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What Is My Crime What Is My Crime WHAT IS MY CRIME WHAT IS MY CRIME This book contains the verbal deposition and cross-examination of the internationally renowned Turkish Scientist, Professor Doctor Mehmet Haberal, given in front of the judges he was brought before, for the fi rst time after having been arrested for 357 days, on charges of, “founding and heading a terrorist organisation.” During the course of his deposition, Professor Doctor Haberal felt unwell on a few occasions and could only continue his defence and cross-examination after the intervention of his doctors. ORAL SILIVRI DEPOSITION PROFESSOR MEHMET HABERAL’S ? The court transcript for the legal process of this scientist and scholar, who is still asking and wondering what his crime is, is presented as a gift and valuable source of research to the universal history of law… WHAT IS MY CRIME WHAT PROFESSOR MEHMET HABERAL’S ORAL SILIVRI DEPOSITION WHAT IS MY CRIME? Professor Mehmet Haberal’s Oral Silivri Deposition Edited by Mete Akyol Prepared for Printing by May Yapım Printed by Can Matematik Yayınları Certifi cate Number: 17077 Short excerpts can be taken provided correct referencing is adhered to. This publication cannot be reproduced or transmitted without obtaining prior permission. ANKARA 9 September, 2011 This book is a gift to the public from Professor Doctor Mehmet Haberal, Founding Rector of Başkent University. It consists of the offi cial record of proceedings relating to his oral deposition and cross-examination, along with his lawyers’ defence statements, given at Istanbul’s 13th High Criminal Court, under Docket Number 2009/191, for two days between 5 and 6 April 2010. Professor Doctor Mehmet Haberal has been under arrest from 13 April 2009 to date, in the absence of any legal basis and deprived of his freedoms. This court hearing was held for the fi rst time 357 days after his arrest. He gave his deposition from Istanbul University’s Cardiology Institute, where he was hooked to a monitor, in the care of doctors and nurses. WHAT IS MY CRIME? Professor Doctor Mehmet Haberal’s Oral Deposition Given at Silivri Lawyer Köksal Bayraktar Lawyer Lawyer Dilek Helvacı Belgin Özersin Lawyer Lawyer Lawyer Serdar Özersin Yasemin Antakyalıoğlu Efsun Ünal This book is a compilation of the offi cial court transcript for Professor Doctor Mehmet Haberal’s deposition and cross-examination, held at the Istanbul 13th High Criminal Court Trial, Docket Number 2009/191. 3 Biography of Mehmet A. Haberal MD, FACS (Hon), FICS (Hon) 1944 Born in Subaşı, a village Hacettepe University in the Pazar district of the Hospital, Department of Province of Rize, Turkey General Surgery, July 1967 Graduated from Ankara Performed the fi rst University Medical living-related kidney School, Ankara, Turkey transplantation in Turkey, 1971 Conferred title of General transplanting a graft from Surgeon Specialist, a mother to her 12-year- Hacettepe University, old child; Hacettepe October University Hospital, Department of General 1973 Served as a Fellow at the Surgery, November 3 Shriner’s Burns Institute and the John Seally Elected as the National Hospital in Galveston, Representative for the Texas, USA International Society for Burn Injuries (ISBI) 1974-75 Served as a Fellow at the Colorado University 1976 Conferred title of Medical School Associate Professor Transplantation Center, of General Surgery, January 1, 1974 to June Hacettepe University 30, 1975 1978 Performed the fi rst 1975 Established the Burn and cadaver-kidney Transplantation Unit at transplantation in Turkey 4 with an organ provided by the Turkish Organ Eurotransplant, October Transplantation and Burn 10 Foundation, March 12 1979 Key player in the Conferred title of Full passage of Parliamentary Professor of General Law 2238, enacted Surgery, Hacettepe June 3, 1979, which University validated regulations Chosen to be both a concerning the harvesting, member of the Executive storage, grafting, and Committee and the transplantation of organs representative for the and tissues Eastern Mediterranean Performed the fi rst Area for the ISBI domestic cadaver-kidney 1983 Organized the fi rst transplantation in Turkey, scientifi c transplantation with an organ from a meeting in Ankara, Turkey citizen who had died in a traffi c accident, July 27 Conducted unprecedented research trails on organ Organized the fi rst cold ischemia time; meeting of the National fi rst case in the medical Burn Congress in Ankara, literature of a successful May 26-27 cold kidney organ 1980 Established the Turkish ischemia time of up to 111 Organ Transplantation hours and Burn Foundation, Awarded the Sedat Simavi September 4 Foundation award for 1982 Enacted Law 2594, added outstanding medical to Law 2238, which contributions included new articles 1984 Founding member of the