Day of mourning in Þemdinli - NEW
Day of mourning in Þemdinli - NEW
Þemdinli shop keepers today did not open their shops to protest at the random shooting by police and army which killed three civilians on Sunday night. At the same time the shops were closed to mourn the dead among which was a fourteen years old boy, attending a wedding party.
The families of the three civilians killed on Sunday, were today able to take the bodies of their loved ones and to bring them Þemdinli, a district of Hakkari, to be buried.
A simultaneous raid action was carried out by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) members Sunday night at around 10:00pm in Þemdinli district of Hakkari, targeting the district Police Department and Gendarmerie Station. At least one sergeant and one police officer died and seven wounded during the clashes which lasted more than an hour.
During the armed clash, 14-year-old boy Osman Erbaþ was severely injured while Necdet Güreli and Tayyar Güreli died when police and soldiers opened fire at random.
Erbaþ also died because of excessive bleeding as police’s barricade did not allow ambulance to take him to hospital for emergency medical response.
The police and soldiers fired at random using automatic guns and rocket launchers and targeting many houses and workplaces. The district turned into battlefield and people were unable to move.
While the mourners who welcomed the bodies blocked the road, the brother of Osman Erbaþ said, "We will resist these massacres."
The mourners then left Yüksekova in a convoy of hundreds of vehicles and headed towards Þemdinli.
The city, yesterday, was visited by the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) delegation and then by another delegation, including Human Rights Association (ÝHD) Hakkari Branch Chair Ýsmail Akbulut, ÝHD representative of Yüksekova, Hakkari mayor Fadýl Bedirhanoðlu and BDP City vice chair Orhan Koparan.
"It is a pure barbarity, there is not any house without bullet hit," said BDP Hakkari Parliamentary Esat Canan after the BDP Committee completed the investigations in Þemdinli.
Canan also stated that “the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Prime Minister Erdoðan is in charge of these events as soldiers used heavy guns in the district centre which is not acceptable for humanity. The AKP closed all the doors to peace. This mentality has to be changed in order to solve the Kurdish problem.”
The families of the three civilians killed on Sunday, were today able to take the bodies of their loved ones and to bring them Þemdinli, a district of Hakkari, to be buried.
A simultaneous raid action was carried out by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) members Sunday night at around 10:00pm in Þemdinli district of Hakkari, targeting the district Police Department and Gendarmerie Station. At least one sergeant and one police officer died and seven wounded during the clashes which lasted more than an hour.
During the armed clash, 14-year-old boy Osman Erbaþ was severely injured while Necdet Güreli and Tayyar Güreli died when police and soldiers opened fire at random.
Erbaþ also died because of excessive bleeding as police’s barricade did not allow ambulance to take him to hospital for emergency medical response.
The police and soldiers fired at random using automatic guns and rocket launchers and targeting many houses and workplaces. The district turned into battlefield and people were unable to move.
While the mourners who welcomed the bodies blocked the road, the brother of Osman Erbaþ said, "We will resist these massacres."
The mourners then left Yüksekova in a convoy of hundreds of vehicles and headed towards Þemdinli.
The city, yesterday, was visited by the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) delegation and then by another delegation, including Human Rights Association (ÝHD) Hakkari Branch Chair Ýsmail Akbulut, ÝHD representative of Yüksekova, Hakkari mayor Fadýl Bedirhanoðlu and BDP City vice chair Orhan Koparan.
"It is a pure barbarity, there is not any house without bullet hit," said BDP Hakkari Parliamentary Esat Canan after the BDP Committee completed the investigations in Þemdinli.
Canan also stated that “the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and Prime Minister Erdoðan is in charge of these events as soldiers used heavy guns in the district centre which is not acceptable for humanity. The AKP closed all the doors to peace. This mentality has to be changed in order to solve the Kurdish problem.”
