700 children are in jail often for throwing stones during demonstrations
ANF 04.07.2010- On 1 April 2006, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan made
the following statement in relation to the incident: “I am addressing
mothers and fathers. Those who let their children out and allow them to
be used by the terror organisations will cry in vain tomorrow. Our
security forces will do whatever is needed whether the subjects are
women or children. No standards of democracy would condone such
incidents of violence”.
Kurdish Info 03.06.2010- "Bringing the 10% election threshold down, abolishing the anti-terror
law, releasing imprisoned children, are conditions for peace" said Ocalan. If a solution is not found then ‘special law’ lobbies will drag the
country into a civil war.” said PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan. The
imprisoned Kurdish leader also enumerated basic conditions for the
Kurdish problem in Turkey to be solved. The conditions include bringing
the 10% election threshold down, abolishing the Turkish anti-terror
law,releasing imprisoned children as well as the detainees of KCK case
and preparing a democratic constitution for Turkey.
Kurdish Info 03.06.2010-Following the joint demand by 99 NGOs for an immediate ceasefire to be declared both by the Turkish army and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), 45 NGOs in Hakkari, 43 NGOs in Mardin, 200 NGOs in Van, Batman, Sirnak held a press conference to join the call.
DIHA news agency reported on the death of yet another young man while in police custody. According to the report 35-year-old Resul Gur’s body has been taken by his family from the police. Gur was taken into custody at the Basaksehir Police Station in Istanbul last Wednesday. On Thursday police claimed that he committed suicide by throwing himself out of a window. An investigation about the police officers in Basaksehir Police Station was launched following the Gur family's doubts over what really happened.
ANF 02.07.2010-The bodies of two deceased Kurdish guerrillas have been filmed while being dragged on the ground and kicked by the Turkish soldiers.It is reported that the bodies belong to HPG guerrillas Metin Güleç (Zafer Cudi) and Yakup Dellayimilan (Harun Betirs) who lost their lives on 4th December 2009 in a clash in Cudi Mountain of Sirnak province. VIDEO - In the footage it is seen that while a Turkish soldier dragging the bodies which are partially in body bags, another soldier is kicking the bodies.The bodies of two Kurdish fighters were brought to Sirnak State Hospital Morgue. While the body of Yakup Dellayimilan who comes from East Kurdistan (Iran) remained in the morgue, the body of Metin Güleç following the autopsy buried on 11 January. Ten thousand people were present at the funeral.
Jake R. Hess / Sirnak- In one of the more prominent of a series of recent rape
scandals in Kurdish dominated southeastern Turkey, at least four girls
aged between 12 and 14 were found to have been sexually exploited by
state officials, including an assistant headmaster at a school and an
employee of a local police department, over a period of two years in
Siirt, a town located in a province plagued by fighting between the
Kurdish insurgency and Turkish army. Schoolboys and shopkeepers were
also involved.
A weird suggestion to solve the Kurdish question from Mayor of Rize
Kurdish Info 01.07.2010- Halil Bakirci, Mayor of Rize from Justice and Development Party (AKP),
suggested to men that if they chose second wives from the eastern part
of Turkey, increasing such relationships is going to decrease the
conflict between Kurds and Turks. This weird suggestion has been found
to be racist and sexist by women who strongly reacted against it.
Kurdish Info 01.07.2010- BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) co-chair Gulten Kisanak said, in relation to the assault that "the fact that the soldiers shoot anything that moves" in the civilian areas is an indication of what kind of mentality is behind the war. Saying that "the war has been going on for 85 years which is a very long period of time" she explained that it is high time to take steps for the resolution to the Kurdish question. She listed 3 main proposals that need to be simultaneously applied. The proposals are:
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DIHA news agency reported on the death of yet another young man while in police custody. According to the report 35-year-old Resul Gur’s body has been taken by his family from the police. Gur was taken into custody at the Basaksehir Police Station in Istanbul last Wednesday. On Thursday police claimed that he committed suicide by throwing himself out of a window. An investigation about the police officers in Basaksehir Police Station was launched following the Gur family's doubts over what really happened.
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