ANKARA - HDP's Ferhat Encü and lawyers make a statement after the application made to the Constitutional Court (AYM) regarding the Roboski massacre.

 

Roboskili families appealed to the Constitutional Court for the massacre of 34 civilians as a result of the bombardment of warplanes belonging to the Turkish Armed Forces. Peoples 'Democratic Party (HDP) Central Executive Board member Ferhat Encü and Roboski families' lawyer Kerem Altıparmak made a statement in front of the Constitutional Court after the application.

 

Ferhat Encü, a member of HDP FMC from Roboskili families, stated that they have been seeking justice for the prosecution of the perpetrators for 10 years and said: "Turkish warplanes dropped bombs on the civilians who went to trade with their neighbors in order to maintain their own lives at the Roboski border. Since that day, we, as Roboski families, rights defenders and politicians, demand that the perpetrators who ordered the Roboski massacre be brought to justice and to be held accountable before the law. As Roboski families, we demand justice. But unfortunately, since that day, not even one person has been suspended, prosecuted or investigated. Roboski families, who demand justice, have been sued and arrested. The files about the people who murdered 34 people resulted in non-prosecution, but the Roboski families who fought for justice are still on trial. Mothers who lost their children are on trial."

 

'THE JUDICIARY DOES NOT PROTECT JUSTICE'

 

Encü said: "We are face to face with a politicized judiciary. We first took the file to the Uludere prosecutor's office. He was taken to the Diyarbakır Special Authorized Prosecutor's Office with the decision of non jurisdiction. Later, the decision was taken to the military prosecutor's office with the decision of lack of jurisdiction. We took this file to AYM with the decision of non-prosecution. The Constitutional Court also rejected this file on flimsy excuses. Later, we took it to the ECtHR, and our file was rejected on the grounds that domestic remedies were not exhausted. With the emergence of new evidence after the July 15 coup attempt, we made a new application to the prosecutor's office. But these also resulted in non-prosecution. Today we are applying to the AYM again. We see that the judicial mechanism in this country is not in a place that protects justice. They are in an approach that carries out the law of the superior. "