Turkey: Bodies of Kurdish PKK rebels exhibited on a public site to terrorise Kurds

October 6, 2011

DIYARBAKIR, The Kurdish region of Turkey, — Turkish war in the Kurdish region in southeastern Turkey [Northern Kurdistan] has eroded ethical principles and the rules of law. A Turkish page has published a very disturbing a photo and distributed to many media outlets. The Turkish soldiers have dismembered the body of Kurdish PKK rebels and bereft them on the public site to terrorise Kurd civilians.

It is not clear where and when the photo was taken but the content is unmistakably an intimidation to Kurdish people. It shows the lifeless bodies of two guerrillas from the Kurdistan Workers Party PKK, tied with a rope, in front of a monument dedicated to the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

The bust of Atatürk bears the slogan of the Republic, "Happy is he who can say I am a Turk".

Behind there is another slogan, "A country cannot be divided".
Lifeless bodies of two PKK rebels, tied with a rope, in front of a monument dedicated to the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
The photo is a strike and disturbing reminding that nothing has changed as far as the approach towards the legitimate demands of the Kurds is concerned.

Indeed Turkish prime minister Erdoğan said: “It is impossible to have freedom and democracy if people are killed in such an atrocious way”. And he was obviously referring to the soldiers who died fighting a war which only is for the benefit of few.

It is about time everyone takes a closer look to images like this and rise their voice against the brutality of war and the ongoing repression of Kurds.

Since August 17, Turkish jets repeatedly carried out air strikes against the Kurdish PKK separatist group's bases in Iraqi Kurdistan region, under justification of chasing elements of the anti-Ankara PKK, forcing large numbers of Kurdish citizens of those areas to desert their home villages, including an air raid that killed 7 Kurdish civilians in a village north of Kurdistan’s Sulaimaniyah city on August 21st.

Turkey's parliament on Wednesday extended the government's mandate to order military strikes against Kurdish PKK rebels holed up in neighbouring Iraqi Kurdistan region.

Since it was established in 1984, the Kurdistan Workers' Party PKK has been fighting the Turkish state, which still denies the constitutional existence of Kurds, to establish a Kurdish state in the south east of the country, sparking a conflict that has claimed some 45,000 lives.

But now its aim is the creation an autonomous Kurdish region and more cultural rights for ethnic Kurds who constitute the greatest minority in Turkey, numbering more than 20 million. A large Turkey's Kurdish community openly sympathise with the Kurdish PKK rebels.

PKK's demands included releasing PKK detainees, lifting the ban on education in Kurdish, paving the way for an autonomous democrat Kurdish system within Turkey, reducing pressure on the detained PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, stopping military action against the Kurdish party and recomposing the Turkish constitution.

Turkey refuses to recognize its Kurdish population as a distinct minority. It has allowed some cultural rights such as limited broadcasts in the Kurdish language and private Kurdish language courses with the prodding of the European Union, but Kurdish politicians say the measures fall short of their expectations.


source: ekurd

 

While I understand the Kurds view of wanting to be a separate and distinct people from Turkey. The facts on the ground are that Turkey is the national soveriegn over the land that Kurds live on, and these PKK fighters are terrorists.

 

the kurdish region in turkey has always been inhabited by 99% of kurds so no matter who rules over them its still kurdish land and they have every right for self-determination specially with the situation kurds been living in for last decades .

 

Yes, that may be, and you may pursue that goal via peaceful protest and democratic action and yes, it may take 100 years to achieve. How long did Ghandi protest? decades..

You may not pursue that goal via violence, bombings and terrorism.

If you want yourself free, you must find a Ghandi and win world opinion to your side via peaceful means.

 

yes good advice

dont copy the Irgun and Stern gangs

that will result in decades of resistance and they wont stop fighting back the aggressor and invader till they are gone

 

unbelievable, any more links `? have you tried to contact the mainstream medias?

 

Turkish war crimes. Erdogan should be tried in the Hague.

 

Israel is a legitimate State that has every right to exist it's the Palestinians who need to adopt the Ghandi.

 

like this one you mean ?

turkey is the one who does not beleive in a peaceful solution not kurds .

 

like this one you mean ?

turkey is the one who does not believe in a peaceful solution not kurds .

 

http://www.firatnews.org/english/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=3236

 

i ll wait with the comments

 

You won't like my comment, but they deserve nothing less. Exhibiting bodies of terrorists that are killing our soldiers in ambushes in public is not "terrorizing Kurds" or whatever BTW.

 

so this is your definition of terrorists ?

 

I call members of widely recognized terrorist organization 'terrorists'.

 

Up to my knowledge,for more than 10 years maybe 15 years Turkey has given up to exhibiting dead bodies of PKK fighters.

Possibly this picture is an old one.

 

maybe maybe not, is it possible to send it to the general prosecutor office and ask?

 

"If terrorism means killing innocent civilians then why is Turkey not on the list?"

 

Who is the real terrorists though in the situation?? Turkish insurgents are no better than the PKK fighters. They both doing the same thing (attacking) with the same result (soldiers & civilians get killed).

 

This may help with your question.

http://www.politicalforum.com/current-events/212815-report-turkey-launches-incursion-into-iraq.html

 

If this is the case we should begin calling any country that undeliberately killed civilians terrorists.

 

Uzanmış yerde yatan, veled-i zina
Kalk ta bak, ne yazıyor orada!
İster dağda gez, ister düz ovada...
Biz var oldukça, yaşamak yasak size Anadolu'da!

 

it is the case , if "terrorism" means killing civilians so should turkey need to be listed as it has killed so many "kurds" alone since 1923.
and turkey continues to kill civilians a good example was the 7 family members killed in S.kurdistan including 5 kids . pictures were actually posted on here and the only family member who has returned home from Holland is taking turkey to Lahay court and he is gathering all the info and evidence necessary at the moment .

 

I take it you didn't even read my post as usual. According to other Turcophobes like you Turks have been killing people even in BC years. So I take it you didn't even bother reading my post. Please read it again and notice the word "deliberate". Turkey didn't deliberately target civilians in air strikes. It only bombed PKK terrorist camps which your KRG feeds up and lets to leak into Turkish border.

 

a car or a pick up been driven on a road at normal speed far away from Qandil mountain been attacked does not seem deliberate to you ?? and like always turkey denied the butchering of the entire family , and if thats the case Israels killing of the turks was not deliberate either !! , that is not a valid argument . and are you really telling me turkey has never killed kurdish civilians deliberately ??