The acquittal of non-commissioned officers, Ali Kaya and Özcan İldeniz, and Veysel Ateş, who confessed to the crime, the authors of the bomb attack on the Umut Bookstore, was brought to the Constitutional Court.
The Supreme Court upheld the acquittal of non-commissioned officers Ali Kaya and Özcan İldeniz and Veysel Ateş (who confessed to the crime), who were caught red-handed after they bombed the Umut Bookstore in Şemdinli (Şemzînan), in the province of Hakkari (Colemêrg) on 9 November 2005. The lawyers brought the acquittal to the Constitutional Court (AYM).
In the application made to the Constitutional Court, the lawyers stated that "it is unacceptable in terms of the European Convention on Human Rights and the Constitution for the national courts to leave this crime without sanction, granting it impunity after it was determined that the state officials deliberately killed, injured or attempted killing in an incident."
What happened?
A bomb attack was carried out against the Umut Bookshop in Şemdinli, in the province of Hakkari, on 9 November 2005. The bookshop belonged to Seferi Yilmaz, who later was elected mayor of the city.
Ali Yılmaz and Mehmet Zahir Korkmaz lost their lives in the attack. The people responsible for the attack, non-commissioned military officers Ali Kaya and Özcan İldeniz and informer Veyse Ateş, were caught by people while fleeing.
In the vehicle of the perpetrators, four folders with 300 pages were found, including three lists with the names of 105 people written on them, as well as sketches, maps, ID cards and written permissions. Another document contained a picture of 18 prospective delegate candidates of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP).
