Öykü Dilara Keskin/JINHA

ANKARA - ÖHD (Association of Free Lawyers) has filed a complaint at the ECtHR against the onslaughts which broke out after the declaration of "curfews" in Kurdistan. ÖHD lawyer Oya Aydın said, "Turkey presented the defense to ECtHR manipulatively. They presented the massacres of Ankara and Suruç and the attacks of Daesh as the reasons for the conflicts in Turkey. If we file a complaint at the ECtHR about human rights violations in the region, we may get a positive decision."

ÖHD filed a complaint at the European Court of Human Rights for "cautionary measures" three times for Sur and Cizre. The ECtHR ruled that there was "no need to take cautionary measure". Meanwhile, the lawyers are working on a complaint to the AYM (Turkey's Constitutional Court), the UN and the Hague against the blockades in Kurdistan.

Oya Aydın, one of the lawyers who filed the complaint at the ECtHR and the AYM (Constitutional Court) and member of ÖHD, said, "Serious human rights violations are taking place in the region. Many people are victims and they cannot meet their basic needs. We filed a complaint at the Court on behalf of the citizens who are pregnant, sick and disabled. And we also filed a complaint at the Court on behalf of citizens in Sur who had to leave their houses and still cannot return. After the AYM refused the applications, we filed a complaint at the ECtHR. If the ECtHR didn't take our complaint seriously, they would have rejected it the same day. We didn't think they would take a cautionary measure but we wanted to try all legal avenues.

"The state is forbidden to use weapons on its own people. If a state use weapons on its own people, the UN can intervene against the state. But the intervention of the UN means a military intervention. We want to solve this problem with human rights organizations, not with millitary intervention. The law of war was prepared with the Geneva Convention. But now there are practices in Kurdistan that are not accounted for in the Geneva Convention." said Oya.

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