Emine Şenyaşar, who lost her husband and two sons in an armed attack by AKP Deputy İbrahim Halil Yıldız’s bodyguards and relatives in Suruç district of Urfa on 14 June 2018, and her son Ferit Şenyaşar, who was injured in the same attack, continued their Justice Vigil on its 281st day. Ferit Şenyaşar said that his mother could not attend the vigil today due to health problems, adding, “She will be here, again. We will keep our vigil going until justice is done.”

Remarking that the justice vigil is continuing under persecution, Ferit Şenyaşar expressed his reaction to the identification report prepared by the police department, which defined the massacre as an “unsolved murder”.

Ferit Şenyaşar stated, “As a witness of the massacre, my mother identified the perpetrators on photographs. When we talked to the 7th prosecutor, he said ‘we detected 23 people involved in the massacre’. Subsequently, this prosecutor was replaced. The 8th prosecutor rejected our demands, and the 9th one defined the massacre in hospital as an ‘unsolved murder’, which is a thing of the 1990s and cannot be the case today in 2021. This massacre was perpetrated before the eyes of hundreds of public workers in a state hospital. The hospital has security cameras. The prosecutor, who defined this massacre as an unsolved murder nonetheless, is committing a crime.”

Although the perpetrators of the massacre in hospital have been identified, the prosecutors are making an effort to exonerate these people, expressed Ferit Şenyaşar, adding, “We will frustrate these attempts. We will continue our vigil until our demands are met.”

The family tagged the Turkish Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül’s account on social media where they posted the following: “We are resisting for a fair Turkey. The 7th prosecutor said ‘I detected 23 people involved in the massacre’. Subsequently, he was replaced. The 9th prosecutor defined the incident in hospital as an “unsolved murder”. Which prosecutor are we supposed to believe?”