The Şenyaşar Family has been holding a justice vigil for 652 days for family members killed in June 2018 when bodyguards and relatives of AKP Urfa MP Ibrahim Halil Yıldız attacked the family's shop in Urfa's Suruç during the election campaign.
The justice vigil of Emine Şenyaşar, who lost her husband and two sons in an armed attack that involved AKP Deputy İbrahim Halil Yıldız's bodyguards and relatives, and his son Ferit Şenyaşar, who was injured in the same attack left 652 days behind. The family continued their vigil by putting a "Justice" banner on their car parked in front of the courthouse in Urfa.
The family made a statement on their social media account, saying, “Our struggle for justice cannot be prevented, any attempt to prevent it will be a new injustice. Our vigil will continue until justice is served!”
BACKGROUND
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.
