'YA' untuk hukuman mati bermakna 'TIDAK' kepada keahlian EU, EU memberi AMARAN TURKI . . .

2 daripada 8 anggota tentera Turki yang melarikan diri ke Greece dalam sebuah helikopter dan meminta suaka politik selepas rampasan kuasa tentera gagal terhadap kerajaan, dibawa kepada pendakwa oleh 2 anggota polis di bandar Greek utara Alexandroupolis, Greece, 17 Julai, 2016. (Two of the eight Turkish soldiers who fled to Greece in a helicopter and requested political asylum after a failed military coup against the government, are brought to prosecutor by two policemen in the northern Greek city of Alexandroupolis, Greece, July 17, 2016). © Vasilis Ververidis/Reuters

Borneo - Pengembalian semula hukuman mati di Turki akan menamatkan rundingan kesertaan EU, jurucakap kerajaan Jerman telah menyatakan. Sementara itu, Dasar Luar EU Ketua Federica Mogherini juga memberi amaran bahawa tiada negara yang boleh menjadi ahli Kesatuan Eropah yang mempunyai hukuman mati.

"Pengenalan hukuman mati bermakna penggantungan serta-merta rundingan kesertaan," kata jurucakap kerajaan Jerman Steffen Seibert pada Isnin.

Turki adalah sebahagian daripada Majlis Eropah dan terikat dengan Konvensyen Eropah mengenai Hak Asasi Manusia, Ketua Dasar Luar EU berkata.

"Tiada negara boleh menjadi negara anggota EU jika ia memperkenalkan hukuman mati," katanya. "Turki adalah satu bahagian penting dalam Majlis Eropah dan terikat dengan Konvensyen Eropah mengenai Hak Asasi Manusia, yang sangat jelas mengenai hukuman mati."

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‘Yes’ to death penalty will mean ‘No’ to EU membership, EU warns Turkey . . .

Reinstating the death penalty in Turkey would end EU accession talks, a German government spokesman has stated. Meanwhile, EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini also warned that no country can become an EU member that has capital punishment.

“Introduction of death penalty would mean immediate suspension of accession talks,” German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Monday.

Turkey is part of the Council of Europe and is bound by the European Convention on Human Rights, the EU Foreign Policy Chief noted.

“No country can become an EU member state if it introduces the death penalty,” she said. “Turkey is an important part of the Council of Europe and is bound by the European Convention on Human Rights, which is very clear on the death penalty.”

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Terdahulu, Presiden Erdogan berkata bahawa parlimen boleh membincangkan memperkenalkan semula hukuman mati di Turki. "Kami akan terus untuk membersihkan virus dari semua badan-badan kerajaan kerana virus ini telah merebak. Malangnya seperti kanser, virus ini telah menyelubungi negeri ini, "katanya kepada penyokong pada hari Sabtu.

Beberapa pegawai EU dan ahli politik telah menyuarakan kebimbangan terhadap tindakan keras kerajaan Turki mengenai hak asasi. Banyak untuk memberikan Turks visa percuma perjalanan ke EU juga dalam bahaya, di tengah-tengah panggilan bahawa rampasan kuasa gagal tidak boleh digunakan sebagai "kekuasaan penuh untuk sinambungan."

EU menandatangani perjanjian asing dengan Ankara pada bulan Mac, mengikut mana Turki akan mengambil kembali pelarian yang mencari perlindungan di Kesatuan Eropah dalam pertukaran untuk pakej bantuan bernilai berbilion euro, serta konsesi politik pernah berlaku sebelum ini, termasuk rejim visa bebas untuk Turkish rakyat.

"Kami mempunyai apa-apa terhadap perjanjian pelarian dengan Turki," Horst Seehofer, pemimpin Kristian Kesatuan Sosial (CSU), yang merupakan parti kakak Kesatuan Demokratik Kristian Merkel (CDU), memberitahu Jerman penyiar ARD pada hari Ahad, sambil menambah bahawa " jumlah kebebasan bergerak "untuk Turki adalah" bermasalah, "Walau bagaimanapun.

Seehofer berkata kebimbangan mengenai rejim visa bebas "telah menjadi lebih kuat" kerana rampasan kuasa gagal yang telah meninggalkan lebih daripada 290 orang mati.

Bagaimana kerajaan Turki mengendalikan penyokong rampasan kuasa ini sebenarnya akan menjadi "ujian untuk Turki," rakan kongsi gabungan Angela Merkel dan pemimpin Bavarian berkata, berkata ia adalah penting bahawa Ankara berpegang kepada kedaulatan undang-undang. "Untuk bercakap tentang 'pembersihan' . . . istilah sahaja menyenangkan," kata Seehofer.

