Esat Oktay Yıldıran

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Esat Oktay Yıldıran (born February 15, 1949 , † October 22, 1988 in Ümraniye ) was the senior officer of the Diyarbakır Prison , which was nicknamed Hell No. 5. Yıldıran actively participated in torture and murders. Many inmates committed suicide or died on hunger strikes. Most of the victims were Kurds .

Esat Oktay Yıldıran's grave with the inscription: "The courageous, good-loving, Kemalist, Turkish and heroic officer who was martyred on October 22nd, 1988 by anarchists who wanted to split the indivisible Turkish fatherland."

Life

Little is known about Yıldıran's life. He was a professional soldier, had served in Cyprus and had the rank of captain or colonel. Yıldıran was imprisoned from February 24, 1981 until the end of 1984. Numerous inmates later reported on the conditions and practices, including later MPs, PKK members or PKK defectors, left and right Turks, e.g. B. Sakine Cansız , giltan Kışanak , Ahmet Türk , Celal Paydaş , Orhan Miroğlu , Selim Çürükkaya , Şükrü Gülmüş , Nurettin Yılmaz , Mustafa Çakmak or Mehdi Zana .

Yıldıran beat, coerced and tortured the male and female prisoners. Under his aegis, they were forced to eat human excrement, doused in sewer water, tortured with electric shocks, raped with batons, and much more. Yıldıran owned a German shepherd named Co ("Joe"). Kışanak later reported that she had to spend several months in his kennel. Yıldıran also had a habit of having prisoners salute the dog or forcing them to report to the dog for roll call. In other cases he set the dog on the inmates.

death

Esat Oktay Yıldıran was shot dead in front of his wife Serpil and their two children on November 22, 1988. The assassin is said to have shouted " greetings from Kemal the Lasen ".

Honors

Esat Oktay Yıldıran was honored with the awards Devlet Övünç Madalyası and Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri Hizmet Övünç Madalyası.

aftermath

Yıldıran's torture methods were the subject of the Turkish television series “Bu Kalp Seni Unutur mu?” Various books have been written about Yıldıran's torture practices. One of the most famous books is Mehdi Zana's "Hell No. 5. Diary from a Turkish Prison". Yıldıran was honored as a hero and martyr above all by Kemalist nationalists. In 2010 the Fatih City Council removed his name from a memorial.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ertuğrul Mavioğlu: Asılmayıp beslenenler: bir 12 Eylül hesaplaşması. Istanbul 2006, p. 129
  2. ↑ Interview with Ahmet Türk from August 12, 2010
  3. ↑ t24.com.tr of May 20, 2015
  4. ↑ Milliyet daily newspaper from October 1, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Yıldıran, Esat Oktay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish prison guard
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1949
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 1988
Place of death Umraniye