People's Defense Forces (HPG) guerrillas detained four workers after raiding the construction area of a military post in the village of Bellenoluk (Heşet) in Siirt's Pervari district.

According to the reports by local sources, a group of HPG guerrillas raided the military post under construction, 400 meters away from the gendarmerie post in Bellenoluk (Heşet) village at around 7 p.m. on Thursday.

After detaining four workers in the construction area, HPG guerrillas detonated the explosives they put in the military post being constructed.

Four workers were reportedly released at around 9 p.m.

Village guards have reportedly been called to gather at the military post early morning.

Since the beginning of the democratic resolution process between the Turkish state and the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) leader Abdullah Öcalan early this year, the Kurdish movement KCK (Kurdish Communities Union) and HPG have repeatedly warned the government against the enhancement of dam and military post constructions in the Kurdish region after the beginning of the process.

The government has yet to answer the Kurdish movement's question "Why has the construction of military posts, as well as of dams destroying the Kurdistan nature, been enhanced within the process of talks in search of a peaceful and democratic solution to the Kurdish question?".

Turkish Interior Minister Muammer Güler has recently stated in his answer to BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) Hakkari deputy Adil Zozani's written parliamentary question that the construction of 102 military posts is currently going on in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia Region. The Minister however didn't mention the figures of the military guard posts whose construction have begun this year.

Güler remarked that the construction of military posts and other service buildings are going on in line with an agreement between TOKİ (Housing Development Administration of Turkey) and Gendarmerie General Command, signed on November 12, 2008, to meet the housing need of gendarmerie units, and for anti-earthquake reinforcement.

People in the region have also staged numerous protests against the construction of military posts in their territory, also asking the government why this was happening in a process of talks for peace.

Protests were mainly suppressed with the crackdown of security forces.

On 28 June, Turkish soldiers deployed in a military guard post opened fire on hundreds of people who protosted against the construction of additional buildings to the military post in the village of Kayacık in Diyarbakır's Lice district.

A protestor, Medeni Yıldırım, 22, was killed in the attack which also left eight other civilians seriously wounded.