It is alleged that the Turkish Gendarmerie unit JITEM was responsible for abducting at least nine people and dumping their bodies in acid wells.
[3] In 1995, a Cizre public prosecutor had urged that Temizöz and another be tried for "usurpation, limitation of freedoms, and making death threats".
[4] The 2009 trial was launched after an investigation prompted by testimony from Mehmet Nuri Binzet, the brother of former Cizre Mayor Kamil Atağ.
Today's Zaman reported that they were "noticeably trembling while testifying in court, which co-plaintiffs take as a concrete sign of intimidation by the suspects.
[17] In 2011, the General Staff contradicted Temizöz' alibi for the 1994 murder of Ramazan Elçi, saying he had not been on a NATO mission abroad at the time, but in his district in Cizre.