Alaattin Karadag was murdered by the police in Esenyurt, Istanbul when he was asked to show his ID and tried to escape.{divide}
In the event that was reflected to the public as an armed clash with the police, witnesses said that an execution had happened and that Karadag had been caught alive but was then killed by civil police forces. Karadag, coming from a workers' family, was imprisoned in 2001 and joined the death fast resistance. He was released following the release of the death fast resistance fighters.