Germany–According to the Spiegel Online it has been approved by the German experts that the Turkey has used prohibited weapons of mass destruction against the Kurdish freedom fighters in Northern Kurdistan.
Several months ago 10 Kurdish guerrillas were killed by the Turkish army, and then their body was butchered and burnt. It was discovered that the Turkish army used weapons of mass destruction, which has been prohibited to be used according to the International law and United Nations.
Spiegel online described the barbaric Turkish army’s conduct as follow “It would be difficult to exceed the horror shown in the photos, which feature burned, maimed and scorched body parts, evidence shows that it has long been suspected of using such weapons by the Turkish army against Kurdish rebels”. Spiegel online stated that the German politicians are demanding an investigation.
Spiegel online reports that the victims are scarcely even recognizable as human beings and Turkish-Kurdish human rights activists believe the people in the photos are eight members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) underground movement, who are thought to have been killed in September 2009”.
Further to the report published by Spiegel it continues to stated that German politicians and human rights experts are now demanding an investigation into the incident. “The latest findings are so spectacular that the Turkish side urgently needs to explain things,” said Claudia Roth, the co-chair of Germany’s Green Party. “It is impossible to understand why an autopsy of the PKK fighters was ordered but the results kept under seal.”
The politician said there had been repeated “mysterious incidents of this type that are crying out for an independent investigation.” Roth demanded that Turkey issue an official statement on the possible use of chemical weapons “in order to nullify further allegations.”
Ruprecht Polenz, a member of the German parliament with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union and the chairman of the Bundestag’s Foreign Relations Committee, sees it the same way. “Turkey needs to urgently look into these accusations,” he told SPIEGEL ONLINE, adding that an international investigation would be the best approach.
Turkey has been suspected of using chemical weapons for years, points out Gisela Penteker, a Turkey expert with the international medical organization International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. “Local people have said that again and again,” she explained. Finding proof is difficult, however, she said, because bodies were often released so late that it was hardly possible to carry out a thorough autopsy.
When the Human Rights advocates and journalists asked the Turkish government if Turkish army have used chemical weapons against the Kurds, Prime Minster and Foreign Ministry rejected to make any comments in regards of the barbaric incident. One of the Turkish Member of the Parliament stated in his statement that the Turkish Prime Minister is not interested in violation of Human Rights Conventions. The Turkish MP forgot the imprisonment of the Kurdish children, democratically elected members of parliaments and councilors by the Receb Tayyep Ordogan administration and its army.
Spiegel Online continues in its report that In Turkey, human rights advocates have long demanded an investigation. The army, however, has refused to comment on the issue. Similarly, the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been stubbornly silent or tried to portray the accusations of war crimes as “PKK propaganda.”
The Turkish Foreign Ministry has rejected the accusations, according to the Berlin daily newspaper Die Tageszeitung, which reported on the case Thursday. Turkey is a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention, and its armed forces do not possess any biological or chemical weapons, the ministry reportedly said.
The newspaper also reports that it has obtained additional, shocking pictures in the meantime, supposedly autopsy photographs of six other killed Kurds. These images, too, have now been submitted to the Hamburg-based experts.
It is worth to mention that Recep Tayyip Ordogan government repeatedly accuses and blames Israeli government for using internationally prohibited weapons against the Iranian Islamic regimes fianancially and politically supported group in Lebanon, which is known as Hizbullah “Party of God”, whereas repeatedly Turkish government use chemical weapons against the Kurds in Northern Kurdistan, which, by doing so, violates the Chemical Weapons Convention it had ratified.