enabling cadaveric organ Mediterranean Burns transplantation without Club Established the consent of the next of kin, Middle East Dialysis and for persons who have died Organ Transplantation in car accidents or natural Foundation (MEDOTF) disasters, and those whose to facilitate organ sharing relatives cannot be found, and procurement in the January 21 Middle East Established the fi rst 1985 Organized the fi rst hemodialysis center meeting of the Middle in Ankara through East Dialysis and 5 Organ Transplantation transplantation in Turkey Foundation, Istanbul, and the region, December 8 Turkey, November 17-20 1989 Established the Adana Established the Turkish Dialysis Center Organ Transplantation and Burn Foundation Hospital 1990 Founder and President in Ankara, Turkey, of the Turkish September 16 Transplantation Society, October Received the Everett Idris Evans Memorial Award Performed the fi rst from the American Burn pediatric Association segmental living-related liver transplantation in 1986 Elected as Associate Turkey, the region, and in Secretary General of the Europe, March 15 ISBI Performed the fi rst adult Established the Is tanbul segmental living-related Dialysis Center, February liver transplantation in the Established the Haberal world, April 24 Educational Foundation, 1992 Performed combined liver- September kidney transplantation Accepted as a Fellow of from a living-related the American College of donor, the fi rst operation Surgeons (FACS) of its kind anywhere in the 1987 Founder and President of world, May 16 the Middle East Society Conferred membership in for Organ Transplantation the New York Academy of (MESOT) Sciences Organized the fi rst 1993 Established Baskent Regional Eastern University* under the Mediterranean Burn aegis of the Turkish Meeting in Istanbul, Organ Transplantation Turkey and Burn Foundation and 1988 Organized the fi rst the Haberal Educational meeting of the Middle Foundation East Society for Organ Opened Başkent Transplantation in Ankara, University Physical Turkey, November 2-4 Therapy and Performed the fi rst Rehabilitation Center in successful cadaver-liver Ankara, Turkey 6 1994 Opened Başkent University College University Zübeyde (preschool to high school Hanım Teaching and levels) in Adana, Turkey Medical Research Center Opened a new Başkent in Izmir on September 3 University Hospital 1995 Established the Turkish building in Ankara, Burn and Fire Disaster November 20 Society in Turkey Established the Transplant 1998 Opened Başkent Games Society, April 20 University Dialysis Center 2002 Opened Başkent in Yalova, Turkey, the fi rst University Adana Seyhan medical facility of this Hospital, Adana, Turkey type devoted to servicing a smaller rural community Established the Society of in Turkey, June Clinical and Experimental Research, January 14 Opened the Başkent University Hospital in 2003 Honorary Fellowship in Adana, Turkey, June the American Surgical Association (ASA) Established the Middle East Burn and Fire Opened Başkent Disaster Society University Konya Hospital, Konya, Turkey 1999 Opened Başkent University College 2004 Member of the Academy (preschool to high school of Surgical Research levels) in Ankara, Turkey (Turkey 2000 Opened the Başkent Representative) University Hospital in Launched a TV channel, Alanya, Antalya, Turkey, “Channel B,” a radio July channel, “Radio Baskent,” Received the Millennium and a news agency, Medal for recognition “Baskent News Agency” of contributions to the Elected President-Elect of development of organ the International Society transplantation in Turkey for Burn Injuries (ISBI) and throughout the world in 2004 in August, in by the International Japan. The Presidential Transplantation Society in term of offi ce will begin in Rome, August September 2006 and end Opened Başkent in 2008 7 2005 Honorary Fellowship in Term of offi ce will began the International College in September 2006 and of Surgeons (ICS), Prague, ends in September 2008, September Fortaleza, September 2006 Elected as Councilor Given Lifetime for The Transplantation Achievement Award Society Global Region, by Kuwaiti Minister of Middle East and North Health, Shaikh Ahmad Africa, May 4 Al-Abdulla Al-Sabah, Honorary Doctorate in November 26 the Azerbaijan Medical 2007 Organized the First University, May 15 Meeting of the Society of Conferred the title of Innate Immunity, Ankara, Honoris Causa (Doctor May 13-15 of Science – D. Sc.) by the University of Karachi, Organized New Key Pakistan, Karachi, May 15 Opinion Leader Meeting of the Transplantation Visiting Professor, The Society, Ankara, July 1-7 Johns Hopkins Hospital th and the Massachusetts Organized 9 Meeting General Hospital, of the Turkish Massachusetts, May 15-23 Transplantation Society, Ankara, July 4-6 Elected as President of the Middle
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