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c) First supplementary statement
431. Mr Güven mentioned contact with a PKK member called Ahmet
Elçi. The latter was in charge of the incidents in Cizre during Newroz in
1992.
432. Hüsniye Ölmez was asked on behalf of the PKK to find a buyer for
furniture left in the apartment of a detained PKK member, F.A., who had
been jailed. She did not manage to do so.
433. Mesut Beştaş acted as a courier for the PKK, transmitting notes.
For example, once he passed information to a person called Fehim (code
name Kocer) who was wanted by the security forces, and he also took notes
to the militia members called Cevat and Mahmut.
d) Second supplementary statement
434. Mr Güven alleged the involvement of Hüsniye Ölmez in the
disposal of the furniture of a PKK detainee, with the initials C.K.
2. Statement of Abdülhakim Güven before the State Security Court Public
Prosecutor on 7 December 1993
435. Mr Güven stated that he had become a PKK sympathiser after
being influenced by PKK propaganda provided by a certain Ahmet Elçi. He
later met a PKK member (code name - Beriwan) at the house of Tahir Elçi,
and thereafter began working for the organisation as a courier, propaganda
and activity organiser, recruiter and fund raiser. After his capture, he
became the PKK's political representative in the Third Dormitory of the
Diyarbakır E-Type Prison, where plans were made to kill prison warders.
There were also plans concerning turned confessors. To this end,
Sebahattim Acar delivered cyanide to him and Bakir Demırhan brought him
a flick knife. However, these items were found in the confessors' dormitory
before they could be used.
436. Tahir Elçi had conveyed messages to Cizre by way of notes placed
in an address book. Mesut Beştaş also took notes to Mr Güven's friends.
Hüsniye Ölmez, Meral Daniş Beştaş, Bakir Demırhan, Vedat Erten and
Mehmet Selim Kurbanoğlu frequently carried organisational notes and
educational materials to other prisons and the rural section of the
organisation. Fuat Hayri Demır did so less often. Şinasi Tur maintained
relations between the prison and the rural section, conveying journals and
conference reports. Mr and Mrs Şahin and Mr Çem maintained the coordination between the European and İstanbul organisations and between
İstanbul and the prisons. Gazanfer Abbasioğlu acted as a courier and
maintained contacts between the Diyarbakır and Gaziantep prisons.
437. Various applicants complained of the excessive pressure being
placed on members to become confessors by Prosecutor Tanju at the State