Interior Ministry fined to pay compensation to family of killed Gezi protester Ali İsmail Korkmaz

The Turkish Interior Ministry has been sentenced to pay a total of 707,180 Turkish Liras in compensation to the family of 19-year-old Gezi protester Ali İsmail Korkmaz, who was beaten to death by police officers and civilians in the Central Anatolian province of Eskişehir in 2013. 

The Eskişehir Second Administrative Court ruled the ministry to pay 650,000 liras as non-pecuniary compensation and 57,180 liras as monetary damages in the case filed against the Interior Ministry. In its ruling, the court said the suspects, police officers Mevlüt Saldoğan and Yalçın Akbulut, as well as four civilians were sentenced to prison between three and 10 years. 

The ruling added that the actions of public officers done against the rules, procedures and requirements of the service they've been carrying out and the duty they undertook is in the boundaries of the administration's service failure. 

"It is beyond doubt that security forces caused the death of Korkmaz by kicking and attacking him with sticks, together with civilians, while carrying out public service, and through that, paved the way for service failure. In other words, it is clear that Korkmaz was attacked by both civilians and public officials, the damage as a result of the incident occurred while they were carrying out public service and duty; and thus, there is a relation in the casualty between the damage and the administrative action," the ruling said.
 
The court ruled the Interior Ministry to pay a total of 26,220 liras to the victim's father Şahap Korkmaz, 30,959 liras to his mother Emel Korkmaz and 2,000 liras for hospital expenses, mounting to 57,180 liras in pecuniary compensation in total. 
 
Moreover, the court also fined the ministry to pay compensation for mental...