Continuing their struggle for justice, the Şenyaşar family paid tribute to the miners killed in Amasra. The family wrote: “Impunity paves the way for new massacres. Murder, not accident. Right, law, justice.”
On 14 June 2018, the bodyguards and relatives of AKP Urfa MP Ibrahim Halil Yıldız attacked the Şenyaşar family's shop in Suruç during the election campaign.
In the attack, brothers Celal, Adil, Mehmet, Fadıl and Ferit Şenyaşar were injured. Relatives and supporters of AKP MP Yıldız, badly injured Celal and Adil Şenyaşar, and their father Hacı Esvet Şenyaşar, when he went to the hospital to visit their sons. He was brutally murdered, being lynched in front of his wife Emine Şenyaşar.
Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit (who was injured in the attack), have been holding a Justice Vigil in front of the Courthouse of Urfa since 9 March 2021, demanding those responsible to be brought to account.
On the 587th day of their vigil, held at their home in Suruç as every weekend, the family posted a message on their social media account about the mine disaster in the Amasra district of Bartin. 41 miners lost their lives in the accident. The family wrote: “There is a lot to say, but we do not have any official information. Everyone knows what happened very well. There is a crime against humanity there. This crime has been hidden from the public for 4 years. Impunity paves the way for new massacres. Murder, not accident. Right, law, justice.”
