Witness of the massacre: officer told me we had been followed

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JINHA

DÎLOK - Wounded in Antep massacre Gülistan Akdoğan said the man with vest in the wedding area was a young man, “One officer, who took my testimony, told me we had been followed for two days,” said Gülistan.

When witnesses, who wounded in Antep, tell what happened in the incident day, new information has come to surface. Muhbet Akdoğan, one of wounded people, stated that the suicide bomber was a young man not child yesterday. Gülistan Akdoğan affirms Muhbet and said the suicide bomber was a young man.

Gülistan said, “We were all relatives, there wasn’t foreigner. Only several of our neighbors joined us. I noticed one stranger in the street. I thought he was a beggar. Beggars come to wedding parties to beg money in this area. He wasn’t a child. He wore a vest and he was a young man. If I knew he was a suicide bomber, I would take him out. I just remember I heard sound of a huge explosion. I fell to the ground. I saw women, children and young people on the ground one on the top the other. I don’t remember anything except that.”

Gülistan reacts to attacks against Kurdish people, “Children and young people died. What did they want from these innocent people? Why does this war continue? Enough stop shed blood. We lost all of our relatives. Three-four people were killed in each family. This was an edict against the Kurds. Fatma Şahin came to the hospital to say, ‘Your pain is our pain’, if our pain is your pain, why do we only suffer? I told her; “You held rally for days, why didn’t this bomb exploded in your rally? How has this big state failed to arrest these murderers? I don’t want anyone to visit me. These murderers have walked around for two years; if they wanted they could prevent them. They are lying. They want to hold our hand to show in channels. We don’t want such support. Bring our children back.”

Gülistan said that one officer came to hospital to take her testimony and told her, they had been followed for two days, “I don’t know who these people were and why they followed us. One officer was taking my testimony; he asked me the day of the attack. I didn’t ask to see his identity card. I was in shock and I didn’t think to ask it from him. Since they knew these people followed us, why didn’t they prevent them? They should explain us that. No one hear and see when the Kurds are killed. Our children died and our wedding turned into mourning.”

(bc/gc/gd)