The cemetery in Yüksekova (Gever) district of Hakkari, Northern Kurdistan has been attacked and desecrated by Turkish special operations police for the fifth time this morning.

The cemetery, where graves of Süleyman Aksu, one of the 33 people massacred in Suruç, and members of HPG/YJA-STAR and YPG/YPJ are located, was attacked and desecrated amid a blockade by dozens of armored vehicles.

According to reports, special operations teams blockaded the cemetery with dozens of armored vehicles at around 05:00 this morning and damaged the headstones, flowers around the graves and the wall of the graveyard. It is reported that special operations police opened fire around as they left the cemetery singing an anthem after the aggression.

The same cemetery had been attacked and damaged twice during the curfew period in April of 2016. Families then repaired the demolished graves that were once again attacked later on 7 September 2016 and 28 April 2017 and the police wrote “Carrions” on the gravestones.