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ŞIRNEX – The European Court of Human Rights has issued an injunction in the case of Orhan Tunç, a man wounded in the town of Cizre yesterday and being denied medical attention by Turkish state forces. Sources say that Orhan is still being denied care despite the injunction.

For 37 days, Turkish state forces have maintained an assault and 24-hour cufew in the town of Cizre. 20-year-old Orhan Tunç left his home in the Cudi neighborhood recently to search for his older brother Mehmet, who had been missing for five days. Orhan was shot and wounded. State forces are denying ambulance access to Orhan.

Faysal Sarıyıldız, Parliamentary representative for Cizre’s province of Şırnak from the HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party), has been following Orhan’s case.

“ECHR has issued an injunction regarding Orhan Tunç, who for the last two days has been left to die in a wounded condition in Cizre’s Cudi neighborhood,” wrote Faysal on his social media account. “ECHR’s injunction for Tunç is important. However, there needs to immediately be a decision that can stop the state’s savagery in Cizre. In these hours, as ECHR issues the injunction, Cizre is under heavy bombardment and the wounded cannot be evacuated from the neighborhoods.”

Meanwhile, the body of father of three Mehmet Kaplan has still not been able to be retrieved from the street where he was killed. After snipers shot and killed Mehmet, they have opened fire on anyone who attempts to retrieve the body. The union Genel-İş announced today that Mehmet, a municipal janitor, was a member of their union. The union called for the state to immediately allow access to Mehmet’s body and end the blockade on Cizre.

(at-ab-am/gc/cm)