Sit-in protest enters its 280th day

Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar have demanded justice for their killed relatives in front of the Urfa Courthouse for 280 days.

Riha- The sit-in protest staged by Emine Şenyaşar, whose husband and two sons were killed in the attack carried out by the relatives and bodyguards of AKP MP İbrahim Halil Yıldız on June 14, 2018, and her son Ferit Şenyaşar, who survived the attack, continues on its 280th day. Today, a delegation of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Law and Human Rights Commission visited Emine Şenyaşar and Ferit Şenyaşar as part of the Human Rights Day, observed every year on 10 December.

The Şenyaşar family posted a tweet reading, “I cannot sit at home and accept this cruelty. As a heart-stricken mother, I cried out for justice in front of the courthouse on the 280th day (of their sit-in protest). Don’t allow humanity to die out!!!!!!”