HEWLER, South Kurdistan, — Kurdish International Campaign released a statement in which it seriously criticised the United States and the United Kingdom for their silence in the face of Sirnak Massacre.
Kurdish International Campaign remarks that the US and the UK are giving legitimisation to the genocide of the Kurdish people in Turkey and called upon them not to sell armaments to Turkey any more.
The statement remarks, “At the end of 2011 the world witnessed a heartbreaking episode; as a result of Turkish airstrike 40 civilian lost their lives. Unfortunately the episode was not projected in the international arena and the world didn’t condemn this savage act of Turkish state, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. Notwithstanding, when the Kurdish guerrillas of the PKK defend themselves from the aggression of Turkish state, both the imperialist states of the US and the UK straightaway condemn the PKK’s attacks on Turkish militaries and they support the Turkish state, but in front of the international communities and few days after Erdogan’s apology for the Massacre of Dersim, once again the Kurdish people experienced another massacre in Sirnak, but the superpower didn’t break their silence in the face of such a massacre.”
The statements articulates that the US and UK’s silence gives legitimisation to Turkey’s aggression; “We do strongly denounce the silence of the United States and the United Kingdom and we are sure that their silence would legitimise the genocides the Turkish state is committing against the Kurds,” the statement added.
“At the end we call upon the superpowers that in the face of the bloodshed of the Kurdish people not to stay silent, and stop selling armaments to Turkey for these arms are used for the killing of the Kurds. The Kurdish people are good and would not forget the malevolence of no one,” Kurdish International Campaign ended.