Dalam ucapannya besar penyokong pada malam Jumaat, Presiden Recep Taiyp Erdogan berkata bahawa "Kebangkitan ini adalah hadiah daripada Allah kepada kita kerana ini akan menjadi sebab untuk membersihkan tentera kita." "Mereka akan membayar harga yang tinggi untuk ini," katanya ditambah.

Earlier, President Erdogan said that the parliament may discuss reintroducing the death penalty in Turkey. “We will continue to clean the virus from all state bodies because this virus has spread. Unfortunately like a cancer, this virus has enveloped the state,” he told supporters on Saturday.

A number of EU officials and politicians have voiced concerns over the Turkish government’s crackdown on fundamental rights. A deal to grant Turks visa-free travel to the EU is also in jeopardy, amid calls that the failed coup must not be used as a “carte blanche for arbitrariness.”

The EU signed a migrant deal with Ankara in March, according to which Turkey would take back refugees seeking asylum in the EU in exchange for a multi-billion euro aid package, as well as unprecedented political concessions, including the visa-free regime for Turkish citizens.

“We have nothing against a refugee agreement with Turkey,” Horst Seehofer, the leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU), which is the sister party of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), told German broadcaster ARD on Sunday, adding that “total freedom of movement” for Turks is “problematic,” however. 

Seehofer said concerns about the visa-free regime “have become even stronger” since the failed coup that has left over 290 people dead.

How the Turkish government handles the coup’s supporters will actually be a “test for Turkey,” Angela Merkel’s coalition partner and Bavarian leader noted, saying it’s important that Ankara stick to the rule of law. “To speak of ‘cleansing’... the term alone is ominous,” Seehofer said.

Addressing a large crowd of supporters on Friday night, President Recep Taiyp Erdogan said that “This uprising is a gift from God to us because this will be a reason to cleanse our army.” “They will pay a heavy price for this,” he added.

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Sekurang-kurangnya 7,850 anggota polis dan tentera, termasuk beberapa pegawai berpangkat tinggi, telah disingkirkan dari kedudukan mereka sejak percubaan rampasan kuasa telah digagalkan, akhbar Hurriyet yang dilaporkan. Ankara telah ditangkap kira-kira 6,000 orang yang dipercayai terlibat dalam rampasan kuasa cuba dan bilangan "boleh melepasi 6000," sebagai "Operasi pembersihan masih berterusan," kata Menteri Keadilan Turki Bekir Bozdağ dalam temubual televisyen, seperti yang dipetik oleh AP.

'Mesti ada melakukan pembersihan dalaman sewenang-wenangnya'

Menteri Luar Austria Sebastian Kurtz juga berkata pengenalan semula hukuman mati di Turki akan "sama sekali tidak boleh diterima," sambil menambah bahawa Austria menolak ia sebagai "hukuman bentuk yang kejam dan tidak berperikemanusiaan."

"Rampasan kuasa gagal, yang hendak mengutuknya, tidak perlu menjadi kekuasaan penuh untuk sinambungan. Mesti ada melakukan pembersihan dalaman sewenang-wenangnya, tidak ada sekatan jenayah di luar rangka kerja perlembagaan dan kehakiman. kuasa kerajaan mesti sentiasa dijalankan hanya atas dasar undang-undang dan hak asasi manusia perlu dilindungi, "Kurtz kepada Kurier.

Tindakan keras Turki pada kebebasan demokrasi akan menyukarkan rundingan mengenai bidaan Ankara untuk menjadi ahli Kesatuan Eropah, Menteri Keadilan Jerman Heiko Maas telah memberi AMARAN.

"Ia perlu jelas kepada Presiden Erdogan: Tiada diskaun untuk Turki. Orang yang menyekat hak-hak asasi dan kebebasan kuasa menolak negara keluar dari nilai-nilai asas EU, "Berliner Morgenpost dipetik Maas sebagai berkata.

"Tiada siapa yang harus menyalahgunakan percubaan rampasan kuasa untuk tujuan autoritarian. Hanya apabila rampasan kuasa tentera diuruskan dengan perlembagaan, satu bahagian lagi masyarakat Turki dapat dielakkan, "katanya.

At least 7,850 members of the police and military, including several high-ranking officers, have been removed from their posts since the coup attempt was foiled, the Hurriyet newspaper reported. Ankara has arrested some 6,000 people believed to have been involved in the attempted coup and the number“could surpass 6,000,” as the “cleansing operation is continuing," Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said in a television interview, as cited by AP.  

