The
colonial Turkish regime’s fascist siege has continued in the Kurdish
cities Cizre and Sur. With tanks, war planes and helicopters The Kurdish
people and those resisting have experienced oppression and tyranny.
Towns are set on fire, women, children and young people marooned in the
cellar are killed, people who lost their legs and arms are exposed to
death. There is a crime against humanity committed in front of the
world.
Mehmet
Tunc, who was the co-president of Cizre People’s Council, informed on
the phone about this brutality before he was killed himself.
On 26th
January 2016 BBC Turkey managed to get through to M. Tunc on the phone
who was marooned in a cellar together with 37 other Kurds and made a
call to the world: “A tragedy is taking place here. If you continue to
stay silent, believe me, you will be responsible for the death of these
people, too.”
In
February 2016 a seminar was organised in Brussels titled “The EU,
Turkey, the Middle East and the Kurds”. There a call was made to the
European countries and humanity: “Please stop this brutality…You have
the power to finish the siege in Cizre. Otherwise we have to consider
you as accomplices if any massacre happens”.
Mehmet Tunc told the Kurdish TV channel Med Nuce on the phone hours before he was killed and burned:
“…there
are 30-40 people here who are burning. At the moment smoke came in and
the fire came in through the holes…There are people who lost their feet,
there are children, there are heavily injured and they will all burn
alive. I have no doubt that this will go into history as a shame of
whole Turkey, humanity and the UN…”
Their
speeches on the great resistance against the colonial brutality and
their messages to the Kurdish people and their comrades were:
The
people of Cizre held their bodies against tanks and rockets. No one
should doubt that I greet my friends continuing with the struggle.
Despite 60 days of cold, hunger and thirst, the people of Cizre haven’t
given up. That’s why people must be proud of us…It seems as if the risk
of execution is coming up because yesterday they came and threatened us
saying “Give up otherwise we will burn you all alive. We will strangle
you all to death.” There is a barbarity going on in Cizre, a massacre,
but we won’t give up.”
After
this phone call, nearly 200 Kurdish people were killed stuck in the
cellar due to the fascist siege and bombings. The people burned alive so
that 130 out of 167 people still couldn’t be identified.
The
history of this dirty war, which goes on without any legality, morality
or human rules, is the continuation of the Turkish Republic and the
former Ottoman Empire’s politics of applying a genocide to the Armenians
and the oppressed people, exterminating and assimilation.
The
colonial Turkish regime attacks the people of Northern Kurdistan with
revenge policy after its Syria politics went down the pan and the Rojava
revolution grew. The EU, USA and other imperialist and reactionary
states of the region are accomplices of this crime against humanity and
brutality.
As
time passes, it becomes clear that with the EU membership debates as
well as the “solution of the Kurdish question” the Kurdish nation will
not be free nor will Turkey become democratic. The political freedom and
democratic demands of our people will be realised with the
anti-imperialist democratic people’s revolution.
The
people in Kurdistan resist. The Rojava revolution and the revolutionary
resistance in Bakure Kurdistan expect the international solidarity of
the people of the region and the world. The revolution in Kurdistan is
at the same time the revolutionary fire of the people resisting in the
Middle East and the world. This fire must grow!
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