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Ayşe Dicle waiting to have two bodies in the crisis center established for Cizre district of Şırnak province has explained that 39 bodies have been taken out of the district and that the attacks continued this morning (February 11) too.
The curfew, which has been in effect as of December 14 will be reduced to halftime in Cizre district of Şırnak province.
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Interior Minister Efkan Ala has explained that “operations have been completed in Cizre”, and the curfew will continue at nights as in Silopi.
DNA test will be performed on bodies
The crisis desk established by Democratic Regions Party (DBP), MEYADER and Mesopotamia Legists Association (MHD), has stated that the bodies retrieved from Cudi and Sur neighborhoods in Cizre have been transported to Mardin, Şırnak, and Urfa provinces.
Some of the bodies will be sent to Cizre after the autopsy.
Dice told that they still cannot receive any information about wounded taking shelter in the basement.
Crisis desk’s statement expressed that “most of the bodies have been burned to death yet DNA comparison should be made to identify them”.
Demirtaş: Scene cannot be investigated
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair, Selahattin Demirtaş said the following in his speech today as to incidents in Cizre:
“We cannot let war laws of war be trampled on just because we couldn’t stop the war, as lived in Cizre in these hours.
“We are talking about as many as 100 youngsters, women, and children cornered in buildings for two weeks. Many different figures have been announced.
“The only and most solid information we have is that there is a mass slaughter and war crime being committed in there.
“Prosecutor cannot enter there; scene investigation cannot be made. Those who have been massacred are abandoned to decay in a way to leave no evidence behind”.
Invitation to ECtHR
Attorney Ramazan Demir from Libertarian Legists Association (ÖHD) and MHD Co-Chair Gülşen Özbek have applied to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for Cizre again.
The application has requested scene investigation and prosecution to be conducted by members whom the court will see fit. (AS/TK)
