Photos have emerged of the building known as the 1st basement of atrocity in Şırnak's Cizre district where state forces massacred 31 trapped people who had been awaiting evacuation under continued attack and fire for days.

The basement in Cudi neighborhood became scene of a massacre by state forces against people who were persistently denied access despite all the calls they had made regarding the life-threatening conditions they had been fighting to survive under.

While the area still remains under the blockade of state forces, local residents can move only within a restricted area amid ruins of demolished buildings all around.

Cizre People's Assembly Co-Chair Mehmet Tunç who was among those in this building had repeatedly told to TV channels and news agencies about their severe condition after a large part of the building had demolished and many had remained trapped in the basement.

Although Tunç had particularly stressed that state forces ceaselessly fired on the building and wanted to kill those inside, Turkish officials firstly asserted there there was no wounded inside. After the emergence of photos showing the injured people in the basement, the state put forward another lie, saying “We are making announcements 700 meters away from the building but they are not coming”.

A total of 31 corpses have so far been retrieved from the building to which health teams were persistently denied access on alleged grounds of clashes despite the fact that there took place no fighting in the area. The European Court of Human Rights and Turkish Constitutional Court also became party to the massacre by taking no action for the rescue of trapped and victimised people.