As attacks by state forces continue in Silopi and Cizre districts of Şırnak for the 14th uninterrupted day, local units of self-defense in neighborhoods are responding to the attacks that target their resistance and will for self-rule.
Attacks by state forces continue in Silopi and Cizre districts of Şırnak for the 14th uninterrupted day.
While local units of self-defense in neighborhoods are responding to the attacks that target their resistance and will for self-rule, people remain determined to not leave their houses and flee despite the intensified artillery attacks aiming a displacement in masses.
SİLOPİ
Tank and artillery attacks by soldiers and special operation police teams have targeted Cudi, Nuh, Barbaros, Şehid Harun, Karşıyaka and Başak neighborhoods throughout the night, and have intensified once again as of early hours this morning.
Reports are coming through that state forces are now entering the neighborhoods outside the curfew area, where they are threatening and forcing residents to leave the town.
In the meantime, 75-year-old imam Hasan Sanır was deliberately targeted and killed by special operation police for being "terrorist" late yesterday afternoon. While Sanır's body is being held in his house, Turkish forces continue conducting artillery strikes against the neighborhoods which they couldn't enter yet in the face of the resistance by residents. Attacks have left a number of civilian houses unusable.
CİZRE
Attacks by state forces against Cudi and Nur neighborhoods of Cizre continued last night as well. Both neighborhoods were targeted by intense artillery attacks and gunfire from armored vehicles.
Reports say that military and police forces attempted to infiltrate into Cudi neighborhood last night, to which self-defense units responded and not allowed state forces get into their areas. Clashes have reportedly lasted throughout the night.
The intervention by local units of self-defense has reportedly left casualties among state forces, who were taken to Şırnak in helicopters.
Earlier this morning, plainclothes special operation police shot 34-year-old civilian Ali Tetik who was standing near a grocery outside his house in Cudi neighborhood. People around managed to take Tetik to hospital after the attack which left him wounded in the chest.
