As the atrocity of Turkish forces is getting heavier in Kurdish towns under curfew, 28 people who are trapped in a basement in Cudi neighborhood for 5 days continue suffering a deliberate torture. The ongoing denial of ambulance access to the area has since left 5 of them dead due to loss of blood.

While the wounded last managed to speak on phone 5 hours ago, HDP Şırnak MP Faysal Sarıyıldız who is in the town himself said on his Twitter account that the ambulances and funeral vehicles sent to the scene to retrieve the casualties are being kept outside the neighborhood. Sarıyıldız said; “Military vehicles were last reported to be at the basement's door 5 hours ago. No contact with the wounded since.”

Earlier today, armored vehicles of Turkish forces started to attack the building with heavy artillery and mortar fire short before the arrival of Cizre Municipality ambulances that were allowed only today to go to the scene and retrieve the casualties. However, ambulances were also stopped on their way and taken to the police directorate in Konak neighborhood where they are being held waiting since.

While the building remains under artillery and mortar fire, state forces that surrounded the area with armored vehicles earlier today made announcements calling on the people inside to “surrender”.

Sarıyıldız said it was an attempt of massacre to impose surrender on the wounded people who cannot stand up or go out of that basement even. He underlined that; "State forces must be withdrawn from the area and ambulances must be sent to the scene to get them out in the shortest time possible.”