Special Operations Team Allegedly Kills Two Teenagers, an Adult

In Diyadin district of Ağrı province in eastern Turkey, district gendarmerie command was attacked and three people died.

Governorship of Ağrı claimed that three people who lost their lives were the perpetrators and captured with weapons while Fırat News Agency (ANF) told Muhammet Aydemir (15), Orhan Aslan (16) and an unidentified person were randomly killed by special operations team.

ANF: Children were bakers

ANF claimed special operations team opened fire against all apartments and workplaces opposite the gendarmerie station and explained that Muhammet Aydemir and Orhan Aslan were bakers.

A dead body was found in the ruins of the apartments. Eyewitnesses expressed the dead body was taken there after being executed.

Eyewitness was detained

According to website Evrensel and Dicle News Agency (DİHA), Fevzi Kahraman who reacted to the policemen by saying “Those were children working in a bakery,” was detained by the special operations team. Kahraman’s acquaintances Mehmet Kahraman, Aytekin Kahraman and Harun Kahraman also were detained.  

"My son was working in a bakery"     

Aydemir’s mother talked to website BBC Turkish:

"My son was working in a bakery. He was in the bakery last night. A conflict broke out at 9 p.m. I called him and asked where he was. He responded ‘We crouched down in a woodshed. It is safe.’ (EKN/BD)

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