The background to “civilians are being killed in Silvan”
The PKK had declared the township to be under “self-government” as of 15th August. Now it has started digging new ditches and sent in its armed militants in an attempt to create a “liberated area.” Silvan’s advantage is an easier connection with its rural surroundings. Hence the PKK is constantly able to resupply its local forces with bombs, rockets and other weapons.
From Diyarbakır to Silvan: “Who is going to pour water on this fire?”
Their lives practically devastated by all these proclamations of “self-government” and their negative consequences, the people of the region want Kandil to revise these policies. They are also calling on both the state and the PKK to take the Solution Process out of the deep freeze, and somehow to put it back on track.
PKK’s strategic fault
Before the Nov. 1 elections, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş was arguing that their seats in Parliament would increase to 100. According...
Covering up for anonymous, unsolved murders
The Temizöz Case, indeed, has not been a first in this regard. Recently, many court cases revolving around crimes committed by state officials in the 1990s have resulted in “not guilty” verdicts, and soldiers accused of crimes against humanity have been acquitted.
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Is the JİTEM file going to be closed?
The “not guilty” verdict pronounced by the court in the JİTEM case, flying as it does in the face of a plethora of strongly incriminating evidence, violates my sense of justice, too, as it does for many others. Even if, as some would have it, these cases were started through the “Congregation’s desire to settle accounts” and then also paralyzed through their manipulations, they carried, and do carry, a fundamental, non-negligible significance.