Botan Democratic People's Initiative has released a statement calling on Kurdish people to rise up as state forces have started executions in Şırnak's Silopi district. 

The Initiative informed that state forces have entirely encircled Silopi town from four sides, and are now executing people one by one and in groups. The statement remarked that Turkish forces that continue to shell neighborhoods with tank and artillery fire are now killing Kurdish youths and civilians in the areas they have managed to enter.

The Initiative called upon all the Kurdish people in Botan region, Kurdistan and Europe as well as all democracy forces to take urgent action and start uninterrupted protests against this inhuman savagery and massacre.

"Everywhere should be turned into hell to stop the AKP fascism. If the Kurdish people in Silopi, Cizre and Sur aren't granted a right to live, life must be made unbearable for the AKP colonialism as well. It is not time for marches and press releases anymore. All our people must rise up and stop the life everywhere as of now. We have no single second to lose in the face of this massacre. Those who do not act now shall do nothing later."