İSTANBUL - We have reached the images showing 261 people being buried underneath a sidewalk in Kilyos Cemetery. The images show how plastic containers full of bones are buried on top of each other with men pushing the boxes with their feet.

 

We have reached the images showing 282 bodies which were exhumed from Garzan Cemetery located in Bitlis being buried beneath a sidewalk in Kiloyos Cemetery located in İstanbul. 21 bodies were delivered to their bodies after their DNA's matched with the families, while 261 bodies are still buried beneath the sidewalk on top of each other in plastic boxes.

 

The images showing how these people were buried in a mass grave enumerated from 1 to 18 were taken while Cengiz Demir and Hüseyin Döner's bodies were being delivered to their families.

 

Bones belonging to 261 human beings were buried in plastic containers and on top of each other. Each graves enumerated from 1 to 18 has to floors. Boxes containing the bones are buried on top of each other in lines of four. Grave number 6 contains 24 boxes as it reveals when it was opened to deliver Demir and Döner to their families. The images reveal that the graves were closed down with concrete while one seems to be flooded. 

 

The images also shows that a cemetery officer who opens grave number 6 to dig out Demir and Döner, later pushes the remaining boxes with his feet to the hole. There is a morgue number given to each box and a Forensic Medicine Institute number on the box containing the bones. The families whose DNA matches the bodies, recieve the bodies with these numbers. Video shows that a cemetery officer responds to the question 'Are all the bodies buried here' as 'Yes.'

 

 

MA / Erdoğan Alayumat