Belgium harbors and protects international terrorists

[Baba­Bey the Turk]

Belgium harbors and protects international terrorists

Terrorist Heaven Belgium

Fehriye Erdal is a PKK terrorist who murdered Özdemir Sabanci, brother
of late famous businessman Sakip Sabanci. She was captured in Belgium
but the right-wing government of Belgium refuses to extradict her to Turkey,
nor brings her to trial. The Belgian state is protecting the terrorist Fehriye Erdal.

Under this government Belgium has become a terrorist heaven,
a country where internationally sought terrorists of the PKK and the DHKP-C
freely walk the streets of Belgium.

The Belgian state is harboring and protecting international terrorists.


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehriye_Erdal

Fehriye Erdal

Fehriye Erdal is a female Kurdish Left-wing activist from Turkey suspected of terrorism.

Early life

Fehriye Erdal was born on February 25, 1977 in Kangal, Sivas Province, Turkey,
to Kurdish Alevi parents. Shortly after her birth, the family moved to Adana.
When Fehriye and her sister went on to study at university in Istanbul,
her family moved along with them. There, she studied political and social science.
It is during this time that she came into contact with the Marxist-Leninist DHKP-C,
considered as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.

Sabanci Assassination

In the summer of 1995, Erdal got a job at a cleaning firm, which allowed her
access to the Sabanci Towers. It is now widely accepted that this was part
of the preparatory work for the murder. On January 9, 1996, Fehriye Erdal
claimed that she had lost her badge to gain access to the building and
requested the use of a colleague's badge. Using this badge, she allowed
two armed men, Mustafa Duyar and Ismail Akkol, to enter the Sabanci building.
The two men, who were assassins associated with DHKP-C, were led to the
executive floor by Erdal, and proceeded to shoot and kill Özdemir Sabanci,
Sabanci Holding CEO Haluk Görgün and a secretary, Nilgün Hasefe.
Erdal had fled the scene before the murder was even discovered.
This contradicted her earliest explanation that she left to escape false
accusations because of her well-known DHKP-C sympathy. Özdemir Sabanci was
at that time one of the internationally well-known businessmen in Turkey
and head of the Toyota Factory in Turkey. Sabanci family has been one of
the richest families of Turkey since the establishment of Turkish Republic.

Capture and Belgian trial

In 1996, Erdal fled her country as a wanted fugitive. No sign of her appeared
until she was arrested for possession of weapons in Belgium in 1999.
She was using a false name at that time.

In the summer of 2000, she acquired her release by a 45 days long hunger strike.
She was moved to a secret location under supervision. However, when the
location (Charleroi) got leaked, she moved to Brussels. She lived right
above the information bureau of DHKP-C in the Stevinstraat.

The Turkish government requested her extradition but Belgium refused, and the
Belgian judicial system declared that it would not prosecute Erdal for crimes
committed in Istanbul despite the charges of terrorism. Turkey's requests for
the extradition of Erdal as a terrorist were denied on the grounds that Erdal
was not a terrorist because the European anti-terrorism treaty does not consider
an armed crime a "terrorist action" unless the crime was committed with an
automatic weapon (The weapons used in the Sabanci attack were semi-automatic).
At that time, Turkey had not abolished the death penalty yet.

On February 28, 2006, a court in the Belgian city of Bruges sentenced Erdal.
She was found guilty of using false identification, forming a gang, and carrying
unlicensed weapons. The court did not mention the murder in Istanbul.
Another six members of the DHKP-C group, were sentenced to four to six years in prison.
However, Erdal managed to escape despite the constant surveillance of the Belgian
intelligence services ("staatsveiligheid"). Musa Asoglu, a fellow DHKP-C member,
is thought by some to have helped her. Asoglu was also convicted the next day.
Up to this moment, Erdal's whereabouts are still unknown.

Belgian police have contacted Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant,
a spokeswoman for the Belgian Justice Ministry confirmed Wednesday. In March 2006,
Turkish television station NTV reported that Erdal was seen in Larnaca, Cyprus.

The court proceedings and the eventual escape of Erdal have been very controversial
issues in Turkey and Belgium alike, considering that there is almost no doubt about
Erdal's role in the murders.

Turkey accuses Belgium of having provided Erdal in Brussels and allowing her to escape justice.
Turkish media has frequently suggested that Belgium did not consider Turkish terrorists
to be terrorists unless they harmed Belgium interests.

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http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/4057023.asp?gid=74

Interpol issues red bulletin for Erdal
10 Mar 2006

Turkey's pressure exerted on the Belgium government has produced results with
Belgian police now having applied to the Interpol General Secretariat on
Wednesday in Lyon, requesting that a red bulletin be issued for Fehriye Erdal's arrest.
Erdal, who was sentenced to four years by a Belgium court for crimes committed
in the country, escaped from a house in Belgium where she was being held under house arrest.

Erdal is also wanted by the Turkish authorities for her involvement in the
assignation of well-know Turkish businessman Ozdemir Sabanci.

After evaluating the application Interpol forwarded a message to its 186 member
countries on 7 March saying that the organization is looking for Erdal.
Interpol called on all member countries to return Erdal to Belgium in the case of her arrest.


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http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060301-121054-9323r

Turkish terrorist vanishes in Belgium
1 Mar 2006

BRUSSELS, March 1 (UPI) -- Turkish terrorist Fehriye Erdal has vanished in Belgium
a day after being sentenced to four years in prison for a series of crimes.

A court in the Belgian city of Bruges sentenced the female terrorist, who was
captured operating under a false name, to four years in jail on Tuesday.
She was found guilty of using false identification, forming a gang, and
carrying unlicensed weapons.

Another six members of the DHKP-C group, which is considered a terrorist
organization by the United States and the European Union, were given
four to six years in prison.

When the police went to arrest the woman at her residence following the
court's verdict, they discovered she had fled. Belgian police have
contacted Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant,
a spokeswoman for the Belgian Justice Ministry confirmed Wednesday.

Erdal is also wanted in Turkey for the 1996 murder of prominent businessman
Ozdemir Sabanci and another two people. But Belgium refused to extradite the
female terrorist until Turkey abolished the death penalty, which it has now done.

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http://www.nowpublic.com/node/28312

Turkey Makes Official Complaint to EP about Belgium

International Turkish parliamentarians in the Council of Europe complained
to the council about Belgium's refusal to return terrorist Fehriye Erdal,
on trial at Brugges Penal Court, to Turkey.

Turkish members of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE)
in an oral motion to the Committee of Ministers communicated that Belgium
did not display a constructive attitude in the case.

The Committee's term president Romanian Foreign Minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu
will respond today to the Turkish deputies.

Turkish deputies claim Belgium violated the treaties of the Council,
and maintain Belgium must either try Erdal, arrested in 1999, for the
crime of terrorism or return her to Turkey. The text of complaint read
"Belgium, as a Council of Europe member, signed several treaties related
to counter-terrorism. However, Belgium rejects the basic application of
"either try or return" in these agreements, which the country is a part of."

The Committee of Ministers is expected to give a written answer to the
issue in the upcoming months.

Fehriye Erdal, who has been neither repatriated nor put on trial in Belgium,
is one of the perpetrators of the Ozdemir Sabanci murder. Since the issue
has not been resolved through mutual relations, Turkey decided to bring
the matter to the international platform.


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http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/363685.asp

Turkish police blame Erdal escape on negligence

The police spokesman said that Fehriye Erdal had been charged for her acts
in Belgium in recognition of the fact that the DHKP-C was a terrorist organisation.

03 Mar 2006
ANKARA - Belgian authorities were negligent in allowing a wanted terrorist
to escape only hours before she was sentenced to a four year prison term,
a Turkish police spokesman said Friday.

Spokesman Ismail Caliskan said that there was negligence on the part of
Belgian authorities over the escape of Fehriye Erdal from the address
where she was supposed to be staying under house arrest.

Speaking at a press conference in Ankara, Caliskan said that they hoped
Erdal would caught by the efforts of other European police.

On Tuesday, a court in the Belgian town of Brugges sentenced Erdal to four
years behind bars on charges of being linked to a terrorist organisation,
the possession of firearms and using false documents. However, it was found
that Erdal had disappeared late Monday night.

Erdal is wanted by Turkey to face charges stemming from the 1996 assassination
of leading Turkish industrialist Ozdemir Sabanci and two employees of Sabanci Holding.

When was asked whether Erdal would be sent to Belgium or Turkey when
detained caught, Caliskan said that this would depend on the approach
of the country where she would be captured.


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http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/892

Published on The Brussels Journal (http://www.brusselsjournal.com)
Belgium Allows Terrorist to Escape
By Paul Belien
Created 2006-03-09 15:05

Two weeks ago, a terrorist managed to escape arrest in Brussels, despite being
under surveillance by 32 agents of the Belgian state security, the Sûreté de l’Etat (SdE).
Belgium is an inherently corrupt state. The prototype of what the European Union
as a federal state is likely to become. I have argued for some time
(The Spectator, 13 July 2002) that it is no coincidence that Belgium
has become a safe haven for international terrorists.
Artificial states like Belgium (The Salisbury Review, December 2003) tend to be
corrupt (The Wall Street Journal, 12 September 1996) because no-one identifies
with the state. Hence, it is no surprise that no-one in the Belgian government
refuses to accept responsibility for the escape of Fehriye Erdal.

On 28 February a Belgian court sentenced six Turkish terrorists, belonging to the
Kurdish organisation DHKP-C (Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Partisi-Cephesi), to prison sentences.
Fehriye Erdal, the most prominent of the terrorists standing trial, was sentenced to
four years in jail. She had not been arrested prior to the trial, which dragged on
for 7 years (not unusually long in Belgium). When the police came to pick her up
after her conviction, however, Erdal had disappeared. The SdE had lost track of her.
Watching Kurdish terrorists was not a high priority in Belgium as they were not
likely to commit attacks in Belgium itself.

Erdal was involved in the murder of the Turkish businessman Ozdemir Sabanci in Istanbul
on 9 January 1996. The DHKP-C has been banned in Germany and Britain, but not in Belgium.
Unlike the Flemish secessionist Vlaams Blok party, which was declared a criminal
organisation in 2004, the DHKP-C does not threaten the existence of the Belgian state.
The DHKP-C is responsible for over 400 murders, assassination attempts and bomb attacks,
against Turkish but also against NATO targets.

