Another concern was the unlawful killings committed by Turkish security forces, as reported by local NGOs. Those forces killed seven demonstrators in 2008, according to the Human Rights Foundation, which also placed the number of suspicious deaths of prison inmates at 32, more than half of which were "reportedly suicides".
Drugi su izvor zabrinutosti predstavljala nezakonita ubojstva od strane turskih sigurnosnih snaga, o kojima izvještavaju lokalne nevladine organizacije. Ove su snage 2008, prema Zakladi za ljudska prava, ubile osam demonstranata, a ista organizacija navela je i broj sumnjivih smrti u zatvorima na 32, od čega su više od polovice "navodno bila samoubojstva".