Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Northern Kurdistan- Turkish army keeps dispatching forces to the regions of Culemirg Gever and Shemzinan. In the meantime the Turkish Artilleries continue shelling the border lines of the Northern and Southern Kurdistan.
According to the local news agencies the Turkish Army continues dispatching the helicopters of the Skorski to the regions of Oramar and the villages of the Rubarok, Bazal, Gara in the Shemzian province. The reports said that the military helicopters have transferred all sorts of ammunitions to these regions.
In the course of the Turkish military incursion to the border line of Northern and Southern Kurdistan, the Kurdistan Defence Forces (HPG) stated that the Turkish Artilleries had started their shelling of the Kike village, Cinar Valley and the Shetunustan region last night from 12 pm until 5 am.
According to HPG’s statement, the Turkish Artilleries also shelled the villages of Serne, Ditaza, Elle, Shewe, the regions of the Marina Valleys, and the black terrains of Zap in the 22 March from 11 pm until 5 am.
Kurdistan Worker Party (PKK) has long called on Ankara to halt military operations and agree to negotiations for a solution, which it says should include official recognition of the country's Kurds in the constitution. The PKK is considered as a 'terrorist' organization by Ankara and the US. It also continues to be on the blacklist in EU despite its court ruling, which overturned the decision to place the Kurdish rebel on the European Union's terror list.
“By labelling PKK as a terrorist organisation, the EU and the US are giving the Turkey a green light to target its civilians. They give the Turkish government a free hand to do what it will” officials said. After 1954, apart from the Korean war, 1949-52 and invasion of Cyprus, 1974, the Turkish Army operations have continued to be exclusively against the Kurds.
Following the initial comment of Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that ‘'whether men, women or children, the security forces will react with disproportionate force’', several amendments were made to the country's anti-terror law, it is possible to charges children as terrorists and put them away for up to 50 years in jail. There are currently 2,622 minors serving time in Turkish prisons on the charge of terrorism.
In 23 of April 2009, an anti-terror police attacked and beat one of our children to death, the policeman was not punished:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEMuwkETXuU
In 2008, a policeman broke the arm of a Kurdish child in front of the cameras during the Kurdish festival Newroz:
