Police Hands Detected in Youth Murder
New information has been reached shedding light on the murder of 19 year old Ali İsmail Korkmaz, who was killed during the Turkish anti-government protests.
A police officer talking to Aydinlik newspaper explained that a new police team named ‘Sledgehammer’ has been created by the police force in the Turkish city of Eskişehir. The duty of this team was to attack and beat citizens who had joined the protests. Large, well-built policemen from the Anti-Terror Squad were chosen specifically for this duty. These officers, dressed in plain clothes, made their way to areas where protesters and police were clashing and beat any protesters they could catch, leaving them where they lay after the beatings rather than arresting them.
According to witnesses, the fatal blows which caused the death of Korkmaz, who died on the 10th of July, were dealt by a group which included plain clothes policemen. His killers have still not been found.