Special operation police have admitted the execution of 12 youths by their side in Van province today.

Twitter account @J_I_T_E_M, on which all executions committed by special operation police are made public, has claimed responsibility for the mass execution of 12 young Kurdish men in the central Edremit district early this morning.

The cited Twitter account had previously released photos of Hacı Lokman Birlik whose dead body was dragged behind an armored vehicle after his execution by police in Şırnak last October. The savage torture perpetrated on Birlik's body was first exposed by a photo circulated on social media by this Twitter account.

A related post about today's mass killing read; "In the same way we executed 12 Kurds in Van today, we pledge to shot every detained Kurd in the forehead hereafter." The post was removed from the account 20 minutes later.