This site is a database work created to be a memory of Tenkil victim’s deaths of under detention, in exile, of diseases, work accidents, imprisoned, suicide, and other deaths in the Aegean Sea and Maritza River; and also the abductions and other human rights violations. According to our database records, the number of people who died during the Tenkil process has exceeded 1200.
Kadir Eyce was not sent for treatment from the prison. He died due to the illness he was diagnosed with after the detention process and what he went through in prison.
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Mehmet Filiz, one of the well-known businessmen in Kayseri, was sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison for alleged membership of a terrorist organization. During Filiz’s detention, her mother, Emine Filiz, died. Mr Filiz could attend her funeral accompanied by the gendarmerie.
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Abdulhafiz Filiz was a civil servant at Diyarbakir Selahattin Eyyubi State Hospital and was purged from his job with a Decree-Law. However, the State of Emergency Commission didn’t accept his appeal to return to his work and sent a refusal letter. He died as a result of a heart attack due to his sadness.
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Birol Dikyurt was the Chairman of the Bartin Active Businessmen Association. His assets were confiscated, and he became `wanted` in Turkey; thus, he had to flee abroad in November 2015. Dikyurt passed away on September 14, 2017, in Germany, where he took refuge in 2017.
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Mahir Mete Kul was arrested after the chess tournament on the grounds of a confessioner’s statement. Although he was released in court after 10 months, he wanted to leave the country because of the continuing problems and fear of being arrested again. He died when the boat he was on to go to Greece capsized in the Meriç River. His lifeless body was found 15 days after he disappeared.
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Ismail Ulker was a 3rd class Police Chief who was in love with his profession. He was detained for 23 months, and his treatment was delayed despite the Medical Board report. Ulker died in hospital shortly after his release. Ulker’s children became orphaned on Father’s Day.
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Hatice Memis’s son, Ahmet Memis, was an imprisoned journalist in Silivri prison for four years. She died of a heart attack on her son’s birthday.
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Halil Simsek, a theologian writer who has lived in Germany since 1992 and devoted his years to faith and Qur’anic service, passed away on February 2, 2021 in a hospital where he was treated for coronavirus.
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Hatice Ezgi Orcan was diagnosed with cancer after being dismissed from her job by a government decree under a state of emergency declared in the aftermath of a controversial military coup attempt on July 15, 2016. The 33-year-old teacher underwent several unsuccessful surgeries.
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Lieutenant Colonel Ismail Cakmak died suspiciously in Silivri Prison after being arrested on the charge of coup plotter. He allegedly committed suicide by being found hanging from a sheet by his throat in the stairwell. In his detention statement, it was revealed that Cakmak had his troops withdrawn after he said to the coup plotter’s commander that ‘I will not obey the order’.
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