Kurdish lawyer Vedat Aydin during the trial in the Ankara State Court, Türkiye 1990.

Sheet 19901100 Photo 5

Image of sheet 19901100 photo 5: Vedat Aydın, the Diyarbakır branch chairman of the now-defunct People’s Labor Party (HEP), was found dead on a road near Malatya on 7 July 1991, two days after armed men had taken him from his home in Diyarbakir. The widow Sükran Aydın thinks her husband’s murder was a turning point and that there was a sudden increase in the number of unsolved murders in the country’s Southeast following his death. She believes that a clandestine unit within the gendarmerie was responsible for the murder. Only 18 years after the killing the public prosecutor in Diyarbakir opened a file seeking the detention of nine JITEM members including the Major Aytekin Özen. Die weiteren angeklagten kurdischen Anwälte: Ahmet Zeki Okçuoğlu, und Mustafa Oezer
Color: Black & White
Type: Positive, Negative, Digital
Formats: 18x24
Country: Türkei
Region: Ankara
Date: Dec 18, 1990
Keywords: Recht, Gerichte, Angeklagter