This year In the operation which is carried out by police in october the second, 24-year-old Hacı Lokman Birlik’s dead body was dragged and tortured by an armoured police vehicle. The incident’s photos and videos were published on the social media. Before this on 10th of august a woman guerilla of HPG (People’s Defense Forces)/YJA Star (free Women’s Troops) Kader Kevser Eltürk (Ekin Wan) captured injured, tortured and she dumped on a road naked in Muş Varto.The photos of naked body circulated in social media.
Besides, on the fourth of october press members, Murat Demir(ozgur tv) and Serhat Yüce (DİHA) are threatened with death. A plainclothes police officer pressed his gun to journalist’s head who was filming the operations in Silvan district in Diyarbakır. Police confiscated video cameras and other filming equipment belonging to Demir and Yüce. Related photos are published on the social media.
These entire events reminds us the dirty war applications of 80’s and 90’s in Turkey. Furthermore the illegal applications of martial law of 80’s and 90’s are being applied without any legal basis but verbal instructions. Despite the governor has no authority to declarate curfew its been applied systematically and widespread; inspite of absence of legal basis prevention of dead bodys transition to the country.bombing the burial places that PKK guerillas rest. Prevention of fire ( occuring as a result of military operations) fighting actions of civils. Using pepper spray in settled area in a systematic way, interposing the settled areas -which are curfew declerated- with armoured vehicles including tanks, using mortar attacks as a method in built-up area, shooting unarmed civil people placing sharpshooters and the other security forces to the area. As you can see these applications can’t be applied in humanitarian law. For years, Turkey hide the violence that used in kurdish issue under the name of anti terrorism and received support in international area. Expantion of armed conflict area and arise of barriers in political resolution of Kurdish issue made this plea unconvincing.Geneva convention has to be applied to ongoing armed conflicts. Otherwise inhuman applications which applied to Hacı Lokman Birlik and Kader Kevser Eltürk will keep seperate people in Turkey emotionally. Turkey has to quit inhuman, dirty war applications and remind that certain humanitarian rules must be observed in war time. The most decisive factor that gives rise to this applications is impunity. This policy of impunity since 80’s brought us to this point. The absence of objectivity and independence of judgement and the impact of political force on jurisdiction are the main reasons of impunity. The silence of judgement in the recent events showed us the naked facts. Turkey has become a police state that jurisdiction and legislation are ineffective and only executive authority controls the country. We as civil right defenders, want to point out that humanitarian law have to be applied to resumed armed conflicts and we invoke international community foremost International Committee of The Red Cross to interfere to stop the war.
Human Rights Association