Modern analysis of German scholarly sources puts Communication the figure much higher ; when deaths Death from post-arrest maltreatment and subsequent suicides Killing are included Cause_to_be_included , the death Death toll climbs into the hundreds , with Richard J. Evans estimating 638 suicide Killing deaths Death .

This number rose Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale to 17,500 between 1991 and 1992 and the Turkish state puts Placing the number of people killed Killing by the insurgency Violence at 44,000 as of September 2008 .

Muslim brotherhood members claim Statement 2,600 Human rights watch documented Statement 817 deaths Death , calling Name_conferral it 'one of the world 's largest killings Killing of demonstrators in a single day in recent history ' , while the government puts Communication the figure at 624 .