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The 6th hearing of the trial against the communists who had been imprisoned in the operations called "Gaye" carried out on September 8-12, 2006 in several cities of Turkey and Northern Kurdistan took place on June 26, 2009 at the 10th Heavy Penalty Court of Besiktas, Istanbul. The hearing, at which 16 of the communists were taken to from prison, was watched by a large group, among them DTP deputies, journalists and writers.{divide}
For the first time from the beginning of the trials, the witnesses were heard at this hearing. The major of the Ocakli village in Aydin/Nazilli which is calimed to be the place where some of the prisoners were arrested and the neighbours of the prisoner Naci Guner spoke at the hearing as witnesses. Four policemen who were also called to the court as witnesses did not attend the hearing. The speeches of the witnesses did not strengthen the indictment against the 10 September prisoners, indeed, they showed the legal contradictions in the proceeding once more. The lawyers of the prisoners expressed in their speeches that the crime scene report drawn up during the police operations contradicts with the speeches of the witnesses.
At the end of the hearing, Arzu Torun and Erkan Salduz were released.
The communists were shouting the slogan "Hope is standing tall" when they were taken to court and back to prison. The next hearing is going to take place November 6, 2009.
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