Mr Sabanci, one of Turkey’s captains of industry, was murdered in Turkey,
together with his secretary and the director of Toyota. Videotapes from
security cameras show that Erdal had allowed the killers to enter Sabanci’s office.
A few weeks earlier she had infiltrated the Sabanci Business Center in Istanbul
as a cleaner. [An alternative explanation for the Sabanci murder is that the
DHKP-C was working for the French. After the murder of the Toyota boss,
the Japanese car manufacturer decided to build a new plant in France rather than in Turkey.]

After the assassination Erdal fled to Germany. In 1997 the German state security
informed the SdE that the DHKP-C had moved its headquarters from Germany to Belgium.
Under a false identity Erdal settled in a seafront apartment in the fashionable
Belgian coastal resort of Knokke. In September 1999 the Belgian police, alerted
by a vigilant neighbour, discovered an arsenal of weapons in her apartment and
arrested her. In prison her real identity was disclosed. The Turkish authorities
asked for Erdal’s extradition but she went on a hunger strike, while “human rights”
organisations began a campaign for her release. Even Danielle Mitterrand, the widow
of the French president, signed a petition in favour of Erdal.

The Belgian authorities released Erdal in attendance of her trial. She moved to Brussels.
It took seven years before she was convicted to four years for the possession of the arms arsenal.
The Belgian government maintains they had no indications that Erdal would try to escape.
Last Monday, however, Koen Dassen, the former chief of the SdE, said that in 2005
the SdE had warned the Belgian government on three occasions that Erdal would try to flee.
Mr Dassen resigned on 30 January, but has not been replaced yet.
In 2002 he became head of the SdE after his predecessor resigned
following the publication of an official report which revealed
that the SdE was failing to screen Islamic terrorists.

For years the Belgian authorities have pursued a policy of turning a blind eye
to extremist groups in return for the latter’s implicit agreement not to target Belgium.
In 1996, Charles Pasqua, the French Minister of the Interior at the time, accused Belgium
of lacking the resolve to fight international Islamic terrorism. The accusation followed
the release in Brussels of twelve members of the Algerian terror group GIA, the Algerian
branch of al-Qaeda. France had been a main target of GIA attacks, which included the
bombing of the Saint-Michel Metro station in Paris on 25 July 1995 where seven people
were killed and 117 wounded. At the time the Belgian government had made a deal with
the GIA terrorists, agreeing to turn a blind eye to conspiracies hatched on Belgian
soil in exchange for immunity from attack. In a GIA statement addressing the Belgian
King Albert II but posted to the French embassy in Brussels in June 1999, the Algerian
terror movement explicitly referred to such a deal. Because of its “neutralist” position,
Belgium has become known as a safe haven for terrorists.

The SdE is not incapable of doing its job, however, as is shown by the thoroughness
with which they scrutinize Flemish nationalists and secessionists. In 2003 Soetkin Collier,
the lead singer of Urban Trad, Belgium’s entry in the Eurovision Song Contest, was banned
from taking part in the contest because, according to the SdE, she had participated in
a Nazi rally commemorating Rudolf Hess in 1996. This allegation later proved to be false.
Ms Collier, though not polically active herself, came from a Flemish family with
secessionist sympathies.

Following Erdal’s escape the Belgian opposition – the Flemish-secessionists and the
Christian-Democrats – have asked for the resignation of Laurette Onkelinx, the
Socialist minister of Justice, who supervises the SdE, and Patrick Dewael,
the Liberal minister of the Interior, who supervises the police. Both ministers
refuse to step down. They claim not to be responsible for what went wrong.

[Baba­Bey the Turk]

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Belgium harbors and protects international terrorists

Terrorist Heaven Belgium

Fehriye Erdal is a PKK terrorist who murdered Özdemir Sabanci, brother
of late famous businessman Sakip Sabanci. She was captured in Belgium
but the right-wing government of Belgium refuses to extradict her to Turkey,
nor brings her to trial. The Belgian state is protecting the terrorist Fehriye Erdal.

Under this government Belgium has become a terrorist heaven,
a country where internationally sought terrorists of the PKK and the DHKP-C
freely walk the streets of Belgium.

The Belgian state is harboring and protecting international terrorists.


-------------------------------------------------------------

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehriye_Erdal

Fehriye Erdal

Fehriye Erdal is a female Kurdish Left-wing activist from Turkey suspected of terrorism.

Early life

Fehriye Erdal was born on February 25, 1977 in Kangal, Sivas Province, Turkey,
to Kurdish Alevi parents. Shortly after her birth, the family moved to Adana.
When Fehriye and her sister went on to study at university in Istanbul,
her family moved along with them. There, she studied political and social science.
It is during this time that she came into contact with the Marxist-Leninist DHKP-C,
considered as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.

Sabanci Assassination

In the summer of 1995, Erdal got a job at a cleaning firm, which allowed her
access to the Sabanci Towers. It is now widely accepted that this was part
of the preparatory work for the murder. On January 9, 1996, Fehriye Erdal
claimed that she had lost her badge to gain access to the building and
requested the use of a colleague's badge. Using this badge, she allowed
two armed men, Mustafa Duyar and Ismail Akkol, to enter the Sabanci building.
The two men, who were assassins associated with DHKP-C, were led to the
executive floor by Erdal, and proceeded to shoot and kill Özdemir Sabanci,
Sabanci Holding CEO Haluk Görgün and a secretary, Nilgün Hasefe.
Erdal had fled the scene before the murder was even discovered.
This contradicted her earliest explanation that she left to escape false
accusations because of her well-known DHKP-C sympathy. Özdemir Sabanci was
at that time one of the internationally well-known businessmen in Turkey
and head of the Toyota Factory in Turkey. Sabanci family has been one of
the richest families of Turkey since the establishment of Turkish Republic.

Capture and Belgian trial

In 1996, Erdal fled her country as a wanted fugitive. No sign of her appeared
until she was arrested for possession of weapons in Belgium in 1999.
She was using a false name at that time.

In the summer of 2000, she acquired her release by a 45
days long hunger strike.
She was moved to a secret location under supervision. However, when the
location (Charleroi) got leaked, she moved to Brussels. She lived right
above the information bureau of DHKP-C in the Stevinstraat.

The Turkish government requested her extradition but Belgium refused, and the
Belgian judicial system declared that it would not prosecute Erdal for crimes
committed in Istanbul despite the charges of terrorism. Turkey's requests for
the extradition of Erdal as a terrorist were denied on the grounds that Erdal
was not a terrorist because the European anti-terrorism treaty does not consider
an armed crime a "terrorist action" unless the crime was committed with an
automatic weapon (The weapons used in the Sabanci attack were semi-automatic).
At that time, Turkey had not abolished the death penalty yet.

On February 28, 2006, a court in the Belgian city of Bruges sentenced Erdal.
She was found guilty of using false identification, forming a gang, and carrying
unlicensed weapons. The court did not mention the murder in Istanbul.
Another six members of the DHKP-C group, were sentenced to four to six years in prison.
However, Erdal managed to escape despite the constant surveillance of the Belgian
intelligence services ("staatsveiligheid"). Musa Asoglu, a fellow DHKP-C member,
is thought by some to have helped her. Asoglu was also convicted the next day.
Up to this moment, Erdal's whereabouts are still unknown.

Belgian police have contacted Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant,
a spokeswoman for the Belgian Justice Ministry confirmed Wednesday. In March 2006,
Turkish television station NTV reported that Erdal was seen in Larnaca, Cyprus.

The court proceedings and the eventual escape of Erdal have been very controversial
issues in Turkey and Belgium alike, considering that there is almost no doubt about
Erdal's role in the murders.

Turkey accuses Belgium of having provided Erdal in Brussels and allowing her to escape justice.
Turkish media has frequently suggested that Belgium did not consider Turkish terrorists
to be terrorists unless they harmed Belgium interests.

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http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/4057023.asp?gid=74

Interpol issues red bulletin for Erdal
10 Mar 2006

Turkey's pressure exerted on the Belgium government has produced results with
Belgian police now having applied to the Interpol General Secretariat on
Wednesday in Lyon, requesting that a red bulletin be issued for Fehriye Erdal's arrest.
Erdal, who was sentenced to four years by a Belgium court for crimes committed
in the country, escaped from a house in Belgium where she was being held under house arrest.

Erdal is also wanted by the Turkish authorities for her involvement in the
assignation of well-know Turkish businessman Ozdemir Sabanci.

After evaluating the application Interpol forwarded a message to its 186 member
countries on 7 March saying that the organization is looking for Erdal.
Interpol called on all member countries to return Erdal to Belgium in the case of her arrest.


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http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060301-121054-9323r

Turkish terrorist vanishes in Belgium
1 Mar 2006

BRUSSELS, March 1 (UPI) -- Turkish terrorist Fehriye Erdal has vanished in Belgium
a day after being sentenced to four years in prison for a series of crimes.

A court in the Belgian city of Bruges sentenced the female terrorist, who was
captured operating under a false name, to four years in jail on Tuesday.
She was found guilty of using false identification, forming a gang, and
carrying unlicensed weapons.

Another six members of the DHKP-C group, which is considered a terrorist
organization by the United States and the European Union, were given
four to six years in prison.

When the police went to arrest the woman at her residence following the
court's verdict, they discovered she had fled. Belgian police have
contacted Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant,
a spokeswoman for the Belgian Justice Ministry confirmed Wednesday.

Erdal is also wanted in Turkey for the 1996 murder of prominent businessman
Ozdemir Sabanci and another two people. But Belgium refused to extradite the
female terrorist until Turkey abolished the death penalty, which it has now done.

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http://www.nowpublic.com/node/28312

Turkey Makes Official Complaint to EP about Belgium

International Turkish parliamentarians in the Council of Europe complained
to the council about Belgium's refusal to return terrorist Fehriye Erdal,
on trial at Brugges Penal Court, to Turkey.

Turkish members of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE)
in an oral motion to the Committee of Ministers communicated that Belgium
did not display a constructive attitude in the case.

The Committee's term president Romanian Foreign Minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu
will respond today to the Turkish deputies.

Turkish deputies claim Belgium violated the treaties of the Council,
and maintain Belgium must either try Erdal, arrested in 1999, for the
crime of terrorism or return her to Turkey. The text of complaint read
"Belgium, as a Council of Europe member, signed several treaties related
to counter-terrorism. However, Belgium rejects the basic application of
"either try or return" in these agreements, which the country is a part of."

