People in Silvan district of Amed warned against an imminent 'social explosion' in the event that the siege and attacks by Turkish state forces continue. Residents of the district vowed that they will continue the resistance and never surrender as the curfew and offensive leaves eight days behind.

Eight civilians have been killed and dozens of houses have been burned down by 'security forces' during this period.

Melek Yaman, Sevim Meygil, Kudret Kırtay, Ferhat Binen and Orhan Yazkan from Silvan spoke to ANF about the situation in the district under attack.

'WE WILL REMAIN NEITHER UNRESPONSIVE NOR SILENT'

Sevim Meygil: We will remain neither unresponsive nor silent while state forces are raiding our houses, detaining our children and torturing us every day. Our people are left with no choice other than rising up and revolting. People of Silvan are at the point of a social explosion. What else can the state do to us now that it already murders, tortures and jails us all? This atrocity by the state is not something new. We have been suffering the same thing for the past several months. We witnessed similar mass killings before. The state has pushed us into depression. We do not know what else to say.

'SİLVAN WILL ALSO TRIUMPH LIKE KOBANÊ'

Melek Yaman: The state does anything possible to us, killing our children, setting our houses on fire. Yet, we will never surrender. We will continue following the path of our children, martyrs and their memories, and will never give up on our cause.

A Minister said 'we will erase three neighborhoods of Silvan from the map'. Let them do whatever they can. We have nothing to fear as they already subject us to any kind of atrocity. Their aim is to clear these areas of Kurdish people. We will respond to them by resisting and never leaving our lands, even if it costs us our lives or some other consequences. We will refuse to surrender and we will follow our Leader until one single person is left alive. They cannot end us by killing. We are united and strong. Erdoğan should know that Kurds will never surrender to him. He was saying that Kobanê was about to fall, but Kobanê resisted and triumphed. Silvan will do the same. They cannot finish off Cizre, Silvan or Qandil. If thousands of us die, they will be replaced by other thousands. We came through numerous hardships so far and we will get over this in the same way.

'OUR MOSQUES ARE BEING BOMBED'

Kudret Kırtay: Erdoğan claims himself to be a Muslim. What sort of an Islam is this? They are killing our children once they look out of the window. This is our land, our home. Erdoğan is killing us in our land. Those claiming to be Muslim are bombing our mosques. This is not what Islam is. The Turkish state gives us and our children no right to live. We are being killed in and outside our houses. Erdoğan is a tyrant. If he is a Muslim, he is supposed to stop this massacre and bloodshed. They are protecting their own children and dragging the children of the people to death.

'IF SILVAN BURNS, SO WILL THE WEST'

Ferhat Binen: We are at the point of a social explosion and cannot tolerate it anymore. There is a martial law across Silvan for more than a week now, not only in three neighborhoods. State forces shot and killed the people in a coffee house. Our people are being subject to insults, threats and repression everywhere in addition to the attacks with heavy weaponry. 25 houses have been burned down and more are being demolished in the same way. Nobody can possibly put up with all these.

A Turkish official said three neighborhoods of Silvan will be erased from the map. In order to do that, he will need to erase the entire Silvan territory. Yet, Silvan, Amed, Istanbul are all connected to each other. If Silvan burns, so will the western part of Turkey. There will be all-out reactions if this siege doesn't end.

'SİLVAN MUST BE EMBRACED'

Orhan Yazkan: There is a bare massacre and atrocity being committed against the people here. A solution must be developed to end this offensive. The mainstream media doesn't report about Silvan. The incidents here are being hidden from the people in the west. Silvan must be embraced.