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It has been proofed through DNA tests that the cadaver that was found during the excavation at a cemetery in Elazig in April belongs to Hasan Ergul who was kidnapped by JITEM in 1995 and forcibly disappeared.
Hasan Ergul was kidnapped by civil policemen getting off from two Renault Toros automobiles, one of them white and the other black, at a petrol station at the exit to Cizre in the district Silopi of the province of Sirnak. This event took place on June 5, 1995 in front of his son and he never turned back. {divide}
When Abdulkadir Aygan, an ex-triggerman of the JITEM who later became a confessor, denounced that Hasan Ergul had been killed and thrown into the Elazig Lake, the family of Ergul started to search for him. As a result of their efforts, Hasan Ergul's grave at the cemetery of Elazig was excavated on April 14 and the cadaver of Hasan Ergul was found after 14 years of disappearance. Now, as a result of the comparison of the DNA examples of Ergul and his son, it has been proofed that the cadaver is Hasan Ergul.
The family of Ergul stresses that this is an achievement of the struggle against forced disappearances and they demand that those responsible of the killing of Hasan Ergul, among them Colonel Cemal Temizoz, Regimental Commander of the Gendarmerie in Kayseri, and Kocere Saluci, triggerman of the JITEM. Temizoz and Saluci are in prison at the moment being accused of militancy for the Ergenekon gang.
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