State Council will Ask for the Secret Decree

The 10th Circuit of the State Council has announced an interim decision about the “secret” decree by the cabinet of ministers. The anti-war activists from Izmir had pressed charges for the cancellation of the decree, which opened Turkey’s ports, bases, and airports to the use of U.S. forces, and which allowed Turkish soldiers to go to Iraq.

The State Council decided “to ask the prime ministry whether there indeed is such a decree from the Cabinet of ministers,” and “to give the defendant side 15 days to respond to this question.”

The anti-war activists from Izmir had applied to the 10th Circuit of the State Council after the preparations by the “Anti-War Law,” group of the Human Rights Center of the Izmir Bar.

The “secret” decree by the Cabinet of Ministers allowed “foreign troops to benefit from the military and civilian facilities and bases in Turkey for restructuring in Iraq, and providing Iraq with military, civilian and logistical support from Turkey.”