ANKARA - The lawyer of Sedat Yılmaz, who was battered by the police after being detained in Diyarbakır in the Ankara-based investigation, filed a criminal complaint for the suspects to be identified and punished.

 

Dicle Müftüoğlu, co-chairperson of the Dicle Fırat Journalists Association (DFG), who was detained in Diyarbakır in the raids on houses in 15 different cities on April 29, based on an investigation initiated by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, with Sedat Yılmaz, editor of the Mesopotamia Agency (MA) and his wife Selma Yılmaz. Filiz Yılmaz, sister of Sedat Yılmaz, who was detained in Istanbul, was brought to Ankara. Journalists Yılmaz and Müftüoğlu, who met with their lawyers yesterday after the 24-hour restriction on lawyers' visit on the file, said that they were held in handcuffs for 15 hours while being brought to Ankara by bus and starved for 24 hours. Journalist Yılmaz, on the other hand, was battered by the police accompanying him, and was subjected to spying and insults under the name of "chat". Yılmaz's lawyer, Şule Recepoğlu, filed a criminal complaint with the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office regarding the situation in question.

 

THERE IS NO CONCRETE JUSTICE IN THE FILE

 

In the petition for criminal complaint, it was pointed out that Yılmaz was detained in the absence of concrete actions and evidence, and that he was forced to testify and confess with ill-treatment. In the petition, which states that those detained while being transferred from Diyarbakır to Ankara, were put on the bus in handcuffs, it was emphasized that Yılmaz was beaten by the police on his right while he was getting on the bus in Diyarbakır. In the petition, which stated that Yılmaz was exposed to swearing and insults during this time, it was stated that Yılmaz could identify the law enforcement officers who had mistreated him and forced him to confess by being placed in a room.