Metin Göktepe [SEP] place of death
Metin Göktepe
Metin Göktepe (; April 10, 1968 – January 8, 1996) was a Turkish photojournalist who was tortured and brutally murdered in police custody in Istanbul on January 8, 1996.
Life.
Metin Göktepe was born in Sivas on April 10, 1968, in the village of Çipil of Gürün district. He was the seventh and penultimate child of his parents. He attended primary school in Sivas until fourth grade and moved with his family to Istanbul in 1979 where he completed fifth grade and his secondary studies
Eyüp public prosecutor, it was stated that Göktepe was in detention and that he would be released in the evening unless legal charges were brought. But no further news of Metin Göktepe was released. An unknown person, who was detained and then released, called the Evrensel newspaper around 8pm and reported that Göktepe had been beaten to death. At the initiative of lawyers for the paper, the fact that Metin Göktepe had been killed was exposed. Making a statement about the incident, Eyüp Public Prosecutor Erol Can Özkan claimed that