The confessions of a KDP agent were broadcast on the programme ‘Dijminê Kokê’ on Çira TV.

The programme featured the confessions of an agent involved in the assassination of KCK Executive Council Member İsmail Özden (Mam Zeki Şengalî). Yazidi Coordination Member Mam Zekî Şengalî and his security guard Mahir Serhat Şengalî were martyred in an air strike carried out by the Turkish army in Shengal on 15 August 2018.

A KDP agent named Şefîq Cuno confessed to the crimes he committed on the TV programme and gave information about the partnership of KDP, the ruling party in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq) and MIT (Turkish intelligence service) in the murder of Zeki Şengalî.

The confessor said that when Zeki Şengalî returned from the commemoration ceremony for the victims of the ISIS massacre in Kocho village, he sent photos and information to the KDP’s intelligence service about the vehicle he was travelling in.

Agent Şefîq Cuno stated that, based on this information, Zeki Şengalî was killed in an airstrike carried out by the occupying Turkish state on 15 August 2018.

Background

Zekî Şengalî, a member of the Shengal Yazidi Coordination and the KCK Executive Council, was killed in an airstrike by the Turkish army on August 15, 2018. The attack on the Yazidi Kurd's vehicle occurred on his way back from a commemoration ceremony in the village of Kocho. The village had been almost completely wiped out by ISIS on August 15, 2014.

Zekî Şengalî, who is affectionately called Mam (Uncle) Zekî by the Yazidi population, was born in 1952 in the Kurdish province of Batman. Repression and oppression in Turkey drove many Yazidi Kurdish families to flee. This was also the case for the Özden family, who went to Germany in 1969.

Zekî Şengalî became involved in the Kurdish freedom movement at an early age, joining it in 1987. Because of his political work, he was imprisoned in Germany for a time starting in 1990. Şengalî did not compromise despite the oppression and threatened danger. His revolutionary personality impressed many people. Mam Zekî's son Qasim Özden (Sîpan) and his niece Xanê Esmer Demir also joined the Kurdish freedom movement and died in the guerrilla struggle.

In 1999, Şengalî made the decision to go back to Kurdistan. Once there, he first moved to Êzîdxan, the land of the Yazidis in southern Kurdistan. In Shengal, Şêxan and many other places, he worked to organize the Yazidi population. When ISIS attacked Shengal on August 3, 2014, Mam Zekî returned there and took part in building his own autonomous structures as a member of the Shengals' Yazidi coordination.