The Police Who Interrogated Onur Yaser Can Arrested As Well

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The police officer who has interrogated Onur Yaser Can who has committed suicide after being exposed to unclothed searching and whose torture complaints has been ignored, Hakan Aydın has been arrested in Urfa within the scope of probe that has been started after the July 15 coup attempt.

According the report of Şanlıurfa Olay daily, 3rd Class Police Commissioners Sami Gökkaya, Adem Öztürk, Ertan Başaran, Recep Kara and İlker Veda Edisan; 4th Class Commissioners Arif Kıllıbaş and Ramazan İmal, Chief Police Officers Erdem İren, Ali Kayda, Yakup Akcan, Gökhan Aksu, Yusuf Elgaz and Ali Ünlü, Chief Inspectors Koray Akgül, Ali İhsan Tezcan and Hakan Aydın, Inspectors Halit Kara, Serdar Arıcan and Abdullah Madan, sub-Inspectors Musab Karabaş, Süleyman Çakmak, İbrahim Kıyıcı, Mahir Peri, Çihat Pamuk,Mehmet Ali Özaydın and Cumali Saz have been arrested within the scope of probe which has been launched into Fethullah Gülen community over the July 15 coup attempt.

Chief Inspector Hakan Aydın was in the interrogation of Onur Yaser Can who was taken into custody on June 2, 2010 for buying 8 grams of marijuana and exposed to unclothed searching and torture in Narcotics Agent. The attorney who has decided the dismissal of charges about  Aydın, is Muammer Avcı known as the attorney of December 17-25. Arrest warrant has been issued for Akkaş as well.

What had happened?

Architect Onur Yaser Can committed suicide when he was summoned to give a statement at the Narcotics Branch for the third time. After his death, his mother Hatice Can committed suicide in March 2014 as well.

Onur Yaser Can was 28 years old when he died, his mother Hatice Can was 57.

Can's family had filed a criminal complaint against the police officers of the Vatan Rd. Narcotics Bureau (Istanbul) by reasons of "torture, ill-treatment, sexual abuse and misconduct in office". However, the prosecutor decided to drop the procedures.

The case was brought to the European Court of Human Rights in 2014

Police officers Sonay Gündoğdu and Salih Bahar stand accused of "counterfeiting documents" because they allegedly changed Can's initial statement. An expert study revealed that the record had indeed been altered. The police officers were sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison. After the High Court’s decision of reversal, the trials are continuing. The next trial is on November 2. (EA/UA)