HDP applied to the UN regarding extrajudicial executions and massacres. In its application that included examples of state killings, HDP warned that the massacre of civilians could increase, and demanded the prosecution of perpetrators.

HDP Co-Presidents Figen Yüksekdağ and Selahattin Demirtaş applied to the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur Christof Heyns regarding AKP government’s unlawful, arbitrary and extrajudicial executions. In its application, HDP demanded the investigation of extrajudicial executions and disappearances carried out by the Turkish state since July 20, 2015.

STATE EXECUTIONS REMINDED

The HDP application had information on the following events that form the basis of the application:

Turkish soldiers killed a woman from Rojava named Firas Feyad on July 23, 2015. Turkish police opened fire on protestors in the Yafes neighborhood of Şırnak’s Cizre district, and killed Abdullah Özdal who was 23 years old.

11 years old Beytullah Aydın fell from the 7th floor of a building on the Öğretmenler Street of Diyarbakır’s Bağlar district as he was running from a police attack on July 26, 2015.

35 years old Bülent Ecevit Güngör was shot in his head with a hard object in Mersin city center as he was sitting in his balcony and watching the street protests over Suruç massacre, and recent air strikes and arrests.

Police fired upon protestors and killed university student Seyithan Dede in Mardin’s Nusaybin district on July 26.

Anti-terror police squads raided a house in the Fevzi Çakmak neighborhood of Ağrı on July 29, 2015, and killed 3 civilians inside the house.

The murdered civilians are brothers Sezai and Ahmet Yaşar, as well as Mirzettin Göktürk. Contrary to police accusations, the three civilians were murdered inside the house where they were living with their families, and there was no shootout since the civilians did not have any guns on them.

Police shot fires on a civilian vehicle in the Nusaybin street of Şırnak’s Cizre district between 23:00 and 23:30 on July 29, 2015 and the vehicle stopped by hitting the curb on the side of the road.

17 years old Hasan Nerse got out of the car in a critically injured status, and police officers handcuffed Hasan and tied his feet together before shooting him once again. Hasan Nerse was kept bleeding for more than half an hour, during which officers took photos of Hasan and shared hateful posts on social media using these photos. Moreover, the nurses from the ambulance that arrived at the crime scene did not examine Hasan. Police officers threw Hasan Nerse’s body in a large back and put it at the back of the ambulance, where Hasan lost his life.

'MASSACRES OF CIVILIANS MAY INCREASE'

Yüksekdağ and Demirtaş underlined the necessity for UN mechanisms’ investigation of these events, and the prosecution of the executions’ perpetrators. HDP Co-Presidents stated that these events were clear examples of the Turkish state’s extrajudicial killings and disappearance of its citizens, and expressed their fears at the possible increase of such murders and massacres. Yüksekdağ and Demirtaş emphasized the importance of international institutions and related mechanisms, and called upon Christof Heyns and his organization to investigate these unlawful, arbitrary and extrajudicial executions.