{"id":50148,"date":"2026-03-27T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/50148\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:10:08","slug":"turkeys-top-court-finds-rights-violations-in-killing-of-kurdish-man-dragging-of-his-body-behind-armored-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/50148\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey&#8217;s top court finds rights violations in killing of Kurdish man, dragging of his body behind armored vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Haci-Lokman-Birlik.jpg\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"332\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- alt=\"\" title=\"Hac\u0131 Lokman Birlik\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Haci-Lokman-Birlik-696x332.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"332\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Haci-Lokman-Birlik-696x332.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Hac\u0131 Lokman Birlik\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turkey\u2019s Constitutional Court has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ozgurpolitika.com\/haberi-suruklenen-adalet-birlik-davasinda-aym-den-ihlal-karari-209911\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ruled<\/a> that security forces violated the rights of Hac\u0131 Lokman Birlik, a 24-year-old Kurdish man who was killed in 2015 and whose body was dragged behind an armored vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The court found that the authorities violated Birlik\u2019s right to life and the constitutional ban on treatment incompatible with human dignity, according to the Yeni \u00d6zg\u00fcr Politika news website. His family and lawyer, who filed the application to the court five years ago, are awaiting the reasoned judgment to assess the ruling\u2019s full implications.<\/p>\n<p>Birlik was killed in \u015e\u0131rnak\u2019s Dicle neighborhood on October 3, 2015,\u00a0during clashes in the predominantly Kurdish southeastern provinces between Turkish security forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK), which is designated as a terrorist organization by Turkey and its Western allies.<\/p>\n<p>After footage emerged showing Birlik\u2019s body being dragged behind an armored vehicle, two of six police officers under investigation were temporarily suspended for \u201cdamaging the legitimacy of the operation,\u201d but none faced charges over the killing or the treatment of his body.<\/p>\n<p>The family said the investigation stalled for years as prosecutors pursued only a charge of \u201cinsulting the memory of a deceased person,\u201d while failing to gather evidence or take statements from the officers involved.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer Ramazan Demir said prosecutors focused on identifying who leaked the footage to a police WhatsApp group instead of investigating Birlik\u2019s killing or the treatment of his body.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling renews longstanding concerns over impunity in Turkey, particularly in investigations involving the killing of Kurds by security forces. Human rights groups say flawed probes, decisions of non-prosecution and delays in judicial proceedings have repeatedly prevented accountability in such incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turkey\u2019s Constitutional Court has ruled that security forces violated the rights of Hac\u0131 Lokman Birlik, a 24-year-old Kurdish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[27986,27987,8040,312,23303,427,27988,23304,27989,27990,27991,131,132,155,27992],"class_list":{"0":"post-50148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-ban-on-treatment-incompatible-with-human-dignity","9":"tag-haci-lokman-birlik","10":"tag-human-dignity","11":"tag-human-rights","12":"tag-impunity","13":"tag-justice","14":"tag-ramazan-demir","15":"tag-right-to-life","16":"tag-rights-violations","17":"tag-security-forces","18":"tag-sirnak","19":"tag-stockholm","20":"tag-sweden","21":"tag-turkey","22":"tag-turkeys-constitutional-court-aym"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116302251445714258","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}