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.

Cahit Korkmaz

Police officer
Date of Detention Unknown
Death Date 25/10/2016
Cause of Death Alleged suicide
Place of Death Bursa

It was stated that the police officer  in Bursa, Cahit Korkmaz, committed suicide by shooting himself in the heart with his service pistol.

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Esma Ozgul, 41

Teacher
Date of Detention Unknown
Death Date 31/10/2018
Cause of Death Cancer
Place of Death Kayseri

Esma Ozgul was a teacher of Serhat Coaching Centre in Kayseri. Coaching Center was the best coaching center in the city. However, the regime shut it down with a Degree-Law. She went through a hard time.The young teacher, who had cancer as a result of the sadness she experienced, died, leaving behind two tearful children.

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Ibrahim Aydin, 54

Date of Detention Unknown
Death Date 28/02/2018
Cause of Death Traffic accident
Place of Death Erzurum, Askale

The Aydin Family visited Burak, who was imprisoned in Mardin. After their visit, they started their journey to their hometown Giresun. A truck collided with Ibrahim Aydin’s vehicle. The driver Ibrahim A., his mother Ayse A.(72), his wife Gulyeter A.(49) and his son Muhammed A.(8) died at the scene of accident.

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Amir Gülacti

Police officer
Date of Detention Unknown
Death Date 20/10/2019
Cause of Death Imprisoned death, heart attack
Place of Death Karaman Prison

Police officer Amir Gulacti, who was put in the Karaman M Type Prison, passed away after a heart attack in his ward.

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Kadir Guven, 77

Retired Officer
Date of Detention Unknown
Death Date 07/09/2020
Cause of Death Covid-19
Place of Death

Journalist Cevheri Guven’s father, Kadir Guven, passed away at 78, yearning for his son. However, the son of famous Cevheri Guven, who had to leave his country and was targeted by the regime, could not go to his father’s funeral and say his last prayer in the cemetery.

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Fadime Guler, 47

Teacher
Date of Detention Unknown
Death Date 10/12/2019
Cause of Death Lung Cancer
Place of Death Adiyaman

Fadime Guler was among the hundreds of thousands who were unfairly dismissed from their professions with the Decree-Laws. Guler had lung cancer as a result of financial difficulties, social pressure and sadness. Unfortunately, the treatments she received did not yield any results, and Guler Teacher succumbed to the relentless disease.

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Ismail Cakmak

Lieutenat Colonel
Date of Detention 16.07.2016 İstanbul
Death Date 23/07/2016
Cause of Death Imprisoned death, suicide allegation
Place of Death Silivri Prison, Istanbul

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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Pinar Cinar

Date of Detention Unknown
Death Date 30/06/2017
Cause of Death Heart attack
Place of Death

One of the families whose life was turned upside down was the Cınar family. Pınar Cınar, who was preparing to visit her husband, who was imprisoned in Bursa H Type Prison, had a heart attack and died on the day of her visit.

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Kursat Ulkat

Working in Media
Date of Detention Unknown
Death Date 04/12/2017
Cause of Death Traffic Accident
Place of Death Istanbul

Samanyolu TV was one of the televisions that broadcasting was stopped by the regime before 15 July and shut down after a trustee was appointed. Kursat Ulkat, a former employee of the channel, died in a traffic accident. While Kursat Ulkat was a Samanyolu TV employee, he became unemployed due to the closure of the Channel and had a hard period of time.

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