On 19 December 2017, authorities demolished Garzan Cemetery in the Bedlîs Oleka Jor district in the eastern province of Kurdish-majority populated Bitlis in Turkey and removed 282 bodies without informing their families about this.
Şeyhmus Tekin, who was not able to retrieve the remains of his son who was removed from Garzan Cemetery and buried in plastic boxes in concrete sidewalks in Kilyos, asked for the bodies to be given to the families. After the demolition of the cemetery, the bodies had been taken to İstanbul’s Council of Forensic Medicine and then buried in concrete sidewalks in Kilyos on the city’s Black Sea shore.
