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The president of the AKP’s youth organisation, Volkan Uzun, was detained after he was exposed on social media for raping his neighbour’s dog until it died. The element was found lying naked with the dead dog by police at 04:30am after neighbours alerted security forces, worried about the sounds coming from the house.
Volkan had supposedly washed the dog after raping it, claiming he was drunk. The Necropsy report of the 3 month old cocker spaniel highlighted disintegration in the anal area, fracture in the ribs, damage to the lungs and throat. “There are nail marks on the sofa, pee and poop is everywhere,” explained one of the witnesses.
After the incident, which occurred in the Küçükesat neighbourhood of the Çankaya district of Ankara, Volkan was released by the police forces who attended the scene. One police officer was witnessed saying: “Wrap the dog up and throw it in the bin. This will take too much time.”
After taking Volkan to the Çankaya police station, the fascist police freed the rapist only to be confronted with great backlash on various social media platforms. Thousands of people reacted to the situation on social media, with the hashtag ‘Arrest Volkan Uzun’ trended very quickly. The police were forced to re-detain the rapist.
Who is Volkan Uzun?
Volkan Uzun is the president of Turkey’s Youth and Sports Organization and a vocal supporter of the fascist AKP regime. The AKP government has a long history of allowing and even encouraging sexual violence, rape, and harassment against minors, women and animals, using this as a method to suppress society.
Over the past decade, the fascist Turkish state has ignored thousands of cases of sexual assault against women and children, and completely ignored those of animals. Around 3,000 offenders guilty of rape or sexual abuse in Turkey have avoided prison simply by marrying their victims: another supposedly Islamic hush policy which was implemented by Erdogan. The then head of Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals, reported that some of these marriages involved girls as young as 5.
A 2011 Human Rights Watch report revealed the extent of domestic abuse across the country, stating that 42% of women over the age of 15 in Turkey had experienced physical or sexual violence at the hands of a husband or partner. In 2019 474 women were killed by a man from her family, while in 2018 this number was 440 and in 300 in 2014.
Rape is being used systematically in Northern Kurdistan, especially to dishonour closed Kurdish communities and bring them to surrender through attacking their pride.
