Şenyaşar family: "We will bring democracy and justice to the country together on 14 May"
Emine and Ferit Şenyaşar said on the 755th day of their Vigil for Justice: "We will bring democracy and justice to the country together on 14 May".
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.
Mother and son begun their Vigil for Justice on 9 March 2021. On the 755th day of the vigil, Emine and Ferit Şenyaşar said from their house in Suruç (Pirsûs) that “those who massacred will be held accountable.”
The family posted a message on their Twitter account: "There is a government that continues to break the laws they have passed. On 14 May, we will bring democracy and justice to the country together. Those who committed cruelty and massacres by relying on Erdoğan will be held accountable before an independent judiciary.”
Ferit Şenyaşar was injured in the attack carried out in 2018. On 14 May he will contest the elections as a candidate for the Green Left Party.
