Alleged sale of organs of Kurdish guerrillas
Alleged sale of organs of Kurdish guerrillas
An official at Malatya Forensic Medicine Institute claimed that internal organs of dead guerrillas are sold to some certain hospitals on the basis of a ‘confidential’ document presented by the Ministry of Health.
The Institute official, asking to be mentioned unnamed, said in an interview to Lekolin website that the organs of dead guerrillas, who are held at institutes on grounds of DNA test after urgently being taken there from clashes area, are mainly sold to GATA (Gülhane Military Medical Academy’s Hospital) as well as some other military and civil hospitals determined by the Ministry of Health.
Bodies of dead guerrillas are mainly taken to the medicine institutes in Malatya, Adana, Ankara, Ýstanbul and Trabzon.
The official said that the practice is grounded on a ‘confidential’ document which was earlier conveyed to the each of governor’s offices, regional commands and local health authorities. According to this document, the official claims, it is asked that the bodies of dead guerrillas with uninjured organs should urgently be taken to nearest health institutions within 24 hours after the death to not to allow the deterioration of physical chemistry.
According to the source of the news, the places of the removed organs are filled with cotton before the bodies of guerrillas are delivered to families after a so-called DNA test and autopsy.
The official further says that the bodies of dead guerrillas are also used as cadaver at some medical faculties in Turkey and Kurdistan. He notes that the bodies used at these faculties are later buried in cemeteries of the nameless or town cemeteries outside the knowledge of their families so that the bodies become deformed there.
The Institution offical also gives an astonishing detail saying that soldiers from regional commands inform forensic medicine institutions yet during the operations and ask them to make preperations for organ operations. The official adds that some institutes had already been given the preperation order before the Dersim operation in January when eight HPG (People’s Defense Forces) guerrillas died, the Þýrnak-Besta operation in February when 15 HPG guerrillas died and the Bitlis operation in March when 15 YJA-STAR (Free Women's Troops) lost their live.
The Institute official, asking to be mentioned unnamed, said in an interview to Lekolin website that the organs of dead guerrillas, who are held at institutes on grounds of DNA test after urgently being taken there from clashes area, are mainly sold to GATA (Gülhane Military Medical Academy’s Hospital) as well as some other military and civil hospitals determined by the Ministry of Health.
Bodies of dead guerrillas are mainly taken to the medicine institutes in Malatya, Adana, Ankara, Ýstanbul and Trabzon.
The official said that the practice is grounded on a ‘confidential’ document which was earlier conveyed to the each of governor’s offices, regional commands and local health authorities. According to this document, the official claims, it is asked that the bodies of dead guerrillas with uninjured organs should urgently be taken to nearest health institutions within 24 hours after the death to not to allow the deterioration of physical chemistry.
According to the source of the news, the places of the removed organs are filled with cotton before the bodies of guerrillas are delivered to families after a so-called DNA test and autopsy.
The official further says that the bodies of dead guerrillas are also used as cadaver at some medical faculties in Turkey and Kurdistan. He notes that the bodies used at these faculties are later buried in cemeteries of the nameless or town cemeteries outside the knowledge of their families so that the bodies become deformed there.
The Institution offical also gives an astonishing detail saying that soldiers from regional commands inform forensic medicine institutions yet during the operations and ask them to make preperations for organ operations. The official adds that some institutes had already been given the preperation order before the Dersim operation in January when eight HPG (People’s Defense Forces) guerrillas died, the Þýrnak-Besta operation in February when 15 HPG guerrillas died and the Bitlis operation in March when 15 YJA-STAR (Free Women's Troops) lost their live.
