16-year-old boy killed by soldiers
16-year-old boy killed by soldiers
Opening fire on brothers Gökhan Çetintaþ (16) and Habip Çetintaþ (18) who were walking to the Paþapýnar Village while going back home from a wedding ceremony, soldiers of the Turkish army led to the death of Gökhan Çetintaþ.
According to the information received, brothers Gökhan and Habip were fired over at Boðaziçi Site of Havza/Samsun last night on the grounds of being PKK members. While 16-year-old Gökhan Çetintaþ lost his life at the scene due to the fire by soldiers, Habip Çetintaþ managed to survive the attack unscathed.
Allegedly, two brothers were targeted by soldiers when they ignored the “stop” warning and responded to soldiers with their blank firing gun. While Gökhan Çetintaþ’s body was taken to Havza State Hospital for autopsy, Habip Çetintaþ was taken to Havza District Police Department for questioning. Father Hasan Çetintaþ is also reported to have been taken into custody for giving a statement about the event.
Answering journalists’ questions while leaving from Havza Gendarmerie Command, Samsun Governor Hüseyin Aksoy said the followings; “Upon the notification about the possibility of separatist terrorist organization members to pass over the region, our security forces had performed search activities at possible transition points. As a result of the unconfirmed notification and works conducted in this context, the two persons going by the region were given a “stop” warning on suspicion of being terrorists. However, a clash broke out when the brothers ignored the warning and responded to soldiers firing three gunshots. The Public Prosecution Office has initiated a judicial investigation regarding the event and relevant units continue the investigation on the issue. Judicial authorities will evaluate whether there exists an omission or not. The process will reveal if there are any unknown points of the issue. In this sense I give my condolences to Çetintaþ family.”
According to the 2011 mid-term report of IHD Diyarbakýr Branch on the situation of human rights violations in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia Regions, 6 1people were wounded and 11 were killed in the Kurdish geography alone due to “unidentified murders, extrajudicial executions or violations of the right to bear arms”.
As to the year 2010, 22 unsolved murders were lived in Turkey, while the number of “extrajudicial executions/ tortures to death/murder by village-guards/ suspicious deaths and deaths in custody” had been recorded as 100.
Translation: Berna Ozgencil
According to the information received, brothers Gökhan and Habip were fired over at Boðaziçi Site of Havza/Samsun last night on the grounds of being PKK members. While 16-year-old Gökhan Çetintaþ lost his life at the scene due to the fire by soldiers, Habip Çetintaþ managed to survive the attack unscathed.
Allegedly, two brothers were targeted by soldiers when they ignored the “stop” warning and responded to soldiers with their blank firing gun. While Gökhan Çetintaþ’s body was taken to Havza State Hospital for autopsy, Habip Çetintaþ was taken to Havza District Police Department for questioning. Father Hasan Çetintaþ is also reported to have been taken into custody for giving a statement about the event.
Answering journalists’ questions while leaving from Havza Gendarmerie Command, Samsun Governor Hüseyin Aksoy said the followings; “Upon the notification about the possibility of separatist terrorist organization members to pass over the region, our security forces had performed search activities at possible transition points. As a result of the unconfirmed notification and works conducted in this context, the two persons going by the region were given a “stop” warning on suspicion of being terrorists. However, a clash broke out when the brothers ignored the warning and responded to soldiers firing three gunshots. The Public Prosecution Office has initiated a judicial investigation regarding the event and relevant units continue the investigation on the issue. Judicial authorities will evaluate whether there exists an omission or not. The process will reveal if there are any unknown points of the issue. In this sense I give my condolences to Çetintaþ family.”
According to the 2011 mid-term report of IHD Diyarbakýr Branch on the situation of human rights violations in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia Regions, 6 1people were wounded and 11 were killed in the Kurdish geography alone due to “unidentified murders, extrajudicial executions or violations of the right to bear arms”.
As to the year 2010, 22 unsolved murders were lived in Turkey, while the number of “extrajudicial executions/ tortures to death/murder by village-guards/ suspicious deaths and deaths in custody” had been recorded as 100.
Translation: Berna Ozgencil
