The police have started to forcibly evacuate families who had to leave the city during the attacks in Şırnak and have been struggling to live in the tents they set up on the outskirts for months.
The families, who moved in to tents they set up on the periphery of the city due to the curfew declared on March 14 and is still in place after 9 months, can’t find peace of mind there either. The tents put up by some of the families in the TOKİ housing area just in the entrance of the city were surrounded by the police and the soldiers today. The police and soldiers surrounded the tents with armored vehicles and water cannons and demanded the families pick up their tents and leave.
When they refused, the police started to forcibly remove the families, along with children and the elderly, from the tents.
On the previous night, the families in tents in Xerbgêbesta (Dereler) village in the Besta area were fired upon from a helicopter to make them leave. With luck, there were no casualties in the tents where some 30 people live.
