Resul Saçan
person- Image
- Sex
- Male
- Civil status
- Married
- Occupation
- Butcher
- Dependants
- 2
- Event description
Per Yakay-Der records and petitions submitted by Resul Saçan’s father to the Governorship and the Ministry of Human Rights, twenty-eight-year-old butcher Resul Saçan lived in Batman. He had no political affiliation or prior history of detention. On 9th August 1994, he was abducted by several men as he rode his bicycle home from work.
Despite his father’s efforts to find him, he was not seen or heard from, nor were his bodily remains found.
A man, who was abducted and released on ransom in November 1994 by the Hizbullah organization claimed that he had been kept in the basement of a house along with Mahmut Demirel, Zeynel Kürsep, Resul Saçan, İsmail Ağaya and an unknown man.
- Geolocation
Latitude: 37.8895167
Longitude: 41.1292832
- Geolocation
- City
- Batman
- Date of disappearance
- Aug 9, 1994
- Year of disappearance
- 1994
- Age at the time of disappearance
- Yaş:26Ay:9Gün:19
- Status of the victim
- Still missing
- Type of source material
- Interview with family member (audio and video records)
- Press release or report of human rights organisations
- Printed or online news
- Decision by the prosecution office
- Decision of non-prosecution due to statute of limitations
- Summary of the legal proceedings
In search of his son Resul Saçan, who had been abducted by unknown men in Batman on 9th August 1994, Mr Saçan applied to the prosecutor’s office as well as the Governorship of Batman multiple times until 2013.
Resul Saçan is among the 180 missing person cases being investigated under file number 2014/3871 by the Batman Public Prosecutor’s Office as a result of Yakay-Der’s application.