Gezi protests: Osman Kavala Agent and a Putschist?

Osman Kavala has been sitting for around 500 days, in Turkish detention. The Prosecutor's office sees him as a Initiator of the Gezi Park protests. The indictment in Germany for a shake of the head.

Oliver Mayer-Rüth, ARD-Studio Istanbul

Osman Kavala, the Gezi-conspirators - this is the title of 657 pages long indictment against the Turkish philanthropist and arts patron, Kavala could be. The General Prosecutor's office of Istanbul has given up on first sight, solely on the basis of the scope of the indictment, particularly to great lengths to prove that Kavala is behind the Gezi Park protests of 2013.

For more than one and a half years in prison

At first glance, because at second glance, many of the in the indictment of the persons referred to, respectively, the representatives of the mentioned institutions, which the prosecution intended to actually with the 657 pages of questions.

Kavala has been sitting for 500 days in detention. The European court of human rights has worked intensively with the case. The man is not just anybody. He was also a conversation partner of Chancellor Angela Merkel. From an Industrial family of Kavala supported with his "Anadolu Kültür"-Institute of art projects in the spirit of international understanding: It includes the peaceful Coexistence between Turks, Kurds and Armenians.

activists and the police at the Gezi Park in the heart of Istanbul in the year 2013.

in cooperation with German institutes

The Turkish President Reccep Tayyip Erdogan has, however, attacked in various Speeches, Kavala to the detention focus. He accused him of agent activity, in addition Kavala have one of the initiators of the Gezi protests and trying to overthrow the government.

This is the main allegation of the indictment, which has in large Parts of the notable differences between the Standards of the German indictment. Particularly notable is the multiple-reference in the indictment to the cooperation of the "Anadolu Kültür"Institute with the help of the Green-affiliated Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, the SPD-affiliated Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the Goethe-Institut is the German point of view. So wire-tapping of the phone are, for example, to find discussions between Kavala, and the former Director of the Goethe-Institute in Istanbul, and between a staff member of the "Anadolu Kültür"-Institute and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

only Fans of detective novels are likely to be noisy. Intercepted Telephone Conversations? However, the indictment quoted largely banal dialogues.