Per İHD’s plea file published on 5th February 2011 and Amnesty International’s call for action published on 15th January 1997, thirty-six-year-old Tevfik Kusun’s brother Fahri Kusun’s dead body had been discovered in the Dicle river after he had gone missing. Shortly later, Tevfik Kusun was detained by the security forces and was shown a list of names and told not to search for these people; his uncle Abdülbaki Işık’s name was on the list as well as Tevfik Kusun’s deceased brother. On 28th October 1995, Adbülbaki Işık was placed under custody in the Lice district of Diyarbakır by three men in a white Renault Toros car and his dead body was found along with the dead bodies of Fehmi Akyürek and Ramazan Ayhan near the Dicle river. Tevfik Kusun, who had applied to the European Court of Human Rights about his brother’s murder, was receiving threat calls in order to drop the case. On 29th November 1996, he was forced into a car by four plain-clothes men. On 17th December 1996, his dead body was discovered in Urfa’s Bozova district.