Berkin Elvan who was shot dead by a tear gas canister during Gezi Park protests in 2014 was commemorated at his grave in İstanbul on Monday, bianet reported.
The family of Elvan and Taksim Solidarity Group previously released a statement of invitation and said, “It has been five full years since we have lost our Berkin, the child of hope. As the family of Berkin Elvan and Taksim Solidarity, we are commemorating our Berkin in the Feriköy Cemetery.”
Mısra Öz Sel, the mother of Oğuz Arda Sel who died in train derailment in Çorlu at the age of nine, also attended the commemoration.
Last month, an expert report submitted during a hearing on Elvan’s killing identified the police officer who had fired a tear gas canister that hit the teenager on the head. The report pointed to Fatih Dalgalı, one of the suspects in the trial, as the police officer who fired a tear gas canister at Elvan after a series of examinations conducted on video footage of the incident.
A lawyer for the Elvan family, demanded Dalgalı be put under arrest since the expert report exposed the fact that he deliberately took aim at the 15-year-old. The court, however, did not rule for arrest
The Gezi Park protests were started by a group of environmentalists protesting the destruction of the park to resurrect a historic building and erect a shopping mall in the area.
After police used excessive violence against the protesters, thousands of people gathered in Taksim Square where Gezi Park is located, and turned the demonstration into a massive protest against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
The İstanbul 30th High Criminal Court accepted an indictment that demands an aggravated life sentence for human rights activist and philanthropist Osman Kavala as well as 15 other suspects for their alleged roles in Gezi protests, on March 4, 2019.
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