Zeynep Akın/JINHA

ÊLIH - Altusaç Bişici and Birgül Ekinci are two women who are searching for their brothers lost in 90s. Two women want to have at least their brothers’s graves. “ They hit and took the dead bodies from us in 90s however, they told that they didn’t. They openly kill people and they don’t let people to retrieve the dead bodies today. They don’t allow people to bury their relatives’s dead bodies.” said the women.

When you talk about the 90s, the missing people in Kurdistan are remembered. People saw their husbands, chidren, brothers, sisters and fathers to the doors. These doors are never closed agains because the people are waiting their relatieves will come back from the doors one day. The people like these two women want to have at least their relatives’s graves. When we talked to the people about the situation in Kurdistan , they answered, “ We didn’t experience such violence even in 90s,”. Even ATK (forensic medicine institution) regulations were changed in order to not be given the dead bodies to their families in Sur, Silopi, Cizre, Nusaybin and other areas of Kurdistan where are under blockade. Families who ask to retrieve their children dead bodies from Sur, begin a hunger strike. a group attempting to evacuate wounded citizens under siege in the town of Cizre came under heavy police fire on Nusaybin Avenue yesterday.

So what are women who lost their relatives in the 90s, comments about the situation of Kurdistan in several months? Altusaç Bişici and Birgül Ekinci are two women who are searching for their brothers lost in 90s. Altusaç is searching for her brother Mehmet Şirin Maltu who lost in 1994. Birgül is searching Mehmet Zeki Akyıldız who was kidnapped by Hezbollah in 1993, when she was 16 years old.

Altusaç told the story how her brother was missed : “ We lived in the Yağmurlu (Zedya)village of Batman. Turkish army organized a raid to our house on February, 2013 at 20:00. Two soldiers took my brother’s arms and they walked to out. We didn’t know where they took him.
“ They came back to our house next day with two jeeps and two Peugeots. They chained Şirin’s feet. They delved the houses. However, they could not find anything because there wasn’t anything in the house. They went out of the house. Soldiers tortured Şirin in turn. I still can hear my brother’s scream. They took Şirin away. We haven’t received any news from my brother since then.”

Altusaç said, “ Today is different than the 90s. The violence is more intensive then the 90s. They hit and took the dead bodies from us in 90s however, they told that they didn’t. They openly kill people and they don’t let people to retrieve the dead bodies today. They don’t allow people to bury their relatives’s dead bodies.”

“ Mehmet Zeki Akyıldız was kidnapped by Hezbollah in 1993 when he was student in Batman High School. Zeki went to Silvan (district of Diyarbakır) to visit my sister. 3 people abducted him in front of the Acem mosque. We heard that Hezbollah member took him to a bunker called Susa. They took people there and they tortured them. They released 30-40 people after 8 months my brother was kidnapped. Releases told us that Şirin was with them. We haven’t received any news from him since then.”

(gc/gd)