ERDOGAN REGIME ARRESTS DISABLED FORMER POLICE OFFICER
Author: Ahmet TAKANA
Police officer Bilal Konakci, year was 2009. He was one of the 18 specialists -bomb disposal experts- who worked in Izmir. Bilal Konakci, the only bomb disposal expert in the northern part of İzmir, was called to duty, when a citizen saw a suspicious package in front of Aliağa High School on the day the calendar pages showed February 5th. The hero police officer decided that the package should be destroyed in an enclosed area after a review. Police officer Konakci heard some voices while preparing to dismantle the bomb that brought the Aliaga Police Department. He saw that the bomb had become active, at that moment he thought his colleagues in the building and people who came to the Aliağa Police Department for any reason. Since he did not have much time, he immediately decided, took action and he threw the bomb under the stairs, then the bomb exploded heavily. Konakci, with serious hemorrhage and loss some of his limbs was taken to the Aegean University Medical Faculty Hospital. He resisted and stayed alive while hopes were against it.
Afterwards? From the e-mail sent to me by Özlem Konakci, the wife of our veteran police officer; “I am living in İzmir Aliağa. I married my husband veteran police officer and retiree Bilal Konakci, in 2003. We have two daughters, one at the age of 3 (Elif) and the other at the age of thirteen (Emine). As You see in the Report of the Disabled Medical Board of the Aegean University Hospital, my husband is 98% disabled. Police arrived at our house on Tuesday, December 20, 2016 at 07:30 in the context of the FETO (Gulenist) investigation. They looked at the photo in their hands and tried to confirm it by asking a couple of times whether my husband was the person they are looking for. Because the photograph in their hands is a photograph of my husbands before the explosion. The police officers tried to reach the prosecutor while they were searching our home and saying “There must be a mistake”. But they could not reach the Prosecutor.
Despite I told the police officers about my husbands situation the police officers said that they have to take away my husband. While taking away my husband they told me I should not be worry about him, that my husband could return at night or on Friday at the latest. But they kept him under custody for 21 days. On Wednesday, January 10, 2017, at 20:00 in the evening, the court began to take my husbands statement.
The lawyer assigned by the Bar, who was with him When he gave his statement before, did not come to the court and another lawyer arrived at the end. However, the lawyer could not defend my husband because he was unaware of the statements. After these, my husband, who is 98 per cent disabled, was arrested and kept in the most difficult conditions in Menemen Hatundere T Type Closed Prison for 12 days.
My older daughter had not spoken to anyone since they took her father. My little girl gets up at night and asks her father, looks out the window and waits for her father to come. Imagine that this kid is only 3 years old. Although our dad is disabled he is a very concerned father of our family. I can neither eat, sleep nor take care of my children anymore. Because my husband was my biggest support. Even if he was disabled, his presence was enough for us. We’ve already been through very difficult conditions since my husband became a veteran. I have struggled to fix my childrens psychology and my husbands psychology. We had this, when I thought I was getting used to this situation of my husbands.
Now, I am asking, to those who made our lives miserable, through you. How my husband eat, care his personal hygiene and toilet need, wash his stuff ? when He is a blind man who cannot use his hands and having diffuculties even walking. We are not related in FETO or alleged crimes. How my husband could be committed the alleged crimes hence he is 98 percent of disabled since 2009.
I want you to be our voice. According to the result section of the report given by Aegean University Hospital to police officer Bilal Konakci, “According to the state of disability, the rate of loss of whole body function is 98%” stated.
I talked with Özlem Konakci on the phone. She wrote a letter to MPs, No one heard their voice. Her husband is still an arrestee. Özlem Konakci said, “We do not know what it is, they do not say anything clear, they just blame, we do not know what to do.”
Özlem Konakci, who expressed that they are very troubled, said:
“My husband is not someone who can go to toilet without help, He can not go out of the house. His eating, drinking habits… He can not eat unless someone puts the spoon in front of him and show his food and tell him to eat. I have to get my husband out there. Help me. I worked so hard to restore his mental state, they tore down instantly”
O!, the concerned authorities! .. Put your hand in your conscience. Take care of this suffering mother. Go to her for God’s sake and listen !
Original (in Turkish): http://www.yenicaggazetesi.com.tr/mobi/bombadan-daha-beter-aci-41389yy.htm (translation by Turkish source, name known to editor)
