In the case of 11 villagers who had been detained and disappeared in Alaca village and nearby hamlets in Diyarbakır's Kulp district in 1993, the Commando Brigade Commander Brigadier-General Yavuz Ertürk, the second commander of Bolu, was acquitted.

The defendant Ertürk, defense, and intervening attorneys attended to the case, which was taken from Diyarbakır to Ankara Heavy Penal Court No. 7 due to security reasons by the Penal Department no. 5 of the Supreme Court.

The court asked the complainant's lawyers to finalize their defense against the prosecutor's opinion and then asked the defendant Ertürk his last word. "I repeat my old defense, there is nothing to add," said Ertürk.

The court then ruled abatement of the case, due to prescription, which issued against Ertürk for establishing an organization to commit the crime. The court also acquitted the Erturk of "killing of more than one person" offenses committed on the ground of no definitive and convincing evidence could be obtained. The decision was taken unanimously.

In the indictment, the defendant Yavuz Ertürk was asked 11 years imprisonment for "intentional killing" and up to 25 years on the ground of "establishing an organization to commit the crime".

The case of Kulp

On 9 October 1993, there was no more news from the 11 villagers detained around the village of Alaca in the Kulp district of Diyarbakır and the village of Kayalıs in Muş in the south-east of Turkiye.

On November 2, 2003, some bones were found in the streambed 500 meters from Alaca village belong to the people who were disappeared.

On November 5, 2004, these bones were found to be belonging people disappeared in custody as a result of the DNA test, Mehmet Salih Akdeniz, Celil Aydoğdu, Behcet Tutuş, Mehmet Şerif Avar, Hasan Avar, Bahri Şimşek, Mehmet Şah Atala, Turan Demir, Abdo Yamuk, Nusreddin Yerlikaya and the youngest victim Umit Taş who was 16-years-old that time.

On the occasion of finding victims' bonds, a case was opened 20 years after the incident. Diyarbakır 7^th High Criminal Court approved the indictment prepared by the Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor's Office in October 2013. The case was taken to Ankara for security reasons.

While the trial was in progress, the General Staff stated that no information and documents were found on the operations carried out by the military units at the time of the killing of the villagers.

The flight records of the helicopters used in the operations, as well as the requests of military members who served in the outpost in the region, were rejected by the court.

In the case of a total of 11 villagers who were detained in 1993 and disappeared, the Commander of the Bolu 2^nd Commando Brigade Commander Brigadier-Gen Yavuz Ertürk was acquitted by the court. (Emrah Deniz - ILKHA)