Northern Kurdistan- Hakkari: Turkish police forces attacked a 14-year-old Kurdish child dragged her behind and broke her cheek bone in front of his mother and the cameras. The Peace and Democracy Party and the Human Rights Foundation called for the suspension of the Governor and the Chief of Police.
After the fascist provocative attack on the Kurdish leader Ahmet Turk, the former co-chair of the banned Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP), protests carried out in the different cities of Northern Kurdistan (south east Turkey) over the course of the last few days.
On 13 April, the Turkish Police Forces attacked a 14-year-old Kurdish child and dragged him behind along the road in the Kurdish city of Hakkari. According to the family of the boy his cheek bone was broken in two spots. He was kept under police surveillance in the State Hospital for the whole night. In the following day he was transferred to the Van Training and Research Hospital to undergo surgery.
“My nephew came from school when the demonstration passed right in front of his house. The police wanted to arrest him. My nephew ran towards his home but they caught him from behind and dragged him along the road. He was hit on the head with a truncheon. My nephew has two fractures in his left cheek bone. He was transferred to Van since they could not operate him in Hakkari. His mother’s arm was broken too, his aunt said”.
Following the initial comment of Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that ‘’whether men, women or children, the security forces will react with disproportionate force’’, several amendments were made to the country’s anti-terror law, it is possible to charges children as terrorists and put them away for up to 50 years in jail. There are currently 2,622 minors serving time in Turkish prisons on the charge of terrorism.
In 23 of April 2009, an anti-terror police attacked and beat one of our children to death, the policeman was not punished:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEMuwkETXuU
In 2008, a policeman broke the arm of a Kurdish child in front of the cameras during the Kurdish festival Newroz:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT9Gk3tkGsk