SEVİNÇ ÖZARSLAN
BOLD- Murat Tekin and Ragıp Enes Katran were Turkish cadets. On July 15, 2016, they were attacked and killed on the Bosphorus bridge.
Was it the angry mob who killed the two military students or the obscure organization called SADAT of Erdoğan?
On July 15, 2016, Turkey experienced a coup attempt. There are various allegations about that night, which are still unexplained. One of those events was the murder of two cadets at the Bosphorus Bridge.
One of those students was Ragıp Enes Katran, a 20-year-old student of the Air Force Academy. According to an autopsy report, he succumbed to stab wounds on his body. The footages made by cell phones on that night shows Katran covered in blood.
His elder brother, Fevzi Katran, who was a soldier like him, now lives in Germany as a refugee. He was expelled from the military shortly after his brother was killed. Subsequently, an arrest warrant was issued. He was forced to flee Turkey.
On that night, Turkey allegedly used militant groups in Istanbul and Ankara, who were also on the ground in Syria.
The group in question is a mercenary company called SADAT, led by a retired general of the Turkish Armed Forces, Adnan Tanrıverdi. He is known for his extreme Islamist ideas.
Tanriverdi, who did not hesitate to say that they used SADAT in Syria, stated that they were on the streets on the night of the coup bid. However, he denies the murder allegations.
Fevzi Katran does not believe that the people who stabbed his brother were the angry mob.
“There were bruises, holes, and cuts on his body. I mean, this is murder. They murdered my brother, Murat and the other soldiers. There was a group of people there. I can’t call them regular people. I think our people wouldn’t do that.”
NO BALLISTIC REPORTS
According to the Erdogan regime, more than 250 civilians were killed on the night of July 15. The soldiers on trial importunately demand the ballistic reports of the weapons used in the hearings. However, authorities reject these demands.
Trying to recover in Germany
TRYING RECOVER IN GERMANY
Fevzi Katran, who tries to recover in Germany, stated that very few soldiers participated in the putsch bid on July 15, and cadets were taken to the bridges to increase the number:
“They put the cadets into the cars and said they were going to the Air Force Academy because there had been a terrorist attack. The students did not know anything. No cell phones, no access to anything. They set off thinking they were going to the Air Force Academy. They had shut down all military schools by getting the students involved in the coup. This could be a reason. There were not enough people involved in the coup attempt that night. They increased the number of people with cadets. Those who planned this took out all the students from there to shut the schools down. And they took new ones instead.”