Cities under curfew, youths on the barricades and armed police everywhere. Southeastern Kurdish majority of Turkey plunged into a state of undeclared war that threatens the successful holding of parliamentary November 1.

On the borders of Syria and Iraq, the city of Cizre became a symbol of the recovery of the Kurdish conflict. Last month, Turkish security forces are confronted the young guard of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) for eight days amid 120,000 beleaguered subjected to a total blockade.

The fighting has been particularly deadly. The government claims to have removed as “terrorists”. But, according to NGOs defending human rights, 21 civilians were killed and traumatized population of the city.

Of these victims, Edin family. Stepdaughter, Zeynep Taskin, 18, was killed by a sniper outside the door of his house, his 9 month old baby in the arms Berxwedan. Moments later, her stepmother Masallah was shot by the same gun as she was assisting him.

“That’s the only weapon that his mother was on her,” is unworthy the head of the family, Ahmet, showing his nephew.

“They were firing on all doors (…) they have made no distinction,” the truck driver chokes front facade riddled with bullets, “I did not see the shooter with my own eyes but we know the state forces controlled the area. Those who were shooting were those of the state (…) they are the terrorists. “

Young people who have taken up arms for the shot against special units of Turkish riot police in the streets of Cizre are on the same line. The government is the sole responsibility of the violence.

“We have only defend ourselves,” says Siphan to anyone who will listen.

The face concealed by a hood, T-shirt and camouflage pants lattice, that great lout of 28 years proudly displays his membership of the Movement of the Revolutionary Patriotic Youth (YDG-H), a “subsidiary” urban PKK.

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As soon lifted the curfew, his group, he said strong a hundred young people, has replaced the barricades and trenches at the entrance of Nur district, with the firm intention to continue to prohibit entry into the security forces.

“At every opportunity, we are arrested, our homes are raided, I do not want this cruelty. We are ready to do whatever it takes to prevent this, “Siphan loose,” we just want the Turkish Republic respects our rights as citizens and recognize that we are Kurds. “

The Turkish government has swept a backhand and these claims justified the use of force by the need to suppress an attempt to “uplift” in Cizre, as in many other cities in the southeast of Turkey, mainly Kurdish.

“We face an operation aimed at extending the war by armed groups (Kurds) from rural areas to the cities,” said the Turkish Islamic-conservative Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.

“Of course, no State can accept that whole districts of several towns are freed of his authority,” Coskun Vahap slice, a law professor at Dicle University in Diyarbakir, “but the measures taken by the State to react demonstrations and provocations by the PKK are largely contrary to human rights. “

On the eve of the poll from November 1, both sides accuse each other of resorting to arms to put pressure on the voters.

“Those who appear before the polling stations to terrorize, to lobby saying + vote one party or + will be brought to justice”, launched on Tuesday the head of government to his supporters in Van (East).

The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (HDP, pro-Kurdish) cries too, the scandal and denounces electoral ulterior power. “His goal is to make the HDP is not represented in Parliament,” MP accuses Caglar Demiralp.

The President of the Bar of the city is also convinced. “The power is trying to scare people into not voting. It could even annul elections here under false pretenses safe, “warns Nusirevan Elci. “It is easy to kill, it’s much harder to make peace.”