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In the indictment prepared by the Istanbul Prosecutor General’s Office of Press Crimes Investigation, it was recalled that the prosecution launched an investigation into the incident. According to footage from the day of the incident, it was claimed that suspects DD and SCU posted a picture with a depiction of Shahmaran in the Kaaba photo and the LGBTI + emblem on all sides on a panel at 12:45 p.m. in the display area. of the Boğaziçi University campus area on January 29, 2021. According to the report by university security officers, the suspects were warned that the religious symbols in the image were degrading, but the suspects claimed that HK and SNB stated that the panel in question was under their responsibility and that they would take care of an issue. Some students in the group stated that the image should be removed as it is against religious values, but the suspects participated in the accusation that HK and SNB would not remove the image. Subsequently, suspects CB, EK and R. Ö. They addressed the Bosphorus Rectorate saying “The painting with a figure of Shahmaran has disappeared. We want the necessary investigations to be carried out at 5:00 pm ”, it was explained that they signed a petition.
THE ACCOUNTS REJECTED
In the indictment, it was claimed that the suspect SCU, who is a student at the ITU School of Architecture, and the suspect DD, a student at Boğaziçi University, did not hang the painting in question, and other suspects, also from Boğaziçi, stated that they were not organizing the exhibition and rejected the accusations.
“THEIR DEFENSES ARE ANTI-THE ORDINARY FLOW OF LIFE”
In the indictment, in which the suspects participated as participants or organizers of the exhibition, it was emphasized that the defenders who did not know who prepared the painting subject to the crime, which they called a “work”, and that they did not know who was hanged, they aim to get rid of crime and are contrary to the usual flow of life.
“SUPPORT THE PURPOSE OF DRIVING HATE AND HATE”
In the indictment, in the background image used in the image that is the subject of the crime, the mythological creature known as Shahmaran / Goddess is positioned to cover the part of the Kaaba, where the Kaaba is located, which is considered the most sacred . place on earth by Muslims, it is placed in the four corners of the image as LGBTI +, It was emphasized that the emblems representing the gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex community were placed and the painting was left for a time and was showed in this form. In the accusation, which includes the article that hangs below the image, it is stated that “the text also supports the purpose of inciting hatred and hatred towards the fact that is the object of the crime and intensifies the intentions of the suspects, that there is a clear and imminent danger in terms of public safety, that the incident provoked a serious public reaction, that the action was abstract disrespect and that it is suitable to provide hostile attitudes towards or reinforce these attitudes beyond rejection.
WILL BE TRIAL IN THE CRIMINAL COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE
In the indictment, suspects DD and SCU and other suspects EK, HK, MB, SNB, R. Ö, who were arrested on January 30, were asked to be sentenced from 1 year to 3 years each for the charge. of “public incitement to hatred and hostility”. If the accusation is accepted, the suspects will appear before the judge of the Istanbul Criminal Court of First Instance in the next few days.
A BOOK IS SEIZED
On the other hand, it was noted that a raid was carried out inside the university and in the LGBTI + work club, a board was hung with the image of the subject of the crime and a book with the cover of a publishing house with the symbol of the organization PKK terrorist was seized. It was also stated in the indictment that the terrorist prosecution carried out a separate investigation into the book in question.
