Police Officer Fired For Attending Rights Panel on His Day Off
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A police officer who on his day off attended a panel organized by a rights group was dismissed from his position for “unbecoming conduct”.
Ercan Elmastas attended a panel on the Constitution organized by a Kurdish rights organization, the Rights and Freedoms Front (HÖC), at the Tunceli Municipal Conference Hall on Nov. 11, 2007 as a guest, but it cost him his job. The panel was organized legally. The speakers included a lawyer and the local leaders of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) and Labor Party (EMEP).
The Tunceli Governor’s Office and the Police Discipline Commission decided to fire Elmatas for attending a panel that did not have a scientific, cultural or technical content and was organized by an association of which the police department is not a member.
Investigators did not find Elmastas’s statement credible that he attended the panel as a social activity and that he had opted to go to the panel instead of going to a coffee house or the cinema. Moreover, video records of the panel show that … he even clapped when the speakers were done.
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