37 Students Detained in İstanbul University While Commemorating Kızıldere Massacre

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Attempting to commemorate the Massacre in Kızıldere* on its 45th anniversary, 37 students who were members of the Federation of Opinion Clubs (FKF) in İstanbul University have been taken into custody.

According to the information provided by students who witnessed the incident, the undercover police officers at the university campus have intervened and special security guards of the university have joined in as soon as the students started chanting slogans.

A student among the detainees reported that there had been no battery and the students were in good health.

*Kızıldere is a village in Tokat province in Black Sea region of Turkey. On March 30, 1972, Mahir Çayan, Hüdai Arıkan, Cihan Alptekin, Nihat Yılmaz, Ertan Sarıhan, Ahmet Atasoy, Sinan Kazım Özüdoğru, Sabahattin Kurt, Ömer Ayna and Saffet Alp were killed in a raid by soldiers upon kidnapping three foreign hostages in order to prevent the execution of Deniz Gezmiş, Hüseyin İnan and Yusuf Aslan, the founding members of the revolutionary socialist organization People's Liberation Army of Turkey who were captured and sentenced to death following the military memorandum on March 12, 1971".

(TP/EKN/DG)