Haberler

The PKK used the solution process that started in 2013 as an opportunity to come down from the mountains into the cities. In Sur and all other counties where “self-government” was eventually proclaimed, preparations started long beforehand. It was at this time that the urban gangs called the YDG-H were trained and organized. Guns, bombs and rocket-launchers came to be stockpiled.

Besides spending $8 billion in aid since giving a warm welcome within its borders to nearly 2.5 million Syrian refugees, Turkey has activated its administrative and legal mechanisms to bring a systematic approach to this issue.

Apo is silent because he feels his leadership to be threatened. Any statement or declaration that is not to the liking of those in power on Kandil and over the HDP could be the end of Apo once and for all. (...) What happened to his brother Osman Öcalan was actually a threat aimed at Apo himself.

This picture isn’t limited to Sur. In Cizre, Nusaybin, Silvan, Lice and elsewhere, again and again it is the same images, the same heartbreaking scenes. Those who can, hit the road with whatever meager belongings they have been able to grab. Everyone is trying to escape with their lives from this hell.

Before and after, and the right and left of the ditches there lie only death, devastation and destruction.