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.

Kerim Cagli

Professor, Medical Doctor
Date of Detention Unknown
Death Date 15/12/2020
Cause of Death Covid-19
Place of Death Ankara

Dr Kerim Cagli was a professor working as the Head of Cardiovascular Surgery Department at the Faculty of Medicine, Hitit (Hittite) University. Unfortunately, purged with a Decree-Law. Dr. Kerim Cagli passed away due to Covid-19.

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Beyza Ozden, 27

Educator,Dormitory Manager
Date of Detention Unknown
Death Date 03/09/2020
Cause of Death Cancer,sadness
Place of Death Istanbul

Beyza Ozden was arrested for working as a director in a private dormitory affiliated with Hizmet Movement and shut down by the regime. She couldn’t take it anymore and diagnosed with cancer at a young age. Ozden died at the age of 27.

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Cavit Keskin, 47

Imam-Muezzin
Date of Detention Unknown
Death Date 15/09/2019
Cause of Death
Place of Death Afyon

Cavit Keskin, who was a muezzin, was expelled from his profession by a decree law( KHK) and then lost his life.

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Ali Araz, 54

Cleaner
Date of Detention Unknown
Death Date 24/04/2018
Cause of Death Heart attack,sadness
Place of Death Mersin

Ali Araz, 54, used to work as a subcontractor cleaning worker in Akdeniz Municipality, Mersin. He was dismissed by a Decree-Law and died as a result of a heart attack.

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Meltem Zenbil, 40

Housewife
Date of Detention Unknown
Death Date 27/09/2019
Cause of Death Drowning in Aegean Sea
Place of Death Off the Greek island of Chios

The boat, on which a group of 18 people, including academics, judges and teachers, boarded, capsized at around 12.30 in the evening. In the accident where 7 people lost their lives, Meltem Zenbil, the wife of businessman Oğuz Zenbil, was one of those who lost their lives along with her son and mother

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Hıdır Calka, 36

Teacher
Date of Detention Unknown
Death Date 30/03/2016
Cause of Death Terrorist attack
Place of Death Somali

Hıdır Calka, a father of 2 and who teaches at Badr Turk High School in Mogadishu, was a 36-year-old Mathematics teacher. After serving in Kenya for 8 years, he went to Somalia. He has been in Somalia for 6 months. He died in a terrorist attack.

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Halil Simsek(Writer), 63

Theologian-Writer
Date of Detention Unknown
Death Date 02/02/2021
Cause of Death Corona
Place of Death Germany/ Essen

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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Bulent Ucar

Head of Malatya Branch of Health and Social Work Workers Union
Date of Detention Unknown
Death Date 18/02/2017
Cause of Death Heart attack
Place of Death Malatya

Bulent Ucar was purged by a Decree-Law. However, he could not cope with his suffering and passed away due to a heart attack four months after his purge. His Decision of Giving Back to Duty paper was issued after Ucar died.

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Hasan Isik, 57

Teacher of theology
Date of Detention Unknown
Death Date 14/05/2021
Cause of Death Corona
Place of Death Greece

Hasan Isik, a religious Scholar, lost his life abroad when the latest corona epidemic was added to the ailments he experienced. Isik, a graduate of the Egyptian Al-Azhar University and Kurra Hafiz, taught Arabic, tafsir and fiqh at universities in Dagestan, Azerbaijan and Turkey.

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