THE TURKISH STATE CONTINUES TO COMMIT WAR CRIMES IN KURDISTAN
Women , men, the old and young are all attacked, wounded and killed. Villages and cities with
historical buildings, hospitals, schools, businesses and homes are bombed and wantonly destroyed.
Agricultural land with livestock are all being burnt and scorched.
End to the massacres of human and nature that is taking place in Kurdistan
The armed forces of the Turkish State have been conducting ruthless operations in Kurdistan where a lot of
city and towns such as Diyarbakir-Sur, Cizre, Sirnak, Silopi, Nusaybin, Gever (Yuksekova), Hezex (Idil),
Silvan, Derik and Kerboran (Dargecit) are razed to ground. Thousands of people have been massacred or
burnt alive brutally either broad daylignt or , in their homes and basements. Many have been left wounded,
maimed and disabled.
More than 500 000 people have been displaced from their residential areas and made homeless and jobless.
The Turkish army is now rolling out its operations to all over Kurdistan causing greater destruction and
more massacres.
Massacres are carried out by the Turkish Army under Operation ( name ) in district of Lice in
Diyarbakir and surrounding areas
A big operation has commenced after after five days of the curfew
declared in Lice and 39 residential areas in surrounding. Planes and
helicopters are being used to torchi (not clear ) in Lice and
surrounding areas including the mountainus and forests.
The green verdant land reaching tens of thousand hectares is now
being inot turned to ashes together with the vineyards and orchards
belonging to the villagers. These resources on which people depend
are being systematically destroyed and people are being forced to
emigrate elsewhere A great humanitarian, ecological and economical tragedy is taking place.
The community members engaged in fire fighting are being detained.
The people who are trying to put out the fires with their own meaans
are being prevented and the ones who are opposing this are being
detained. The journalists, non- govermental organisations and
representatives of the political parties from the outside of the area
are being banned from entering the area. War crimes are being
committed and these are being covered up by imposing military
zones which exclude people including journalists.
Urgent Call for intervention and solidarity
We call on United Nations, European Union and Council of Europe and any other relevant institutions and
individiuals to intervene by any means necessary to put pressure on the Turkish State to stop these crimes
against humanity. People in Kurdistan are facing an emergency and unless urgent action is taken there will
be irreparable humanitarian and ecologoical tragedies.
27 June 2016, Kurdistan National Congress