Students Protest for Gülistan Doku in Dersim
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It has been eight days since the fate and whereabouts of Munzur University Child Development sophomore Gülistan Doku are not known.
While the search operations still continue in Dersim, thousands of students staying in the women's and men's dormitories affiliated with the Credit and Dormitories Institution (KYK) and in Ehlibeyt Women's Dormitory have staged a protest and asked where Gülistan Doku is.
Protest on social media
#Gülistan8GündürKayıp#gulistandokunerede
— Ömer (@eomererol) January 12, 2020
Gülistan ın çığlığıyız
Gülistan Doku nerede
Susmuyoruz korkmuyoruz itaat etmiyoruz pic.twitter.com/j79KJcNMRf
"#GülistanMissingfor8Days #WhereisGülistanDoku
We are the scream of Gülistan
Where is Gülistan Doku
We don't stay silent, we are not afraid, we do not obey"
As reported by JinNews website, students staying in the dorms staged a protest at around 11 p.m. yesterday. Switching on the light of their mobile phones, the students chanted the slogans "Don't stay silent or it will be your turn", "Jin, jiyan, azadî", "Women, life, freedom", "Where is Gülistan Doku" and "Dersim, don't sleep, claim Gülistan".
While the protests spread to the entire province, the people of Dersim also supported the protests with whistles and slogans.
Calling on the authorities to find Gülistan Doku, students denounced the insufficiency of the search operations.
A social media campaign has also been launched for Doku under the hashtags "GülistanDoku8gündürkayıp" (Gülistan Doku has been missing for 8 days) and "GülistanDokuNerede" (Where is Gülistan Doku).
What happened?University student Gülistan Doku did not return to the Credit and Dormitories (KYK) Women's Dormitory on January 5, 2020. As her roommates could not reach her by phone, they got worried and appealed to the Tunceli Provincial Directorate of Security. Her family was also informed about the issue. The family came to Dersim on January 6 and reported Gülistan Doku missing at the security directorate. Consulting her friends and tracking the signals of her mobile phone, police officers also examined the city surveillance cameras and found that she got on the university minibus at the bus stop in Atatürk Neighborhood at 11.29. However, even though the city surveillance cameras along the way were examined, it could not be determined where she got off. The driver of the minibus was identified and summoned to depose. The driver said that the minibus did not enter the university as it was Sunday, the minibus returned empty and he could not remember where Gülistan Doku got off. It is speculated that Doku got off at Sarı Saltuk Bridge in city center, the only bus stop outside the sight of surveillance cameras. |
(EMK/SD)