Selamet Yeşilmen’s Autopy Results Announced

It has been announced in the autopsy report of 44-year-old Selamet Yeşilmen, mother of five, who was killed in front of her house in Turkey’s southeastern Nusaybin district of Mardin province that she died because of “bone break and internal organ damage caused by metal pieces hitting her body”.

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According to news of İsmail Saymaz from Radikal daily, it was stated in the autopsy report that “metal pieces” were extracted from Yeşilmen’s chin and thigh, and many wounds detected caused these pieces.

It was settled to send the pieces to Medical Forensics Institute to determine what sort of ammunition the metal pieces are.

İHD: Why were the neighbor and children shot?

Human Rights Association (İHD) Mardin Branch has posed following questions to Mardin Governorate:

- What is the explanation of children getting wounded though it is confimed that Yeşilmen died by shrapnel pieces?

- Why was the citizen named Yılmaz Tutak coming to assistance of Yeşilmen family shot?

- How many meters was there between Yeşilmen’s home and closes operational force?

- Are you being informed during the day regarding which weapons and ammo law enforcers use, or have the law enforcers been given unlimited authority in a state of total unlawfulness including violation of right to live?

- What sort of serious investigations have you conducted as to two civilians being killed, and six others wounded in Nusaybin between the dates of October 1- October 6. (EKN/TK) 

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