Family Killed in On Gözlü Bridge Attack was in Diyarbakır for Vacation

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It has been determined that a bomb of 300 kilos was used in the offensive launched on a Riot Squad Police shuttle with a bomb-laden vehicle by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) members at the entrance of Diyarbakır’s historical On Gözlü bridge.

In the attack, which occurred at around 10 p.m. last night (August 10), Behiye Yıldırım, Derya Yıldırım, Demet Yıldırım Aydın, Oğuzkaan Aydın, and Ceylinaz Aydın of the same family lost their lives.

12 were injured, of whom five were police officers.

Three of the five killed in the attack reportedly came to Diyarbakır from Gebze for vacation 10 days ago.

Eight people in custody

Teams from the Anti-Terror and Intelligence Bureau attached to the Diyarbakır Security Directorate detained eight people including four journalists.

They had gone for vacation

It was stated that engineering vehicle operator Muhammed Aydın, his agricultural engineer wife Demet Yıldırım Aydın (31), who is from Diyarbakır, and their children Oğuz Kaan (8) and Ceylinaz (3) went to Diyarbakır to visit his father-in-law Necati and his mother-in-law Behiye Yıldırım (52) 10 days ago.

The family went to visit the historical On Gözlü bridge. The explosion took place as the family of seven got in their car after having food at a  restaurant nearby the bridge.

The father-in-law Necati Yıldırım and Muhammed Aydın were heavily wounded in the explosion. The bodies of Demet Yıldırım Aydın and their children Oğuz Kaan and Ceylinaz will be buried in Gebze district of Kocaeli province.

The bodies of Behiye Yıldırım and her daughter Derya Yıldırım were buried in Ortayazı village in Ergani district in Diyarbakır.

Turan Aydın: My grandchild would have enrolled in school

Turan Aydın, whose son was heavily injured and daughter-in-law and two grandchildren were killed in the attack, made a statement to journalists in front of the forensic medicine building:

“What did you want from these children? What do you want from Turkey, the state, soldiers, public officers, babies? What is these people’s fault? My son, bride and grandchildren had come to Diyarbakır for vacation for one month. They would have returned to Gebze on Saturday if the attack hadn’t occurred.

“Kaan was my first grandson. He would have enrolled in school on Monday”. (HK/TK)