Orhan Aslan (16) and Emrah Aydemir (15)--- two young bakery workers killed by police in an execution carried out in the Murat neighborhood in Diyadin yesterday.
Orhan Aslan (16) and Emrah Aydemir (15)--- two young bakery
workers killed by police in an execution carried out in the Atatürk neighborhood
in Diyadin Ağrı province on Wednesday.
Special operations teams also raided the homes of families living in the same building as the bakery, and beat and tortured at least 3 people during the raid. The body of a third person killed by police, whose identity we don’t know, was also found in the neighborhood.
Shopkeepers closed down their shops in the district and tensions remain high. Special operations teams are adding to the tense environment by roaming the city with armored vehicles.
People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Ağrı parliamentarian Dirayet Taşdemir has inspected the crime scene and described the incident as an obvious execution and has said that there was no sign of a shootout at the crime scene. He noted that the arrest of five witnesses aimed to cover up police execution.
Dirayet Taşdemir emphasized that the two murdered young people were working at the bakery and that they hid behind a glass window when they saw two armored vehicles approach the bakery. The owner of the bakery and neighborhood residents confirmed that the young men were working at the bakery and witnesses reported that special operation police officers tried to put guerrilla clothes on the young men after they were killed. Their bodies were taken to Erzurum without notification to their parents. Five people who witnessed the incident are being held at the Diyadin police headquarters.
The Ağrı Governor's Office has since issued a statement on the incident saying, "Three terrorists were seized dead, together with their guns."
People's lawyers from the Ağrı Bar Association said in a preliminary report released on Wednesday evening that one People's Defense Forces (HPG) guerrilla was killed in a clash that broke out in the area on Wednesday. The lawyers also reported that there was a significant difference between the site of this clash and the place where the two young people were killed and said that the deaths of the boys could not be explained by saying that they were "caught in the clashes." The lawyers had by that time interviewed the father of one of the boys and had determined that he had no ties to the political or guerrilla movements and that his father had instructed him to stay inside during the police attack.
"When we consider this, along with the fact that the boy was a high school student and still going to school, it is indisputable that these two individuals were there as part of their shift at work, and that they were somehow killed," said the Bar Association. "As a result, we request that the investigation not be shut down and the deaths of both children not be covered up by connecting them to a so-called 'organization.'"
The Free Womens’ Congress (KJA) issued a statement on the on-going war and the attacks by security forces in Şırnak’s Silopi district and across the rest of Kurdistan and has said that the Turkish state has refused to negotiate, has insisted on isolating the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan, has carried out bombings and political military operations, has burned forests, has carried out sexual violence against women and has massacred civilians since the general elections on June 7.
The KJA stated that the state is implementing the policy of violence and destruction towards civilians in Silopi, where 4 civilians have been murdered and 28 people have been detained over the past 2 weeks. The KJA noted that the actual number of injured civilians could not be determined due to the security personnel’s’ arrests of wounded civilians. The KJA also emphasized that residents of Silopi could not leave their homes due to the threats by special operations teams, gendarme forces and police officers, and said that these inhumane policies have also been implemented in other Kurdish cities. The KJA ended its statement by calling upon all international human rights organizations, observers’ delegations and press to urgently investigate the massacres and human rights violations in Silopi and the rest of Kurdistan
Special operations teams also raided the homes of families living in the same building as the bakery, and beat and tortured at least 3 people during the raid. The body of a third person killed by police, whose identity we don’t know, was also found in the neighborhood.
Shopkeepers closed down their shops in the district and tensions remain high. Special operations teams are adding to the tense environment by roaming the city with armored vehicles.
People’s Democratic Party (HDP) Ağrı parliamentarian Dirayet Taşdemir has inspected the crime scene and described the incident as an obvious execution and has said that there was no sign of a shootout at the crime scene. He noted that the arrest of five witnesses aimed to cover up police execution.
Dirayet Taşdemir emphasized that the two murdered young people were working at the bakery and that they hid behind a glass window when they saw two armored vehicles approach the bakery. The owner of the bakery and neighborhood residents confirmed that the young men were working at the bakery and witnesses reported that special operation police officers tried to put guerrilla clothes on the young men after they were killed. Their bodies were taken to Erzurum without notification to their parents. Five people who witnessed the incident are being held at the Diyadin police headquarters.
The Ağrı Governor's Office has since issued a statement on the incident saying, "Three terrorists were seized dead, together with their guns."
People's lawyers from the Ağrı Bar Association said in a preliminary report released on Wednesday evening that one People's Defense Forces (HPG) guerrilla was killed in a clash that broke out in the area on Wednesday. The lawyers also reported that there was a significant difference between the site of this clash and the place where the two young people were killed and said that the deaths of the boys could not be explained by saying that they were "caught in the clashes." The lawyers had by that time interviewed the father of one of the boys and had determined that he had no ties to the political or guerrilla movements and that his father had instructed him to stay inside during the police attack.
"When we consider this, along with the fact that the boy was a high school student and still going to school, it is indisputable that these two individuals were there as part of their shift at work, and that they were somehow killed," said the Bar Association. "As a result, we request that the investigation not be shut down and the deaths of both children not be covered up by connecting them to a so-called 'organization.'"
The Free Womens’ Congress (KJA) issued a statement on the on-going war and the attacks by security forces in Şırnak’s Silopi district and across the rest of Kurdistan and has said that the Turkish state has refused to negotiate, has insisted on isolating the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan, has carried out bombings and political military operations, has burned forests, has carried out sexual violence against women and has massacred civilians since the general elections on June 7.
The KJA stated that the state is implementing the policy of violence and destruction towards civilians in Silopi, where 4 civilians have been murdered and 28 people have been detained over the past 2 weeks. The KJA noted that the actual number of injured civilians could not be determined due to the security personnel’s’ arrests of wounded civilians. The KJA also emphasized that residents of Silopi could not leave their homes due to the threats by special operations teams, gendarme forces and police officers, and said that these inhumane policies have also been implemented in other Kurdish cities. The KJA ended its statement by calling upon all international human rights organizations, observers’ delegations and press to urgently investigate the massacres and human rights violations in Silopi and the rest of Kurdistan
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