Berkin Elvan

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Berkin Elvan
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Born January 5, 1999
Turkey
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Okmeydanı, Istanbul, Turkey
Cause of death Hit on the head by a tear-gas canister fired by police
Resting place Feriköy Cemetery, Istanbul, Turkey
Nationality Turkish
Parent(s) Gülsüm Elvan (mother)
Sami Elvan (father)

Berkin Elvan (January 5, 1999 – March 11, 2014) was a 15-year-old Turkish boy who was hit on the head by a tear-gas canister fired by a police officer in Istanbul while out to buy bread for his family[3] during the June 2013 anti-government protests in Turkey. He died on March 11, 2014, following a 269-day coma. Lawyers representing the family said Elvan’s condition worsened over the last week of his life, with his weight dropping to 16 kg from 45 kg.[4][5][6] Widespread demonstrations erupted following Berkin's death.[7][8]

He was laid to rest at the Feriköy Cemetery, Istanbul.

Investigation

On 12 March 2014, four police officers testified for the ongoing investigation concerning the case of Berkin Elvan’s injury during the Gezi protests. Overall, 18 police officers have testified as suspects under the investigation so far, including these four.[9]

Protests

Following Elvan's death, protests erupted throughout Turkey in Adana, Adıyaman, Antalya, Ankara,[10] Ardahan, Bursa, Bolu, Çorum Düzce, Edirne, Gaziantep, İstanbul, İzmir, Konya, Hatay, Malatya, Sivas, Şanlıurfa, Şırnak Kayseri Dersim, Tokat, Zonguldak[11] and worldwide in cities such as Nuremberg,[12] London,[13] Paris, Vienna, Helsinki, Strasbourg,[14] Stockholm, New York, Boston, Washington DC, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bielefeld, Berlin, Brussels, Den Haag, Dresden, Duisburg, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne, Lausanne, Lisbon, Rotterdam, Stuttgart, Warsaw, Seattle, Pennsylvania, Toronto.[15] His funeral was held in Istanbul on March 12 and was attended by thousands of people, many of whom had never heard of the boy prior to the incident.

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Banner placed in Greece, in March of 2014 at the place where Alexis Grigoropoulos got shot in Exarchia, Athens.

Reactions

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan claimed that the boy was a "member of a terrorist organization" as he had his face covered by a scarf.[16]

In March 2014 Maoist rebels attacked a police station in revenge for Elvan's killing.[17][18]

On 31 March 2015 suspected members of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) took prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz hostage on the sixth floor of the Istanbul Çağlayan Justice Palace. They demanded that the police announce the names of four members of the security services who they said were connected to the death of Berkin Elvan. The police negotiated with the gunmen for six hours, but eventually stormed the courthouse "because of gunshots heard from inside the prosecutor's office". The two gunmen died during the operation, while the prosecutor was badly wounded and later died of his injuries.[19]

See also

References

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  16. ↑ Spiegel.de (German)
  17. ↑ TİKKO’dan Berkin Elvan için misilleme eylemi
  18. ↑ Gerilladan Berkin Elvan için misilleme eylemi
  19. ↑ Bloody end to Turkey prosecutor hostage crisis

External links

  • Berkin Elvan on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). (Turkish)
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