Ankara-Sana
Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu, a representative of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in the Turkish parliament, called on the Turkish regime's interior minister, Suleyman Soylu, to resign over the kidnappings of opponents and enforced disappearances.
The Turkish newspaper, Today Zaman, quoted Gergerlioglu as saying, “Black cars are kidnapping people at the present time. The reality of this country is to kidnap people from state officials,” adding: “If a person commits a crime in a country that enjoys law and democracy, he is detained, investigated, and then imprisoned, not kidnapped.” and forcibly disappeared.”
A short film that was published last March highlighted kidnappings carried out by the Turkish regime's intelligence service, increasingly, against opponents in many Turkish cities, especially the capital, Ankara, to be taken to torture centers known as "Turkish intelligence farms".
While Turkey witnessed in the nineties of the last century widespread kidnappings of dissidents using white Taurus cars, the matter was repeated again, but this time in black cars, according to multiple accounts of the kidnappers.
Gergerlioglu said that state officials refuse to comment on reports confirming that they are behind the kidnappings, noting that 35 people were kidnapped in recent years, most of whom were tortured for many months.
The appearance of the former prime minister's rapporteur, Huseyin Galip Kucuk Ozyegit, detained in the Sincan prison in the capital, Ankara, 9 months after his enforced disappearance, sparked angry reactions.
Gergolioglu said that the Ministry of the Interior was failing in its duty, and if these kidnappings had taken place in another country, his interior minister would have been forced to resign immediately.
Turkey has witnessed an increase in the incidence of enforced disappearances since the adoption of the so-called “immunity” law imposed by the regime of Recep Tayyip Erdogan after the coup attempt in July 2016, and its aim is to protect persons or officials who committed crimes and illegal acts while confronting the perpetrators and supporters of the coup attempt.