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- Subject: NEWS:Turkish Army Massacres Kurds/WW
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- Via The NY Transfer News Service ~ All the News that Doesn't Fit
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- Turkish army massacres kurds
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- By Ali Azad
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- Starting on Aug. 18, Turkish troops opened fire in the Kurdish
- town of Sirnak and killed hundreds of Kurdish civilians. The
- Turkish army imposed a curfew on the town and have forbidden
- people to leave their houses.
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- According to the Human Rights Association of Diyarbakir, Turkey,
- and the Kurdistan Information Center in London, the Turkish army
- has also bombed the villages of Hestan, Dehla, Biye and Zoroya in
- Turkish Kurdistan.
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- The army has refused to allow the injured to be moved to the
- hospitals outside Sirnak. Many injured are dying from lack of
- treatment.
-
- To justify the attack on Sirnak, the Turkish state-controlled
- media told the world that government and military buildings in
- Sirnak had been raided by more than a thousand guerrillas from
- the Workers Party of Kurdistan. This group, known by its Kurdish
- initials PKK, has been carrying on an armed liberation struggle
- against the oppressive Turkish state since 1984.
-
- According to the Kurdistan Information Center statement, "If
- there had been more than 1,000 guerrillas in Sirnak the regional
- governor and minister of the interior would have had to think
- twice about flying into Sirnak by helicopter."
-
- The statement also quoted an eyewitness from the region:
-
- "The areas of Guzelyurt, Gazi, Imetpasa, Cumhuriyet, have been
- destroyed. The soldiers are pouring petrol on the houses, then
- firing from five to six meters away and setting them on fire.
- Special counter-insurgency teams are now taking the electrical
- goods from the shops and loading them on the military vehicles.
- For two days there has been no water, no electricity and no
- food."
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- Turkey is a member of NATO and receives $1 billion a year in
- direct U.S. military aid, third highest in the world after Israel
- and Egypt. It is also the site of 15 U.S. military bases.
-
- Meanwhile the big business-controlled media in the U.S. has given
- no publicity whatsoever to the events in Sirnak. Media complicity
- only highlights the Pentagon participation in the massacre of
- Kurdish people.
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- if source is cited. For more info contact Workers World,46 W. 21
- St., New York, NY 10010; "workers@igc.apc.org".)
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