The Committee of Ministers is expected to give a written answer to the
issue in the upcoming months.

Fehriye Erdal, who has been neither repatriated nor put on trial in Belgium,
is one of the perpetrators of the Ozdemir Sabanci murder. Since the issue
has not been resolved through mutual relations, Turkey decided to bring
the matter to the international platform.


-------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/363685.asp

Turkish police blame Erdal escape on negligence

The police spokesman said that Fehriye Erdal had been charged for her acts
in Belgium in recognition of the fact that the DHKP-C was a terrorist organisation.

03 Mar 2006
ANKARA - Belgian authorities were negligent in allowing a wanted terrorist
to escape only hours before she was sentenced to a four year prison term,
a Turkish police spokesman said Friday.

Spokesman Ismail Caliskan said that there was negligence on the part of
Belgian authorities over the escape of Fehriye Erdal from the address
where she was supposed to be staying under house arrest.

Speaking at a press conference in Ankara, Caliskan said that they hoped
Erdal would caught by the efforts of other European police.

On Tuesday, a court in the Belgian town of Brugges sentenced Erdal to four
years behind bars on charges of being linked to a terrorist organisation,
the possession of firearms and using false documents. However, it was found
that Erdal had disappeared late Monday night.

Erdal is wanted by Turkey to face charges stemming from the 1996 assassination
of leading Turkish industrialist Ozdemir Sabanci and two employees of Sabanci Holding.

When was asked whether Erdal would be sent to Belgium or Turkey when
detained caught, Caliskan said that this would depend on the approach
of the country where she would be captured.


-------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/892

Published on The Brussels Journal (http://www.brusselsjournal.com)
Belgium Allows Terrorist to Escape
By Paul Belien
Created 2006-03-09 15:05

Two weeks ago, a terrorist managed to escape arrest in Brussels, despite being
under surveillance by 32 agents of the Belgian state security, the Sûreté de l’Etat (SdE).
Belgium is an inherently corrupt state. The prototype of what the European Union
as a federal state is likely to become. I have argued for some time
(The Spectator, 13 July 2002) that it is no coincidence that Belgium
has become a safe haven for international terrorists.
Artificial states like Belgium (The Salisbury Review, December 2003) tend to be
corrupt (The Wall Street Journal, 12 September 1996) because no-one identifies
with the state. Hence, it is no surprise that no-one in the Belgian government
refuses to accept responsibility for the escape of Fehriye Erdal.

On 28 February a Belgian court sentenced six Turkish terrorists, belonging to the
Kurdish organisation DHKP-C (Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Partisi-Cephesi), to prison sentences.
Fehriye Erdal, the most prominent of the terrorists standing trial, was sentenced to
four years in jail. She had not been arrested prior to the trial, which dragged on
for 7 years (not unusually long in Belgium). When the police came to pick her up
after her conviction, however, Erdal had disappeared. The SdE had lost track of her.
Watching Kurdish terrorists was not a high priority in Belgium as they were not
likely to commit attacks in Belgium itself.

Erdal was involved in the murder of the Turkish businessman Ozdemir Sabanci in Istanbul
on 9 January 1996. The DHKP-C has been banned in Germany and Britain, but not in Belgium.
Unlike the Flemish secessionist Vlaams Blok party, which was declared a criminal
organisation in 2004, the DHKP-C does not threaten the existence of the Belgian state.
The DHKP-C is responsible for over 400 murders, assassination attempts and bomb attacks,
against Turkish but also against NATO targets.

Mr Sabanci, one of Turkey’s captains of industry, was murdered in Turkey,
together with his secretary and the director of Toyota. Videotapes from
security cameras show that Erdal had allowed the killers to enter Sabanci’s office.
A few weeks earlier she had infiltrated the Sabanci Business Center in Istanbul
as a cleaner. [An alternative explanation for the Sabanci murder is that the
DHKP-C was working for the French. After the murder of the Toyota boss,
the Japanese car manufacturer decided to build a new plant in France rather than in Turkey.]

After the assassination Erdal fled to Germany. In 1997 the German state security
informed the SdE that the DHKP-C had moved its headquarters from Germany to Belgium.
Under a false identity Erdal settled in a seafront apartment in the fashionable
Belgian coastal resort of Knokke. In September 1999 the Belgian police, alerted
by a vigilant neighbour, discovered an arsenal of weapons in her apartment and
arrested her. In prison her real identity was disclosed. The Turkish authorities
asked for Erdal’s extradition but she went on a hunger strike, while “human rights”
organisations began a campaign for her release. Even Danielle Mitterrand, the widow
of the French president, signed a petition in favour of Erdal.

The Belgian authorities released Erdal in attendance of her trial. She moved to Brussels.
It took seven years before she was convicted to four years for the possession of the arms arsenal.
The Belgian government maintains they had no indications that Erdal would try to escape.
Last Monday, however, Koen Dassen, the former chief of the SdE, said that in 2005
the SdE had warned the Belgian government on three occasions that Erdal would try to flee.
Mr Dassen resigned on 30 January, but has not been replaced yet.
In 2002 he became head of the SdE after his predecessor resigned
following the publication of an official report which revealed
that the SdE was failing to screen Islamic terrorists.

For years the Belgian authorities have pursued a policy of turning a blind eye
to extremist groups in return for the latter’s implicit agreement not to target Belgium.
In 1996, Charles Pasqua, the French Minister of the Interior at the time, accused Belgium
of lacking the resolve to fight international Islamic terrorism. The accusation followed
the release in Brussels of twelve members of the Algerian terror group GIA, the Algerian
branch of al-Qaeda. France had been a main target of GIA attacks, which included the
bombing of the Saint-Michel Metro station in Paris on 25 July 1995 where seven people
were killed and 117 wounded. At the time the Belgian government had made a deal with
the GIA terrorists, agreeing to turn a blind eye to conspiracies hatched on Belgian
soil in exchange for immunity from attack. In a GIA statement addressing the Belgian
King Albert II but posted to the French embassy in Brussels in June 1999, the Algerian
terror movement explicitly referred to such a deal. Because of its “neutralist” position,
Belgium has become known as a safe haven for terrorists.

The SdE is not incapable of doing its job, however, as is shown by the thoroughness
with which they scrutinize Flemish nationalists and secessionists. In 2003 Soetkin Collier,
the lead singer of Urban Trad, Belgium’s entry in the Eurovision Song Contest, was banned
from taking part in the contest because, according to the SdE, she had participated in
a Nazi rally commemorating Rudolf Hess in 1996. This allegation later proved to be false.
Ms Collier, though not polically active herself, came from a Flemish family with
secessionist sympathies.

Following Erdal’s escape the Belgian opposition – the Flemish-secessionists and the
Christian-Democrats – have asked for the resignation of Laurette Onkelinx, the
Socialist minister of Justice, who supervises the SdE, and Patrick Dewael,
the Liberal minister of the Interior, who supervises the police. Both ministers
refuse to step down. They claim not to be responsible for what went wrong.

[Baba­Bey the Turk]

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Belgium harbors and protects international terrorists

Terrorist Heaven Belgium

Fehriye Erdal is a PKK terrorist who murdered Özdemir Sabanci, brother
of late famous businessman Sakip Sabanci. She was captured in Belgium
but the right-wing government of Belgium refuses to extradict her to Turkey,
nor brings her to trial. The Belgian state is protecting the terrorist Fehriye Erdal.

Under this government Belgium has become a terrorist heaven,
a country where internationally sought terrorists of the PKK and the DHKP-C
freely walk the streets of Belgium.

The Belgian state is harboring and protecting international terrorists.


-------------------------------------------------------------

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehriye_Erdal

Fehriye Erdal

Fehriye Erdal is a female Kurdish Left-wing activist from Turkey suspected of terrorism.

Early life

Fehriye Erdal was born on February 25, 1977 in Kangal, Sivas Province, Turkey,
to Kurdish Alevi parents. Shortly after her birth, the family moved to Adana.
When Fehriye and her sister went on to study at university in Istanbul,
her family moved along with them. There, she studied political and social science.
It is during this time that she came into contact with the Marxist-Leninist DHKP-C,
considered as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.

Sabanci Assassination

In the summer of 1995, Erdal got a job at a cleaning firm, which allowed her
access to the Sabanci Towers. It is now widely accepted that this was part
of the preparatory work for the murder. On January 9, 1996, Fehriye Erdal
claimed that she had lost her badge to gain access to the building and
requested the use of a colleague's badge. Using this badge, she allowed
two armed men, Mustafa Duyar and Ismail Akkol, to enter the Sabanci building.
The two men, who were assassins associated with DHKP-C, were led to the
executive floor by Erdal, and proceeded to shoot and kill Özdemir Sabanci,
Sabanci Holding CEO Haluk Görgün and a secretary, Nilgün Hasefe.
Erdal had fled the scene before the murder was even discovered.
This contradicted her earliest explanation that she left to escape false
accusations because of her well-known DHKP-C sympathy. Özdemir Sabanci was
at that time one of the internationally well-known businessmen in Turkey
and head of the Toyota Factory in Turkey. Sabanci family has been one of
the richest families of Turkey since the establishment of Turkish Republic.

Capture and Belgian trial

In 1996, Erdal fled her country as a wanted fugitive. No sign of her appeared
until she was arrested for possession of weapons in Belgium in 1999.
She was using a false name at that time.

In the summer of 2000, she acquired her release by a 45
days long hunger strike.
She was moved to a secret location under supervision. However, when the
location (Charleroi) got leaked, she moved to Brussels. She lived right
above the information bureau of DHKP-C in the Stevinstraat.

The Turkish government requested her extradition but Belgium refused, and the
Belgian judicial system declared that it would not prosecute Erdal for crimes
committed in Istanbul despite the charges of terrorism. Turkey's requests for
the extradition of Erdal as a terrorist were denied on the grounds that Erdal
was not a terrorist because the European anti-terrorism treaty does not consider
an armed crime a "terrorist action" unless the crime was committed with an
automatic weapon (The weapons used in the Sabanci attack were semi-automatic).
At that time, Turkey had not abolished the death penalty yet.

