Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) Executive Committee has released an urgent appeal to international institutions and public opinion to take required measure against Turkish state’s atrocities in Kurdistan.

KNK recalled that on 1 February, the Turkish government imposed a curfew on nine villages that was lifted on the following day, yet in the village of Xerabê Bava it has been going on.

The statement by KNK pointed out that:

“Moreover, Turkish soldiers executed 3 persons, demolished or set on ablaze houses, and put on surveillance many villagers. The military has prevented passage to villages, cut the telephone and internet lines, attacked villages with gas bomb, and have not allowed transfer of the wounded to hospital. The embargo that the AKP’s palace forces placed on Xerabê Bava is ongoing. In addition to the execution of 3 persons, Turkish forces tortured 39 persons, and there is no news about 2 more. No connection has been made with the village.

A HDP law-maker for Amed/Diyarbakir, Feleknas Ûca, pointed out that state terror is going on in Xerabê Bava and due to the imposed embargo, there is no clear news of the village. She further said; ‘People in the village are imprisoned in their houses, the embargo is ongoing, there is no right of passage into or out of the village, and we don’t know what is going on inside’.

WHAT IS KEPT HIDDEN?

Ûca stressed that even though military operation had been ended in the village, yet Turkish militaries have kept their embargo on because they want to clear it of their traces of barbarity. In relation to this she said; ‘Now, we can’t get any clear view of what is going on in the village; other than the execution of 3 persons, nothing else we can acquire. Because they don’t allow the entrance of our delegation’.

URGENT APPEAL

Since the last year several Kurdish villages and districts such Varto, Cizre, Sur, Silopi and Hezex, Nusaybin, Gever, Derik, Kerboran, Şırnak, Farqin, Bağlar, Bismil, Qoser have been destroyed and hundreds of civilians killed. Now we are witnessing this village being destroyed and its population being executed.

Our immediate appeal to international institutions and public opinion is to take required measure against Turkish state’s atrocities in Kurdistan.”