The 45-year-old Deputy Commissioner Baykan Ates was purged by the Degree-Law and was fired from his job by the regime. An investigation had been launched against him. Ates died as a result of a heart attack while the trial was still ongoing. Ates’s brother, Akin Ates, who was imprisoned in Bolu Prison, was not allowed to attend his brother’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, Ates’s brother, Akin Ates, were not allowed to be in the cemetery. Although it is imperative for a Muslim to attend his mother’s funeral, so called-Islamic regime in Turkey did not allow Akin Ates.