Per Yakay-Der records and news article published in the Radikal Newspaper on 11th February 2009, following a clash between the Turkish army and the PKK in Cumare (Esenli) hamlet of Lice district’s Kabaköyü village, the Bolu Commando Brigade, Lice Gendarmerie Brigade and village guards raided Cumare on 13th May 1994,. The soldiers and guards burnt down the village, separated young villagers and placed seven of them under custody, including Mustafa Bulut.

Upon hearing from other villagers that Mustafa Bulut and other detained villagers had been transferred to Lice, one of Mustafa's relatives, Fahri Bulut went to Lice to find him and did not return. Fahri's brothers Ramazan and Ekrem Bulut as well as their niece Ali Bulut went after Fahri. They were detained on the road and then taken to the Lice Gendarmerie Brigade. They have not been seen or heard from since then.

Villagers who were detained with members of Bulut family told their relatives that they were kept and tortured at the Lice Regional Boarding School, which was known to be used as a secret detention and torture center. Years later, one of the former detainees in the Lice Regional Boarding School told that he had seen officers taking eight people, Ekrem Bulut, Ramazan Bulut, Ali Bulut, Hasan Örhan, Mehmet Salih Örhan, Cezayir Örhan and one more person, out of the school to another location. Bulut family went to Lice Gendarmerie Station multiple times to get information about their beloved ones, yet the officers constantly denied that their relatives were under detention. The family were threatened and their house was raided by the soldiers several times.

The same year, villagers found eight burnt dead bodies with bullet holes in Diyarbakır’s Kulp district’s Bağcılar Düzpeli hamlet. The villagers buried the bodies after the autopsy conducted by the Office of the Kulp Public Prosecutor. The Office of the Kulp Public Prosecutor transferred the investigation to the Diyarbakır State Security Court on the basis that the bodies belonged to the "members of the organization who clashed with the security forces or were killed due to an internal rift inside the organization."

Years later, when the villagers could return to their villages in 2003, many families requested the graves to be opened to identify the remains of their beloved ones. In 2008, the DNA analysis of the bones in the grave where eight people had been buried revealed that the bones belonged to Ali Bulut, Ekrem Bulut, Ramazan Bulut, Hasan Örhan and Mehmet Salih Örhan. Örhan and Bulut families requested the bones of their relatives, yet the Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor told them that the bag which contained the bones were lost. Later, the families discovered that all the bones had been buried inside a single bag in the Kulp Public Cemetry. Their submission to the Public Prosecutor's office to exhume the bones and have them separated was denied by the authorities. The bones are still buried inside a bag in the Kulp Public Cemetry. The bodily remains of Mustafa Bulut and Fahri Bulut have not been found.

In 2004, ten years after the incident, the Office of Diyarbakır Public Prosecutor transferred the file to Diyarbakır 7th Army Corps Military Prosecutor. The case file went back and forth between Diyarbakır Public Prosecutor and Diyarbakır 7th Army Corps Military Prosecutor without any substantial result.

In 2013, an indictment prepared by the Office of the Diyarbakır Public Prosecutor and approved by the Diyarbakır 7th High Criminal Court accused the retired Major General, who was the commander of the Bolu Commando Brigade at the time of the raid, of the enforced disappearance of eleven villagers in the Kulp district of Diyarbakır. Ertürk was accused of "murdering multiple persons, “inciting armed revolt”, establishing a criminal organization with the aim of committing criminal acts." The indictment listed the disappearance of the Bulut family among other acts that the suspect had allegedly contributed to and whose investigations are still ongoing”. Yet these incidents were only mentioned but not included in the investigation.