KCK calls upon everyone to stand up against massacres by Turkey
NEWS CENTER (DİHA) - KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) Executive Council Co-Presidency has released a statement voicing strong response to the massacre of civilians as a result of Turkish airstrikes in Zergelê village affiliated to Ranya city of South Kurdistan today.
Emphasizing that the Turkish state pursued its total war against Kurds in Bakur (North), Başur (South) and Rojava (West) Kurdistan, KCK said that in addition to the attacks on people in Bakurê Kurdistan, the Turkish state has also bombed the Medya Defense Zones in Başurê Kurdistan with aircraft and artillery fire for one week now. KCK stated that the most recent attack on Zergelê village has revealed Turkey's intention to massacre the people living in this area, and the fact that the people of South Kurdistan are also being targeted.
'This is not first attack of Turkish state against South Kurdistan'
The statement noted that this is not the first attack the Turkish state carried out against the people of South Kurdistan where dozens of people were massacred by Turkey in 90's, recaling the followings; Some 50 local people were massacred in an airstrike of the Turkish army in Kendekolê village in Xınerê area on August 15, 2001.
As part of the AKP government's attacks aiming an entire elimination of the Kurdish Freedom Movement with the Sri Lanka model, an attack on a civilian car on Kandil's Ranya road left a family with seven members dead, including a baby and three children, in 2011.
Remarking that the Zergelê massacre has been the last round of Turkish state's massacres in South Kurdistan, KCK said the goal of these massacres by the Turkish state was to evacuate the villages in this region.
The statement by KCK pointed out that the Turkish state took courage from the silence of the South Kurdistan government in attacking South Kurdistan so daringly, massacring villagers, wounding dozens, destroying their fields and lands and burning down their forests.
"The occurrence of the Zergelê massacre after the most recent talks held by Turkish Foreign Ambassador Feridun Sinirlioğlu in Hewler and Sulaymaniya is not coincidental. AKP government attributes the legitimacy of these attacks on the statements of the KDP. Ongoing airstrikes and Zergelê massacre reveal that the Turkish state will extend the war in South Kurdistan."
Pointing out that the Turkish state is enemy to not only the people of North Kurdîstan but also to all the people of Kurdistan, KCK said the enmity Turkey manifested towards the Rojava Revolution has also proved this fact to all the Kurdistan people and the world.
"If not stopped, the attacks of the Turkish state will also target the freedom struggle of our people in four parts of Kurdistan. In this regard, resistance to these attacks is resistance for a free and democratic life of all the Kurdistan people", the statement said.
‘Our people should rise up in Kurdistan’
KCK described the attack on civilians in the Zergelê village of Kandil as the last phase of colonist powers’ attack on Kurdish people, and said that it was impossible to stop these attacks without the resistance of everyone in Kurdistan. KCK stated that the people of Kurdistan should rise up and struggle against the perpetrators of this massacre, and the peoples of South, North, West, and East Kurdistan, peoples of the region, and democracy forces should all rise up against such massacres.
In its statement, KCK invited the government of South Kurdistan to change its stance on the attacks and side with Kurdish people resisting such attacks. KCK also invited all political parties and people of South Kurdistan to take a united stance against these attacks and march to the bombarded civilian areas to show their opposition clearly.
‘Our people have never been and will never be intimidated'
KCK recalled that three civilians slain in Ağrı hours before Zergelê Massacre have been added the number of the hundreds of civilians massacred during AKP rule. KCK said that the AKP government saw attacking civilians as a way of intimidating people in times of war and peace, and Tayyip Erdoğan’s statement that they would do ‘what was necessary, be it [killing] women or children’ and order of massacring tens of civilians, during people’s protection of martyrs’ bodies in Diyarbakır in 2006, exposed AKP’s mentality. KCK pointed out that AKP continued its attacks aiming to intimidate people because the party lacked a solution mentality, and Kurdish people would continue resisting until they are free and create a state where there would no longer be any massacres.
Call to democracy forces
KCK invited Kurdish people as well as democracy forces, intellectuals, and authors in Turkey to rise up against the massacre of civilians, and noted that the AKP Government was re-implementing the dirty war that was waged in the 1990s. KCK noted that the dirty war of 1990s was not only against Kurdish people, but also the conscience of peoples in Turkey, and added that AKP was claiming to wage its current war on behalf of Turkish people.
KCK invited peoples and democracy forces of Turkey to make it clear that the current war was not theirs, and join the struggle for democracy and freedom arm in arm with Kurdish people. KCK emphasized that Turkey would be democratized and liberated only with the united struggle of Kurdish people and the peoples of Turkey.
‘International powers should break their silence on massacres’
KCK invited international powers to break their silence on the Turkish state’s massacre of civilians and nature, and avoid taking part in the dirty and violent attacks of the Turkish state. KCK noted that this was neither the first nor the last attack of the Turkish state, and the current insults targeting dead bodies showed that Turkey would not restrain itself in any way during an attack against living people. KCK invited international powers and the democracy forces of the world to take a stance against these attacks and refrain from encouraging further massacres.
KCK underlined that the Kurdish people and democracy forces should enhance their organized state against these attacks and not allow such massacres by the Turkish state through the struggle they should give on this basis. "Our people should see this reality of the state, defend themselves and take their precautions by themselves. They shouldn't leave their lives to the mercy of these cruel powers", the statement said.
Pointing out that the AKP government has started a total war against the Kurdish people and democratic forces, KCK said only a total resistance and defense by the people can stop these attacks.
Kurdistan Communities Union ended its statement by offering condolences to the families of all those killed by the Turkish state in Zergelê, Ağrı, Cizre and Nusaybin, and underlining that the Turkish state will certainly give an account of all these massacres, and that peoples will attain a free and democratic life.
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