Details remain unclear regarding the massacre committed by Turkish forces against wounded people trapped in several basements in Şırnak's Cizre district. Bodies of the victims, which are mostly burned and unidentifiable, are still suffering torture as they are being sent from one place to another in various cities across the Kurdish region.

Corpses of 43 basement victims are being held in cold-storage rooms at Khabour border crossing.

While families flocked to Şırnak's Silopi district for identification two days ago, they have been sent back from the area upon Şırnak Public Prosecutor's statement that "autopsy will not be performed until Friday". Yet, it came out that officials from the Ministry of Health, a prosecutor and physicians affiliated to Forensic Medicine Institution (ATK) have continued to perform post-mortem examination on the bodies of victims unbeknownst to families.

IHD-affiliated lawyers for families of victims, physicians and HDP deputies Leyla Birlik and Aycan İrmez therewith went to the Forensic Medicine Institution at Khabour border crossing to follow the autopsy process as an independent delegation.

The delegation was, however, denied entrance into the ATK building and participation in the autopsy of the victims despite ongoing talks with Turkish officials for the past two days.

Lawyer Şeyma Ürper wanted to file an application to take part in the autopsy as an observer, but couldn't reach the prosecutor who elaborately evaded any kind of contact or talk with their side.

Doubts over use of chemical gas in Cizre basements came into question once it came out in the wake of the massacre that bodies of the victims were mostly burned and dismembered. In addition, families aren't allowed to see the bodies of their children, while lawyers and independent physicians are also denied participation in the post-mortem examinations. All these obstructions by the state bring along doubts over obfuscation of evidences of the crime against humanity.