kidnapped again while we were waiting for the outcome of the trial.”
“YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE A CAMERA RECORDING, YOU WILL NOT BROADCAST IT ANYWHERE!”
In the second abducting case, there were very interesting situations. “Together with my son and a friend, they had left home to go out of town. Hatice Ozcelik said, that day when they wanted to buy gasoline at the gas station, civilians took her husband with 5-6 vehicles. And they said to her son: ”We will leave you, but we will take your father, but you will not get the camera records, you will not decipher the incident anywhere, and you will not receive information about your father for a month, you and your lawyer will not be informed.He will appear in court on May 15, if he has no connection with any terrorist organization, he will be released, but if he has a connection, he will be handed over to Turkey.” That’s just the explanation given to us. On the night connecting May 11 to May 12, Malaysian authorities handed my husband over to Turkey without any explanation. On the morning of May 12, the Malaysian police made a post on their social media account stating that my husband had been delivered to Turkey.”
HE WAS SENT TO TURKEY WITHOUT GOING TO COURT
Hatice Ozcelik, who noted that both Turkey and Malaysia have violated the law, says that her husband was handed over without even appearing in court in Malaysia. The Malaysian authorities have told them that if there is an allegation against them, they will appear in court, if they have a connection with terrorist organizations, they will be handed over, but if they have no connection, they will continue to stay in Malaysia.
However, she says the Malaysian authorities have not stood by their words. She continues to explain: “They sent him to Turkey on May 12 without any information to us, without going to court in any way, without taking a statement, without knowing where he is, on what terms he is being held. We found out about this after my husband left. Then we found out that he was in Ankara Sincan by our own efforts. We were unable to establish any contact. About a month later we found out that he was transferred to Denizli. I don’t know the dates clearly, because my husband and I have no communication at all. In order to contact my wife, I am asked to get a line on my behalf and specify a residence address. They said that I personally should apply for residency. Normally, I gave a relative of mine a power of attorney with international validity so that he could handle all kinds of official business. But when a relative of mine went to apply for a residence permit, the local officer said that this should also be approved by the Turkish Embassy. The embassy doesn’t approve my power of attorney. Normally, there are no such conditions, it’s an arbitrary process.”
“WHY DID THEY THREATEN US TO SHUT UP IF MY HUSBAND IS A TERRORIST?”
And “I also want to ask,” says Hatice Ozcelik: “If these people are official people, why did they threaten my son after taking my husband, saying ‘camera records will not be taken and published on social media or anywhere else’? This is not a warning, this is a threat. Why did they need such a thing? If they believed that they had handed over a terrorist, shouldn’t they have shared it openly in the media? Or is there a different agreement, a different contract, a different complicity between them and Turkey? Honestly, I’m curious about this.”
RESOURCES:
https://kronos34,news/en/esi-from malaysia-kacirilan-khadija-ozcelik-mercy-not-justice-I want/
https://www.boldapp.de/2019/07/25/malezyadan-kacirilan-ismet-ozcelike-son-savunmasi-alinmadan-10-yil-ceza/

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