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Beykoz Operation was a Turkish raid against the Kurdish Hezbollah on January 17, 2000, in Beykoz, Istanbul. The raid killed Huseyin Velioglu and severely weakened Hezbollah.[1]
Background
Niyazi Palabıyık, the Deputy Chief of Police who led the raid, a few days before the raid stated “look at a person's hand, after the hand comes the fingers. If the PKK is the thumb, the index finger is Hezbollah! The main purpose of these is to establish a state through Kurdism.” A villa on Mühendis Street in Kavacık in Beykoz was found before the operation, and it was confirmed to be a cell house operated by Hezbollah, it was also confirmed that in the house were Huseyin Velioglu, the general leader of Hezbollah, as well as Edip Gümüş, the leader of Hezbollah's military wing, and Cemal Tutar, a high-ranking member of the military wing.[2][3]
Operation
Niyazi Palabayık announced that the Turkish police “pressed the button” on January 17, 2000 and raided the villa. They had a meeting at the police station before the raid. After coming to a conclusion that it was a cell house belonging to Hezbollah, they started the operation. The police were met with heavy bullets as they came near the house, the clashes led to Velioğlu being killed and Gümüş and Tutar being caught alive. Before his death, Velioğlu shot at all the computers that were in the house. The police extracted 180 thousand pages of documents of evidence from those computers, including plans, murders, tortures, and camera records. The Turkish government also did a crackdown on Hezbollah in the few months after the raid and arrested around 6,000 members and affiliates.[4][5]
Aftermath
Many trials took place against Gümüş, Tutar, and other alleged members of Hezbollah. They all claimed to have been tortured by Turkish authorities, in which the claims of torture are mentioned in Urgent Actions (UA) of Amnesty International.[6]
In the trial of Edip Gümüş and Cemal Tutar, another alleged Hezbollah member named Fahrettin Özdemir said on 10 July 2000 that he had been in jail for 59 days and had been tortured. In the court hearing on 11 September 2000, Cemal Tutar claimed to have been held in police custody for 180 days.[3] The trials ended on December 2009. The Hezbollah members received various different prison sentences.[7] After an amendment to the Turkish criminal code that set a limit of 10 years on the time detainees can be held without being sentenced in a final verdict,[8] eighteen members of Turkish Hezbollah, including Edip Gümüs and Cemal Tutar, were released on 4 January 2011.[9] Turkish authorities issued arrest warrants on all the released ones, although many of the high-ranking ones escaped and were never seen since the warrants were issues.[9] Niyazi Palabıyık, who led the operation, referred to Hezbollah as "a very barbaric organization" and demanded for them to be instantly re-arrested.[10]
On April 2nd, 2019, the house was put up for sale for 2,142,000 TL after being abandoned for 19 years.[11]
References
- ^ Aydıntaşbaş, Aslı (June 2000). "Murder on the Bosphorus". Middle East Quarterly. VII (2): 15–22. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
- ^ https://t24.com.tr/haber/beykoz-daki-hizbullah-operasyonunu-yoneten-emniyet-muduru-ilk-kez-konustu-250-insanin-katili-hizbullahci-edip-gumus-u-tahliye-ettiler,1101379
- ^ a b An online edition of the Annual Report 2000 of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey Archived 2012-02-26 at the Wayback Machine is available on the website of the Democratic Turkey Forum
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ The real challenge to secular Turkey, The Economist, 31 Aug 2006
- ^ See: EXTRA 64/01 of 14 September 2001 (Hacı Bayancık), UA 218/01 of 4 September 2001 (Hacı Elhunisuni), UA 209/01 of 22 August 2001 (Yasın Karadağ), UA 194/10 of 31 July 2001 (Edip Balık), UA 317/00 of 17 October 2000 (Fesih und Hatice Güler)
- ^ Radikal, 31 December 2009, Hizbullah'a 10 yıl sonra 16 müebbet / Türkiye / Radikal İnternet. Radikal.com.tr (2009-12-31). Retrieved on 2011-02-09.
- ^ Sebnem Arsu (4 January 2011). "After a Court Ruling, Turkey Frees 23 Suspected Militants". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
- ^ a b Gürbüz, Mustafa (2013). Bilgin, Fevzi; Sarihan, Ali (eds.). Understanding Turkey's Kurdish Question. Lexington Books. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-7391-8402-8.
- ^ https://www.veryansintv.com/hizbullahin-karargah-evini-basan-emniyetci-ilk-kez-konustu/
- ^ https://dostbeykoz.com/hizbullah-in-beykoz-daki-villasi-satisa-cikiyor#google_vignette