Kemal Gün, 70, has been on hunger strike in a park in central Dersim (Tunceli), demanding the retrieval of the dead body of his son, who was killed in a Turkish airstrike carried out against the DHKP-C, a leftist militant group.
Murat Gün's father has been awaiting his son’s corpse to bury him.
The Dersim Governor’s Office previously decided to give the bones back to the father. The governor’s office released a statement after the delivery, saying that the delay was caused by a DNA examination in the forensic medicine institute, Hürriyet Daily News reported.
Oya Aslan, one of Gün’s lawyers, said the father’s health condition could deteriorate severely because of 90 days of hunger striking. “He will undergo a detailed health check in Istanbul after the funeral ceremony,” Aslan said.
Another lawyer, Engin Gökoğlu, said Gün will start to receive treatment. “He hasn’t decided which hospital he will receive treatment, but he will be fed just like the way he was during the hunger strike until he receives treatment,” Gökoğlu said.
Gün, meanwhile, announced he ended his hunger strike at the park where he has been for 90 days. He previously said that he would only end it after burying his son’s bones.
"They should give my son’s bones back to me. I will quit my strike immediately when he has a grave. I have a right to a graveyard like everyone else, and I want it," Gün said on May 15.
