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Prime Minister Erdogan, adding fuel to the fire: Three days after the death of a 15-year-old who was nine months in a coma as a result of police violence and now died, claims the head of government, this was a “terrorist” was.

Columns instead reconcile, that’s the motto of the Turkish Government Recep Tayyip Erdogan two weeks before the local elections in Turkey. On Friday, he said at a campaign appearance in Gaziantep first time in public the name of the 15-year-old Berkin Elvan, who had succumbed to severe head injuries in Istanbul on Tuesday after it had hit a tear gas projectile at the top in the summer.

But rather than expressing his sympathy , he found the family Elvan and hundreds of thousands of people who grieve for the boy on the head : Berkin Elvan was ” a member of a terrorist organization” was , Erdogan said. He had his face covered with a scarf , as if he had been traveling on the road.

He took the police to protect and justify that shots had been fired at the boy . The police did not see his face and his age can not estimate , Erdogan said. Reports that Berkin on that Sunday morning , the 16th June 2013 , had been on the road in the morning to buy bread for breakfast , were ” an invention of the opposition.” The head of the main opposition party CHP , Kemal Kilicdaroglu , ” lying as always,” said the Prime Minister .

Tens of thousands of people who attended the funeral and remembered throughout the country boy , accused Erdogan , there go them ” not to the funeral of a child ,” but these ” enemies of Turkey ” wanted to hurt the economy and peace in the country .

Erdogan pendant spread for months the theory Berkin was a violent protester in truth. On the Internet, circulating photos of a hooded young people , which is supposedly is Berkin Elvan .

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Sami Elvan, however, claims his son had wanted to bring before his death, only bread. “He is a peace-loving boy who has nothing to do with the Gezi-protests,” said Elvan, a textile worker,  several weeks ago. “We’re not very political people.”

Elvan complained that the government had never reported in the 269 days in which his son lay in a coma in the family. Only the day before the death Berkins, as his health worsened rapidly, President Abdullah Gül called and expressed his condolences. After the boy had died, Gul and several Ministers expressed from Erdogan’s AK Party condolences.

At the rally, according to Berkins funeral on Wednesday evening, the 22-year-old Burak Can Karamanoglu had been shot. Erdogan made ​​trailer for the left-wing terrorist organization DHKP-C charge.

Erdogan had said after Buraks death: “What will those who expressed grief (over Berkin Elvan – note) to say about the unfortunate killing of our dear child Burak?” The fathers of Berkin and Burak talked on the phone and had stated that the wanted can not be instrumentalized by politics.

Even within the AK Party stirs the meantime delicate resistance against Erdogan. “He’s just under a lot of pressure,” a deputy tried to take in protecting him only half-heartedly. For anger is likely to provide a new tape posted on YouTube – thus Erdogan ordered the crackdown on the demonstrations Gezi without the knowledge of his interior minister.

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