Members of Peoples’ Houses will travel with the needed supplies in an effort to rebuild the devastated Kurdish town in the hands of the Turkish government forces The Peoples’ Houses (Halkevleri) association of the Cukurova region, covering the Southeast provinces, have called on all people to support the solidarity action with the besieged people of […]
Members of Peoples’ Houses will travel with the needed supplies in an effort to rebuild the devastated Kurdish town in the hands of the Turkish government forces
The Peoples’ Houses (Halkevleri) association of the Cukurova region, covering the Southeast provinces, have called on all people to support the solidarity action with the besieged people of Cizre.
Buses provided by the popular progressive association will be leaving to Cizre on September 13, at 8:00PM.
Members of Peoples’ Houses will travel with the needed supplies in an effort to rebuild the devastated Kurdish town in the hands of the Turkish government forces. The association is collecting mostly baby food and durable solid staples.
The president of the progressive pro-Kurdish party HDP Selahattin Demirtas had revealed that 23 civilians had been killed by the Turkish forces in the town under siege. The co-mayor of Cizre had recently requested mostly baby food for the residents who had been forced to live over a week stranded in their homes.
For over 10 days, the Turkish military and the police had attacked Cizre killing anybody on sight. The military artillery fire to the small Kurdish town had devastated the residents before a 7 straight days and nights of Turkish curfew had forced them inside their homes.
Left without food, water, electricity or any basic needs, people were surrounded by Turkish military, police and the “special forces” who constantly hurled racist insults through the loudspeakers mounted on their tanks, driving through the streets of Cizre. A special forces team kept accusing the Kurds of the town of being Armenians from loudspeakers, a reference to the minority victim of the Turkish forces, the first genocide of the 20th century in 1915.
Turkish forces broke into and looted the closed stores while Kurdish Cizre residents were forced under the threat of being shot inside their homes for 7 days and nights.
The Turkish siege was only broken when the HDP leadership organized thousands of volunteers from surrounding villages to march towards Cizre. The military tried blocking the roads but were overpowered when thousands scattered and took to the fields and hills to reach the surrounded town.
Buses leaving from Adana, Mersin, Tarsus, and Antakya organized by the Poeples Houses will be heading towards Cizre to bring the needed supplies to the residents.
Two women sleeping on their roof, many children, a 75 year old man looking for food for his starving family are among those shot by the sharp shooters of the Turkish forces.
Prime Minister Davutoglu openly lied on the air saying not a single civilian had lost their lives in Cizre due to Turkish government’s siege. As a reply, the HDP party had published the names of the dead children, women, and elderly and asked the PM to identify who these people were. Davutoglu has not responded to the question, as usual.
Sendika.Org News (Mehmet Bayram)
