It didn't even begin. The first hearing of the trial on the murder of Gezi protester Ethem Sarısülük was suspended after heavy protests by people. The presiding judge had in fact decided to close the hearing to the public. Something the people who wanted to join it did not like.

The family of Sarısülük got very upset as they saw the decision as yet another injustice. Their son, Ethem, was allegedly killed by a police officer.

The hearing has been postponed to October 28.

The police officer under trial is accused of “killing a person by unintentionally exceeding the limits of self-defense due to excusable circumstances.”

Ethem Sarısülük was 26 and was killed during a confrontation with police in Ankara’s Güvenpark during the initial days of the Gezi protests on June 1. He fell into a coma and his brain death was confirmed in mid-June.

Sarısülük’s lawyer had demanded the arrest of the police officer after a report carried out by Ankara University suggested the officer did not shoot the young boy in self-defense.

The officer has been released pending trial. He has also been given police protection.

Six people were killed during the Gezi Park protests: Ahmet Atakan, 22, Abdullah Cömert, 22, Ali İsmail Korkmaz, 19, Mehmet Ayvalıtaş, 20, and Medeni Yıldırım, 18.

The Gezi Park protests sparked off on May 27 when a group of activists from Taksim Solidarity gathered in Istanbul’s Gezi Park after bulldozers came to the area to cut down trees in the park.