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AMED - Son of Mercan Kocakaya and Selim Kocakaya, among 12 people who were arrested by torturing in Lice, three-year-old B.K. was sent to jail with his mother. The child, who has difficulty to speaking due to having symptoms of nasal polyps the throat, was expected to be operated in several days.

28 citizens, who were beaten and tortured in the Mehlê hamlet of Yalaza village of Diyarbakır's Lice district by soldiers, were detained. 12 of them, mostly from same famiy, were sent to jail yesterday. Among the jailed citizens, Mercan Kocakaya (30) and Selim Kocakaya (35) have four children. One of them three-year-old B.K. was sent to Diyarbakır E Type Closed Prison with his mother.

According to report, three-year-old boy has difficulty to speaking due to having symptoms of nasal polyps the throat and he was expected to be operated in several days, if he wasn't sent to jail.

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