On February 28, 2006, a court in the Belgian city of Bruges sentenced Erdal.
She was found guilty of using false identification, forming a gang, and carrying
unlicensed weapons. The court did not mention the murder in Istanbul.
Another six members of the DHKP-C group, were sentenced to four to six years in prison.
However, Erdal managed to escape despite the constant surveillance of the Belgian
intelligence servi
ces ("staatsveiligheid"). Musa Asoglu, a fellow DHKP-C member,
is thought by some to have helped her. Asoglu was also convicted the next day.
Up to this moment, Erdal's whereabouts are still unknown.

Belgian police have contacted Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant,
a spokeswoman for the Belgian Justice Ministry confirmed Wednesday. In March 2006,
Turkish television station NTV reported that Erdal was seen in Larnaca, Cyprus.

The court proceedings and the eventual escape of Erdal have been very controversial
issues in Turkey and Belgium alike, considering that there is almost no doubt about
Erdal's role in the murders.

Turkey accuses Belgium of having provided Erdal in Brussels and allowing her to escape justice.
Turkish media has frequently suggested that Belgium did not consider Turkish terrorists
to be terrorists unless they harmed Belgium interests.

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http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/4057023.asp?gid=74

Interpol issues red bulletin for Erdal
10 Mar 2006

Turkey's pressure exerted on the Belgium government has produced results with
Belgian police now having applied to the Interpol General Secretariat on
Wednesday in Lyon, requesting that a red bulletin be issued for Fehriye Erdal's arrest.
Erdal, who was sentenced to four years by a Belgium court for crimes committed
in the country, escaped from a house in Belgium where she was being held under house arrest.

Erdal is also wanted by the Turkish authorities for her involvement in the
assignation of well-know Turkish businessman Ozdemir Sabanci.

After evaluating the application Interpol forwarded a message to its 186 member
countries on 7 March saying that the organization is looking for Erdal.
Interpol called on all member countries to return Erdal to Belgium in the case of her arrest.


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http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060301-121054-9323r

Turkish terrorist vanishes in Belgium
1 Mar 2006

BRUSSELS, March 1 (UPI) -- Turkish terrorist Fehriye Erdal has vanished in Belgium
a day after being sentenced to four years in prison for a series of crimes.

A court in the Belgian city of Bruges sentenced the female terrorist, who was
captured operating under a false name, to four years in jail on Tuesday.
She was found guilty of using false identification, forming a gang, and
carrying unlicensed weapons.

Another six members of the DHKP-C group, which is considered a terrorist
organization by the United States and the European Union, were given
four to six years in prison.

When the police went to arrest the woman at her residence following the
court's verdict, they discovered she had fled. Belgian police have
contacted Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant,
a spokeswoman for the Belgian Justice Ministry confirmed Wednesday.

Erdal is also wanted in Turkey for the 1996 murder of prominent businessman
Ozdemir Sabanci and another two people. But Belgium refused to extradite the
female terrorist until Turkey abolished the death penalty, which it has now done.

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http://www.nowpublic.com/node/28312

Turkey Makes Official Complaint to EP about Belgium

International Turkish parliamentarians in the Council of Europe complained
to the council about Belgium's refusal to return terrorist Fehriye Erdal,
on trial at Brugges Penal Court, to Turkey.

Turkish members of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE)
in an oral motion to the Committee of Ministers communicated that Belgium
did not display a constructive attitude in the case.

The Committee's term president Romanian Foreign Minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu
will respond today to the Turkish deputies.

Turkish deputies claim Belgium violated the treaties of the Council,
and maintain Belgium must either try Erdal, arrested in 1999, for the
crime of terrorism or return her to Turkey. The text of complaint read
"Belgium, as a Council of Europe member, signed several treaties related
to counter-terrorism. However, Belgium rejects the basic application of
"either try or return" in these agreements, which the country is a part of."

The Committee of Ministers is expected to give a written answer to the
issue in the upcoming months.

Fehriye Erdal, who has been neither repatriated nor put on trial in Belgium,
is one of the perpetrators of the Ozdemir Sabanci murder. Since the issue
has not been resolved through mutual relations, Turkey decided to bring
the matter to the international platform.


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http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/363685.asp

Turkish police blame Erdal escape on negligence

The police spokesman said that Fehriye Erdal had been charged for her acts
in Belgium in recognition of the fact that the DHKP-C was a terrorist organisation.

03 Mar 2006
ANKARA - Belgian authorities were negligent in allowing a wanted terrorist
to escape only hours before she was sentenced to a four year prison term,
a Turkish police spokesman said Friday.

Spokesman Ismail Caliskan said that there was negligence on the part of
Belgian authorities over the escape of Fehriye Erdal from the address
where she was supposed to be staying under house arrest.

Speaking at a press conference in Ankara, Caliskan said that they hoped
Erdal would caught by the efforts of other European police.

On Tuesday, a court in the Belgian town of Brugges sentenced Erdal to four
years behind bars on charges of being linked to a terrorist organisation,
the possession of firearms and using false documents. However, it was found
that Erdal had disappeared late Monday night.

Erdal is wanted by Turkey to face charges stemming from the 1996 assassination
of leading Turkish industrialist Ozdemir Sabanci and two employees of Sabanci Holding.

When was asked whether Erdal would be sent to Belgium or Turkey when
detained caught, Caliskan said that this would depend on the approach
of the country where she would be captured.


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http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/892

Published on The Brussels Journal (http://www.brusselsjournal.com)
Belgium Allows Terrorist to Escape
By Paul Belien
Created 2006-03-09 15:05

Two weeks ago, a terrorist managed to escape arrest in Brussels, despite being
under surveillance by 32 agents of the Belgian state security, the Sûreté de l’Etat (SdE).
Belgium is an inherently corrupt state. The prototype of what the European Union
as a federal state is likely to become. I have argued for some time
(The Spectator, 13 July 2002) that it is no coincidence that Belgium
has become a safe haven for international terrorists.
Artificial states like Belgium (The Salisbury Review, December 2003) tend to be
corrupt (The Wall Street Journal, 12 September 1996) because no-one identifies
with the state. Hence, it is no surprise that no-one in the Belgian government
refuses to accept responsibility for the escape of Fehriye Erdal.

On 28 February a Belgian court sentenced six Turkish terrorists, belonging to the
Kurdish organisation DHKP-C (Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Partisi-Cephesi), to prison sentences.
Fehriye Erdal, the most prominent of the terrorists standing trial, was sentenced to
four years in jail. She had not been arrested prior to the trial, which dragged on
for 7 years (not unusually long in Belgium). When the police came to pick her up
after her conviction, however, Erdal had disappeared. The SdE had lost track of her.
Watching Kurdish terrorists was not a high priority in Belgium as they were not
likely to commit attacks in Belgium itself.

Erdal was involved in the murder of the Turkish businessman Ozdemir Sabanci in Istanbul
on 9 January 1996. The DHKP-C has been banned in Germany and Britain, but not in Belgium.
Unlike the Flemish secessionist Vlaams Blok party, which was declared a criminal
organisation in 2004, the DHKP-C does not threaten the existence of the Belgian state.
The DHKP-C is responsible for over 400 murders, assassination attempts and bomb attacks,
against Turkish but also against NATO targets.

Mr Sabanci, one of Turkey’s captains of industry, was murdered in Turkey,
together with his secretary and the director of Toyota. Videotapes from
security cameras show that Erdal had allowed the killers to enter Sabanci’s office.
A few weeks earlier she had infiltrated the Sabanci Business Center in Istanbul
as a cleaner. [An alternative explanation for the Sabanci murder is that the
DHKP-C was working for the French. After the murder of the Toyota boss,
the Japanese car manufacturer decided to build a new plant in France rather than in Turkey.]

After the assassination Erdal fled to Germany. In 1997 the German state security
informed the SdE that the DHKP-C had moved its headquarters from Germany to Belgium.
Under a false identity Erdal settled in a seafront apartment in the fashionable
Belgian coastal resort of Knokke. In September 1999 the Belgian police, alerted
by a vigilant neighbour, discovered an arsenal of weapons in her apartment and
arrested her. In prison her real identity was disclosed. The Turkish authorities
asked for Erdal’s extradition but she went on a hunger strike, while “human rights”
organisations began a campaign for her release. Even Danielle Mitterrand, the widow
of the French president, signed a petition in favour of Erdal.

The Belgian authorities released Erdal in attendance of her trial. She moved to Brussels.
It took seven years before she was convicted to four years for the possession of the arms arsenal.
The Belgian government maintains they had no indications that Erdal would try to escape.
Last Monday, however, Koen Dassen, the former chief of the SdE, said that in 2005
the SdE had warned the Belgian government on three occasions that Erdal would try to flee.
Mr Dassen resigned on 30 January, but has not been replaced yet.
In 2002 he became head of the SdE after his predecessor resigned
following the publication of an official report which revealed
that the SdE was failing to screen Islamic terrorists.

For years the Belgian authorities have pursued a policy of turning a blind eye
to extremist groups in return for the latter’s implicit agreement not to target Belgium.
In 1996, Charles Pasqua, the French Minister of the Interior at the time, accused Belgium
of lacking the resolve to fight international Islamic terrorism. The accusation followed
the release in Brussels of twelve members of the Algerian terror group GIA, the Algerian
branch of al-Qaeda. France had been a main target of GIA attacks, which included the
bombing of the Saint-Michel Metro station in Paris on 25 July 1995 where seven people
were killed and 117 wounded. At the time the Belgian government had made a deal with
the GIA terrorists, agreeing to turn a blind eye to conspiracies hatched on Belgian
soil in exchange for immunity from attack. In a GIA statement addressing the Belgian
King Albert II but posted to the French embassy in Brussels in June 1999, the Algerian
terror movement explicitly referred to such a deal. Because of its “neutralist” position,
Belgium has become known as a safe haven for terrorists.

The SdE is not incapable of doing its job, however, as is shown by the thoroughness
with which they scrutinize Flemish nationalists and secessionists. In 2003 Soetkin Collier,
the lead singer of Urban Trad, Belgium’s entry in the Eurovision Song Contest, was banned
from taking part in the contest because, according to the SdE, she had participated in
a Nazi rally commemorating Rudolf Hess in 1996. This allegation later proved to be false.
Ms Collier, though not polically active herself, came from a Flemish family with
secessionist sympathies.

Following Erdal’s escape the Belgian opposition – the Flemish-secessionists and the
Christian-Democrats – have asked for the resignation of Laurette Onkelinx, the
Socialist minister of Justice, who supervises the SdE, and Patrick Dewael,
the Liberal minister of the Interior, who supervises the police. Both ministers
refuse to step down. They claim not to be responsible for what went wrong.

