Ramazan Tekin
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- Sex
- Male
- Civil status
- Married
- Occupation
- Peasant
- Dependants
- 9
- Event description
Per İHD’s plea file for enforced disappearances and unsolved murders published on 5th February 2011 and Amnesty International’s call for action released on 15th January 1997, sixty-two-year-old Ramazan Tekin was living in the Demirli (Tımarlan) village of Diyarbakır’s Kulp district with his family. Their village had been burnt down in 1995 but the family had not left the village. In November 1996, a group of village guards and soldiers came to their house while Mehmet Şirin Bayram was also there as a guest. The group took the two men and left; however, when the families inquired about them, the authorities denied placing them under custody. The two men have not been heard from or seen, nor have their bodily remains been discovered. The investigation was dismissed in November 2014 due to statute of limitations, but it was re-opened upon appeal.
- Geolocation
Latitude: 38.5258521
Longitude: 41.1422334
- Geolocation
- City
- Diyarbakır
- District
- Kulp
- Date of disappearance
- Nov 1, 1996
- Year of disappearance
- 1996
- Age at the time of disappearance
- Yaş:62
- Status of the victim
- Still missing
- 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 disappearance of Ramazan Tekin and Mehmet Şirin Bayram under custody in November 1996, the Kulp Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation, which was transferred between various prosecutor’s offices citing lack of jurisdiction until the Kulp Public Chief Prosecutor’s Office dismissed the case in 2014 due to statute of limitations. Upon the family’s appeal, the case was re-opened.
