CoE honors Journalists risking for Truth on Crimes after revelation on Adali Murder link to Missing

+ Meanwhile the 1998 "Susurlik" Scandal had also, reportedly, revealed that at least a Band of Thugs led by Gang-leaders Abdullah Çatlı and Mehmet Ozbay, (similar to those who were linked to Drug-Dealers' and/or "Missing" Persons, Organ Trafficking, a.o. Networks from Afghanistan to Pakistan, Iran and Turkey, etc., similar to those denounced by Franco-Algerian Journalist Karim Baila : Comp. Supra his Statements to "EuroFora" on the occasion of the Falcone Prize award), had visited Cyprus exactly at the time of Adal's Murder, as it was reported later-on by several other sources.

Curiously, even if Adali's cold-blood Murder, with 5 Bullets shot at the Head in front of his Family Home in Occupied Kyrenia, (for which ECHR strongfly Condemned Turkey, in a 2005 Judgement, because it didn't ever do any Efficient Investigation to Find ad Punish the Killers), was linked together with that of Ukranian dissident Journalist Gongadje, whose be-headed Skull (a sign notoriously Typical of Extremist Islamists, as in the case of Tibehirine Monks : Comp. Supra) was found shortly after he went "Missing" at Kiev, (giving also way to another famous ECHR Judgement of the same Year : 2005, condemning Ukraine for lack of effective investigations on the Jouralist's Murder), nevertheless, these 2 "Twin" cases had, until now, an Astonishingly Differend sort, when Politics inevitably started to play a role, at the "Execution" stage, inside CoE's Committee of Ministers :

- In the Ukranian "Gongadje" case, that CoE's Committee of Ministers still continues to Monitor, the Authorities of Kiev were obliged to Find, Arrest and Condemn to Jail at least 2 Suspect Killers, soon followed also by a 3rd, suspected to have Hired them, as well as to accept an International Monitoring, through the Active Participation, f.ex., of USA's FBI Agents in he on-going attempts to find also the 1st instigator.

- On the Contrary, in "Adali"s case, CoE's Committee of Ministers has Curiously abandoned already any attempt to find and punish anyone among those responsible for the Murder, even if the respondent Authorities, those of Turkey, didn't ever find, nor caught anyone among the Killers, nor among the Payers, and even less among the iInstigators : None at all, totally Failing 100% to do any Efficient Investigation ! Moreover, the Adali case's ECHR Judgement suddenly "Disappeared" from CoE's Committee of Ministers' List on June 2010, I.e. precisely when Turkey took over the rotating Chairmanship on the Execution of ECHR's Judgements, 6 Months before assuming also the overall Political Chair of the CoE, towards 2010's End... (See http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/adalimurderinvestigationstopedwhenturkeychairscoe.html? )

According to some CoE's sources, the ECHR's landmark 2005 Judgement in the Adali case, would have been .. "Silently" erased from the List of Pending Cases at the ¨PanEuroepan Organization's Committee of Ministers, through a Procedure which allows such kind of moves, if a case is included in a Long List of various cases which are considered as implicitly "Closed" if Nobody Objects in a period of 3 or 6 Months' time...

>>> Despite those apparently Scandalous Facts, nevertheless, ECHR's landmark Judgements on the Murders of Adali and Gongadze, in Occupied Cyprus and in Ukraine, respectively, both published in Strasbourg on 2005, currently serve as Top Examples for the General Principles on States' Obligation to make Effective Investigations on the Killings of Journalists, as presented in the most Recent COE's Publicationb on "Standard-setting" for the "Protection of Journalists", according to a 2013 Report by Professor Leach, which was examined a few Days Earlier, during the PanEuropean Conference of Ministers on Media and Communication at Belgrade, Serbia, this November 2013 ! (See, hereby, relevant PHOTO on the "Principles which can be drawn from the case- law of the European Court of Human Rights relating to the protection and safety of journalists", presented at the CoE's Conference on Ministers responsible for Media and Information society, on "Freedom of PExpression and Democracy in the Digital Society", 7-8 November 2017)...

So Huge Contradictions should reflect Big Political Stakes, in order to explain such a Scandalous practice, back on 2010-2011, which doesn't really honour CoE's reputation !.. .

=> In an attempt to at least alleviate the desastrous Impression that inevitably leave such Political manouvering inside CoE's Committee of Ministers' Secretariat, the Experienced long-time ECHR's Grand Chamber's Jurisconsult, Author of many Books on ECHR's case-law, and currently Professor at the University of Bruges, (Belgium), etc., replying to an "EuroFora"s Question, didn't exclude at all a Possibility to find a way to re-open the Adali case, until an efficient investigation is done, according to CoE's General Principles :

- F.ex. eiher by lodging a New Application at the ECHR, eventually arguying of the "New Facts" recently revealed on this case of manifold Importance (Comp. Supra), and/or by inviting CoE's Committee of Ministers to simply "Re-Open" its own Supervision of the Execution of ECHR's 2005 Judgement in this case, (given particulrly the Fact that, neither many Victims' Families, nor CoE's competent body, hadn't been informed, until now, of the serious Importance that the Adali case could, indeed, have, particularly if Sener Levent's November 15, 2013 Article reveals, indeed, more or less well, a real problem....

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+ Just a few Days later, an exceptional, official call was launched by new Cyprus' President Nicos Anastassiades on "the Issue of Missing Prersons in Cyprus", characterized as the "Most Tragic Dimension of the Drama that the People of Cyprus live through for a few Decades now". Specially their "Families", who "experience this drama Every Day", during "Half a Century for all those who have Missing Persons dating from the events of 1963-1964, and for nearly 4 Decades for all those who lost track of their own People during the (Turkish Foreign Military) Invasion" of 1974, and who "are Tormented and .. Suffering from the Agony and the Uncertainty, the Doubt and the Fear about the Fate of their Loved ones", he reminded.

