Update for Friends Abroad: 15-year-old Berkin Elvan, who got shot - TopicsExpress



          

Update for Friends Abroad: 15-year-old Berkin Elvan, who got shot with a tear gas canister (when he was 14) by Turkish governments police during last summers Gezi Park protests, passed away. He was going to a market near his house to buy bread for the breaksfast. The police (his identity is still unknown) shot him to death. He was in a coma for 268 days and weighing 35 pounds when he was dead. Turkish PM Tayyip Erdoğan praised police violence during Gezi Parkı protests in June, declaring I gave the order. Berkin is one of the 7 seven young victims murdered by police.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:37:53 +0000

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