With the demolition launched after the state attacks, 6 neighborhoods have been torn to the ground in Nusaybin. The ministry gifted the people’s homes to contractors, and they are planning on building a shopping mall in the demolished area.
The curfew declared in Mardin's Nusaybin district on March 14, 2016 that ended recently has left 6 neighborhoods completely destroyed.
Turkey's Housing Development Administration TOKİ construction started in Nusaybin’s 4 largest neighborhoods after the demolition, but no works have been done in the border neighborhood Zeynel Abidin and the Kışla neighborhood. The state has demolished the buildings left standing and confiscated the people’s homes without an expropriation order, and now they are opening the pillaged areas for profiteering. In Nusaybin, famous for its small shop keepers and organized structure, the AKP-MHP government is building a shopping mall over demolished houses and gifting the people’s property to contractors.
GIFTED TO CONTRACTORS
Not allowed into the area where only diggers have access, many people jump over the barbed wire to check on their homes. After months of demolition efforts, the TOKİ buildings are now growing rapidly. The ministry asked for the people’s signatures in return for their lands and promised them TOKİ apartments. The people who did not accept this trade continue to resist.
The shopping mall construction is handled by a private company and the infrastructure work is almost complete. The people of Nusaybin say they don’t want the shopping mall and they say the true goal here is to end the small shop keepers. They say: “We don’t want it, but they are building it. The main goal here is to get people addicted to expensive and foreign goods. We don’t want them to. The people of Nusaybin won’t go away when it is done. They can’t fool us with these things.”
