Number of bodies held at Mürşitpınar increases to 20
URFA (DİHA) - Number of the bodies of YPG/YPJ fighters, who died as they were fighting ISIS gangs in Kobanê, held at Urfa’s Mürşitpınar border gate by the Turkish government increased to 20.
HDP parliamentarians İbrahim Ayhan and Ferhat Encü who spoke to ANF, emphasized that the number of YPG/YPJ fighters’ bodies held at the border since August 9 had increased to 20, and called for the delivery of bodies immediately. Ayhan has been keeping watch with the families who have been waiting at the border for the past 8 days, and said that AKP was using the bodies as a blackmailing tool. Encü stated that they would take this inhumane treatment to international platforms.
PM's order
HDP Urfa Parliamentarian Ayhan noted that the government was openly committing crimes against humanity, and the officials they spoke to numerous times have been telling them that it was the prime minister who ordered the prevention of bodies’ delivery. Ayhan said that families met with the district governor yesterday and received the same explanation regarding the role of the prime minister. Ayhan stated that the arbitrary and unlawful prevention had a political aspect exposing the remorselessness of the transition government, and highlighted that they would wait at the border until they received the bodies.
‘We will not allow this blackmail'
Ayhan criticized pro-government media organs’ black propaganda claiming that HDP and AKP agreed so that YPG/YPJ fighters would no longer be delivered in the future, and said that HDP parliamentarians were doing their best for the delivery of fighters’ bodies. Ayhan emphasized that the preventions were crimes against humanity that had no place in national or international law. Ayhan recalled AKP’s war concept that followed the pause in the solution process, and said that the government was trying to take politics as hostage by increasing psychological pressure through the preventions. He highlighted that they would not bow down to blackmailing and wait at the border until the bodies were delivered.
'This is humanity's shame'
HDP Şırnak Parliamentarian Ferhat Encü stated that AKP was openly committing crimes against humanity, and recalled the prevention of 13 fighters’ bodies at Habur Border Gate. Encü criticized the prevention of bodies’ delivery to the fighters’ families, and emphasized that Prime Minister Davutoğlu and President Erdoğan themselves gave the order of this prevention in a cabinet meeting, and it was difficult for HDP to object to this decision since it is verbal and there is no paperwork to challenge legally. Encü noted that they were trying to resolve this issue through face-to-face dialogues but the government had no intention to engage in such dialogues.
Encü said that the prevention of people’s burial in their own lands, villages, and cities is where words fail, and nowhere else in the world had such burial preventions. The HDP deputy for Şırnak described the state’s approach as a hostile and fascist aspect of dirty war policies that have been implemented for the past 30 years, and reiterated that they would resist until they received the bodies and soon take the preventions to international platforms.
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