No news taken for 26 years: ‘Where are disappeareds?’ 

2021-07-17 16:42:58


	 

	 

	DİYARBAKIR - İHD and the relatives of the disappeared asked about the fate of Edip Aksoy and Orhan Cingöz, who were taken into custody in 1995 by being put on a white Toros.

	 

	The Diyarbakır Branch of the Human Rights Association (IHD) and the relatives of the disappeared carried out the 649th action online with the slogan "Let the missing be found, let the perpetrators be prosecuted". In the action, they were asked about the fate of Edip Aksoy and Orhan Cingöz, who were never heard from again after they were detained with the white Toros on June 7, 1995.

	IHD Board Member Jiyan Ormanlı told the story of Edip and Orhan.

	 

	Jiyan reminded that Edip Aksoy lived in the village of Zenge (Dolunay) in Lice, and that he was detained three times by the soldiers and subjected to severe torture. Noting that Edip Aksoy's family had to migrate to Diyarbakır in 1993 as a result of the soldiers' pressure to leave the village, Jiyan said:

	 

	“31-year-old Edip Aksoy was making a living for his family by trading tobacco in Diyarbakır. On the morning of June 7, 1995, he left home to go to his shop in Melikahmet. Edip Aksoy met with 23-year-old Orhan Cingöz, a villager who came to Diyarbakır to buy tobacco around noon. Together they went to Yeşilçınar Tea Garden in Diyarbakır Dağkapı around 12:00. While sitting and chatting with his friends here, a white Toros vehicle stopped in front of the tea garden. Three people, in plain clothes, armed and with radios, got out of the vehicle and approached them. These people, who introduced themselves as police, took Edip and Orhan's IDs and said, ‘You have a statement, we will go to the police station’. Although there were many witnesses who saw Aksoy and Cingöz being taken into custody and taken with the white Toros, their detention was denied. All the applications made by their families and the Human Rights Association to the relevant institutions have been unsuccessful and they have not been heard from again.’’

	 

	It was admitted that Edip and Orhan were murdered

	 

	Jiyan stated that the confessions of Abdulkadir Aygan, a member of Gendarmerie Intelligence and Anti-Terror Unit (JITEM) in 2005, were reflected in the press 10 years after the incident, and continued as follows: ‘’In part of his confessions, Aygan said that Edip Aksoy and Orhan Cingöz were interrogated by JITEM, that they were executed after questioning and buried by a stream on the way to Silopi. He described the scene in detail. Thereupon, the Human Rights Association (IHD) conducted investigations at the scene. With the information IHD collected, it applied to the Silopi Chief Public Prosecutor's Office on July 6, 2005. The prosecutor's office determined that on June 28, 1995, two bodies were found in the place Aygan had mentioned, and that they were buried in the Cemetery of the Nameless by the municipality. The families also declared that the photos of the dead bodies in the investigation file may belong to Edip and Orhan. The bones of four people were found in the grave, which was opened with the decision of the prosecutor's office. The bone samples taken were sent to the Istanbul Forensic Medicine Institute for identification. However, the Forensic Medicine Institute announced that as a result of the DNA test, the bones did not match those of the Aksoy and Cingöz families.’’