About Metin Göktepe
Metin Göktepe (pronounced [metin ɟœctepe]; April 10, 1968 – January 8, 1996) was a Kurdish photojournalist who was tortured and murdered in police custody in Istanbul on January 8, 1996. == Life == Metin Göktepe was born to a Kurdish family in Sivas on April 10, 1968, in the village of Çipil of Gürün district. He was the seventh and penultimate child of his parents. He attended primary school in Sivas until fourth grade and moved with his family to Istanbul in 1979 where he completed the fifth grade and his secondary studies in 1986. In 1989, he started attending The Department of Public Finance in the Faculty of Economics of Istanbul University, and he was introduced to politics through his older sister and brother and student associations. Prior to his graduation, he started his career in Gerçek (The Truth) magazine in 1992, and later also started to work for the leftist periodical Evrensel as a reporter in 1995. == Torture and assassination == Göktepe, who went to the Alibeyköy Cemetery at noon on January 8 in order to cover the funeral of two leftist inmates, Rıza Boybaş (pronounced [ɾɯza bojbaʃ]) and Orhan Özen (pronounced [oɾhan øzen]), who were beaten to death during prison riots in the Ümraniye Prison in Istanbul on January 4, 1996, was detained by police who blockaded the region. Göktepe was beaten and taken to the Eyüp Closed Sports Hall. He was kept at the sports hall for a while, reportedly felt sick there, and was then taken somewhere else by the police. In the course of contacts between lawyers acting for Evrensel, the police authorities and the Eyüp public prosecutor, it was stated that Göktepe was in detention and that he would be released in the evening unless legal charges were brought.
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