Without a trace Turkish officials were gone; their families were desperate. Now they are back up in the – in police custody. Members puzzles: Has kidnapped the police itself?
Exactly 245 days Sümmeye Yilmaz (in the article picture on the left) had heard nothing from her husband Mustafa. In February, he was gone, without leaving a message. As she expected, there came a sign of life: in the Middle of the night, the police contacted her. You could meet your man in the main station of the police of Ankara; he was there in police custody.
At the Meeting you noted that had changed her husband outwardly strong: He was very emaciated, the skin pale, his hands were cold, says Yilmaz. Many of the questions were on the tongue: What happened to you? How is it that you’re suddenly gone? But her husband was very economical to the circumstances of his arrest: “You brought me to a place,” was his simple answer.
Mrs Yilmaz believes he has been kidnapped
“I don’t think so. He didn’t want to tell me anything,” says Yilmaz, who assumes that her husband has been kidnapped. “There is even a Video of his kidnapping: You see how someone draws him a bag over the head and him in a car pulls.” Also, the authorities would have you can not have more accurate information. Yilmaz wants the abduction of her husband, is thoroughly investigated. The human rights activist Mehmet Murat Atak of the bar Association of Ankara has followed the case closely and tried to speak with Mustafa Yilmaz, but the police allowed no visitors.
The “cleansing” after the coup: tens of thousands of officials were dismissed by decree, many arrested
The case of Mustafa Yilmaz is not an isolated case. Similar stories had made in Turkey in the headlines. After the coup attempt on 15. July 2016, hundreds of thousands of authorities employees as of the state of emergency decree has been dismissed from the service. In the context of a wave of arrests disappeared in Ankara in February, in addition to Mustafa Yılmaz, five other people: Salim Zeybek, Erkan Irmak, Yasin Ugan, Özgür Kaya and Gökhan Türkmen.
After the dismissal of the kidnapping?
The relatives of the Missing, and opposition politicians are convinced that the six of the Turkish security authorities were classified as followers of the Gülen movement. The followers of the movement are accused of being in the attempted coup may have been involved.
The missing officers are expected to be close to the preacher Fethulla Gülen
As in the case of Yilmaz the other families have heard for months from their families – until the evening of the 28. July a call from the police got. The families Zeybek, Kaya, Irmak and Ugan was informed that the Missing persons in Ankara in authority for counter-terrorism (TEM) are. By Gökhan Türkmen, each track is missing, as before. Just like the Yilmaz also the other families is not clear where the Displaced in the six months have stopped. When you appeared again in July, they were kept for twelve days in a police cell, then taken to prison. About the reasons of their detention, the families were informed of nothing. It is likely that Yilmaz will soon come to the jail.
“My child is innocent”
The affected families complain that they were left to deal with their concerns of official Agencies alone – they had not received any information. So Nevim Yilmaz told (in the article image to the right), the mother of Mustafa Yilmaz, you have been looking for months to find her son. He was like to have been swallowed up by the earth, she told Deutsche Welle. Even in the Interior and Ministry of justice you have asked for assistance – in vain. Repeatedly she went to the Parliament in Ankara, to come to ACP members into the conversation, but without success. “I don’t think my child is guilty. I want justice from the Turkish Republic and a fair trial,” she complains.
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Turkey: The legacy of 15. July
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Turkey: Three years after the coup attempt
The Human rights organization Human Rights Watch has documented in a report, numerous cases, after which it in the Turkey after the 15. Come July 2016, “kidnappings, and systematic torture” was. “Evidence that people in the police would detention be tortured” would have increased your information to.