URFA - The complaint filed against the police officers who detained Emine and Ferit Şenyaşar without permission from the prosecutor was blocked by the governor's office.

 

Emine Şenyaşar and Ferit Şenyaşar who lost three of their family members in the attack carried out by the relatives and bodyguards of AKP MP İbrahim Halil Yıldız were detained at the enterence to the city on July 14, 2021, on the 128th day of their sit-in. Taken into custody right before the visit of People's Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Pervin Buldan, the Şenyaşar family were taken to Urfa Security Directorate and than a district police station. 

 

The lawyers of Emine and Ferit Şenyaşar asked if there was a warrant for their detention at the police station while the mother and son was detained. While the police officers denied to reply in writing, they told the lawyers that the decision to detain the two was made by the prosecutor. Later, when the lawyers went to speak to the prosecutor on duty, they were told that there were no such decision or a warrant.

 

The lawyers then  filed a criminal complaint against the 11 police officers who detained the Şenyaşar family with the Urfa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office on the grounds that "the complainants were detained without a detention warrant.

 

'GOVERNOR CONFIRMED THAT IT IS NOT A NEW OPERATION'

 

The Chief Public Prosecutor asked the Urfa Governor's Office for permission to investigate the police. Regarding the investigation permission requested by the Governor's Office, the Governor's Office rejected the request with the statements that "The actions taken by the police officers on July 14, 2021 were carried out in line with the instructions of the Public Prosecutor within the scope of the existing judicial files of the complainants, and there was no new judicial or administrative action". In the decision of the Governor's Office, it was argued that there were 2 different judicial investigations and 2 different investigation units about Emine Şenyaşar, and that the procedures carried out within a reasonable time and in accordance with the legislation, taking into account the time spent in the hospital, the interpretation from Kurdish and the time spent waiting for the lawyers."

 

MOTHER AND SON WERE DETAINED THE WHOLE DAY

 

Evaluating the decision made, Mehmet Ali Aslan, one of the lawyers who was with the family at the Sarayönü police station during the detention, said, "We wanted information regarding the investigation that day which was denied by the prosecutor. Even though they said there was a warrant for their detention, no documents were communicated to us. Even though the Governor claims that the family were held within a reasonable amount of time, it is not true. Even the identification of the two clients took hours, which indicates first hand that the procedure was not legal."

 

Aslan said that they would appeal to the Antep Regional Administrative Court for permission to investigate law enforcement officers who detained their clients all day long.