It has been 5 days since the last news came from the basement in the Cudi neighborhood of Sirnak’s Cizre district where wounded people had been waiting for medical care for 13 days now. Every passing hour increases the suspicion of the wounded people’s execution.

The last communication with the basement took place 5 days ago when police attacked the wounded people who were trying to leave the basement as they spoke with HDP parliamentarians who were discussing the issue with officials from the Ministry of Interior Affairs. No life supplies including water could be found in the basement over the past 8 days.

HDP Co-President Selahattin Demirtaş called upon the government to open a human corridor to the town and declared that he was ready to join a team of medics and retrieve the wounded people yesterday. Members of the HDP committee continue their correspondence with government officials on this issue.

Faysal Sarıyıldız, HDP parliamentarian from Şırnak, stated that explosion sounds continue to come from around the basement, and ambulances and volunteer medics from Cizre Municipality and Şırnak would try to access the basement after the meeting between HDP parliamentarians and ministers in Ankara. Sarıyıldız noted that Turkish armed forces have been preventing the access of ambulances and medics to the basement since the first day of the conflict, using fake armed confrontations as their excuse and asking medics if they really thought they could take out the bodies of the wounded alive.