Musa Anter's alleged murderer taken into custody
Musa Anter's alleged murderer taken into custody
Musa Anter’s alleged murderer, former informant and village guard Hamit Yýldýrým, was taken into custody in Þýrnak on Friday morning. Yýldýrým was identified thanks to photographs by another informant Abdülkadir Aygan.
Yýldýrým was taken into custody following the raid on his house early this morning by security officers. Police also seized two bags of document in Yýldýrým’s house. Anter’s murderer Yýldýrým is being taken to Diyarbakýr under police surveillance.
Musa Anter, was a Kurdish writer and intellectuals. He was born in 1920, in Nusaybin. He was killed on September 20, 1992 in Diyarbakýr.
He completed his primary education in Mardin, and then studied at junior and senior high school in Adana. When he was a student, he had been to Syria during his summer holidays and got acquaintance with Kurdish nationalist intellectuals such as Celadet and Kamuran Bedir Khan, Kadri and Ekrem Cemilpaþa, Dr. Nafiz, Nuri Zaza, Nuri Dersimi, Qedrîcan, Osman Sabri, Haco Agha and his son Hasan, Emînê Perîxanê's son Þikriye Emîn, Mala Elyê Unus, and Cigerxwîn.
Abdülkadir Aygan, a former PKK militant turned informante and recruited as part of the first staff of JÝTEM (the Turkish Gendarmerie's Intelligence and Counter-terrorism Service),said he had been part of a JÝTEM unit, along with a "Hamit" from Þýrnak, which had assassinated Musa Anter.
Turkey was found guilty of Anter's murder in 2006 by the European Court of Human Rights (EHCR), and sentenced to a fine of 28,500 euros.
Yýldýrým was taken into custody following the raid on his house early this morning by security officers. Police also seized two bags of document in Yýldýrým’s house. Anter’s murderer Yýldýrým is being taken to Diyarbakýr under police surveillance.
Musa Anter, was a Kurdish writer and intellectuals. He was born in 1920, in Nusaybin. He was killed on September 20, 1992 in Diyarbakýr.
He completed his primary education in Mardin, and then studied at junior and senior high school in Adana. When he was a student, he had been to Syria during his summer holidays and got acquaintance with Kurdish nationalist intellectuals such as Celadet and Kamuran Bedir Khan, Kadri and Ekrem Cemilpaþa, Dr. Nafiz, Nuri Zaza, Nuri Dersimi, Qedrîcan, Osman Sabri, Haco Agha and his son Hasan, Emînê Perîxanê's son Þikriye Emîn, Mala Elyê Unus, and Cigerxwîn.
Abdülkadir Aygan, a former PKK militant turned informante and recruited as part of the first staff of JÝTEM (the Turkish Gendarmerie's Intelligence and Counter-terrorism Service),said he had been part of a JÝTEM unit, along with a "Hamit" from Þýrnak, which had assassinated Musa Anter.
Turkey was found guilty of Anter's murder in 2006 by the European Court of Human Rights (EHCR), and sentenced to a fine of 28,500 euros.
