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'We owe Medeni to continue his struggle'

GEZİ FAMILIES SPEAK OUT

'We owe Medeni to continue his struggle'

The elder brother of Medeni Yıldırım, who was killed in Diyarbakır, speaks out. "The problem is with the system where people exercising their right to hold a gathering are fired at."

12 May 2022 Melin Durmaz

‘They don’t want us to seek justice’

GEZI FAMILIES SPEAK OUT

‘They don’t want us to seek justice’

“It is a political decision,” says Adnan Cömert, the brother of Abdullah Cömert, who died after being hit with a tear gas cartridge in Hatay during the Gezi Resistance in 2013.

'The impunity of the murderers killed our sense of justice'

GEZİ FAMILIES SPEAK OUT

'The impunity of the murderers killed our sense of justice'

"They killed our brother. The pain of this was already something that broke and saddened us already; the impunity of the killers was a situation that killed our sense of justice," says the brother of Ali İsmail Korkmaz.

9 May 2022 Melin Durmaz

Berkin Elvan's father hails Gezi convicts: 'We will continue the struggle'

GEZİ FAMILIES SPEAK OUT

Berkin Elvan's father hails Gezi convicts: 'We will continue the struggle'

Sami Elvan maintains his belief that the eight convicts of the Gezi case will regain their freedom as soon as possible.

6 May 2022 Melin Durmaz