ISTANBUL - EŞİK called for the Justice and Interior Ministers to be asked about Yeldana Kaharman's suspicious death.

 

Women's Platform for Equality (EŞİK) demanded that relevant ministries be invited to the commission to clarify the rape and murder allegations of Yeldana Kaharman at the meeting held by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (TBMM) Violence Against Women Investigation Commission. 

 

In the death of Yeldana Kaharman, a Kazakh national, student of Fırat University Faculty of Communication, who was found dead in her home on March 28, 2019 in Elazığ, AKP MP Tolga Ağar's name was involved and access to relevant news was blocked. The latest state-affiliated mafia leader, Sedat Peker, in his broadcasts on digital media, raised the allegations that Yeldana, whose investigation file was closed as suicide, was raped, and killed.

 

Upon these developments, the deputies of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), the Republican People's Party (CHP) and the Good Party, submitted three separate petitions to the commission, including the request of the EŞİK. They asked the Justice and Interior Ministers to be invited to the commission and provide information.

 

EŞİK's request

 

MPs from the opposition parties participating in the commission's meeting today, Aysu Bankoğlu, Gamze Taşcıer Neslihan Hancıoğlu, Suzan Şahin (CHP), Filiz Kerestecioğlu, Semra Güzel (HDP), Şenol Sunat (Good Party) gave petitions to the Commission Chair Öznur Çalık, with a special request that ministers be invited to the commission to inform about Yeldana’s death.

All three parties underlined in their petitions that the issue should not be passed over by the general presentations of the Ministries of Interior and Justice at the commission. It demanded that the Ministers of Justice and the Interior be invited personally to give information by holding a special meeting with the agenda. 

 

EŞİK also called on the Commission for Investigation of the Causes of Violence and Solutions to all suspicious deaths of women. The EŞİK called on the parliamentary commission to take necessary steps not to cover up the sexual assault and femicide allegations of economically and politically influential people, especially Yeldana, to clarify the incidents and to punish the perpetrators and those who had a role in closing the investigations.