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Turkish jets demolish cemetery of martyrs in Southern Kurdistan
A cemetery of martyrs has been bombed in yesterday’s airstrikes by the Turkish army in Southern Kurdistan.
Warplanes of the invading Turkish army carried out strikes on Alye Reş, Bestê and Maradu villages in Jarawa subdistrict in Qeladizê district of Southern Kurdistan Sunday evening.
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The Martyr Gulan and Martyr Simko cemetery in Maradu village was also shelled in the bombardment. While several graves were demolished, Martyr Gulan and Martyr Simko Museum, where photographs and memories of the martyrs are kept, was razed to the ground.
The attack furthermore damaged many trees in the cemetery and demolished the area built for visitors. A Quran and books in the cemetery scattered around as a result of the bombardment which also caused damage to many areas of local people.
The invading Turkish army has bombed and demolished many cemeteries of martyrs in Northern Kurdistan and Afrin before as part of its ISIS-like practices.
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Turkey demolishes cemetery of fallen Kurdish fighters
December 22-2017 08:56 PM
Picture shows Turkish authorities' destruction of a cemetery for fallen PKK fighters in the Kurdish province of Bitlis, December 2017. (Photo: HDP)
Bitlis Cemetery PKK YPG Kobani
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) - Turkish authorities demolished a cemetery with heavy equipment in the Kurdish province of Bitlis which comprised of the graves of 267 Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters fallen in clashes at various times and locations with the army, a lawmaker revealed on Friday.
Bitlis MP Mahmut Celadet Gaydali of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) said during a press conference at the Turkish Parliament that the government had begun "targeting the dead" after ending the 2013-15 peace talks with the PKK.
Gaydali explained that the cemetery in his home city's Yukariolek (Oleka Jor) village was built collectively by families of fighters killed and there was no intervention or obstruction by authorities when they did so in 2013.
The MP said the father of one of the fighters buried there contacted him, complaining that he learned of the destruction by local military officials, reported Kurdistan 24's Ankara bureau.
The father said his daughter, a member of the US-backed People's Protection Units (YPG) was killed during the 2014 Islamic State (IS) siege of the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani on the border with Turkey.
Her remnants along with those of others were then transferred from the area under curfew to Istanbul's Forensic Institute, officials told the father according to the MP.
"The regime has started mistreating even the dead. It has rotten and crossed all moral lines. Humanity has died [under that rule]," said a press release on the website of the HDP condemning the Turkish government.
It accused President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party of engaging in oppression that "did not occur to other tyrants."
The pro-Kurdish that braces a now year-long state crackdown also said the AKP government was hypocritical in its harsh responses to Israel for occupying Palestinian lands and Myanmar for driving out the minority Muslim Rohingya people.
"Even the most barbarian armies did not ignore the right to be buried, something that does not require any written laws," read the statement signed by Ayse Acar Basaran.
"What kind of mental state it is that [Turkey] arranges funerals for the Anzacs who came to invade but destroys graves in Bitlis," HDP Spokesperson Ayhan Bilgen asked on Twitter.
He was referring to annual commemorations in western Turkey to honor the memory of British Empire's Australian and New Zealander soldiers who died fighting the Ottomans in Gallipoli front during World War One.
Turkish army regularly bombs and destroys PKK fighters’ graves and cemeteries in Kurdish provinces, and targets them in the mountains of the Kurdistan Region in neighboring Iraq where the group is headquartered.
In September, troops acting under orders of an Ankara-appointed governor in the Kurdish province of Bingol demolished the grave of a Peshmerga volunteer, Sait Curukkaya, who was killed during the Kurdish-Iraqi offensive to capture the then IS-held city of Mosul in 2016.
Curukkaya's brother then penned an open letter to the Turkish President Erdogan to protest the act.
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Pic says governments officials refused to attend the funeral of a fallen soldier because he was alevi muslim
Try harder secterian hizbi, this is Turkey and we don't allow so called cemestery for pkk. And this is no the same, group persian mercenies with secterian intention destroying cemetery
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