Ertuğrul Kürkçü: Silopi People Want Peace

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) İzmir deputy and Peoples' Democratic Congress (HDK) Co-Spokesperson Ertuğrul Kürkçü shared his observations in Silopi district of Şırnak province in southeastern Turkey with bianet. Kürkçü stated the people requested an immediate resolution waiting angrily and worriedly.

“Everyone in the district wants peace. They frankly say ‘We don’t want the death of soldiers and policemen beside our sons.’ They are waiting for a solution.”

Kürkçü remarked they tried to reach state officials but they met by refusal.

State’s only manifestation is the police

Kürkçü shared his observations in Silopi:

“People were unjustly treated with the attacks. Buildings are full of holes. People were executed by shooting even in ambulances.”

 “The state isn’t here socially. It only has force. District Governor stated the Governor had full authority but the governor doesn’t see anybody.”

Detainees are tortured 

 “Almost all of the detainees told they were ‘unutterably and humiliatingly’ tortured. However, people didn’t mention about tortures when compared with deaths.”

State violence against self-governance

“Clientelism between people and the state is over. The state hasn’t got social, cultural or political means to reach people. They only have the force and they desperately use violence against people.

“The main purpose behind the violence is that the state afraid people will create self-governance.

“Self-governance is perceived as autonomy but people themselves provide the public services in which the state failed. People build their roads, repair their power cuts. The only thing the state provides is violence. People fill the blank that the state left.”

 “The state cannot bear this kind of willpower and attack. The main reason behind the attacks is to subjugate humans.” (AS/BD)

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