Body of Zülküf Gezen detained by the police and buried

2019-03-18 11:23:32


	 

	DİYARBAKIR- The body of Zülküf Gezen who ended his life to protest the isolation on PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan in Tekirdağ No 2 Type F Prison, detained by the police and brought to Yeniköy Cemetary. The police who prevented HDP deputies from attending the funeral said: "I am the government. There is a state decision. You can not attend the funeral."

	 

	The body of Zülküf Gezen who hung himself to protest the aggravated isolation on PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan in Tekirdağ No 2 Type F Prison was detained by the police in İstanbul Atatürk Airport and brought to Diyarbakır without his families knowladge. The body of Zülküf Gezen arrived at Diyarbakır at 02.00 and the police called his family and said: "We will bury him tonight.You can either attend the funeral or you won't."

	 

	CHIEF OF POLICE: I AM THE STATE,YOU CAN NOT ATTEND THE FUNERAL

	 

	People's Democratic Party (HDP) Deputies Pero Dündar, Musa FArisoğulları, Remziye Tosun, Nuran İmir, Feleknas Uca, Saliha Aydeniz and Ayşe Acar Başaran came to the airport to claim the body.The airport was blockaded with hundreds of police officers and armed vehicles to prevent the HDP Deputies from entering. The Chief of Police who circled the deputies, stating that he will not allow them to attend the funeral, said: "I am the state. There is a state decision. You can not attend the funeral but you can offer your condolences to the family.

	 

	 

	 

	BURIED UNDER POLICE SUPERVISION

	 

	The police, later took the body with rangers and civil vehicles to Yeniköy Cemetary where they dragged HDP Deputies Saliha Aydeniz, Semra Güzel and Nuran İmir on the ground preventing them from entering the cemetary. Zülküf Gezen was buried under police supervision with the attendance of some family members.