In Antalya, a city on the Mediterranean Coast of Turkey, eighteen-year-old Çağdaş Gemik was shot by police officer M.E. for “not obeying the stop warning” of the police. According to the autopsy done by the Medical Examiner’s Office, the shot that killed Gemik had gone in from the left side of his neck.

The incident occurred yesterday (October 27).

The officer has been arrested

According to News Antalya, police officer M.E. was arrested by the court on duty, after being questioned by Prosecutor Ümit Yaşar Özdemir.

The report by the News Antalya stated that M.E. told in his statement that he had warned two young people to stop and fired his gun in the air to make them stop.

The written announcement by Antalya Police Department said the police officers in the neighborhood of  Yeşildere had fired their guns after warning two people on a motorcycle to stop.

“Became X”

According to the explanation given by the Police Department:

“Some suspicious looking people continued running away from the police officers, not complying with the warnings to stop. Seeing this, officer M.E. used his gun to prevent their getting away and Çağdaş Gemik became an x at the scene. The necessary investigation regarding police officer M.E. has been launched.”

According to the ntvmsnbc, Antalya’s Police Chief Feyzullah Arslan announced that M.E. had been suspended.

The same news report stated that the body of Çağdaş Gemik, son of construction worker Haşim Gemik and housewife Sevgi gemik, was brought to the Cem house, Alevite house of worship, in the neighborhood Kızılarık around noon.

ÇHD: The government should apologize and warn the police officers

Münip Ermiş, head of  the Antalya Branch of the Contemporary Jurists Association (ÇHD), said that the government should apologize to the public and warn the security forces so that other similar murders would not be committed. (TK/TB)