10 February 2017•Update: 10 February 2017
By Zafer Fatih Beyaz and Ferdi Turkten
ANKARA
A public prosecutor requested a court in Ankara on Friday to hand down six counts of aggravated life imprisonment sentences for each of the 23 suspects accused of being involved in the murder of Kurdish teenager Yasin Boru and his friends in southeastern Turkey in 2014.
On Oct. 5, 2014, 16-year-old Boru and his friends -- Ahmet Dakak, Riyat Gunes and Hasan Gokguz -- were chased down and brutally killed by alleged pro-PKK supporters on the second day of Eid al-Adha as they distributed food aid to Syrian refugees. The murderers had accused Boru and his friends of allegedly being Daesh members before killing them, according to the indictment.
Public Prosecutor Abdurrahim Yalcin urged a penal court in Ankara to impose six counts of aggravated life sentences on each of the 23 out of 41 suspects who faced trial.
Yalcin requested the court to charge the suspects with "killing by torture and with atrocious feelings" as well as "disrupting the unity and territorial integrity of the state".
The suspects include Ugur Doganay, Abdurrahim Pamuk, Sedat Coban, Mecnun Akkoyun, Mehmet Sah Yuce, Umit Doganay, Remzi Ozsan, Ahmet Taylan, Hasan Uyanik, Ali Karakurt, Erkan Balaban, Resul Savur, Ali Guler, Ahmet Tura, Mehmet Caglar, Cevher Turk, Cihan Yildiz, Ridvan Bas and three juveniles -- Y. O, F.G, A.S, M.D. and A.K. -- who were said to have been dragged into the crime.
Yalcin also requested the court to acquit 15 other suspects, including Hasan and Huseyin Okcu, Yildiz Doganay, Ahmet Bicici, Mahsun Kurt, Hasan Aldemir, Burhan Dicle, Adem Kacmaz, Ahmet Arif Yusufoglu, Ahmet Tanriverdi, Abdulvahap and Abdurrahman Turan, Ersin Adiyaman and juveniles M.I. and F.K.
