OHAL region

The OHAL region (Turkish: Olağanüstü Hâl Bölge Valiliği, lit.

[1][2] The legal basis was Cabinet Decree 285 (285 sayılı Kanun Hükmünde Kararname)[3] that appointed a regional governor for the state of emergency.

[5] In April 1990, Decree 413 was issued which allowed the regional governor to ban, confiscate or fine publications, shut down printing plants, control all workers union activities, require prosecutors to open legal processes who violate decree 413, evacuate villages without a notice issued in advance, relocate harmful state employees and send to exile people to other parts in Turkey.

430 he received authority over the provincial governors and was enabled to coordinate actions between them as well the right to exile people from the area he governed.

[12] In an article of September 2005 the lawyers Sezgin Tanrıkulu and Serdar Yavuz (both working in Diyarbakır) presented some figures concerning human rights violations in the region under emergency legislation (OHAL) between 1987 and 2002.

[13] These are official figures, since they were given in reply to a request of Diyarbakır deputy Mesut Değer of 29 January 2003 to the Defence Ministry.

The death toll was given as: In addition 371 members of the armed forces and 572 civilians lost their lives because of exploding mines or bombs.