Kurdish revolutionary Menal Mêrdîn was murdered in Shengal. He was working on a book about the ISIS genocide of the Yazidi community. According to the Shengal Autonomous Administration, MIT and KDP were responsible for the attack.
Longtime Kurdish activist Menal Mêrdîn was murdered in Shengal, in South Kurdistan. According to the Shengal Autonomous Administration, Menal Mêrdîn was assassinated in Tilezêr on 2 January. The autonomous administration holds the Turkish state and the KDP responsible for the murder.
The Autonomous Administration of Shengal has announced a demonstration against the attack today.
Menal Mêrdîn was "a revolutionary and intellectual personality with a 43-year history of struggle," said the Autonomous Administration, adding: "During this time, he did a great deal for all religious communities in Kurdistan and the Middle East. He spent twenty years in Turkish prisons, but he never bowed to oppression.”
The Autonomous Administration said that Menal Mêrdîn came to Shengal after the genocide committed by the Islamic State in 2014 and served the Yazidi people with his knowledge and experience. He was working on a book about the ISIS massacre.
ATTACK BY MIT AND KDP
The Autonomous Administration statement continued: “A cowardly attack was carried out on Menal Mêrdîn in Tilezêr on 2 January 2023. He was purposefully murdered in the house where he worked. We know who carried out this assassination and what the purpose of it is. This attack was carried out by the Turkish secret service MIT and the KDP. It was a planned attack. At the time of the assassination, Turkish reconnaissance flights were taking place over Tilezêr. It is absolutely clear that the attack was planned by MIT and the KDP.”
The statement said that “the Turkish state and the KDP want to prevent the return of the displaced population to Shengal with constant attacks. People are still coming back to their homeland. Recently, a hundred families have returned to Tilezêr from the Serdeşt camp. The Turkish state always attacks when people come back to the region.”
We will hold the perpetrators accountable
The statement added: “We tell the KDP and the Turkish state once again that nothing can bring us to our knees. We will demand accountability from you for this killing as well.”
