The Aleppo Coordination of Kongreya Star, the umbrella organization of women in North-East Syria, condemned the occupant Turkish state’s inhuman attacks on the cemeteries of martyrs. The organization made a press statement in the presence of many members.

The statement strongly condemned the crimes committed by the Turkish state, saying; “In an attempt to revive the Ottoman period, the Turkish state is murdering people, displacing masses, occupying their lands and waging a psychological war. No religion or doctrine would accept these acts. Why is the world silent on what the Turkish state has been doing? The Turkish state is bombing cemeteries and trampling on all values of humanity. Their forces are desecrating graves in the occupied areas. International law and human rights organisations must do their part to stop this.”

The Turkish state continues its attacks against the dead amid its increasingly ongoing war against the Kurdish people and their lands in three parts of Kurdistan.

In Hakkari, Van, Muş, Amed (Diyarbakir), Bingöl and Şırnak in North Kurdistan, Turkish security forces systematically use brute force against graves of guerrillas. Entire cemeteries have been devastated, gravestones smashed. The destruction of guerrilla graves has been a long-standing practice of the Turkish state, but has recently taken on an even more systematic dimension. The tens of thousands of martyrs of the Kurdish liberation movement are intended to be erased from the social memory.

The Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) pointed out in a recent statement that the desecration of guerrilla graves is not motivated by sadistic motives, but has a political aim: to make the Kurds renounce their language, culture and freedom.

HDP MP Leyla Güven expressed similar sentiments in an ANF interview: "This is a message to the people: "We will not tolerate you, dead or alive. But with trauma comes rage.”

The Maoist Communist Party (MKP) vowed retaliation for the desecration of graves of Kurdish guerrillas by Turkish security forces.