Turkish police point a gun at women during house raids

Turkish police threaten Kudret Adıyaman and Esmer Tunç with gun during the political genocide operation in Cizre.

It is reported that during a police raid on Cihan Ölmez's house as part of the political genocide operations in Cizre district in Şırnak, police officers put a gun to the head of Ölmez's mother, Kudret Adıyaman.

Adıyaman responded by saying, "We did not and will not bow to these pressures. We rebel against this persecution."

During a police raid in the house of HDP Cizre District Co-chair Güler Tunç, police officers also pointed a gun at Esmer Tunç, mother of Mehmet Tunç, co-chair of Cizre Popular Assembly who had been murdered by state forces in one of the “death basements” during the military siege on the town in 2016.