Delegates from Amnesty International, Tevgere Azad, Kurdistan National Congress and Hizbê Şuiyê Kurdistan paid a visit to Zergele village in Qandil where the Turkish army carried out a massacre of civilians in the early morning hours on August 1.

Visits of the delegations to Zergelê village, where the bombardments of the Turkish army claimed the lives of 8 civilians and left 15 others seriously wounded, continue. Today delegations of Amnesty International, Tevgere Azad, Kurdistan National Congress and Hizbê Şuiyê Kurdistan have arrived at Zergelê. Delegates from Amnesty International covered footage in the area where they will also have talks with the local people in order to prepare a report about the massacre.

TEVGERA AZADİ: FREEDOM STRUGGLE OF THE KURDISH PEOPLE WILL WIN

A delegation of Tevgera Azad has also arrived at Zergelê village in order to assess the incident at the scene. Speaking in the village, the co-chair of Tevgera Azad, Muhammed Abdullah, recalled the previous massacres perpetrated against the Kurdish people such as the ones in Shengal, Kobanê, and said the fight waged by the Kurdish people against the ISIS gangs in Shengal, South Kurdistan and Rojava is a struggle for humanity. Abdullah stressed that the gains obtained in Rojava and the election victory of the HDP in North Kurdistan made the Turkish state and President Erdoğan develop war policies against these gains of the Kurds.

Remarking that the Turkish state must rather know well the fact that the Kurdish Freedom Struggle has reached a level of attaining status for Kurds, Abdullah said the Turkish state will fail in this war as it has failed many times in its war against the Kurds previously. He added that the Kurdish struggle will definitely win and enable the freedom of the Kurds.

HİZBÊ ŞUİYÊ KURDISTAN: NO ONE CAN REMAIN SILENT ON THE MASSACRE

A delegation of Hizbê Şuiyê Kurdistan also made an observation at the scene of the massacre in Zergelê village. Speaking here on behalf of Hizbê Şuiyê's Revanduz branch, İbrahim Baban, drew attention to the misleading statements of the Turkish state claiming that it was not villages but PKK camps that were bombarded in Zergelê. Baban stressed that it was on the contrary the civilians that were deliberately targeted and massacred by the Turkish army there.

Baban said the Turkish government was engaged in an attempt to take the revenge of the defeat it suffered in the elections and added: “We once again want to remind them that they cannot come up with a solution to the Kurdish question by massacring the civilians and waging war on Kurds”.

Baban further called on the international community, primarily the UN, to send delegations to the scene in order to assess what truly happened and not to remain silent in the face of the massacres. Baban also urged the Iraqi Government and the Federal Kurdistan Regional Government to stand up against the massacres and to raise their objections, once again recalling that it was not the PKK camps but the civilians which were targeted by Turkish airstrikes.