Criminal submission to 22 officers in case “Gylenists”
(7 years ago)Kosovo's Special Prosecutor has confirmed to Radio Free Europe that she has accepted criminal charges from the Kosovo Police Inspectorate against 22 Kosovo Police officials in connection with the expulsion of six Turkish citizens from Kosovo more than a year ago. This case is also known as the case “Gylenists”. According to the prosecution, criminal outcry [...]
Kosovo's Special Prosecutor has confirmed to Radio Free Europe that she has accepted criminal charges from the Kosovo Police Inspectorate against 22 Kosovo Police officials in connection with the expulsion of six Turkish citizens from Kosovo more than a year ago.
This case is also known as the case “Gylenists”.
According to the prosecution, the criminal outcry was made by the Kosovo Police Inspectorate.
The Special Prosecutor of the Republic of Kosovo has accepted criminal notification from the IPK against 22 defendants, while interviewing other defendants about the case”, has said in a response to Radio Free Europe, Ekrem Lutfiu, a state prosecutor official for the media.
In March 2018, at the request of Turkish authorities, Kosovo authorities had arrested and deported six Turkish citizens to Turkey.
For the six Turkish citizens, Ankara suspects they are members of the organisation “Hizmet”, of Turkish religious leader Fetullah Gulen.
The latter, Turkish authorities blame him for a coup effort in Turkey in 2016.
Their deportation had prompted harsh reactions from Western states, but also former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj himself, who had declared he was unaware of this operation.
On June 28th, 2018, the Kosovo Assembly founded the Parliamentary Investigative Commission for lighting up the Kosovo expulsion case of six Turkish citizens.