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Belgium harbors and protects international terrorists

Terrorist Heaven Belgium

Fehriye Erdal is a PKK terrorist who murdered Özdemir Sabanci, brother
of late famous businessman Sakip Sabanci. She was captured in Belgium
but the right-wing government of Belgium refuses to extradict her to Turkey,
nor brings her to trial. The Belgian state is protecting the terrorist Fehriye Erdal.

Under this government Belgium has become a terrorist heaven,
a country where internationally sought terrorists of the PKK and the DHKP-C
freely walk the streets of Belgium.

The Belgian state is harboring and protecting international terrorists.


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehriye_Erdal

Fehriye Erdal

Fehriye Erdal is a female Kurdish Left-wing activist from Turkey suspected of terrorism.

Early life

Fehriye Erdal was born on February 25, 1977 in Kangal, Sivas Province, Turkey,
to Kurdish Alevi parents. Shortly after her birth, the family moved to Adana.
When Fehriye and her sister went on to study at university in Istanbul,
her family moved along with them. There, she studied political and social science.
It is during this time that she came into contact with the Marxist-Leninist DHKP-C,
considered as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.

Sabanci Assassination

In the summer of 1995, Erdal got a job at a cleaning firm, which allowed her
access to the Sabanci Towers. It is now widely accepted that this was part
of the preparatory work for the murder. On January 9, 1996, Fehriye Erdal
claimed that she had lost her badge to gain access to the building and
requested the use of a colleague's badge. Using this badge, she allowed
two armed men, Mustafa Duyar and Ismail Akkol, to enter the Sabanci building.
The two men, who were assassins associated with DHKP-C, were led to the
executive floor by Erdal, and proceeded to shoot and kill Özdemir Sabanci,
Sabanci Holding CEO Haluk Görgün and a secretary, Nilgün Hasefe.
Erdal had fled the scene before the murder was even discovered.
This contradicted her earliest explanation that she left to escape false
accusations because of her well-known DHKP-C sympathy. Özdemir Sabanci was
at that time one of the internationally well-known businessmen in Turkey
and head of the Toyota Factory in Turkey. Sabanci family has been one of
the richest families of Turkey since the establishment of Turkish Republic.

Capture and Belgian trial

In 1996, Erdal fled her country as a wanted fugitive. No sign of her appeared
until she was arrested for possession of weapons in Belgium in 1999.
She was using a false name at that time.

In the summer of 2000, she acquired her release by a 45
days long hunger strike.
She was moved to a secret location under supervision. However, when the
location (Charleroi) got leaked, she moved to Brussels. She lived right
above the information bureau of DHKP-C in the Stevinstraat.

The Turkish government requested her extradition but Belgium refused, and the
Belgian judicial system declared that it would not prosecute Erdal for crimes
committed in Istanbul despite the charges of terrorism. Turkey's requests for
the extradition of Erdal as a terrorist were denied on the grounds that Erdal
was not a terrorist because the European anti-terrorism treaty does not consider
an armed crime a "terrorist action" unless the crime was committed with an
automatic weapon (The weapons used in the Sabanci attack were semi-automatic).
At that time, Turkey had not abolished the death penalty yet.

On February 28, 2006, a court in the Belgian city of Bruges sentenced Erdal.
She was found guilty of using false identification, forming a gang, and carrying
unlicensed weapons. The court did not mention the murder in Istanbul.
Another six members of the DHKP-C group, were sentenced to four to six years in prison.
However, Erdal managed to escape despite the constant surveillance of the Belgian
intelligence servi
ces ("staatsveiligheid"). Musa Asoglu, a fellow DHKP-C member,
is thought by some to have helped her. Asoglu was also convicted the next day.
Up to this moment, Erdal's whereabouts are still unknown.

Belgian police have contacted Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant,
a spokeswoman for the Belgian Justice Ministry confirmed Wednesday. In March 2006,
Turkish television station NTV reported that Erdal was seen in Larnaca, Cyprus.

The court proceedings and the eventual escape of Erdal have been very controversial
issues in Turkey and Belgium alike, considering that there is almost no doubt about
Erdal's role in the murders.

Turkey accuses Belgium of having provided Erdal in Brussels and allowing her to escape justice.
Turkish media has frequently suggested that Belgium did not consider Turkish terrorists
to be terrorists unless they harmed Belgium interests.

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http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/4057023.asp?gid=74

Interpol issues red bulletin for Erdal
10 Mar 2006

Turkey's pressure exerted on the Belgium government has produced results with
Belgian police now having applied to the Interpol General Secretariat on
Wednesday in Lyon, requesting that a red bulletin be issued for Fehriye Erdal's arrest.
Erdal, who was sentenced to four years by a Belgium court for crimes committed
in the country, escaped from a house in Belgium where she was being held under house arrest.

Erdal is also wanted by the Turkish authorities for her involvement in the
assignation of well-know Turkish businessman Ozdemir Sabanci.

After evaluating the application Interpol forwarded a message to its 186 member
countries on 7 March saying that the organization is looking for Erdal.
Interpol called on all member countries to return Erdal to Belgium in the case of her arrest.


-------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060301-121054-9323r

Turkish terrorist vanishes in Belgium
1 Mar 2006

BRUSSELS, March 1 (UPI) -- Turkish terrorist Fehriye Erdal has vanished in Belgium
a day after being sentenced to four years in prison for a series of crimes.

A court in the Belgian city of Bruges sentenced the female terrorist, who was
captured operating under a false name, to four years in jail on Tuesday.
She was found guilty of using false identification, forming a gang, and
carrying unlicensed weapons.

Another six members of the DHKP-C group, which is considered a terrorist
organization by the United States and the European Union, were given
four to six years in prison.

When the police went to arrest the woman at her residence following the
court's verdict, they discovered she had fled. Belgian police have
contacted Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant,
a spokeswoman for the Belgian Justice Ministry confirmed Wednesday.

Erdal is also wanted in Turkey for the 1996 murder of prominent businessman
Ozdemir Sabanci and another two people. But Belgium refused to extradite the
female terrorist until Turkey abolished the death penalty, which it has now done.

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http://www.nowpublic.com/node/28312

Turkey Makes Official Complaint to EP about Belgium

International Turkish parliamentarians in the Council of Europe complained
to the council about Belgium's refusal to return terrorist Fehriye Erdal,
on trial at Brugges Penal Court, to Turkey.

Turkish members of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE)
in an oral motion to the Committee of Ministers communicated that Belgium
did not display a constructive attitude in
the case.

The Committee's term president Romanian Foreign Minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu
will respond today to the Turkish deputies.

Turkish deputies claim Belgium violated the treaties of the Council,
and maintain Belgium must either try Erdal, arrested in 1999, for the
crime of terrorism or return her to Turkey. The text of complaint read
"Belgium, as a Council of Europe member, signed several treaties related
to counter-terrorism. However, Belgium rejects the basic application of
"either try or return" in these agreements, which the country is a part of."

The Committee of Ministers is expected to give a written answer to the
issue in the upcoming months.

Fehriye Erdal, who has been neither repatriated nor put on trial in Belgium,
is one of the perpetrators of the Ozdemir Sabanci murder. Since the issue
has not been resolved through mutual relations, Turkey decided to bring
the matter to the international platform.


-------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/363685.asp

Turkish police blame Erdal escape on negligence

The police spokesman said that Fehriye Erdal had been charged for her acts
in Belgium in recognition of the fact that the DHKP-C was a terrorist organisation.

03 Mar 2006
ANKARA - Belgian authorities were negligent in allowing a wanted terrorist
to escape only hours before she was sentenced to a four year prison term,
a Turkish police spokesman said Friday.

Spokesman Ismail Caliskan said that there was negligence on the part of
Belgian authorities over the escape of Fehriye Erdal from the address
where she was supposed to be staying under house arrest.

Speaking at a press conference in Ankara, Caliskan said that they hoped
Erdal would caught by the efforts of other European police.

On Tuesday, a court in the Belgian town of Brugges sentenced Erdal to four
years behind bars on charges of being linked to a terrorist organisation,
the possession of firearms and using false documents. However, it was found
that Erdal had disappeared late Monday night.

Erdal is wanted by Turkey to face charges stemming from the 1996 assassination
of leading Turkish industrialist Ozdemir Sabanci and two employees of Sabanci Holding.

When was asked whether Erdal would be sent to Belgium or Turkey when
detained caught, Caliskan said that this would depend on the approach
of the country where she would be captured.


-------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/892

Published on The Brussels Journal (http://www.brusselsjournal.com)
Belgium Allows Terrorist to Escape
By Paul Belien
Created 2006-03-09 15:05

Two weeks ago, a terrorist managed to escape arrest in Brussels, despite being
under surveillance by 32 agents of the Belgian state security, the Sûreté de l’Etat (SdE).
Belgium is an inherently corrupt state. The prototype of what the European Union
as a federal state is likely to become. I have argued for some time
(The Spectator, 13 July 2002) that it is no coincidence that Belgium
has become a safe haven for international terrorists.
Artificial states like Belgium (The Salisbury Review, December 2003) tend to be
corrupt (The Wall Street Journal, 12 September 1996) because no-one identifies
with the state. Hence, it is no surprise that no-one in the Belgian government
refuses to accept responsibility for the escape of Fehriye Erdal.

On 28 February a Belgian court sentenced six Turkish terrorists, belonging to the
Kurdish organisation DHKP-C (Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Partisi-Cephesi), to prison sentences.
Fehriye Erdal, the most prominent of the terrorists standing trial, was sentenced to
four years in jail. She had not been arrested prior to the trial, which dragged on
for 7 years (not unusually long in Belgium). When the police came to pick her up
after her conviction, however, Erdal had disappeared. The SdE had lost track of her.
Watching Kurdish terrorists was not a high priority in Belgium as they were not
likely to commit attacks in Belgium itself.

Erdal was involved in the murder of the Turkish businessman Ozdemir Sabanci in Istanbul
on 9 January 1996. The DHKP-C has been banned in Germany and Britain, but not in Belgium.
Unlike the Flemish secessionist Vlaams Blok party, which was declared a criminal
organisation in 2004, the DHKP-C does not threaten the existence of the Belgian state.
The DHKP-C is responsible for over 400 murders, assassination attempts and bomb attacks,
against Turkish but also against NATO targets.

