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Turkish forces kill four Kurdish militants after robbery -governor
Posted On Oct 07 2015
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The apparent dragging of the corpse of an alleged Kurdish militant through the streets of a Turkish city by security forces has outraged activists, with the main Kurdish party leader calling on the interior minister to resign.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said he disapproved of the images despite the fact that the victim was a “terrorist who attacked the police with rocket launchers”. It was taken the day before yesterday (Friday) in Sirnak.
Images on social media appeared to show the body of Birlik, 24, being dragged by the neck behind an armoured vehicle through the streets of Sirnak. “No one should forget, because we will not forget”, Demirtas said in the tweet on Sunday. Imagine what might have been done to the living by those who did this to the dead.
A total of 140 security force members have been martyred in the violence since July 7, along with 37 civilian casualties and 464 others wounded, while 1,480 PKK terrorists were killed in land and air operations since July 22, according to the most recent data from the Turkish General Staff. Such tactics were allegedly used by Turkish army in the 1980s and 1990s at the height of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict that has claimed the lives of more than 40,000 people, mostly Kurds.
The escalation comes ahead of snap parliament elections on November 1.
Since then, the PKK renewed its armed attacks mostly in the country’s eastern and southeastern regions, which resulted in the derailment of a fragile cease-fire which began early 2013 and was dubbed the “solution process”.
Subsequent to fierce battles against militant fighters of the Islamic State (ISIS), Kurdish forcers of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) have regained 17 villages in the countryside of Hasakah in northeastern Syria, military sources reported on Tuesday. Calling for the urgent launch of judicial and administrative investigations, the TBB added, “Obstruction of these investigations with unlawful reasoning should definitely be prevented”.
