ANTEP- Victim's families who assessed the verdict on Antep Massacre case, said: "We don't know who the offenders was yet."

 

The case of the ISIS bombing against a Kurdish family's wedding in Antep, Beybahçe on August 20,2016 where 56 people, 40 of which were children, lost their lives was finalized with the current offenders, without even determining who the bomber was. The verdict did not relieve the families of the victims. Zeynel Çelikten who lost his son Abdulhalim Çelikten (15) in the bombing, said: "We don't even know who the suicide bomber was and who planned and enthused the attack. "

 

Zeynel Çelikten said the bombing caused so much suffering for them. Çelikten said: "I was somewhere else when the bombing happpened. I ran back home. My youngest daugther was at home. I asked her where her mother is. She said 'There was a bombing. Everybody died.' Everybody went inside the hall where the wedding was going to happen. If they have attacked 5 minutes earlier, the body count would not be 56 people, it woud be hundreds. When ı went to the place where the bombing happened I saw my wife wandering. She couldn't answer when I asked her what happened, she was in shock. Everybody was. The older people who died in the attack was 21 years old. We don't even know who the suicide bomber was and who planned and enthused the attack. "

 

'THEY MIGHT RELEASE THEM TOMORROW'

 

Çelikten who said 'ı will never let this go before the facts are revealed' in his initial testimony, said: "I wanted life sentence for all of those who are involved in the planning and the execution of the attack. We just saw the people they put in front of us in the court room. We don't know the real story yet. The people who died will not come back. We just wanted justice. They sentenced them to life. No punishment is enough for these people. This verdict did not unburdened us. They might set them free tomorrow. And the offenders will plan and do something even worse. They are monsters."