The Gendarmerie Command in Amed (Diyarbakır) organized a dinner with chief village guards in the main Kurdish city.

The dinner on Friday evening was joined by deputy governor, gendarmerie commander colonel, military officials and 80 chief village guards representing 5,304 guards currently on duty in Diyarbakır, 4,304 temporarily, who are taking part in the war waged against Kurds and called by the government “fighting terrorism”.

Disclosing some figures here, military officials said that 141 village guards were killed and 125 others were wounded in the war the Turkish state has waged against PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) since 1984.

Seyithan Karadağ, the chairperson of village guards' association, expressed their support for the peace process in search of a solution to the Kurdish question. Karadağ said no village guards were in opposition to the ongoing process of talks between Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan and the Turkish government. “We, as people who all have lost people from their families, are ready for peace now. We are also ready to lose as long as our country succeeds”.

Deputy Governor Mustafa Can also pointed out that the peace process would pave the way for the development of the whole country, its eastern region and Diyarbakır.