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Court says the officer who ran over 5-year-old child ‘cannot be attributed negligence’

Court says the officer who ran over 5-year-old child ‘cannot be attributed negligence’

The criminal court of first instance has handed down its detailed judgment in the trial of the police officer who had run over Efe Tektekin with an armored vehicle in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority Diyarbakır and was acquitted by court.

The perpetrator who caused 5-year-old Efe's death ‘protected by impunity’

DİYARBAKIR BAR

The perpetrator who caused 5-year-old Efe's death ‘protected by impunity’

Releasing a statement about the acquittal of the police officer who hit Efe Tektekin with an armored vehicle, the Child Rights Center of the Diyarbakır Bar raises concerns that “impunity encourages the law enforcement about culpable acts”.

Police officer who caused the death of 5-year-old Efe Tektekin acquitted

ARMORED VEHICLE CRASH

Police officer who caused the death of 5-year-old Efe Tektekin acquitted

The Tektekin family and the Diyarbakır Bar Association Child Rights Center have announced that they will take the verdict of acquittal to the upper court.

Police officer who caused death of six-year-old child faces up to six years in prison

Police officer who caused death of six-year-old child faces up to six years in prison

Efe Tektekin was killed after being run over by an armored vehicle in Diyarbakır in September 2019.

Cameras ‘broken’, all children ‘primary negligent’

EFE TEKTEKİN’S DEATH

Cameras ‘broken’, all children ‘primary negligent’

Speaking ahead of the trial over the death of 5-year-old Efe Tektekin in an armored vehicle crash in Diyarbakır, lawyer Sansarkan says that all children are found to be “primary negligent parties” in such trials, which is also the case for Tektekin.

17 September 2021 Ayşegül Özbek