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Dr. Jan van Aken Member of the German Bundestag Fig 2: Extracts from a secret order from the Turkish military as printed by Turkish newspaper Ikibine Dogru on 23 July 1989. Of course, it is possible that this copy is a fake. However, there are no reasons to assume so. Moreover, the Turkish government remains silent with regard to this document. In 2004 we wrote to the man who signed the order, former General Necdet Öztorun, and met him personally in Istanbul. However, he refused to comment on the document. The German Federal 4
Dr. Jan van Aken Member of the German Bundestag Government was informed about the document in October 2010. In January 2011 the Federal Foreign Office reported that it had made attempts to establish whether this secret order had ever actually existed. This could not, however, be clarified. It is not clear whether the Federal Government approached the Turkish government directly with this question at the time. 7 4. Use of tear-gas grenades for training purposes In 2004 the Turkish television channel TRT 1 broadcast a documentary about a Turkish antiterrorist unit. 8 It showed soldiers practising using tear gas in army combat missions. In one scenario, following the deployment of explosive grenades, tear-gas grenades were thrown into a cave in order to incapacitate any survivors (see Fig. 3). In another exercise, when capturing a village, soldiers blew up a house and then used tear gas to force possible survivors out of a well. Fig 3: Stills from a television programme on TRT 1 in May 2004. The yellow smoke visible in the right-hand image is probably a training chemical. Although the CWC permits the use of tear gas for domestic police use, the exercises shown here are clearly of a military nature. This kind of use is prohibited under the terms of the CWC. 7 Progress report from the Federal Foreign Office from January 2011 entitled “Türkei – Vorfall beim Kampf gegen die PKK in 2009” (“Turkey – an incident in the fight against the PKK in 2009”) 8 Broadcast by TRT 1 on 8 May 2004 in the programme TSK Saati 5
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