- Meanwhile, "the Time Limits for the Effective Investigation of the Fate of our Missing have Narrowed, and are being Exhausted with every Day that goes by", Anastassiades warned.

=> Therefore, Cyprus' President "appeal(ed) to all those who Know or have Information about the Sites where there are Burried Missing Turkish Cypriots or Missing Greek Cypriots and falled from the 1963-1964 period and/or the Two Phases of the (Turkish Foreign Military) Invasion of 1974, .... to provide the appropriate Authorities and the (UN-sponsored) Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) with all the Evidence in their possession".

- In his regard, "the Primary and Indispensable Condition for the Entire Process of the Investigation" to start, develop and conclude efficiently, "is to Secure the Necessary Information", including, in particular, "to Locate and Excavate the Sites where Missing (Persons) are Burried", as "the First and decisive Step, the 1st Phase for the Beginning of the Arduous Scientific Process that Follows" furher-on, he observed.

- Because, "we must Now Act Decisively, to Find and Open the Graves", as welll as "to give Answers to the Relatives of the Missing about the Fate of their loved ones, and to Heal the Wounds of the Past", as he said, knowing that ECHR's well-established case-law always asks, in such kind of serious cases of grave violations of Human Rights, that Full and Effective Investigations go as far as to Find and Punish those Responsible for the Victims' Enforced Disappearances.

- For "this purpose", "I expect from All those who can Contribute .... by providing Information and Evidence, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, to perform their Ethical, Humanitarian and Patriotic Duty", including, naturally, the respondent State, (already Condemned by the ECHR more than Twice for having Failed to do so until now), i.e. "Turkey, in particular, to Respect its Legal Obligatiuons and its (CoE) Treaty Commitmentrs, and to Contribute Decisively to the Solutiuon of this Enormous and Lingering Humanitarian Issue", President Anastassiades added.

=> This can be done mainly "by Opening the Archives of the Turkish Military, and by Allowing Free Access to the CMP ... to the Military Areas in the Occupied Territories" of Cyprus, (still controlled by Ankara's Invasion Army since 1974(, "but also in Its Own Territory", (i.e. at Turkey's mainland, where f.ex. many Greek Cypriots had been notoriously Imprisoned, and later-on transfered back to the Island, according to an agreement with the International Red Cross Committee), he concluded.

On this occasion, Cyprus' President also thanked "Thank(ed) publicly the Government of Kuwait for.. provid(ing) the Amount of 200.000 € to cover the needs of the (UN) Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus", (i.e. practicaly the ...Double from what the Responsible State : Turkey gave to the CMP this year : Only 100.000 €).

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- But, on the Contrary, "it is Astonishing" that Turkey "is allowed to get away with this Inaction and Silence", all those years, which "actually amounts to what, in Common (as well as in US) Law would be considered as "Contempt of Court"", denounced one of the most Experienced Lawyers of Victims' Families in the "Varnava" case of 9 "Missing" Greek Cypriots, where Ankara's Government was strongly Condemned by the ECHR on 2010, for having Violated the Human Rights to Life, to respect of Family and for Inhuman/Degrading Treatments, for Lack of Efficient Remedies, etc, (in addition to the landmark ECHR's 1st Judgement in the InterState "Cyprus v. Turkey" case of 2001), Achileas Demetriades.

=> In a Letter sent to Strasbourg Today, he, "therefore, Call(ed) upon the (CoE's) Committee of Ministers to Take whatever further Action is required to Bring about the Enforcement of the said Judgement", in Varnavas' case, (Comp. Supra) .

A much needed ReAction, since, more than 8 Years after a Controversial process initially focusing on CMP's too Limited Mandate just for establishing the Identity of "Missing" Persons' remains, without ever doing any among the Necessary Forensic Investigations in order to Discover what really Happened to them, Find and Punish those Responsible for their Enforced Disappearance, (as ECHR's Judgements repeatedly asked Turkey to do), only about 400 out of the more than 2.000 Missing Greek and Turkish Cypriots have been found, and, among them, some rudimentary "Criminal Investigations" have reportedly "started" in Less than 300 cases, but ... NONE of them hasN't yet produced Any Result at all, (as a Letter sent by Turkey today reveals) !

+ At the same time, (as "EuroFora"s co-Founder has repeatedly Denounced in the Past, already since February 2007), according to pertinent Informations given to us both by well-informed CoE's sources, as well as mainstream International NGO's on Human Rights, such as AMNESTY, Human Rights' WATCH, etc, the fact that CMP's initial Mandate is so Limited (Comp. Supra), provokes a real Danger for precious material Evidence of serious Crimes to be Destroyed for ever, during that controversial process of Exhumations of Victims' remains, without Any Forensic Examination, but Returning, neverthemess, the remains to the Families, most of them in order to Burry the Victims' bodies, etc., with the inevitable Risk to even unknowingly Erase any Proof of what really Happened to them :

Something which becomes Obvious when one considers the fact that ECHR, f.ex., could only distinguish, in a case of a Person found Dead in Turkey, if he had been just Killed during an Exchange of Armed Fire, as Turkish Authorities claimed, or, on the contrary, Murdered in cold-blood, by Gun Shots fired at Short Range, while being hold as a Defenseless Prisoner, just by making some Chemical Tests for GunPowder on the Victim's Shirt !... (Or, f.ex. that a dead body might have resulted from a cold-blood Murder, or, on the contrary, from a Border-crossing Accident, accoding to the exact Position of the Victims' Bones in relation with a nearby Guards' Stop, etc).

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