JINHA

NEWS CENTER -KÖM (the Women's Freedom Council) issues a call to the world public opinion to end military curfew in Kurdish towns of Turkey.

The KÖM made a written statement to the World public opinion to end military curfew in Kurdistan towns in Turkey. In the statement KÖM said, “As the State becomes more and more ISIS-like, the peoples’ resistance resembles Kobanê.”

Some sentences of the KÖM’s written statement as follows: “In the Kurdish towns/provinces of Hakkari, Dargeçit, Sur, Nusaybin, Silopi and Cizre, the State has removed all doctors’ leaves and permissions, calling all medical equipment personnel to be prepared, It has emptied out student dormitories, placing security forces within them instead of students. The State has swiftly removed teachers from places where it has declared or is planning to declare curfews and perpetrate massacres. It is currently preventing entry into and exit from these districts by way of police and military forces. The State is continuing an endless dispatch of military equipment, ammunition, soldiers and police forces at the highest level possible to these areas. What this means is more killings, greater massacres, destruction and pain.

Since the 7th of June, indefinite and all day long curfews have been declared 52 times in the 17 districts of 6 different provinces, where 1.3 million people live. As a result more than 140 people have been killed, including 20 women and 26 children. The wounded and sick have lost their lives due to the impossibility of timely intervention, as their right to health care has been denied. Electrical grids and water systems have been shut down, preventing people from meeting even very basic needs. GSM operators have also been rendered inaccessible, denying people their right to communication. People have been displaced, forced to migrate from their homes once again. People – and especially women – have been subjected to all kinds of insults, abuse and mistreatment.

We call all women’s organizations, human rights defenders, academics, journalists and politicians to action in order to prevent this murderous attempt to massacre the population in entire districts.”

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