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CNNi broadcast TV images of this act of violence in Southern Turkey where a Kurdish majority lives. There had been reports this year that violence had returned to Turkey from the Kurdish region of Northern Iraq.
It was difficult to find the story, following link is nearly verbatim to CNNi report.
Two civilians dead and dozens wounded
For a long period there have been bomb attacks in Kurdistan by the government’s contra -guerrilla forces. Our attention has been brought to the fact that these attacks have mainly been in Hakkari’s Semdinli district.
The latest bombings occurred on the 9th November, which was the day the EU published its annual report for the ended September 2005 on Turkey’s progress towards accession. It was also the day on which an agreement was signed in which Germany would be selling two hundred tanks to Turkey. The report made no mention of the Kurdish question.
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The police began to fire at the crowd, who wanted to lynch the sergeants, but took them to the police station. A large and diverse quantity of guns and bombs were found in the sergeants’ vehicle. We have found out that Zahir Korkmaz was killed in the bookstore in which the bomb exploded and Metin Korkmaz was heavily wounded.
This act is very similar to SAS operation in Basra a few months ago. What if anything can we believe our governments are telling us and what information is kept secret.
NEW YORK Nov. 18, 2005 — The shooting deaths this week of at least four demonstrators by Turkish police signals an alarming deterioration in the human rights situation in southeastern Turkey. Growing police violence against demonstrators jeopardizes the significant human rights progress that Turkey has achieved in recent years. “Turkish police appear to have used excessive force in the shooting deaths of four unarmed demonstrators,” said Holly Cartner, Europe and Central Asia director of Human Rights Watch. “If security forces are allowed to revert to their old ways with impunity, not only will more lives be lost, but the achievements of the past few years will also be squandered.”
According to eyewitness reports, police shot and killed İsmail Bartin, Ersin Mengeç, Abdülhaluk Geylani and Gıyasettin Avcı during violent disturbances following a press conference in the town of Yüksekova on November 15. Eyewitnesses reported that police abruptly used force to disperse people who had assembled to listen to the reading of a press release issued by the Democratic People’s Party (DEHAP) about events in the nearby town of Şemdinli.
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For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
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