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The Yeşilyurt Feces Case(Turkish: Yeşilyurt Dışkı Yedirme Davası or Yeşilyurt Bok Yedirme Davası) refers to the affair that Turkish gendarmeirs under the command of the "security commander of Silopi-Judi" ("Silopi-Cudi Güvenlik Komutanı") Major Cafer Tayyar Çağlayan forced villagers to eat feces on the night of January 14–15, 1989 in Yeşilyurt (Cinibir) village of Cizre district (Mardin Province, in the present day in Şırnak Province) and related trials.
Forced to Eat Feces
"Operation" against Kurdish village
The Yeşilyurt village of Cizre district was besieged by gendarmeries on January 14–15, 1989. Commander Cafer Tayyar Çağlayan and his soldiers made villagers eat feces.
Kamil Müştak (died December 13, 2007)
European Court of Human Rights
Since villagers didn't get results from the legal process in Turkey, they applied to the European Court of Human Rights.