Mr Sabanci, one of Turkey’s captains of industry, was murdered in Turkey,
together with his secretary and the director of Toyota. Videotapes from
security cameras show that Erdal had allowed the killers to enter Sabanci’s office.
A few weeks earlier she had infiltrated the Sabanci Business Center in Istanbul
as a cleaner. [An alternative explanation for the Sabanci murder is that the
DHKP-C was working for the French. After the murder of the Toyota boss,
the Japanese car manufacturer decided to build a new plant in France rather than in Turkey.]

After the assassination Erdal fled to Germany. In 1997 the German state security
informed the SdE that the DHKP-C had moved its headquarters from Germany to Belgium.
Under a false identity Erdal settled in a seafront apartment in the fashionable
Belgian coastal resort of Knokke. In September 1999 the Belgian police, alerted
by a vigilant neighbour, discovered an arsenal of weapons in her apartment and
arrested her. In prison her real identity was disclosed. The Turkish authorities
asked for Erdal’s extradition but she went on a hunger strike, while “human rights”
organisations began a campaign for her release. Even Danielle Mitterrand, the widow
of the French president, signed a petition in favour of Erdal.

The Belgian authorities released Erdal in attendance of her trial. She moved to Brussels.
It took seven years before she was convicted to four years for the possession of the arms arsenal.
The Belgian government maintains they had no indications that Erdal would try to escape.
Last Monday, however, Koen Dassen, the former chief of the SdE, said that in 2005
the SdE had warned the Belgian government on three occasions that Erdal would try to flee.
Mr Dassen resigned on 30 January, but has not been replaced yet.
In 2002 he became head of the SdE after his predecessor resigned
following the publication of an official report which revealed
that the SdE was failing to screen Islamic terrorists.

For years the Belgian authorities have pursued a policy of turning a blind eye
to extremist groups in return for the latter’s implicit agreement not to target Belgium.
In 1996, Charles Pasqua, the French Minister of the Interior at the time, accused Belgium
of lacking the resolve to fight international Islamic terrorism. The accusation followed
the release in Brussels of twelve members of the Algerian terror group GIA, the Algerian
branch of al-Qaeda. France had been a main target of GIA attacks, which included the
bombing of the Saint-Michel Metro station in Paris on 25 July 1995 where seven people
were killed and 117 wounded. At the time the Belgian government had made a deal with
the GIA terrorists, agreeing to turn a blind eye to conspiracies hatched on Belgian
soil in exchange for immunity from attack. In a GIA statement addressing the Belgian
King Albert II but posted to the French embassy in Brussels in June 1999, the Algerian
terror movement explicitly referred to such a deal. Because of its “neutralist” position,
Belgium has become known as a safe haven for terrorists.

The SdE is not incapable of doing its job, however, as is shown by the thoroughness
with which they scrutinize Flemish nationalists and secessionists. In 2003 Soetkin Collier,
the lead singer of Urban Trad, Belgium’s entry in the Eurovision Song Contest, was banned
from taking part in the contest because, according to the SdE, she had participated in
a Nazi rally commemorating Rudolf Hess in 1996. This allegation later proved to be false.
Ms Collier, though not polically active herself, came from a Flemish family with
secessionist sympathies.

Following Erdal’s escape the Belgian opposition – the Flemish-secessionists and the
Christian-Democrats – have asked for the resignation of Laurette Onkelinx, the
Socialist minister of Justice, who supervises the SdE, and Patrick Dewael,
the Liberal minister of the Interior, who supervises the police. Both ministers
refuse to step down. They claim not to be responsible for what went wrong.

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Belgium harbors and protects international terrorists

Terrorist Heaven Belgium

Fehriye Erdal is a PKK terrorist who murdered Özdemir Sabanci, brother
of late famous businessman Sakip Sabanci. She was captured in Belgium
but the right-wing government of Belgium refuses to extradict her to Turkey,
nor brings her to trial. The Belgian state is protecting the terrorist Fehriye Erdal.

Under this government Belgium has become a terrorist heaven,
a country where internationally sought terrorists of the PKK and the DHKP-C
freely walk the streets of Belgium.

The Belgian state is harboring and protecting international terrorists.


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehriye_Erdal

Fehriye Erdal

Fehriye Erdal is a female Kurdish Left-wing activist from Turkey suspected of terrorism.

Early life

Fehriye Erdal was born on February 25, 1977 in Kangal, Sivas Province, Turkey,
to Kurdish Alevi parents. Shortly after her birth, the family moved to Adana.
When Fehriye and her sister went on to study at university in Istanbul,
her family moved along with them. There, she studied political and social science.
It is during this time that she came into contact with the Marxist-Leninist DHKP-C,
considered as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.

Sabanci Assassination

In the summer of 1995, Erdal got a job at a cleaning firm, which allowed her
access to the Sabanci Towers. It is now widely accepted that this was part
of the preparatory work for the murder. On January 9, 1996, Fehriye Erdal
claimed that she had lost her badge to gain access to the building and
requested the use of a colleague's badge. Using this badge, she allowed
two armed men, Mustafa Duyar and Ismail Akkol, to enter the Sabanci building.
The two men, who were assassins associated with DHKP-C, were led to the
executive floor by Erdal, and proceeded to shoot and kill Özdemir Sabanci,
Sabanci Holding CEO Haluk Görgün and a secretary, Nilgün Hasefe.
Erdal had fled the scene before the murder was even discovered.
This contradicted her earliest explanation that she left to escape false
accusations because of her well-known DHKP-C sympathy. Özdemir Sabanci was
at that time one of the internationally well-known businessmen in Turkey
and head of the Toyota Factory in Turkey. Sabanci family has been one of
the richest families of Turkey since the establishment of Turkish Republic.

Capture and Belgian trial

In 1996, Erdal fled her country as a wanted fugitive. No sign of her appeared
until she was arrested for possession of weapons in Belgium in 1999.
She was using a false name at that time.

In the summer of 2000, she acquired her release by a 45
days long hunger strike.
She was moved to a secret location under supervision. However, when the
location (Charleroi) got leaked, she moved to Brussels. She lived right
above the information bureau of DHKP-C in the Stevinstraat.

The Turkish government requested her extradition but Belgium refused, and the
Belgian judicial system declared that it would not prosecute Erdal for crimes
committed in Istanbul despite the charges of terrorism. Turkey's requests for
the extradition of Erdal as a terrorist were denied on the grounds that Erdal
was not a terrorist because the European anti-terrorism treaty does not consider
an armed crime a "terrorist action" unless the crime was committed with an
automatic weapon (The weapons used in the Sabanci attack were semi-automatic).
At that time, Turkey had not abolished the death penalty yet.

On February 28, 2006, a court in the Belgian city of Bruges sentenced Erdal.
She was found guilty of using false identification, forming a gang, and carrying
unlicensed weapons. The court did not mention the murder in Istanbul.
Another six members of the DHKP-C group, were sentenced to four to six years in prison.
However, Erdal managed to escape despite the constant surveillance of the Belgian
intelligence servi
ces ("staatsveiligheid"). Musa Asoglu, a fellow DHKP-C member,
is thought by some to have helped her. Asoglu was also convicted the next day.
Up to this moment, Erdal's whereabouts are still unknown.

Belgian police have contacted Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant,
a spokeswoman for the Belgian Justice Ministry confirmed Wednesday. In March 2006,
Turkish television station NTV reported that Erdal was seen in Larnaca, Cyprus.

The court proceedings and the eventual escape of Erdal have been very controversial
issues in Turkey and Belgium alike, considering that there is almost no doubt about
Erdal's role in the murders.

Turkey accuses Belgium of having provided Erdal in Brussels and allowing her to escape justice.
Turkish media has frequently suggested that Belgium did not consider Turkish terrorists
to be terrorists unless they harmed Belgium interests.

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http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/4057023.asp?gid=74

Interpol issues red bulletin for Erdal
10 Mar 2006

Turkey's pressure exerted on the Belgium government has produced results with
Belgian poli
ce now having applied to the Interpol General Secretariat on
Wednesday in Lyon, requesting that a red bulletin be issued for Fehriye Erdal's arrest.
Erdal, who was sentenced to four years by a Belgium court for crimes committed
in the country, escaped from a house in Belgium where she was being held under house arrest.

Erdal is also wanted by the Turkish authorities for her involvement in the
assignation of well-know Turkish businessman Ozdemir Sabanci.

After evaluating the application Interpol forwarded a message to its 186 member
countries on 7 March saying that the organization is looking for Erdal.
Interpol called on all member countries to return Erdal to Belgium in the case of her arrest.


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http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060301-121054-9323r

Turkish terrorist vanishes in Belgium
1 Mar 2006

BRUSSELS, March 1 (UPI) -- Turkish terrorist Fehriye Erdal has vanished in Belgium
a day after being sentenced to four years in prison for a series of crimes.

A court in the Belgian city of Bruges sentenced the female terrorist, who was
captured operating under a false name, to four years in jail on Tuesday.
She was found guilty of using false identification, forming a gang, and
carrying unlicensed weapons.

Another six members of the DHKP-C group, which is considered a terrorist
organization by the United States and the European Union, were given
four to six years in prison.

When the police went to arrest the woman at her residence following the
court's verdict, they discovered she had fled. Belgian police have
contacted Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant,
a spokeswoman for the Belgian Justice Ministry confirmed Wednesday.

Erdal is also wanted in Turkey for the 1996 murder of prominent businessman
Ozdemir Sabanci and another two people. But Belgium refused to extradite the
female terrorist until Turkey abolished the death penalty, which it has now done.

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http://www.nowpublic.com/node/28312

Turkey Makes Official Complaint to EP about Belgium

International Turkish parliamentarians in the Council of Europe complained
to the council about Belgium's refusal to return terrorist Fehriye Erdal,
on trial at Brugges Penal Court, to Turkey.

Turkish members of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE)
in an oral motion to the Committee of Ministers communicated that Belgium
did not display a constructive attitude in
the case.

The Committee's term president Romanian Foreign Minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu
will respond today to the Turkish deputies.

Turkish deputies claim Belgium violated the treaties of the Council,
and maintain Belgium must either try Erdal, arrested in 1999, for the
crime of terrorism or return her to Turkey. The text of complaint read
"Belgium, as a Council of Europe member, signed several treaties related
to counter-terrorism. However, Belgium rejects the basic application of
"either try or return" in these agreements, which the country is a part of."

