Sirnax-Northern Kurdistan: The Defence Forces of Kurdistan (HPG) announced that they killed several police in operation on armoured vehicles.
HPG announced that their operations were in response to the death of 14 year old Kurdish child, Firat Basan. They added that they had already warned the Turkish government that they would protect the Kurdish nation against the Turkish offensives.
They continued by claiming that their guerrillas have specifically carried out this raid in response to the death of Firat Basan.
The Turkish armoured vehicle crushed a 14 year old Kurdish child named Firat Bason to death a few days ago. The Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Deputy Chairman Bengi Yıldız said that the Turkish government is responsible for the attack.
The Kurds denounced this violent and brutal act of Turkish army by peaceful demonstrations which were replied by water cannons, gas bombs and batons by Turkish police. These demonstrations left several injuries that among them Safahir Bayender was who is the BDP‘s MP in Turkish parliament.
HPG is the defensive military wing of Kurdistan Worker Party (PKK), founded in 1973 as the result of the continuous and systematic oppressions and the denial of the Kurdish nation by the occupying powers of Kurdistan. The PKK took up arm in 1984 since all the possible political and diplomatic means applied for 11 years in between 1973-84 proved exhausted. The PKK however declared its first unilateral ceasefire in 1993 since it believed the arm struggle had hit its targets. Since 1993 to date the PKK has declared 6 unilateral ceasefires in 6 different occasions and called upon Ankara to solve the Kurdish problem in a peaceful democratic way.
Despite the facts that the PKK has declared 6 unilateral ceasefires and also it sent peace groups in two different occasions yet the PKK is considered as a ‘terrorist’ organization by Ankara and the US. It also continues to be on the blacklist in EU despite the court ruling, which overturned the decision to place the Kurdish freedom movement on the EU’s terror list. “By labelling PKK as a terrorist organisation, the EU and the US are giving Turkey a green light to target its civilians. They gave the Turkish government a free hand to do what it will, a mother of Kurdish martyr said”.
It should be noted that after 1954, apart from the Korean War in1949-52 and the invasion of Cyprus in 1974, the Turkish Army operations have continued to be exclusively against the Kurds.