Human shields heading towards the operation area
Human shields heading towards the operation area
Hundreds of people, including elected members of BDP and DTK, have departed from Diyarbakýr today to the area of ongoing operation to act as human shields.
The air supported aerial attack in Lice-Kulp-Genç triangle on Diyarbakýr-Bingöl borderline continues broadening. Ten thousand soldiers are said to be taking part in the operation which is backed up by intense military shipment to the area. Reports are received of conflicts in some places. The people in the region have applied to BDP offices to express their worries.
The human shield action of Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and Democratic Society Congress (DTK) has started today under the leadership of DTK co-chair and Van MP Aysel Tuðluk, DTK Coordination Board Member and BDP Batman MP Ayla Akat Ata, BDP deputies Mülkiye Birtane, Nursel Aydoðan, BDP Diyarbakýr provincial and district chairs as well as BDP mayors, executives, Peace Mothers Initiative, representatives of MEYADER and NGO representatives.
The convoy of human shields was stopped before leaving Diyarbakýr where police made detail searches and id checks and not allowed some buses to leave the city.
Despite the blockade of police who basing on no official prohibition tried to prevent the people, human shields continued the way without buses, insisting that they wouldnt let their children die. Demonstrators, most of whom are women, have been heading towards the Lice area with the convoy which was allowed to move after the demonstrators.
In a press statement on Wednesday evening on the expanding military activity and reports of clashes and deaths coming from the operation area, Democratic Society Congress (DTK) co-chair Aysel Tuðluk remarked that masks have been distributed to the soldiers involved in the operation and evaluated this as a sign of the possibility that chemical weapons could be used in the operation.
Giving information about the human shield action on Thursday, Tuðluk said that; We will go to the operation area to avoid further deaths in clashes which also worry the people in the region. We will demand the ending of operations.
Tuðluk pointed out that the recent operations came soon after the statements of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip who said operations would end if PKK laid arms down. Evaluating this statement as two-facedness, Tuðluk underlined that; We have died and been killed enough. The Kurdish people dont accept any further deaths. This is a matter of conscience. Operations could be stopped through a community reaction. We also call on the mothers of soldiers to say stop to operations.
Evaluating Prime Ministers statements as unconvincing, Tuðluk said that the Kurdish people wont believe the word peace as long as the Imralý isolation continues, elected representatives are put in prison and peace group members are sentenced to imprisonment up to 76 years. There is no peace or a will for peace in question. The strategy and operation of targeting and making away with Kurds still continues as a vicious cycle. This process and the current conflict environment will end up in an unavoidable separation and unintended pains. The feeling of living together is fading away every passing day.
Tuðluk remarked that those whom the state calls terrorists are the children of the Kurdish people and added that they will protect their children by preventing this operation and not remaining silent any more.
The air supported aerial attack in Lice-Kulp-Genç triangle on Diyarbakýr-Bingöl borderline continues broadening. Ten thousand soldiers are said to be taking part in the operation which is backed up by intense military shipment to the area. Reports are received of conflicts in some places. The people in the region have applied to BDP offices to express their worries.
The human shield action of Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) and Democratic Society Congress (DTK) has started today under the leadership of DTK co-chair and Van MP Aysel Tuðluk, DTK Coordination Board Member and BDP Batman MP Ayla Akat Ata, BDP deputies Mülkiye Birtane, Nursel Aydoðan, BDP Diyarbakýr provincial and district chairs as well as BDP mayors, executives, Peace Mothers Initiative, representatives of MEYADER and NGO representatives.
The convoy of human shields was stopped before leaving Diyarbakýr where police made detail searches and id checks and not allowed some buses to leave the city.
Despite the blockade of police who basing on no official prohibition tried to prevent the people, human shields continued the way without buses, insisting that they wouldnt let their children die. Demonstrators, most of whom are women, have been heading towards the Lice area with the convoy which was allowed to move after the demonstrators.
In a press statement on Wednesday evening on the expanding military activity and reports of clashes and deaths coming from the operation area, Democratic Society Congress (DTK) co-chair Aysel Tuðluk remarked that masks have been distributed to the soldiers involved in the operation and evaluated this as a sign of the possibility that chemical weapons could be used in the operation.
Giving information about the human shield action on Thursday, Tuðluk said that; We will go to the operation area to avoid further deaths in clashes which also worry the people in the region. We will demand the ending of operations.
Tuðluk pointed out that the recent operations came soon after the statements of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip who said operations would end if PKK laid arms down. Evaluating this statement as two-facedness, Tuðluk underlined that; We have died and been killed enough. The Kurdish people dont accept any further deaths. This is a matter of conscience. Operations could be stopped through a community reaction. We also call on the mothers of soldiers to say stop to operations.
Evaluating Prime Ministers statements as unconvincing, Tuðluk said that the Kurdish people wont believe the word peace as long as the Imralý isolation continues, elected representatives are put in prison and peace group members are sentenced to imprisonment up to 76 years. There is no peace or a will for peace in question. The strategy and operation of targeting and making away with Kurds still continues as a vicious cycle. This process and the current conflict environment will end up in an unavoidable separation and unintended pains. The feeling of living together is fading away every passing day.
Tuðluk remarked that those whom the state calls terrorists are the children of the Kurdish people and added that they will protect their children by preventing this operation and not remaining silent any more.
