“Civilians Shot on Nusaybin Streets”

“There is blockade and attempted massacre here. There is neither electricity nor water. Let alone going to a store, people can’t even leave their homes. The stores are already closed”.

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy from Mardin, Gülser Yıldırım has said that she didn’t participate in oath-taking ceremony in parliament as standing by people exposed to intervention during curfew in Turkey’s southeastern district of Nusaybin in Mardin province would be the right thing to do.

The curfew is now in its 6th day.

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“People are being shot as I talk to you right now, this morning two more people shot and one of them killed,” stated Yıldırım speaking to bianet as to the situation in Nusaybin.

“This morning a 40-year-old woman named Gül Tutak was shot and wounded, and taken to hospital. Again today a man aged around 45-50 named Hasan Dağ lost his life. Killings and injuries continue”.

Yıldırım stating she will go to the hospital to check Tutak’s condition said, “Last night a youngster was shot in the neck and taken to hospital in Diyarbakır, and struggling for life in intensive care”.

Vital needs cannot be met

“The blockade holds in the whole district a massacre rehearsal is taking place. It is unacceptable. Will Turkey remain silent?”

Yıldırım expressed that people cannot meet even their vital needs, adding electricity and water cannot be provided, people can’t go shopping, and the stores are closed.

“They attack by saying Allahuakbar”

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Yıldırım told police officers attack by saying “Allahuakbar, bismillah”.

“AKP (Justice and Development Party) state responds to Kurdish people’s self-governance demand in an invasive way. Police officers attack and slaughter people by saying Allahuakbar”.

What had happened?

Curfew was declared by sub-governorship in 15 neighborhoods of Turkey’s southeastern Nusaybin district in Mardin province to be effective as of November 13. End time of the curfew is yet to be announced.

Fırat News Agency wrote that Selamet Yeşilmen, whom the agency stated as pregnant lost her life resulted by fire opened from armored vehicles. In the incident, four people including two children wounded.

Nusaybin Sub-Governorship in written statement said injuries and killings resulted by “shrapnel pieces”, rejected the allegations that police were the cause.

In the 5th day of the curfew, 65-year-old Süleyman A. on his way to his daughter’s home was wounded by police fire and taken to hospital.

About Nusaybin

Nusaybin is one of the 10 districts of Turkey’s southeastern province of Mardin. The population is 97,156. Its southern neighboring country is Syria.

Its Co-Mayors are Sara Kaya and Cengiz Kök from Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).

November 1, 2015 General Election Results

HDP (% 89,38), Justice and Development Party (AKP) (% 8,62), People’s Republican Party (CHP) (% 0,63), Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) (% 0,55)

June 7, 2015 General Election Results

HDP (% 90,42, AKP (% 6,53), MHP (% 0.80), CHP (% 0,37) (AS/TK)

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