Aren’t we going to question “why did these 1552 people die”?
The Diyarbakır Branch of Human Rights Association
(İHD) has just released a new report, publishing the results of the last year war
between the Turkish government and the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party).
According to İHD’s report, between 24 July 2015-24
July 2016, 1552 people died during the war. 422 of these people were security
forces (soldiers, police, village guards), 622 of them were PKK militants. 320
of these people were civilians. 75 of the civilians were children.
34 civilians lost their life due to PKK bombings. The
majority of the remaining civilians (286 people) were killed by state security
forces. A number of these 286 people died because of not reaching health
services due to curfew.
440 deaths were extrajudicial killings.
