Arrest Warrant Issued for Mother of Kahramanmaraş School Attack Suspect

The warrant was issued by the Kahramanmaraş 4th Heavy Penal Court following an objection by the Kahramanmaraş Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to the release decision. Lawyer Özcan Kara, representing the victim's family, confirmed the objection was accepted. "Thank God justice has prevailed.

The Kahramanmaraş Chief Public Prosecutor's Office's objection to the release decision was accepted by the Kahramanmaraş 4th Heavy Penal Court, and an arrest warrant was issued for the defendant Peyman Pınar Mersinli. Our daughter Zişan Çetin's rights will not be left unaddressed." We will do everything in our power to ensure the harshest punishment is handed down, Kara said. Kara also stressed that the arrest warrant does not eliminate their requests for the recusal of the judges who issued the release decision.

"If the Ministry of Justice does not take action on this matter, we will first request the judge's recusal from the case. Otherwise, we will file our recusal request on the grounds that they can no longer be impartial in this trial," he stated. Ahmet Çabukel, deputy head of the İYİ Party's Legal and Election Affairs Directorate, said the release decision caused great sorrow among the families.

"First of all, may this be beneficial to law and conscience. We believe this detention will continue until the end of the trial." We also believe both defendants will receive the harshest punishments, Çabukel said. The suspect in the school attack, İsa Mesih Mersinli, had been released pending trial, and the arrest warrant now targets his mother, Peyman Pınar Mersinli.