Emre Mert Kir’s father, Ibrahim Kir, a Supreme Court member, had been imprisoned at Eskisehir Prison for four years before Emre Mert died. Kir was attempting to cross the road on his bicycle and died due to a collision with a car that was approaching fast in Sincan, Ankara.

Ibrahim Kir, who was under the regime’s radar only because he did not support the government’s HSYK (Council of Judges and Prosecutors) candidates, was arrested despite the lack of evidence in his file for the alleged crimes. The parents of Emre Mert’s playmates were also the ones who filed Ibrahim Kir and kept him in prison for years. And they also arrested Emre Mert’s father too! Emre Mert spent his adolescent years without a father when a child would need his father the most because his father was imprisoned.

Those who arrested Ibrahim Kir unlawfully didn’t allow him to attend his son’s funeral. Although it was regulated in Article 116 of the Execution Law that “up to 2 days outside the road time” could be allowed, Ibrahim Kir was only allowed to be in the cemetery for one hour during the burial. Although it is imperative for a Muslim to attend his son’s funeral, so-called Islamic regime did not allow Ibrahim Kir to participate in the funeral prayer nor accept condolences.

In a 2017 essay, Oda TV columnist Muyesser Yildiz compared the Ergenekon trials to those after 15 July, saying, “I would never have expected to make such a comparison,” and claiming that the violations of law were more severe in many aspects during after 15 July. This determination by Yildiz is significant as this comparison is stated by someone who was incarcerated for a long time in the Ergenekon cases, was re-arrested around two months ago, and is still in prison. Indeed, this distinction can be clearly seen even at Emre Mert’s funerals.

For example, when Mehmet Haberal’s mother died, he was allowed two days off (excluding travel time). As a result, he was able to attend the funeral and accept condolences by staying at his mother’s house in Zonguldak for a total of four days (including travel time). Dogan Yurdakul, another suspect in the Ergenekon investigation, was given four days off for his wife’s funeral, including travel time, and Yurdakul stayed at home at night during the funeral leave. Dursun Cicek, meantime, was also granted four days of leave for the funeral of his mother, and Cicek was able to stay at her brother-in law’s house during the leave. On the other hand, Ibrahim Kir was only able to spend an hour only at his 17-year-old son’s funeral, much alone spend the night in his own house before being rushed back to prison.

Kir now mourns his kid alone in a prison cell after years of struggling for the manifestation of justice in the courts.

What is Ergenekon:
The Ergenekon trials (2008-2016) were a series of high-profile trials in Turkey in which 275 people, including military officers, journalists and opposition lawmakers, all alleged members of Ergenekon, a suspected secularist clandestine organization, were accused of plotting against the Turkish government. The trials resulted in lengthy prison sentences for the majority of the accused. In the event, those sentences were overturned shortly after.

When the corrupt ministers of the Erdogan regime and their children were caught red-handed on December 17/25, 2013, Erdogan and his gang, who cooperated with Ergenekon gangs, released all Ergenekon members who wanted to stage a military coup against their government.
Since Istanbul Heavy Penal Court 13 accepted the 2,455-page indictment against 86 defendants in the first case against alleged members of the supposed clandestine organization Ergenekon on 28 July 2008, a further 14 indictments were submitted up to February 2011. Until the fourth indictment, the number of defendants had increased to 531, and more than 8,000 pages of indictments had been written. Most trials are held in Silivri Prison. In June 2009, the prison’s sports hall was converted for the trial into a maxi courtroom with a capacity for 753 people.
When the corrupt ministers of the Erdogan government and their children were caught red-handed on December 17/25, 2013, Erdogan and his gang, who cooperated with Ergenekon gangs, released all Ergenekon members who wanted to stage a military coup against their government. That’s why Muyesser Yildiz’s comparison is crucial, as she was also part of the Ergenekon case.

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