Ali İsmail Korkmaz

The mothers of two slain Gezi protesters have launched a one-day hunger strike as a show of support to two educators who have been on hunger strike for over 65 days. 

Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça went on a hunger strike on March 10 in Ankara, demanding to be returned to their jobs, which they lost with a state of emergency decree.

A Turkish court on has sentenced one policeman and one civilians to short jail terms for beating a university student to death during the 2013 Gezi Park protests, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.        

The Turkish Interior Ministry has applied to the Court of Appeals to not pay 709,000 Turkish Liras in compensation to the family of Ali İsmail Korkmaz, who was killed by police officers and civilians during the 2013 Gezi Park protests. 

The Turkish Interior Ministry has been sentenced to pay a total of 707,180 Turkish Liras in compensation to the family of 19-year-old Gezi protester Ali İsmail Korkmaz, who was beaten to death by police officers and civilians in the Central Anatolian province of Eskişehir in 2013. 

The Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals has approved a verdict against two police officers who were found guilty of killing 19-year-old Gezi protester Ali İsmail Korkmaz. 

Officers Mevlüt Saldoğan and Yalçın Akbulut, who were both convicted to 10 years and 10 months in jail, will serve prison terms that were handed down by a Kayseri court after the case was re-evaluated. 

New video footage recorded during the Gezi protests of 2013 has surfaced, revealing how a surveillance camera operated by the municipality (MOBESE) turned away as two police officers started beating an individual in the middle of an empty street during security crackdowns.

One of the prime suspects in the murder of Gezi protester Ali İsmail Korkmaz has been accused of also beating another demonstrator on a nearby street before locking him in the trunk of a police car in the course of his detention.