‘There must be no arbitrary purges’

Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurtz also said reintroduction of the death penalty in Turkey would be “totally unacceptable,” adding that Austria rejects it as “a cruel and inhuman form of punishment.”

“The failed coup, which is to be strongly condemned, must not be a carte blanche for arbitrariness. There must be no arbitrary purges, no criminal sanctions outside the constitutional framework and the judiciary. State power must be invariably exercised only on the basis of laws, and human rights must be protected,” Kurtz told Kurier.

The Turkish crackdown on democratic freedoms would complicate negotiations on Ankara’s bid to become a member of the EU, German Justice Minister Heiko Maas has warned.

“It should be clear to President Erdogan: There will be no discount for Turkey. The one who restricts fundamental rights and the independence of powers pushes the country away from the basic values of the EU,” Berliner Morgenpost quoted Maas as saying.

“No one should abuse the coup attempt for authoritarian purposes. Only when the military coup is dealt with constitutionally, a further division of Turkish society can be avoided,” he added.

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Johannes Hahn, Pesuruhjaya EU yang berurusan dengan tawaran keahlian EU Turki, berkata kerelaan dengan mana hakim telah dikumpulkan selepas rampasan kuasa gagal menunjukkan bahawa kerajaan sebenarnya telah disediakan senarai terlebih dahulu.

"Ia kelihatan sekurang-kurangnya jika sesuatu yang telah disediakan. Senarai yang ada, yang menunjukkan ia telah disediakan dan akan digunakan pada peringkat tertentu, "kata Hahn, menurut Reuters.

"Saya amat bimbang. Ia adalah apa yang kami bimbang."

Ketua Dasar Luar EU Federica Mogherini juga telah memberi amaran kepada kerajaan Turki tidak mengambil apa-apa tindakan yang boleh merosakkan perintah perlembagaan.

"Tidak ada alasan bagi apa-apa langkah-langkah yang akan membawa negara keluar dari itu," katanya pada Isnin.

Pemimpin Demokrat Sosial pusat-kiri Jerman (SPD) di Parlimen, Thomas Oppermann, menuduh Erdogan daripada menjejaskan prinsip demokrasi di negara ini.

"Jika ribuan hakim dan pendakwa raya yang jelas mempunyai apa-apa kaitan dengan rampasan kuasa semakin dikeluarkan, ini adalah serangan ke atas pemerintahan demokrasi undang-undang," Oppermann memberitahu Spiegel Online.

"Erdogan menyalahgunakan rampasan kuasa gagal sebagai alasan untuk membersihkan sistem pentadbiran kerajaan Turki penentang AKP," kata Oppermann. "Sudah tentu putschists perlu bertanggungjawab. Tetapi ini perlu dilakukan mengikut undang-undang."

Setiausaha Negara Amerika Syarikat John Kerry juga menyuarakan kebimbangan bahawa presiden Turki akan menggunakan rampasan kuasa gagal sebagai alasan untuk melumpuhkan demokrasi.

"Kami semua pihak, dan kami telah menyatakan bahawa kebimbangan bahawa tidak ada ... yang mencecah baik di luar orang-orang yang terlibat dalam rampasan kuasa, tetapi itu [kerajaan Erdogan] mengukuhkan demokrasi," kata Kerry pada ABC Minggu Ini.

Johannes Hahn, the EU commissioner dealing with Turkey’s EU membership bid, said the alacrity with which judges were rounded up after the coup failed indicates that the government had actually prepared a list in advance.

“It looks at least as if something has been prepared. The lists are available, which indicates it was prepared and to be used at a certain stage,” Hahn said, according to Reuters.

“I’m very concerned. It is exactly what we feared.”

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has also warned the Turkish government against taking any action that could damage constitutional order.

“There is no excuse for any steps that takes the country away from that,” she said on Monday.

The leader of Germany’s center-left Social Democrats (SPD) in parliament, Thomas Oppermann, has accused Erdogan of jeopardizing the country’s democratic principles.

“If thousands of judges and public prosecutors who obviously had nothing to do with the coup are getting removed, this is an attack on the democratic rule of law,” Oppermann told Spiegel Online.

“Erdogan is abusing the failed coup as an excuse to clean the Turkish state apparatus of opponents of the AKP,” Oppermann said. “Of course the putschists must be held accountable. But this must be done within the law.”

US Secretary of State John Kerry also voiced concern that Turkish president will use the failed coup as a pretext to crack down on democracy.

“We’re all concerned, and we’ve expressed that concern that there’s not... a reach well beyond those who engaged in the coup, but that [Erdogan’s government] strengthen democracy,” Kerry said on ABC’s This Week.

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