The siege of Turkish state forces continues in Nusaybin's Xerabê Bava (Koruköy) village since February 11, and in Talatê (Doğanlı) and Cibılgırav (Kuyular) villages for 8 days now. Reports are coming through of torture and dire right violations from the mentioned villages.

Whereabouts of two people from Talatê village, Mahmut Uzun and Abdurrahman Öker, is not known since their detention by state forces during the siege.

HDP Şırnak MP Aycan İrmez submitted a parliamentary question about the aftermath of the two villagers, seeking an answer from the Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu.

Youth Mecit Gündüz, who was taken into custody on February 21, the first day of the siege, and was later released, told that village headman Mahmut Uzun and resident Abdurrahman Ülker had been detained by state forces with torture alongside him.

In the meantime, Minister Soylu who recently responded to the reports of torture documented on a photograph has admitted the torture and crime against humanity in Xerabê Bava under the name of fight against the PKK. He admitted that the person seen tortured on the photograph was a villager, accusing him of "aiding and abetting terrorists".