Roboski still seeking justice

Roboski still seeking justice

Justice still remains undone for 34 people who were killed in a bombing of Turkish warplanes in the village of Roboski, in Şırnak's Uludere district, on 28 December 2011.

It is not perpetrators of the Roboski massacre but the families of the victims that are facing punishment in the last nearly two years without justice. Families have been subjected to retributive practices since they refused to get the 123 thousand TL compensation the state offered for each, and never ended demanding justice for the victims.

27 year old Halil Encü, brother of victim Aslan Encü and relative of the many other victims with the family name Encü, was being given disability pension since 2009 after he lost his foot when he stepped on a mine in a military zone in 2004.

Encü, father of three, living in the Roboski village, has been denied disability pension since five months after the massacre, without being provided any information about the reason for the denial of his pension.

The Social Security Institution Encü has applied three times since the cut answered him that they had no documents in hand proving his application and demand. The Institution said Encü that he would have to apply to the governor's office to express his demand to receive disability pension again.

The governor's office Encü applied to has also given him an unfavourable reply and said him that his question didn't relate to them.