The bodies of Kurdish guerillas who lost their lives were destroyed by the Turkish army who also used chemicals. While the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) criticised the government for this brutal treatment the PM Recep Tayyip Erdoðan stated that “We also have martyrs, veterans. Shall we send them to you too?”

In response to the statement from the Turkish PM co-chair of the BPD Selahattin Demirtaþ stated that: “This is an unfortunate statement. If a PM is thinking this way then he has lost his legitimacy. It is a confession that he is not the PM of a certain part of the country.”

Demirtaþ further stated that they have sympathy for the families of not the guerrillas only but also soldiers, police and village guards. “We do not distinguish the dead bodies, the pain. There is not your pain or my pain. There is our pain. Guerrillas are also the sons and daughters of this country. They are all our people. The parents of guerrillas are also citizens of this country. But if a PM is doing this then he will pass into history as the PM defending brutal treatment on dead bodies.” added Demirtaþ.

Demirtaþ also stated that there is no other PM in the world who is defending torture and they will not ignore this brutality.