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"There was a turmoil. They shot at us during the
demonstration and we saw our friend Hasan Is fall to
the ground. We rushed to him and dragged him to the
side. We called an ambulance, but after waiting for
10-15 minutes we got him on a taxi cab and rushed
him to the nearby ambulance garage. When we took him
out, we felt that his body was cold. He was dead. We
tried to get him on an ambulance, but two undercover
police officers blocked our path and pulled out
their guns and said 'Don't move or we'll shoot you'.
We stopped and the police claimed the body. The body
was laying on the ground for 15 minutes until
Hasan's brother came", the protester Abdulselam
Yildiz said.
Hasan Is's body was surrounded by Turkish police.
His body was covered with newspapers and the
ambulance was not allowed to take Hasan's body to
the hospital.
"We heard that my brother had been wounded. When we
arrived at the scene, I saw that Hasan was laying on
the ground. The police had covered him with
newspapers and they were guarding the body. I asked
the police to give me my brothers body but they told
me, without giving any reason, that they wouldn't
give it to me. We started to argue. My brother was
left on the ground for over 20 minutes. We then
claimed the body by force and took him to my car. I
sat down on the drivers seat but saw that the key
was not in the ignition. The police had taken my
keys. This time they wouldn't give me the keys. They
[police] later spoke to somebody in the phone and
only then did they give me my keys back", Hasan Is's
brother
The initial autopsy at the was made by military
doctors who claimed that Hasan Is had died four
hours before the clash between demonstrators and
police. The obvious lie outraged Kurds waiting
outside the hospital, and tens of demonstrators
broke in to the hospital and took Hasan Is's body.
His body was then taken by a convoy of fellow
demonstrators to the State Hospital in Diyarbakir.
A second autopsy showed that Hasan Is had been
killed about the same time as the demonstration
broke out. Turkish police issued a statement
claiming that Is was killed in a robbery and that
the police had nothing to do with his death.
The tension is still high in the Kurdish city of
Batman.
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