Bar Association President: 5 police officers are also responsible for torture

  • actual
  • 15:26 31 March 2023
  • |
img
DİYARBAKIR- Stating that public officials are trying to cover up the crime with the release of 2 of the police officers who tortured Y.D in Lîce, Amed Bar Association President Nahit Eren said: "5 police officers are also responsible for torture."
 
The release of two of the perpetrators of 14-year-old Y.D., who was tortured by 4 policemen while returning to his home on Newroz on March 21 in the Lîce district of Amed(Diyarbakır), brought the torture and impunity policies of law enforcement officers in Kurdistan back to the agenda. Amed Bar Association President Nahit Eren evaluated the release of the police who tortured the child and the policies of impunity.
 
LAWYER OBJECTED AN APPEAL FOR THE RELEASED POLICE OFFICERS
 
Reminding that the child was exposed to both physical and psychological violence, Eren said: "As the bar association lawyers and family lawyers, they filed a criminal complaint with the Lice Chief Public Prosecutor's Office from the very first moment, after the torture incident was reflected in the press; tereupon, Lice Chief Public Prosecutor issued a detention order for 5 police officers. Three of the police officers were detained in Ankara and two in Lice. While 3 of the police officers were arrested without injury, the other 2 policemen were released on the grounds that there was no suspicion of any crime. We have made the necessary appeal processes for the released police officers."
 
STATE EFFORT TO COVER THE CRIME
 
Pointing out that the policy of impunity has been continuing in the region for years, especially for the crimes committed by such public officials, Eren said: “It is a practice we know, unfortunately we have seen it in this file, and its signs have appeared before us again. In particular, the fact that the prosecutor's office did not send the police for the crime of torture, only to lead the police to arrest for the crimes of injury and honoring freedom, is actually an effort of public officials to cover up the crime, which is also intended to be veiled. As a matter of fact, both the peace judges set aside the honor of freedom and made an arrest warrant for 3 police officers without injuring them. Although 3 people were arrested, there is actually a protection mechanism. There is a typical crime of torture in the file, there is a physical intervention and there is an intervention that is mentally torture. These are implementations that are incompatible with human dignity; however, the prosecutor's office or the investigating judge did not want to see the torture."
 
‘5 POLICES ARE ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INCIDENT’
 
Eren said: "The torture inflicted is a torture described by all international documents. The two policemen, who were released only because the police were given an arrest warrant for injury, were sitting in the front of the vehicle, that is, they were not in the common rear part of the armored vehicle, so they were released on the basis that they would not have battered the child. There can be no such thing, all that ambush, detention is done by a commissioner. In fact, he is the chief of all the police there and he is the number one responsible for these works. The person we call cognition in administrative criminal law. The most competent person among those who have committed a crime together. So if you're the commissioner, why do you allow such crimes? In other words, as long as his view of the issue is not seen as a crime of torture, you cannot legally get out of this situation by saying "I only detected the beating and I am arresting him". There is a collective will to commit the crime of torture together. They acted together. There are 5 police officers involved in this whole process, and 5 of them are responsible. In this sense, they left the two policemen with the point of view of the very committed act. However, we have made our objections that they should be treated as crimes of torture and we are following the legal process.”
 
BACKGROUND
 
Ismail Akkuş, Emre Özcan and Gökhan Bay, who were among the police officers who abducted and tortured 14-year-old Y.D. on March 21 in the Licê district of Amed, were arrested on the charge of "deliberate injury" on March 26, while the other 2 police officers were first released. The arrest issued on appeal for the police was again lifted. Police Chief Aykut Oral and police officer Hayrettin Çakmak, who were released upon the objections of the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and the complainants' MPs, were arrested, but the Lice Criminal Court of Peace released them on condition of judicial control.
 
MA / Mehmet Güleş
 

View More Articles

18/07/2025
21:10 85-year-old ill prisoner Sıddık Guler releases
21:01 What decisions taken at Commission meeting?
19:55 Release of 30-year prisoner postponed for the 2nd time
19:03 2 journalists acquitted 1 journalist sentenced
12:05 Central Anatolian Kurds stand with the peace process
11:17 Parties gathered for the commission
11:07 Families of fighters at disarmament ceremony: The world saw Ocalan’s theoretical and practical power
10:41 Peace Mother: safe return path must be opened for the guerrillas
10:16 Salih Muslim: We reject surrender, a change in mindset is needed
09:51 Hundreds of women kidnapped in Syria
17/07/2025
10:48 Rojava Revolution marks 13 years: We will not give up our gains
16/07/2025
15:13 Imrali Delegation statement after meeting with Minister of Justice
12:57 Holloway: I am deeply honored to join voices supporting peace process
10:22 Saw his brother the historic ceremony: We want to see him among us
10:07 Partido Obrero supports 'I want to visit Ocalan' campaign
10:00 Witnessed the historic ceremony: Kurds should trust themselves, not the state
15/07/2025
16:57 Urgent demands from TTB for the process
15:10 Suwayda statement from Damascus: Ceasefire declared
15:03 Druze Spiritual Leader: The statement made in our name does not reflect our will
14:43 Damascus forces enter Suwayda: Curfew declared
14:38 Nagehan Avcil from OHD: Recognition of the ‘Right to Hope’ will contribute to the peace process
13:05 Newala Qesaba faces threat of concrete development
11:09 Lawyer following ceremony: Legal reforms must be implemented swiftly
10:04 Peace process is an opportunity to end attacks on nature say ecologists
09:26 Tells PJAK meeting: Freedom is only possible through national unity
09:13 Margaret Owen: No real peace process can until Öcalan is free
08:14 'Democratic Society Meetings' continue
14/07/2025
18:01 14 July resistance fighters commemorated in many cities
17:48 DEM Party Imrali Delegation to meet Minister of Justice
17:00 DEM Party İmralı Delegation's statement on 'meeting note'
15:48 Ahmet Özer released from 'urban concencus' case
15:25 Request of arrest to 3 people beaten for listening to Kurdish song
15:22 Clashes in Suwayda: 37 killed
13:23 High-level meeting between KDP and PUK
11:40 DBP, DEVA, SAADET: Commission and legal process should not be delayed
11:02 Palestine Action banned in the UK: An unjust legislation
10:51 Wan residents to state: We expect official confirmation, not just words
09:00 İmralı delegation's meeting date with political parties announced
08:49 'Democratic Society' meetings continue
08:33 CHP-affiliated Şile Municipality Mayor arrested
13/07/2025
22:13 Statement from DAANES on talks with the Damascus administration
15:58 The duty to build peace lies with all of us says DEM Party Group Deputy Chair
14:03 25 thousand people informed about the ‘Peace and Democratic Society Process’
12:43 People of Amed: We want freedom and equality
11:55 Two of her children joined the PKK: We all have a great burden on our shoulders
11:29 Mother sees her daughter at ceremony after 12 years: We want peace
10:52 IHD Co-chair who followed ceremony: The state has no more excuse
10:33 Women figth for national unity: Goal is national congress
10:03 DEM Party MPs: Parliament should play an active role in solution
09:47 Footage of forest destruction in Besta and Biliga