Ahmet Üstün
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- Sex
- Male
- Civil status
- Married
- Occupation
- Peasant
- Dependants
- 2
- Event description
Per press statement released by Cumartesi İnsanları on 11th October 2014; one night in April 1994, Ahmet Üstün was placed under custody by a group of ten armed plainclothes men under the pretext of taking his statement.
Ahmet Üstün has not been seen or heard from, nor have his bodily remains been found.
As of June 2015, the investigation launched by the Cizre Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office with file number (2009/430; later changed to 2014/1859) is on-going.
- Geolocation
Latitude: 37.332346
Longitude: 42.185474
- Geolocation
- City
- Şırnak
- District
- Cizre
- Date of disappearance
- Apr 1, 1994
- Year of disappearance
- 1994
- Age at the time of disappearance
- Yaş:27
- Status of the victim
- Still missing
- Type of source material
- Decision and correspondences of prosecutor
- Interview with family member (audio and video records)
- Press release or report of human rights organisations
- Decision by the prosecution office
- Definitive decision of acquittal
- Summary of the legal proceedings
After Ahmet Üstün was placed under custody by a group of ten armed plainclothes men, who came to his family house in Cizre at nighttime, under the pretext of taking his statement, he disappeared.
The investigation launched not long after the incident did not yield any results.
In 2009, upon Ahmet Üstün’s brother’s application, a new investigation was launched by the Cizre Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office with file number (2009/430; later changed to 2014/1859).
As of June 2015, the investigation is on-going.
Parallelly, in 2009, another investigation was launched into extra-judicial killings carried out by a gang formed by the Cizre District Gendarmerie Commander, who was seen in Ahmet’s village along with two of his gang members on the night of his disappearance. All the defendants were acquitted in 2015.