Salih Aslan
person- Image
- Sex
- Male
- Civil status
- Unknown
- Date body found
- Mar 28, 1994
- Occupation
- Businessmen
- Event description
Per journalist Soner Yalçın’s book on JİTEM victim “Behçet Cantürk’ün Anıları” (The Memoir of Behçet Cantürk) and the indictment bill prepared by the Ankara Chief public prosecutor’s Office; on 25th March 1994, while Kurdish businessman Fevzi Aslan was sitting in his office with other businessmen, six or seven armed policemen came in and claimed that the police were looking for him. As they were leaving the office, Fevzi’s nephew, Salih Aslan came in. After checking his ID, the police told them that Salih was going to be detained, as well. The two men were driven away by the armed men.
Three days later the police called Fevzi Aslan’s family and told them the dead bodies of Feyzi and Salih Aslan had been found along the Hendek-Sapanca highway. The families went there to find that indeed, the two dead bodies were those of Fevzi and Salih Aslan.
In 1997, both men’s names appeared in the report about the Susurluk gang, involving extrajudicial executions and other illegal activities of state officials.
- Geolocation
Latitude: 41.0082376
Longitude: 28.9783589
- Geolocation
- City
- İstanbul
- Date of disappearance
- Mar 25, 1994
- Year of disappearance
- 1994
- Age at the time of disappearance
- Yaş:26Ay:0Gün:20
- Status of the victim
- Discovered dead and returned to the family
- Latest status as suspect in the act
- Faced charges but acquitted, decision taken to appeal
- Type of source material
- Press release or report of human rights organisations
- Decision by the prosecution office
- Decision of acquittal due to lack of evidence, case taken to Supreme Court
- Name of the court case
- Ankara JITEM Case
- Summary of the legal proceedings
In 2013, investigations began to focus on 90’s unsolved murders and enforced disappearances that had thus far been neglected, a legal process was initiated into the murder of Feyzi Aslan and his nephew Salih Aslan, who had been abducted by armed police officers in 1994. In the indictment bill prepared by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, a group comprised of the former Chief of Police, Chief of the Police Special Operations Department, high-ranking military staff and special force police officers, were named as defendants.