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 800.

Dudu Ince Celikten

Police Officer
Date of Detention Unknown
Death Date 23/07/2018
Cause of Death Cancer,sadness
Place of Death Adana

Dudu Ince Celikten was a police officer and purged from her profession with the Decree-Law after 15 July. She had throat cancer as a result of the difficulties he suffered. Treatments that lasted for a year did not get better. She died, leaving behind two small children and a tearful husband.

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Fatma Kaya

Housewife
Date of Detention Unknown
Death Date 13/05/2019
Cause of Death
Place of Death Ankara

Alaaddin Kaya, the former licensee of Zaman newspaper, and all his family members were subjected to persecution by the regime after 15 July. His mother, Fatma Kaya, did not leave her son alone in prison and visited regularly. Fatma Kaya, who fell ill with her sadness, passed away in Guven Hospital, Ankara.

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İsmet Ozcelik

Educator
Date of Detention 12.05.2017 Ankara TEM
Death Date
Cause of Death
Place of Death

Educator Ismet Ozcelik was abducted on May 4, 2017 in Malaysia through some elements of the Malaysian intelligence, who are cooperating with MIT. Ozcelik, who was given a protection card by the United Nations, was brought to Turkey on May 12 after his forced abduction and arrested in Ankara on May 24

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Kazim Kurnaz, 34

Teacher
Date of Detention Unknown
Death Date 01/02/2019
Cause of Death Accident in workplace
Place of Death Aksaray

Kazim Kurnaz was expelled from teaching by Decree-Law. He died as a result of a work accident, falling from the 4th floor of the construction he worked in Duzce. Two months after his death, Kazim Kurnaz was acquitted of post-coup terrorism charges that led to his dismissal from the public service in the first place.

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Kemal Bilici

Teacher
Date of Detention 08.01.2022 Manisa
Death Date 11/09/2019
Cause of Death Suspicious death in prison
Place of Death Manisa Prison

Kemal Bilici, a teacher who was dismissed and arrested by the statutory decree, died in his third year in prison. Bilici was expelled by statutory decree after July 15th when he was a classroom teacher in Manisa. He was not released from prison although he was diagnosed with “depression related to confined space”.

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Betul Seda Ozcan, 10

Student
Date of Detention Unknown
Death Date 26/06/2017
Cause of Death Traffic Accident
Place of Death Elazig,in front of the Prison

Betul Seda Ozcan was too excited to visit her imprisoned father for the first time after six months. However, she lost her life in a traffic accident after being hit by a car in front of Elazig Prison.

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Halil Dinc, 45

School Principal
Date of Detention Unknown
Death Date 16/08/2018
Cause of Death Heart attack
Place of Death Athens, Greece

Halil Dinc was the principal of Samanyolu Private Cemal Sasmaz High School, one of the most successful schools in the capital Ankara and affiliated with Hizmet Movement. As a result of the pressures of the regime, he had to migrate to Greece. Dinc died in the arms of his daughter as a result of a heart attack due to his troubles. 

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Aysegül Akca, 45

Date of Detention Unknown
Death Date 04/01/2017
Cause of Death Stress-induced aortic rupture
Place of Death Bilecik

Aysegul Akca, whose heart could not cope with what was done to her husband, the police chief, died as a result of a rupture of the aorta.

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Yesim Coskun, 44

Hauswife
Date of Detention Unknown
Death Date 16/05/2021
Cause of Death Sadness,Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Place of Death Ordu

Yesim Coskun fell ill with ALS after her husband Yusuf Coskun, a literature teacher, was arrested. Yesim Coskun passed away on May 16, 2021. Yesim Coskun, who has two children aged 18 and 13, was buried in Yıldızlı Village of Ordu.

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