Aerial view of Cizre and Tigris, Turkey. Wikicommons/Rahman Abubakr. Some rights rserved.Everything is happening before our very eyes!
The Kurdish cities of Turkey have been under an unlawful siege and curfew for months. Today, it has been 49 days for Cizre and 61 days for Diyarbakir-Surici since the curfew was declared. People suffer from lack of water, and from hunger. Beneath the roar of tanks, artillery fire and bullets, people took to sheltering in their basements. Thousands of people who are living under this siege can’t reach health or education services. The patients and the wounded can’t reach hospitals.
After a howitzer attack on one house in Cizre, people took shelter in the basement. Wounded among them, people have been fighting for their lives for 8 days in this basement. Six out of 25 wounded, have lost their lives. And we weren’t able to send an ambulance.
