The Aydin Family visited their son Burak Aydin, who was imprisoned in prison in Mardin. After their visit, they set out their journey from Mardin to their hometown of Giresun (738 km far away). It was revealed that they had dinner at a restaurant in Erzurum during the journey and Kevser Aydin Kara (23) took a selfie with her family with her mobile phone before the meal. While the two heart marks on the selfie photo draw attention, this photo was the last photo the family took together. Only one person remained from this photo, and, unfortunately, every other person passed away. In the accident that occurred in the Kucukgecit locality of Erzurum-Askale road, on February 28, 2018, the vehicle with license plate 28 AH 195, under the direction of Ibrahim Aydin (54). A truck, loaded with live animals, came from the opposite direction on the road that was accessed from one lane due to work and collided with Ibrahim Aydin’s vehicle. In the accident, driver Ibrahim Aydin, his mother Ayse Aydin (72), his wife Gulyeter Aydin (49) and his son Muhammed Aydin (8) died at the scene. His daughter, Kevser Aydin Kara (23), was critically injured in the accident.
Mardin is on the Syrian border, while Giresun is at the Black Sea shores; thus, it is a non-stop journey of 10.5 hours as it is 738 km away. It is a `torture method` that the Erdogan regime sends the Hizmet related prisoners to the cities far from their families, purposefully, to prove troublesome, so that their families will hardly visit them. There were dozens of accidents during such visits and dozens of people, including countless children, passed away.

A photo showing Burak Aydin, a teacher who was jailed for alleged Hizmet links, visiting the graves of four of his family members who died in a car accident after visiting him in prison, has once again revealed the extent of damage to people’s lives caused by an ongoing government crackdown on real or alleged Gülen movement followers.
Burak Aydin, 27, is one of the thousands of teachers who were suspended from their jobs and jailed in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt on July 15, 2016, due to alleged links to the movement.
Four members of a Turkish family were killed in a car crash on March 2, 2018, while driving back from a prison in Erzurum where another member of the family was being held as part of the Turkish government’s massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement.
The prisoner, Burak Aydin, was released pending trial, and the first thing he did was to pay a visit to the graves of his family members on Saturday. His relatives photographed him in evident despair.
Four members of the Aydin family died while a woman from the same family, identified as Kevser Aydin, was seriously injured in the traffic accident on the Erzurum-Giresun highway. The family was returning from a visit to Kevser Aydin’s husband, jailed over alleged links to the Gulen movement.
The arrestee’s mother Ayse Aydin and his brother Ibrahim Aydin, Ibrahim’s wife Gulyeter Aydin and their 8-year-old son Muhammed Aydin were killed in the accident, according to social media accounts that have been following the suffering of victims of the Turkish government’s persecution led by autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

It is a non-stop journey of nearly 10.5 hours as it is 738 km between Mardin and Giresun. It is nearly 340 Turkish Lira (in November 2021) to get a return ticket from Mardin to Giresun, excluding other expenses during the journey or any expenditure in Izmir. The minimum wage in the country is 2,828 TL (as of November 2021) and one visit, with other expenses, is almost 15% of the minimum wage. Therefore, if a family of 5 visits their innocent relative, the financial cost is nearly a month’s income. Let alone the physical tiredness; it is also a financial ensnarling for the prisoners` relatives.

It is a `torture method` that the Erdogan regime sends the Hizmet related prisoners to the cities far from their families, purposefully, to prove troublesome, so that their families will hardly visit them. There were dozens of accidents during such visits and dozens of people, including countless children, passed away. The regime`s other intention to send the Gulenist prisoners far away is to minimise the travels in order to diminish the moral support between the prisoners and their families. So-called Islamic regime, whose leader shows Holy Book in political rallies or reads it in front of cameras, like any other famous tyrannic leaders like Hitler or Saddam, practices the implementations against the constitution, including strip search, that any colonial power would not dare to apply.

Turkish man released pending trial pictured sitting near graves of 4 family members killed in traffic accident after visiting him in jail