The living witness of the executions in Ulucanlar Prison told: We wasted a generation - Habererk, Current Breaking News

2022-09-16 18:41:00 By : Ms. Diana Liu

Emphasizing that what happened in Turkey's right-left conflict is an example, Vehbi Camgöz, the director of Ulucanlar Prison, now tells with great sadness those days that he has not been able to erase from his memory for 42 years.As a living witness of the first executions in the September 12, 1980 coup, Camgöz told with tears what happened during the executions, "Until that day, I was a relentless supporter of execution, I thought I would pull the rope. But young children were hanged by saying, 'I didn't do anything', bringing martyrdom. After that day, they started questioning the system. I started,” he said.Camgöz describes the executions he had to watch because he was the prison director and the process that followed:"I started Ulucanlar on January 1, 1980. While I was working there, there was a coup on September 12, 1980. I was involved in the events that took place after the coup. Necdet Adalı, Mustafa Pehlivanoğlu, and then Eren Erdal, whose execution I first witnessed. Necdet Adalı is left-wing, Mustafa Pehlivanoğlu is an idealist. 21-22 years old. They were young, they were hanged in one night. Necdet Adalı left the death row chanting slogans. Mustafa Pehlivanoğlu, whom we hung on the same night, was also a pure, clean Muslim child who, as far as I could see, was unaware of anything. He swore 'I did not interfere in anything'. He died bringing the word of martyrdom.After that day, I started to question the system.From that day on, I became a ruthless anti-executionist.Even if the death penalty is in our law, none of these men would be hanged if we were judged with today's understanding.These are young children.In short, we spent that generation.I didn't cry a lot before, I was very emotional.I cried for an hour at that emotional moment.Not easy.At a young age, a person comes to a healthy state, 10-15 minutes later you put them in the coffin and take it out.In order not to be affected by this, it was this view, none of them have any value.With that sadness, I couldn't eat or sleep for a week.It affected my life a lot.In all 3 executions, it takes between 14 and 17 minutes to die.You have to watch that period, you will sign the minutes.It was the most difficult period of my life.I was a brave man, I used to say 'I wouldn't mind if they cut a man next to me', but watching him was a really terrible situation.We declare those we executed as heroes 2 days later.Think Meanders, would it be like this if these people were judged normally?My hope is that there will be no more September 12th, no coup, no coup attempt, no memorandum, no execution..."Habererk.com is Turkey's most influential Ülkücü news website.All kinds of news and articles on the site belong to the Turkish nation.It can be used with peace of mind without permission.