Sunday, 14 March 2010 19:26
Sunday- Two Turkish soldiers were killed and another wounded Sunday in an operation carried out against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels in the Northern Kurdistan.
The Turkish Military Forces have been caring out operations in the Northern Kurdistan mainly in the vicinity of Amid, Sirt, Darsim and Cewlik cities. Meanwhile the Turkish Artillery has been shelling the Southern Kurdistan for the last few days.
Along the shelling the Turkish helicopter and the jet fighters flew to the region of Cudi Mountain and at the same time more soldiers have been dispatched to the region.
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:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT9Gk3tkGsk