The Committee of Ministers is expected to give a written answer to the
issue in the upcoming months.

Fehriye Erdal, who has been neither repatriated nor put on trial in Belgium,
is one of the perpetrators of the Ozdemir Sabanci murder. Since the issue
has not been resolved through mutual relations, Turkey decided to bring
the matter to the international platform.


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http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/363685.asp

Turkish police blame Erdal escape on negligence

The police spokesman said that Fehriye Erdal had been charged for her acts
in Belgium in recognition of the fact that the DHKP-C was a terrorist organisation.

03 Mar 2006
ANKARA - Belgian authorities were negligent in allowing a wanted terrorist
to escape only hours before she was sentenced to a four year prison term,
a Turkish police spokesman said Friday.

Spokesman Ismail Caliskan said that there was negligence on the part of
Belgian authorities over the escape of Fehriye Erdal from the address
where she was supposed to be staying under house arrest.

Speaking at a press conference in Ankara, Caliskan said that they hoped
Erdal would caught by the efforts of other European police.

On Tuesday, a court in the Belgian town of Brugges sentenced Erdal to four
years behind bars on charges of being linked to a terrorist organisation,
the possession of firearms and using false documents. However, it was found
that Erdal had disappeared late Monday night.

Erdal is wanted by Turkey to face charges stemming from the 1996 assassination
of leading Turkish industrialist Ozdemir Sabanci and two employees of Sabanci Holding.

When was asked whether Erdal would be sent to Belgium or Turkey when
detained caught, Caliskan said that this would depend on the approach
of the country where she would be captured.


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http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/892

Published on The Brussels Journal (http://www.brusselsjournal.com)
Belgium Allows Terrorist to Escape
By Paul Belien
Created 2006-03-09 15:05

Two weeks ago, a terrorist managed to escape arrest in Brussels, despite being
under surveillance by 32 agents of the Belgian state security, the Sûreté de l’Etat (SdE).
Belgium is an inherently corrupt state. The prototype of what the European Union
as a federal state is likely to become. I have argued for some time
(The Spectator, 13 July 2002) that it is no coincidence that Belgium
has become a safe haven for international terrorists.
Artificial states like Belgium (The Salisbury Review, December 2003) tend to be
corrupt (The Wall Street Journal, 12 September 1996) because no-one identifies
with the state. Hence, it is no surprise that no-one in the Belgian government
refuses to accept responsibility for the escape of Fehriye Erdal.

On 28 February a Belgian court sentenced six Turkish terrorists, belonging to the
Kurdish organisation DHKP-C (Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Partisi-Cephesi), to prison sentences.
Fehriye Erdal, the most prominent of the terrorists standing trial, was sentenced to
four years in jail. She had not been arrested prior to the trial, which dragged on
for 7 years (not unusually long in Belgium). When the police came to pick her up
after her conviction, however, Erdal had disappeared. The SdE had lost track of her.
Watching Kurdish terrorists was not a high priority in Belgium as they were not
likely to commit attacks in Belgium itself.

Erdal was involved in the murder of the Turkish businessman Ozdemir Sabanci in Istanbul
on 9 January 1996. The DHKP-C has been banned in Germany and Britain, but not in Belgium.
Unlike the Flemish secessionist Vlaams Blok party, which was declared a criminal
organisation in 2004, the DHKP-C does not threaten the existence of the Belgian state.
The DHKP-C is responsible for over 400 murders, assassination attempts and bomb attacks,
against Turkish but also against NATO targets.

Mr Sabanci, one of Turkey’s captains of industry, was murdered in Turkey,
together with his secretary and the director of Toyota. Videotapes from
security cameras show that Erdal had allowed the killers to enter Sabanci’s office.
A few weeks earlier she had infiltrated the Sabanci Business Center in Istanbul
as a cleaner. [An alternative explanation for the Sabanci murder is that the
DHKP-C was working for the French. After the murder of the Toyota boss,
the Japanese car manufacturer decided to build a new plant in France rather than in Turkey.]

After the assassination Erdal fled to Germany. In 1997 the German state security
informed the SdE that the DHKP-C had moved its headquarters from Germany to Belgium.
Under a false identity Erdal settled in a seafront apartment in the fashionable
Belgian coastal resort of Knokke. In September 1999 the Belgian police, alerted
by a vigilant neighbour, discovered an arsenal of weapons in her apartment and
arrested her. In prison her real identity was disclosed. The Turkish authorities
asked for Erdal’s extradition but she went on a hunger strike, while “human rights”
organisations began a campaign for her release. Even Danielle Mitterrand, the widow
of the French president, signed a petition in favour of Erdal.

The Belgian authorities released Erdal in attendance of her trial. She moved to Brussels.
It took seven years before she was convicted to four years for the possession of the arms arsenal.
The Belgian government maintains they had no indications that Erdal would try to escape.
Last Monday, however, Koen Dassen, the former chief of the SdE, said that in 2005
the SdE had warned the Belgian government on three occasions that Erdal would try to flee.
Mr Dassen resigned on 30 January, but has not been replaced yet.
In 2002 he became head of the SdE after his predecessor resigned
following the publication of an official report which revealed
that the SdE was failing to screen Islamic terrorists.

For years the Belgian authorities have pursued a policy of turning a blind eye
to extremist groups in return for the latter’s implicit agreement not to target Belgium.
In 1996, Charles Pasqua, the French Minister of the Interior at the time, accused Belgium
of lacking the resolve to fight international Islamic terrorism. The accusation followed
the release in Brussels of twelve members of the Algerian terror group GIA, the Algerian
branch of al-Qaeda. France had been a main target of GIA attacks, which included the
bombing of the Saint-Michel Metro station in Paris on 25 July 1995 where seven people
were killed and 117 wounded. At the time the Belgian government had made a deal with
the GIA terrorists, agreeing to turn a blind eye to conspiracies hatched on Belgian
soil in exchange for immunity from attack. In a GIA statement addressing the Belgian
King Albert II but posted to the French embassy in Brussels in June 1999, the Algerian
terror movement explicitly referred to such a deal. Because of its “neutralist” position,
Belgium has become known as a safe haven for terrorists.

The SdE is not incapable of doing its job, however, as is shown by the thoroughness
with which they scrutinize Flemish nationalists and secessionists. In 2003 Soetkin Collier,
the lead singer of Urban Trad, Belgium’s entry in the Eurovision Song Contest, was banned
from taking part in the contest because, according to the SdE, she had participated in
a Nazi rally commemorating Rudolf Hess in 1996. This allegation later proved to be false.
Ms Collier, though not polically active herself, came from a Flemish family with
secessionist sympathies.

Following Erdal’s escape the Belgian opposition – the Flemish-secessionists and the
Christian-Democrats – have asked for the resignation of Laurette Onkelinx, the
Socialist minister of Justice, who supervises the SdE, and Patrick Dewael,
the Liberal minister of the Interior, who supervises the police. Both ministers
refuse to step down. They claim not to be responsible for what went wrong.

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Belgium harbors and protects international terrorists

Terrorist Heaven Belgium

Fehriye Erdal is a PKK terrorist who murdered Özdemir Sabanci, brother
of late famous businessman Sakip Sabanci. She was captured in Belgium
but the right-wing government of Belgium refuses to extradict her to Turkey,
nor brings her to trial. The Belgian state is protecting the terrorist Fehriye Erdal.

Under this government Belgium has become a terrorist heaven,
a country where internationally sought terrorists of the PKK and the DHKP-C
freely walk the streets of Belgium.

The Belgian state is harboring and protecting international terrorists.


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fehriye_Erdal

Fehriye Erdal

Fehriye Erdal is a female Kurdish Left-wing activist from Turkey suspected of terrorism.

Early life

Fehriye Erdal was born on February 25, 1977 in Kangal, Sivas Province, Turkey,
to Kurdish Alevi parents. Shortly after her birth, the family moved to Adana.
When Fehriye and her sister went on to study at university in Istanbul,
her family moved along with them. There, she studied political and social science.
It is during this time that she came into contact with the Marxist-Leninist DHKP-C,
considered as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the United States and the European Union.

Sabanci Assassination

In the summer of 1995, Erdal got a job at a cleaning firm, which allowed her
access to the Sabanci Towers. It is now widely accepted that this was part
of the preparatory work for the murder. On January 9, 1996, Fehriye Erdal
claimed that she had lost her badge to gain access to the building and
requested the use of a colleague's badge. Using this badge, she allowed
two armed men, Mustafa Duyar and Ismail Akkol, to enter the Sabanci building.
The two men, who were assassins associated with DHKP-C, were led to the
executive floor by Erdal, and proceeded to shoot and kill Özdemir Sabanci,
Sabanci Holding CEO Haluk Görgün and a secretary, Nilgün Hasefe.
Erdal had fled the scene before the murder was even discovered.
This contradicted her earliest explanation that she left to escape false
accusations because of her well-known DHKP-C sympathy. Özdemir Sabanci was
at that time one of the internationally well-known businessmen in Turkey
and head of the Toyota Factory in Turkey. Sabanci family has been one of
the richest families of Turkey since the establishment of Turkish Republic.

Capture and Belgian trial

In 1996, Erdal fled her country as a wanted fugitive. No sign of her appeared
until she was arrested for possession of weapons in Belgium in 1999.
She was using a false name at that time.

In the summer of 2000, she acquired her release by a 45
days long hunger strike.
She was moved to a secret location under supervision. However, when the
location (Charleroi) got leaked, she moved to Brussels. She lived right
above the information bureau of DHKP-C in the Stevinstraat.

The Turkish government requested her extradition but Belgium refused, and the
Belgian judicial system declared that it would not prosecute Erdal for crimes
committed in Istanbul despite the charges of terrorism. Turkey's requests for
the extradition of Erdal as a terrorist were denied on the grounds that Erdal
was not a terrorist because the European anti-terrorism treaty does not consider
an armed crime a "terrorist action" unless the crime was committed with an
automatic weapon (The weapons used in the Sabanci attack were semi-automatic).
At that time, Turkey had not abolished the death penalty yet.

On February 28, 2006, a court in the
Belgian city of Bruges sentenced Erdal.
She was found guilty of using false identification, forming a gang, and carrying
unlicensed weapons. The court did not mention the murder in Istanbul.
Another six members of the DHKP-C group, were sentenced to four to six years in prison.
However, Erdal managed to escape despite the constant surveillance of the Belgian
intelligence servi
ces ("staatsveiligheid"). Musa Asoglu, a fellow DHKP-C member,
is thought by some to have helped her. Asoglu was also convicted the next day.
Up to this moment, Erdal's whereabouts are still unknown.

Belgian police have contacted Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant,
a spokeswoman for the Belgian Justice Ministry confirmed Wednesday. In March 2006,
Turkish television station NTV reported that Erdal was seen in Larnaca, Cyprus.

The court proceedings and the eventual escape of Erdal have been very controversial
issues in Turkey and Belgium alike, considering that there is almost no doubt about
Erdal's role in the murders.

Turkey accuses Belgium of having provided Erdal in Brussels and allowing her to escape justice.
Turkish media has frequently suggested that Belgium did not consider Turkish terrorists
to be terrorists unless they harmed Belgium interests.

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http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/4057023.asp?gid=74

Interpol issues red bulletin for Erdal
10 Mar 2006

Turkey's pressure exerted on the Belgium government has produced results with
Belgian poli
ce now having applied to the Interpol General Secretariat on
Wednesday in Lyon, requesting that a red bulletin be issued for Fehriye Erdal's arrest.
Erdal, who was sentenced to four years by a Belgium court for crimes committed
in the country, escaped from a house in Belgium where she was being held under house arrest.

Erdal is also wanted by the Turkish authorities for her involvement in the
assignation of well-know Turkish businessman Ozdemir Sabanci.

After evaluating the application Interpol forwarded a message to its 186 member
countries on 7 March saying that the organization is looking for Erdal.
Interpol called on all member countries to return Erdal to Belgium in the case of her arrest.


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http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060301-121054-9323r

Turkish terrorist vanishes in Belgium
1 Mar 2006

BRUSSELS, March 1 (UPI) -- Turkish terrorist Fehriye Erdal has vanished in Belgium
a day after being sentenced to four years in prison for a series of crimes.

A court in the Belgian city of Bruges sentenced the female terrorist, who was
captured operating under a false name, to four years in jail on Tuesday.
She was found guilty of using false identification, forming a gang, and
carrying unlicensed weapons.

Another six members of the DHKP-C group, which is considered a terrorist
organization by the United States and the European Union, were given
four to six years in prison.

When the police went to arrest the woman at her residence following the
court's verdict, they discovered she had fled. Belgian police have
contacted Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant,
a spokeswoman for the Belgian Justice Ministry confirmed Wednesday.

Erdal is also wanted in Turkey for the 1996 murder of prominent businessman
Ozdemir Sabanci and another two people. But Belgium refused to extradite the
female terrorist until Turkey abolished the death penalty, which it has now done.

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http://www.nowpublic.com/node/28312

Turkey Makes Official Complaint to EP about Belgium

International Turkish parliamentarians in the Council of Europe complained
to the council about Belgium's refusal to return terrorist Fehriye Erdal,
on trial at Brugges Penal Court, to Turkey.

Turkish members of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE)
in an oral motion to the Committee of Ministers communicated that Belgium
did not display a constructive attitude in
the case.

The Committee's term president Romanian Foreign Minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu
will respond today to the Turkish deputies.

Turkish deputies claim Belgium violated the treaties of the Council,
and maintain Belgium must either try Erdal, arrested in 1999, for the
crime of terrorism or return her to Turkey. The text of complaint read
"Belgium, as a Council of Europe member, signed several treaties related
to counter-terrorism. However, Belgium rejects the basic application of
"either try or return" in these agreements, which the country is a part of."

The Committee of Ministers is expected to give a written answer to the
issue in the upcoming months.

Fehriye Erdal, who has been neither repatriated nor put on trial in Belgium,
is one of the perpetrators of the Ozdemir Sabanci murder. Since the issue
has not been resolved through mutual relations, Turkey decided to bring
the matter to the international platform.


-------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/363685.asp

Turkish police blame Erdal escape on negligence

The police spokesman said that Fehriye Erdal had been charged for her acts
in Belgium in recognition of the fact that the DHKP-C was a terrorist organisation.

03 Mar 2006
ANKARA - Belgian authorities were negligent in allowing a wanted terrorist
to escape only hours before she was sentenced to a four year prison term,
a Turkish police spokesman said Friday.

Spokesman Ismail Caliskan said that there was negligence on the part of
Belgian authorities over the escape of Fehriye Erdal from the address
where she was supposed to be staying under house arrest.

Speaking at a press conference in Ankara, Caliskan said that they hoped
Erdal would caught by the efforts of other European police.

On Tuesday, a court in the Belgian town of Brugges sentenced Erdal to four
years behind bars on charges of being linked to a terrorist organisation,
the possession of firearms and using false documents. However, it was found
that Erdal had disappeared late Monday night.

Erdal is wanted by Turkey to face charges stemming from the 1996 assassination
of leading Turkish industrialist Ozdemir Sabanci and two employees of Sabanci Holding.

When was asked whether Erdal would be sent to Belgium or Turkey when
detained caught, Caliskan said that this would depend on the approach
of the country where she would be captured.


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http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/892

Published on The Brussels Journal (http://www.brusselsjournal.com)
Belgium Allows Terrorist to Escape
By Paul Belien
Created 2006-03-09 15:05

Two weeks ago, a terrorist managed to escape arrest in Brussels, despite being
under surveillance by 32 agents of the Belgian state security, the Sûreté de l’Etat (SdE).
Belgium is an inherently corrupt state. The prototype of what the European Union
as a federal state is likely to become. I have argued for some time
(The Spectator, 13 July 2002) that it is no coincidence that Belgium
has become a safe haven for international terrorists.
Artificial states like Belgium (The Salisbury Review, December 2003) tend to be
corrupt (The Wall Street Journal, 12 September 1996) because no-one identifies
with the state. Hence, it is no surprise that no-one in the Belgian government
refuses to accept responsibility for the escape of Fehriye Erdal.

On 28 February a Belgian court sentenced six Turkish terrorists, belonging to the
Kurdish organisation DHKP-C (Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Partisi-Cephesi), to prison sentences.
Fehriye Erdal, the most prominent of the terrorists standing trial, was sentenced to
four years in jail. She had not been arrested prior to the trial, which dragged on
for 7 years (not unusually long in Belgium). When the police came to pick her up
after her conviction, however, Erdal had disappeared. The SdE had lost track of her.
Watching Kurdish terrorists was not a high priority in Belgium as they were not
likely to commit attacks in Belgium itself.

Erdal was involved in the murder of the Turkish businessman Ozdemir Sabanci in Istanbul
on 9 January 1996. The DHKP-C has been banned in Germany and Britain, but not in Belgium.
Unlike the Flemish secessionist Vlaams Blok party, which was declared a criminal
organisation in 2004, the DHKP-C does not threaten the existence of the Belgian state.
The DHKP-C is responsible for over 400 murders, assassination attempts and bomb attacks,
against Turkish but also against NATO targets.

Mr Sabanci, one of Turkey’s captains of industry, was murdered in Turkey,
together with his secretary and the director of Toyota. Videotapes from
security cameras show that Erdal had allowed the killers to enter Sabanci’s office.
A few weeks earlier she had infiltrated the Sabanci Business Center in Istanbul
as a cleaner. [An alternative explanation for the Sabanci murder is that the
DHKP-C was working for the French. After the murder of the Toyota boss,
the Japanese car manufacturer decided to build a new plant in France rather than in Turkey.]

After the assassination Erdal fled to Germany. In 1997 the German state security
informed the SdE that the DHKP-C had moved its headquarters from Germany to Belgium.
Under a false identity Erdal settled in a seafront apartment in the fashionable
Belgian coastal resort of Knokke. In September 1999 the Belgian police, alerted
by a vigilant neighbour, discovered an arsenal of weapons in her apartment and
arrested her. In prison her real identity was disclosed. The Turkish authorities
asked for Erdal’s extradition but she went on a hunger strike, while “human rights”
organisations began a campaign for her release. Even Danielle Mitterrand, the widow
of the French president, signed a petition in favour of Erdal.

The Belgian authorities released Erdal in attendance of her trial. She moved to Brussels.
It took seven years before she was convicted to four years for the possession of the arms arsenal.
The Belgian government maintains they had no indications that Erdal would try to escape.
Last Monday, however, Koen Dassen, the former chief of the SdE, said that in 2005
the SdE had warned the Belgian government on three occasions that Erdal would try to flee.
Mr Dassen resigned on 30 January, but has not been replaced yet.
In 2002 he became head of the SdE after his predecessor resigned
following the publication of an official report which revealed
that the SdE was failing to screen Islamic terrorists.

For years the Belgian authorities have pursued a policy of turning a blind eye
to extremist groups in return for the latter’s implicit agreement not to target Belgium.
In 1996, Charles Pasqua, the French Minister of the Interior at the time, accused Belgium
of lacking the resolve to fight international Islamic terrorism. The accusation followed
the release in Brussels of twelve members of the Algerian terror group GIA, the Algerian
branch of al-Qaeda. France had been a main target of GIA attacks, which included the
bombing of the Saint-Michel Metro station in Paris on 25 July 1995 where seven people
were killed and 117 wounded. At the time the Belgian government had made a deal with
the GIA terrorists, agreeing to turn a blind eye to conspiracies hatched on Belgian
soil in exchange for immunity from attack. In a GIA statement addressing the Belgian
King Albert II but posted to the French embassy in Brussels in June 1999, the Algerian
terror movement explicitly referred to such a deal. Because of its “neutralist” position,
Belgium has become known as a safe haven for terrorists.

The SdE is not incapable of doing its job, however, as is shown by the thoroughness
with which they scrutinize Flemish nationalists and secessionists. In 2003 Soetkin Collier,
the lead singer of Urban Trad, Belgium’s entry in the Eurovision Song Contest, was banned
from taking part in the contest because, according to the SdE, she had participated in
a Nazi rally commemorating Rudolf Hess in 1996. This allegation later proved to be false.
Ms Collier, though not polically active herself, came from a Flemish family with
secessionist sympathies.

Following Erdal’s escape the Belgian opposition – the Flemish-secessionists and the
Christian-Democrats – have asked for the resignation of Laurette Onkelinx, the
Socialist minister of Justice, who supervises the SdE, and Patrick Dewael,
the Liberal minister of the Interior, who supervises the police. Both ministers
refuse to step down. They claim not to be responsible for what went wrong.