The disabled citizen named Ibrahim Aslan, who took his wife to the Okmeydanı Education and Research Hospital on birth calamities, claimed that he was subjected to police violence.
The incident happened at noon the day before. Aslan indicated that he had reacted to a parked civilian vehicle which closed to the road to the emergency delivery room, allegedly beaten by the police officers who were civilian-dressed and forced him into the police room.
Frogmarched to the police room in front of his wife and 1.5-year-old child, Aslan said he had received a report from the hospital shows that he was beaten.
“They punched on my eyes”
"When we went there, a car was parked at the entrance of the emergency birth room. For about 6-7 minutes we searched for the owner of the car and the security officers did not know who had left it. Then someone came I thought he is the owner of the car. I reacted him saying why pared at the gate of the emergency. I told him that my wife and my unborn baby are in danger. Someone from there told me that he is a police officer. He was civilian clothes. I told him that it does not matter you police or not but parking here is wrong. I was very stressed at the moment, but the police made a move that I had never expected before, and he seized me by the collar and shouted, ‘how do you talk to the police like this?’ They frogmarched me to the police room even saw I am disabled. I told them that my wife is giving birth that I should go but they did not listen to me. They dragged me to the police room in the hospital. They started beating me. I wanted to call my brother. I said you cannot beat me. But they did not allow me to call anyone. And they punch in the eye. They took my mobile-phone away. Then the second policeman who came in, he insulted me after he saw my birth place in my identity cart.”
“This violence is not the first”
In the last period, the police's violence towards the citizen is increasing. During the past few months, the villagers who collected mushrooms in Van were detained as “terrorists” and tortured for hours. They were released after understood that the villagers are innocent.
In Şarbatan village in Hakkari’s Şemdinli, villagers were beaten and tortured unreasonably by special operation forces. The Interior Ministry launched an investigation into the incident and some policemen were taken from the post.
During the month of Ramadan, a citizen who reacted to police because the police had messed his car during the search at the road control in Istanbul, was beaten in front of his wife and children, and his mother was dragged on the ground.
Tortures remain unpunished
The fact that all these events are not followed by serious research and investigation and that the torture of the police is not punished is being reacted by the public. Officials say the state of emergency will not be reflected in the citizens, but they do not react to the ever increasing police violence.
ILKHA