After the amendments done in the anti-terror law so that children throwing stones to the police would not be arrested or imprisoned. However, reality is quite different.



A 10-year old Kurdish boy was detained in Yuksekova district of Hakkari and taken to the police station where he was mistreated. The father says the son was bagging him to get him out of the station with these words: “Dad! They are killing me. Save me, please!”



Police attacked a demonstration in Yuksekova held on 27 July in order to protest the lynch attempts and attacks on the Kurds in Inegol and Hatay. Riot police using tear gas and water canons arrested several protestors including 10-year old D. Ö.

D. Ö. Was taken to Yuksekova security directorate where he was beaten up for 10 hours. When the father Fikret Ö. was in the station looking for his son, he found his son beaten up. His face was covered with bruises and bagging his father to save him from the police.



The father says his son’s psychological state has been destroyed and cannot sleep at nights, waking up in the middle of the night because of nightmares.

A lawyer in Hakkari Nurullah Seyitoðlu said there will be no justification for treating a 10-year child like that. He also said the responsible should be found and brought before the justice.