Emine Şenyaşar summoned to depose for 11th time

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Emine Şenyaşar lost her spouse and two sons in an attack by the security guards and relatives of ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) MP İbrahim Halil Yıldız in Urfa. She and her son Ferit Şenyaşar, who survived the attack, have been seeking justice since then.

Emine and Ferit Şenyaşar have been keeping a justice watch in front of the Urfa courthouse for 288 days as of today (December 21).

For today's justice watch, they came in front of the Urfa courthouse in the early morning hours. After a short while, police officers summoned Emine Şenyaşar to give her statement at the courthouse for "insulting a public official". Since Emine and Ferit Şenyaşar started keeping a justice watch, Emine Şenyaşar has been summoned to depose for 11 times in total.

As reported by JinNews agency, Emine Şenyaşar has been summoned to give her statement over her remarks on the 241st day of her justice watch, when she came in front of the courthouse with a drip put on, and on the 245th day of her watch, when Peace Mothers visited her.

Şenyaşar said that in response to all questions at the prosecutor's office, she would say, 'Who killed my spouse and two sons?" Emine and Ferit Şenyaşar and their lawyers went to the courthouse to depose.

What happened?

During the election campaign of ruling AKP Urfa MP İbrahim Halil Yıldız in Suruç, Urfa on June 14, 2018, an attack turned into an armed conflict, which claimed the lives of Yıldız's brother Mehmet Şah Yıldız, shop owner Hacı Esvet Şenyaşar and his sons Adil and Celal Şenyaşar.

Having lost his father and two brothers and been wounded himself in the incident, Fadıl Şenyaşar was discharged from hospital and detained on June 17. He was then arrested and sent to prison.

Demanding justice for two sons, husband and her arrested son, Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar, who survived the attack, have been keeping a "justice watch" in front of the courthouse.

There has been a confidentiality order on the file of the investigation into the attack for 3 years, 3 months. The second appeal of the Şenyaşar family against the "confidentiality" order on the investigation into the second attack at the Suruç Public Hospital was rejected on April 21, 2021.

The Constitutional Court, to which the family appealed, has not yet given its decision. One of the demands raised by the family on their justice watch is the removal of this "confidentiality" order. (EMK/SD)