“The day will come when this state will reconcile with Emine Senyasar, too. First it will hold the murderers to account, and then ask for the mother’s blessing,” Kilicdaroglu said in a tweet announcing his visit.

Kilicdaroglu’s visit was part of his reconciliation tour, started in November.

“Why would they not hear the voice of a mother waiting for justice? Why would they not see her, feel her? This is the greatest pain. By Allah we will have justice. We will follow this case until justice is done. I hope those in Ankara hear how valuable justice is,” Kilicdaroglu said in his visit.

Emine Senyasar had met with Kilicdaroglu in June in neighboring Gaziantep, where the family home is, to ask for legal support from the CHP.

She has been holding a sit-in in front of the courthouse for 276 days, demanding justice for the killings of her husband and sons.

Ahead of the June 24 elections in 2018, relatives of ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Ibrahim Halil Yildiz opened fire on a shop that the Senyasars ran. Yildiz had been campaigning for re-election.

The argument that led to the shooting had begun when the Senyasars said they would not vote for the AKP.

Three men lost their lives, not during the shooting but in a second attack by the Yildiz family on the hospital Haci Esvet, Celal and Adıl Senyasar had been receiving treatment at. Several members of the Yildiz family fired dozens of bullets on the Senyasars in the emergency room.

Mehmet Sah Yildiz, the AKP deputy’s brother, was also killed in the shooting at the shop.

In the court case that followed, Fadil Senyasar was sentenced to 37 years in prison, while Enver Yildiz was sentenced to 18.

The Senyasar appealed the ruling, saying the scene at the hospital had not been properly investigated, the second attack on the emergency room had not been taken into consideration when doling out sentences, and that overall, there had not been a fair trial.

Emine Senyasar has been protesting the court, and demanding that Fadil Senyasar be moved out of solitary confinement, where he has bene held for almost 3.5 years.

The woman who lost her husband and sons in the incident is also facing five investigations for insulting the Yildiz family, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Journalist Emrullah Acar who had been covering the case since the beginning was detained in November. The Dicle Fırat Journalists Association, where Acar is a member, believes the detention aimed to prevent the journalist from reporting. Acar was released several days later.

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