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Murder of Deniz Poyraz

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The autopsy report states that Poyraz was struck by several bullets coming from a firearm. According to Mezapotamya, Gencer spoke to two people over the mobile phone, before surrendering. Deniz Poyraz father was prosecuted for terror propaganda for having compared his daughter to the Kurds killed by Turkish security forces and said that she was a “martyr” of all Kurds.
95:, the family's home was several times raided. The family eventually returned to Izmir when Deniz was twelve years of age. In Izmir, she worked in the textile industry and as a secretary for some time. At the time of the attack she volunteered in the HDP building, covering a shift for her mother who had undergone hand surgery. 181:
From the Cemetery Directorate in Tepecik, Poyraz' coffin, followed by crowds was brought to the house of Poyraz' family in the Bağkuyu neighbourhood. From there the procession headed to the Kadifekale Mosque in which the funeral ceremony was held. Later the same day, she was buried in the cemetery in
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The following day after the attack, it was reported that the police has erased the footage of several surveillance cameras in the neighborhood of the HDP building. The body of Poyraz was taken to the Forensic Medicine Institution for the autopsy and from there to the Cemetery Directorate in Tepecik.
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The first hearing of the case was in December 2021. In the fifth hearing which was adjourned, the gendarmery slapped a brother of the victim and the police used tear gas to calm the crowds at the hearing. In the final hearing in December 2022, the assailant was sentenced to life imprisonment. The
165:, a mafia boss making allegations about Turkish politicians and numerous government engagements in illegal activities through his own YouTube channel, claimed that the attack had been planned by the Turkish government and 829: 55:. The assailant wanted to kill PKK militants for months and found out about the location of the HDP headquarters in January 2021 and stayed in hotels near the building before the attack. In May 2021, he purchased a 304:(MHP) instead called for an investigation as to whether the PKK was responsible for the attack and deemed the victim a terrorist responsible for the recruitment of PKK militants. EU Ambassador to Turkey 115:. According to Kemalbay, the assault took place while the police was outside the party headquarters. Before the assailant killed Poyraz, he attempted to set the building on fire. 837: 111:
mentions 11.50 a.m. as the time the assailant shot Poyraz. He carried with him the Ruger pistol containing ten bullets and also shot at an image of the imprisoned HDP MP
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According to information from the Turkish authorities, the murderer is a former health worker. The assailant posted several images of his on
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blamed the attack on the fact that former assailants were handed down lenient sentences like rewards. Several left wing parties like the
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addressed the crowds at the funeral. Deniz Poyraz had three imprisoned brothers of which two were also permitted to attend the funeral.
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during a visit he made together with politicians of the left wing political spectrum and representatives of worker unions.
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which was under police surveillance. In December 2022, the murderer was sentenced to an aggravated life imprisonment.
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calling HDP politicians terrorists. The attack was executed at the same time as the HDP is threatened with a
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announced that a meeting of forty participants was cancelled ahead of the attack. The left-wing
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both issued a front page in memory of the attack. Several Turkish worker unions including the
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office assumed that the assailant shot Poyraz at about 11.05 a.m, while HDP MP from Izmir
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defendant's lawyers were not present at the hearing as they refused to go through an
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sent their representatives to a joint visit at the HDP Headquarters in Ankara.
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The Turkish Government often accused the HDP of organizational ties with the
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Deniz Poyraz was born in 1983 in İzmir as the eldest of nine siblings to a
581:"Assailant: 'I enrolled in an English course, carried out reconnaissance'" 519:"Erdoğan says pro-Kurdish HDP's lawmakers, not supporters, are terrorists" 467:"Questions waiting to be answered about Deniz Poyraz's killer Onur Gencer" 1130: 471: 202: 32: 692: 549: 545:"Turkey's pro-Kurdish party says closure case is "political operation"" 143:, an Islamist paramilitary organisation with close ties with governing 103:
The assailant entered the party headquarters in the morning hours, the
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was received by the HDP party Co-Chairs at the HDP Headquarters in
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on which he is seen carrying weapons while being in
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Index

Peoples' Democratic Party
Konak
Izmir
Kurdistan Workers' Party
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
closure case
Ruger
Serpil Kemalbay
Kurdish
Tavuklu
Mardin
Mardin
human rights
Bianet
Governors
Serpil Kemalbay
Sebahat Tuncel
social media
Syria
Manbij
Aleppo
SADAT
Justice and Development Party
Grey Wolves
Nationalist Movement Party
Kurdistan Workers' Party
Sedat Peker
Mehmet Ağar
deep state in Turkey
Buca

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