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In the lawsuit brought against the Ministry of Interior concerning killing of Ali İsmail Korkmaz, the court has ruled the ministry pay compensation to his family.
According to İsmail Saymaz from Hürriyet newspaper, Eskişehir 2nd Administrative Court ruled family of Korkmaz be paid 650,000 TL (160,000 euros) immaterial compensation and 57,180 TL material compensation.
What happened?
Ali İsmail Korkmaz, a freshman in English teaching at Anadolu University, attended Gezi Resistance demonstrations in the central province of Eskişehir on June 3.
He was battened by a group of casually-dressed people, as he was running away from a police intervention with gas bombs.
Arriving at Yunus Emre Public Hospital, Korkmaz allegedly was not admitted by officials who told him to testify to police headquarters initially.
Similarly, officials refused to admit him the next morning. Korkmaz struggled to find a police station to testify with his situation worsening.
Finally he was admitted to Eskişehir Public Hospital and diagnosed with “brain hemorrhage”. He was later on transferred to Osmangazi Medical School Hospital.
Operated, Korkmaz was unresponsive since June 4, 2015, and lost his life on July 10 after 38 days of coma.
His family filed complaints against Yunus Emre Public Hospital with a prosecutor launching an investigation on the case. (BK/TK)
