Ömer Ölker
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- Sex
- Male
- Civil status
- Living with common-law spouse
- Date body found
- Apr 17, 1994
- Occupation
- Workers
- Dependants
- 3
- Event description
Per press statement released by Cumartesi İnsanları on 10th January 2015 and petition submitted to the İdil Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, twenty-five-year-old Ömer Ölker was a postal worker living and working in his hometown Şırnak. On 15th April 1994, he disappeared after he left for work; his dead body was found on 17th April 1994 near the Beyhan facilities in İdil, Şırnak. The investigation launched by the İdil Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office proved to be fruitless and it was dropped due to statute of limitations in 2014. The family applied to the Constitutional Court, which has yet to rule on the case.
- Geolocation
Latitude: 37.3402
Longitude: 41.8934
- Geolocation
- City
- Şırnak
- District
- İdil
- Date of disappearance
- Apr 15, 1994
- Year of disappearance
- 1994
- Age at the time of disappearance
- Yaş:25Ay:0Gün:0
- Status of the victim
- Discovered dead and returned to the family
- Type of source material
- Decision and correspondences of prosecutor
- Press release or report of human rights organisations
- Decision by the prosecution office
- Decision of non-prosecution due to statute of limitations
- Summary of the legal proceedings
Per petition submitted to the İdil Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, the investigation launched by the İdil Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office into Ömer Ölker’s death after his disappearance on 15th April 1994, proved to be fruitless despite a standing search warrant that was issued in July 1994. It was revealed that until the investigation was dropped in 2014 due to statute of limitation, the family of Ömer Ölker had never been contacted for their testimony, the military checkpoints on the road that his body had been discovered had not been consulted and his death had not been recorded until 1997. Eventually, Ömer Ölker’s family applied to the Constitutional Court, which has yet to rule on the case.
- Verdict of the Constitutional Court
- Decision of lack of jurisdiction due to ratione personae
- Decision of lack of jurisdiction due to ratione temporis