It came out that the Êzîdîs staying in Amed Yenişehir Municipality's camp have been denied treatment at state hospitals on the grounds that they refused to stay in the camps under control of Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD).

Speaking to ANF, Yenişehir Municipality Coordinator for the Êzîdî Camp, Müzeyyen Anıkaydın, stated that the AKP which tried hard to keep the Êzîdîs under its control through various tricks, now closed the doors of state hospitals to the patients living in the camp.

Anıkaydın pointed out that this arbitrary treatment began when Êzîdîs refused to stay at AFAD camp in Nusaybin district of Mardin after their attempt to go to Europe from Edirne province last month. Anıkaydın told that the state hospitals which unconditionally provided treatment to the Êzîdîs for the last 5 months have denied service to them for the last one week on the grounds of their refusal to stay in AFAD camp.

'THEY WANT TO TAKE ÊZÎDÎS UNDER THEIR CONTROL'

Pointing out that a dirty policy is being pursued on the Êzîdî people, Anıkaydın said KDP and Turkey is the leading actors of this policy which is going on since the occupation of Shengal by ISIS and the following leave of the peshmerga from the Êzîdî town in South Kurdistan.

Anıkaydın underlined that these circles have even abused the most humanitarian demand of the Êzîdîs to go to Europe in the hope of a better life. Remarking that the matter of Êzîdîs' attempt to go to Europe should also be handled within this scope, Anıkaydın explained the major aim at this point as 'to depopulate Shengal completely and to take Êzîdî people under control'.

'ÊZÎDÎS' HOPE FOR EUROPE IS BEING ABUSED'

Regarding the matter of migration to Europe, Anıkaydın told the followings; "Around 2 thousand Êzîdîs in the camp in Nusaybin got prepared to cross into Bulgaria from Edirne last winter. Despite all the efforts we made to talk them out of doing so, 160 among them went to the border and crossed into Bulgaria after breaking the Turkish border gate. There, they were hindered, attacked and detained by Bulgarian police, upon which we intervened and brought them back to the camp in Nusaybin. We informed them about the law and told them it was unlawful to act this way, and that some were trying to abuse this hope of theirs. The subject was dropped after this incident but it was deliberately brought back to the agenda by some circles two months ago.”

Anıkaydın also stated that Êzîdî leader Mir Tahsin's son Mir Hazim Tahsin who came to Nusaybin for a meeting with state officials during that process when the issue was brought back to agenda, visited the Êzîdî camp and offered the Êzîdî people there to get accommodated under KDP rule in return for money. She underlined that these developments were not independent from each other.

'AFAD CAMP REQUIREMENT FOR TREATMENT'

Remarking that the essential objective here is to depopulate Shengal and to take the Êzîdîs under control in order to pursue a policy over them, Anıkaydın said; "They wanted to displace the Êzîdîs from our camp and accommodate them in the camps under KDP rule, and to take them under Turkey's control if that would not work. They, however, failed."

Anıkaydın pointed out that Êzîdîs spoiled this game by both rejecting the money offered to them, and refusing to stay in the camp in Nusaybin. She said that the AKP, unable to accept this, started denying treatment for the Êzîdîs at state hospitals that did unconditionally provide medical service for them till the Edirne incident.

Anıkaydın emphasized that the denial of service at hospitals was a consequence of the repression by the government, and warned that those closing the doors of hospitals to Êzîdîs would be responsible for any unfavorable consequences to be resulted by denial of treatment for many Êzîdî people with chronic and serious illness.