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The 19-year-old Göktuğ Efe Yılmaz was shot dead by the police in Taksim, İstanbul, after a shootout.

HDP’s Ersoy says that while Kaya was handcuffed behind his back and shot in the back of his head at close range, “the city surveillance cameras were not recording” in the meantime as in the case of several files where the police are perpetrators.

While the Governor's Office says the deceased man had resisted the police, there are reports claiming that the incident was an extrajudicial killing.

Police shot Suat Şahin in the Seyitler Neighborhood in Batman province on the grounds that he had allegedly resisted criminal record check. Şahin is in a critical condition.

After police opened fire on two motorcyclists who did not obey their stop warning and wounded Serkan G. in his neck, people gathered in front of the district security directorate in Gümüşhane province, saying, “We don’t want murderous police.”

Two refugees have lost their lives and 12 refugees have been wounded in the fire opened by soldiers on a vehicle in Pervari district in Siirt province. The Governor’s Office has stated that “they did not obey the stop warning.”

The court has given its ruling in the trial over the killing of two people in İstanbul’s Gazi Neighborhood. Police officers who opened fire on a vehicle and caused the death of two people “because they disobeyed the stop warning” will pay 24,300 lira.

Human Rights Commission of Adana Bar, Human Rights Association (İHD), Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD) and KESK Confederation have issued a report on the killing of 18-year-old Ali El Hemdan and noted that his right to life has been violated.