Human Rights Association (IHD) Amed Branch has disclosed the nine-months report of 2014 on human rights violations in Eastern and Southeastern Anatolia regions.

According to the report, 13,396 rights violations have been registered in the Kurdish region in the first nine months of the year.

Speaking at the press conference on the report, IHD Amed Brach President Raci Bilici pointed out that rights violations in the Kurdistan region has restarted to increase in 2014 following a remarkable decrease witnessed last year in line with the process of talks initiated for a democratic resolution to the Kurdish question.

Bilici stressed that the government's failure to take the awaited steps during these two years has caused a disappointment of hopes, while on the other hand the problem was deepened by its language, approach and effort to have a monopoly on the process, avoidance to share the developments with the public opinion, and the enhancement of military activity and constructions of military guard posts in the Kurdish region.

The IHD Amed Branch Chair remarked that in addition to all these, a further failure to improve Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan's conditions has created a sense of "being deceived" among the Kurdish people. Bilici said the construction of military posts, security-roads and dams, as well as the sustaining village-guard system were factors with an influence on the non-conflict environment.

Referring to conflict that erupted and spread across the country in wake of protest demos in solidarity with the Kobanê resistance, Bilici emphasised that 6-7 October incidents which witnessed the death and injury of dozens of people was a consequence of the Turkish government's approach towards the besiged town of Kobanê where people were left facing a risk of massacre as Turkey didn't agree on opening a corridor into the town.

According to Bilici who highlighted some details from the report, Turkish security forces resorted to use of disproportionate force during 168 public demonstrations in the first nine months of the year, causing the death and severe injury of dozens of people as result of use of firearm.

Bilici recalled that it was a consequence of the policies of the political ruling that security forces use disproportionate force and commit life-threatening violence and exceed their authority during interventions in public meetings and demonstrations. He also pointed out that the failure to bring those responsible to account also encouraged further crimes of violence against the people.

Reminding of the fact that the situation of ill prisoners was one of the basic issues regarding the prisons issue, Bilici recalled that there are currently 578 ill prisoners left to die in Turkish jails, including 228 in a critical condition.

Bilici also emphasised that the ongoing isolation on Abdullah Öcalan in İmralı Prison, and the denial of permission for his meeting with his lawyers went contrary to law, underlining that the isolation on the Kurdish people's leader must be ended immediately in order to ensure that he can play his role for the attainment of peace.

Also providing figures from the conflict witnessed during Kobanê protests in October, Bilici stated that 42 people lost their lives, 801 others wounded, 1128 people taken into custody, including 56 children, and 221 arrested, including 34 children. He noted that a curfew was declared in 3 cities and 25 districts, and that administrative fine was imposed on 407 people in Amed and Batman.

The statistical figures of some of the violations of rights experienced in the Kurdish region in the first nine months of 2014 are;

* 8 killed, 11 wounded by police and gendarme

* 5 killed, 58 wounded by village guards

* 2 died, 5 wounded in prisons

* 9 died, 1 wounded in cases of suspected death of police and soldiers

* 1282 people, 155 children taken into custody

* 113 people, 20 children arrested

* 16 investigations were launched against 534 people who expressed their opinions

* 5 cases opened against 118 people who expressed their opinions

* Punishment was imposed on 186 people who expressed their opinions

* 168 meetings and demonstrations were intervened by security forces

* 225 people were battered and injured as result of intervention by security forces

GUNFIGHTS

8 security officers died, 8 wounded

3 armed militants died

* 9 died, 22 wounded at border

* SUSPECTED DEATHS

19 men, 8 women, 6 children died

VIOLATIONS OF WOMEN’S RIGHT TO LIVE

* Women’s suicides: 24 suicides, 4 attempts

* Women exposed to domestic violence: 11 dead, 4 injured/by violence, 1 sexually abused

* Women subjected to violence, sexual abuse and rape in public area: 7 dead, 2 injured/by violence, 5 raped, 8 sexually abused

VIOLATIONS OF CHILDREN’S RIGHT TO LIVE

* Children suicides: 7 suicides, 4 attempts

* Children exposed to domestic violence: 4 injured/by violence, 1 raped

* Children subjected to violence, sexual abuse and rape in public area: 3 dead, 2 injured/by violence, 12 raped, 3 sexually abused

RIGHT VIOLATIONS IN PRISONS

* 37 cases of referral

* 51 cases of violation of the right to health

* 1 case of denial of family-meeting

* 97 cases of isolation

* 73 cases of disciplinary punishment

* 66 cases of violation of the right to communication