In Silopi district of Şırnak where an onslaught against civilians continues for the 19th day, Turkish forces are now resorting to house raids, arrests and torture in an effort to seize control of the civilian areas. Attacks are in the meantime getting heavier as state forces could make no advance into the areas of self-rule yet.

Başak neighborhood remains under intensified heavy attacks by tanks and armored vehicles since last night, which has left many houses demolished and dozens of people wounded.

After raiding a house in Nur neighborhood, special operation police teams tortured civilian Ali Aslan and his father Abdullah Aslan for hours. While the father and son, who both got heavily wounded, a relative of theirs tried to take them to hospital in a wheelbarrow as no ambulance was allowed into the neighborhood.

All the three civilians remain missing since they left home several days ago.