GFTU BGCM 2019 Minutes

detained and was released on the same day by the police in Diyarbakir one

day before the bomb attack. I will have to say it again, the same day by the

police in Diyarbakir one day before the bomb attack.

Moreover, two suicide bombers attacked those who came from 81 cities of

Turkey and gathered for the Peace and Democracy Meeting in front of the

Ankara Railway Station in October 2015. 103 civilians were killed and 500

injured. This target was to block HDP success and keep it below the 10%

election threshold. During the trials and statements of confessors of IS who

were detained in Syria, it was clarified that the suicide bomb killers were known

by the Turkish Intelligence Service. However, they were allowed to enter into

Turkey’s border. The violence was unbounded when the Turkish state, under

the pretext of fighting the PKK, attacked Kurdish cities and towns in 2015. At

least 3,000 people lost their lives, according to the data of human rights

organisations. Two million people were displaced. Around 10 cities were

destroyed.

Moreover, Taybet Inan was shot by security forces on front of her house in

Silopi, Şirnak. She was wounded but was not allowed to be taken to hospital

by her son and relatives. She died within hours in front of her relatives’ eyes

and even her corpse was not allowed to be buried and kept on the floor in front

of her house since days. 13 year old Cemile Çağirga was killed as a result of

the ammunition hitting her house. Her family were not allowed to bury her for

many days. Eventually the family were forced to empty the freezer and bury

their daughter’s body there.

It must be said that the domestic war against the Kurds and their

prodemocratic friends was not satisfactory enough for the Government and its

nationalist militarist coalition partners. Hence, the Turkish state entered into

Syria together with mainly fundamentalist so-called Islamic State or Daesh

background groups, in order not to let Kurds have status on their own land.

The Turkish State’s first move was the taking of Jarablus, next to the Turkish

border, in order to isolate the Kurdish town of Afrin from the rest of Rojava.

Subsequently, the occupation of Afrin itself was achieved with Turkish Special

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