Abdülkerim Akti
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- Sex
- Male
- Civil status
- Married
- Date body found
- Dec 7, 1994
- Occupation
- Unknown
- Dependants
- 7
- Event description
Per Yakay-Der records, Abdülkerim Akti was detained on 21st November 1994 in the İdil district of Şırnak. Eleven days after his detention, his uncle Ramazan Akti went to pick up his niece from the detention center in İdil district of Şırnak province. Two men got into a taxi and disappeared. The family applied to the Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office in İdil and Cizre, but could not get any information about their relatives.
Soldiers found their dead bodies on 7th December 1994 in Midyat district, Yayvantepe village’s Derik hamlet. Autopsy results revealed that both men were shot to death. On 8th December 1994, the family identified the bodies and took them back to their village to bury them.
- Geolocation
Latitude: 37.415148
Longitude: 41.37343
- Geolocation
- City
- Mardin
- District
- Midyat
- Date of disappearance
- Dec 1, 1994
- Year of disappearance
- 1994
- Age at the time of disappearance
- Yaş:34
- 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
After the discovery of Abdülkerim and Ramazan Akti’s dead bodies on 8th December 1994, the Mardin Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation, which was transferred, during the following decade, between various prosecutor’s offices due to jurisdiction issues. In the course of the investigation it was understood that the bullets found at the crime scene were not tested until 2001 and despite lack of evidence, the prosecution assumed that the two men had been executed by the PKK after ceasing their assistance to the organization.
In 2007, the Governorship of Mardin’s Commission for determination of damages resulting from terror or counterterrorism activities (set up under law 5233) awarded the family monetary compensation (decision no.2007/2-4936).
As of 2014, the murder investigation is on-going under the jurisdiction of the Midyat Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office.