{"id":2805,"date":"2026-07-27T09:31:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2026-07-27T09:31:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:31:03","slug":"member-of-turkeys-ruling-party-his-son-and-nephew-killed-at-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/member-of-turkeys-ruling-party-his-son-and-nephew-killed-at-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"Member of Turkey\u2019s ruling party, his son and nephew killed at cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mehmet Direk, a member of the district executive board of Turkey\u2019s ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), was shot dead at a cemetery in the southeastern city of Batman. His son Ercan Direk and nephew Bekir Direk were also killed in the attack, according to H\u00fcseyin \u015eansi, the head of the party\u2019s local branch in Batman.<\/p>\n<p>According to local media reports, the incident occurred on the evening of July 26 at a city cemetery in the G\u00fcneykent district. Unknown assailants opened fire on Direk and his relatives before fleeing the scene. Police cordoned off the area and launched an operation to search for the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis tragedy has deeply shaken all of us. I ask the Almighty to grant mercy to the deceased, and patience to their family, relatives, friends, and our party organization,\u201d \u015eansi wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said that two suspects have already been detained in connection with the case. An investigation is continuing under the coordination of the prosecutor\u2019s office, while law enforcement officers are working to identify other possible participants in the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mehmet Direk, a member of the district executive board of Turkey\u2019s ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party), was shot dead at a cemetery in the southeastern city of Batman. His son Ercan Direk and nephew Bekir Direk were also killed in the attack, according to H\u00fcseyin \u015eansi, the head of the party\u2019s local branch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2807,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions\/2807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpc.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}