Following the call of the HDP Central Executive Board, 9 years have passed since the violent incidents carried out by the supporters of the terrorist organization YPG/PKK on 6-7 October 2014, under the pretext of Ain Al-Arab (Kobane), in which 2 police officers were martyred and 35 people lost their lives.
According to the information compiled by the AA correspondent, following the statement made by the HDP Central Executive Board on October 6, 2014, the supporters of the terrorist organization YPG/PKK set up barricades and blocked roads in 35 provinces, 96 districts and 131 settlements, especially in the provinces in the Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia regions, under the pretext of Ain Al-Arab.
During the incidents, public buildings, citizens' homes, workplaces and vehicles were damaged with long-barreled guns, Molotov cocktails, fireworks, stones and sticks.
In the violent incidents, 2 police officers were martyred, 35 people, including Yasin Börü and his three friends, who distributed sacrificial meat to the poor on the occasion of Eid al-Adha in Diyarbakır, lost their lives, and 761 people, including 435 civilians and 326 security guards, were injured.
During the incidents, 37 cases of "qualified murder", 29 cases of "attempted murder", 3 thousand 777 cases of "damage to property", 25 cases of "detention", 395 cases of "theft", 15 cases of "plunder", 308 cases of "violation of workplace and residence immunity", 13 crimes of "burning the Turkish flag" and 7 crimes of "violating the Law on the Protection of Ataturk" were committed.
YASIN BÖRÜ AND HIS FRIENDS WERE MURDERED
Yasin Börü and his friends Hasan Gökguz, Ahmet Dakak and Riyat Güneş, who wanted to distribute meat to the needy during Eid al-Adha in Diyarbakır, were lynched on the third floor of the building where they took shelter as a result of being attacked by a group with guns, stones, sticks and cutting tools.
The bodies of the young people who were thrown from the building were tortured.
Ahmet Dakak's head was crushed with a stone, 16-year-old Börü was run over with a car.
The children, whose bodies were burned and became unrecognizable, could hardly be identified by their families.
Yusuf Er, who luckily survived the events with injuries and was psychologically disturbed because he witnessed the brutal murder of his friends, was treated in a hospital outside Diyarbakır.
201 SCHOOLS WERE DAMAGED
2 in Tunceli, 3 in Mersin, 34 in Diyarbakır, 13 in Şırnak, 4 in Batman, 19 in Şanlıurfa, 8 in Bitlis, 2 in Bursa, 36 in Mardin, 6 in Muş, A total of 201 schools, including 11 in Istanbul, 2 in Bingöl, 28 in Hakkari, 13 in Siirt, 18 in Van, and one each in Gaziantep and Adıyaman, were damaged due to attacks by supporters of the terrorist organization.
The damaged schools were repaired with the resources provided by the state and opened for education in a short time.
THE TRIAL OF 108 DEFENDANTS IN THE CASE RELATED TO THE ACTS CONTINUES
It was decided to arrest former HDP Co-Chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ Şenoğlu on September 20, 2019, within the scope of the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office's investigation into the unauthorized demonstrations organized under the pretext of Aynularab on October 6-7, 2014.
As part of the investigation, a detention order was issued for 82 suspects, including former HDP MPs, on September 25, 2020. During the operation carried out in 7 provinces, 20 suspects were captured by anti-terrorism teams.
During the trials, it was decided to release the defendants Ayhan Bilgen, Berfin Özgü Köse, Can Memiş and Cihan Erdal in accordance with the judicial control provisions.
The trial of 108 defendants, some of whom are fugitives, including Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ and the so-called senior executives of the terrorist organization PKK, continues at Ankara 22nd High Criminal Court.