Various human rights organizations operating in Turkey decided to take joint action, HRA under the leadership of ‘Mass Graves Foundation’ builds. Studies will be conducted to reveal the mass graves, the 1915 Armenian Genocide, which occurred after 1925 will be allocated to the period as the Kurds and Kurdish rebellions happened in the war.
Turkey’s recent history, but also a history of massacres. Thousands of people are still under the ground. Who they are, when they are unknown even murdered. After increasingly violent Kurdish 1915 genocide and war in the 1990s, where the bones come under excavation is performed. Calls are being made, is going to the door of the prosecution, but the state still have not any concrete step in this regard. Unable to get results from the prosecutor’s investigation.
Mass graves fact, for many years in the agenda of human rights organizations. In particular, the Human Rights Association Diyarbakır Branch, has long been trying to identify the location of mass graves. Association was prepared in a map of the location of detection. According to a report released on Tuesday, December 16, 348 mass graves have the body of 4 thousand 201 people. According to the reports, does not include the figures for the 1915 Genocide.
Forces of human rights organizations
Various human rights organizations operating in Turkey, is conducting studies related to the mass graves. Work more effectively act together to make the decision of the field of human rights organizations, led by HRA ‘Mass Graves Foundation’ builds. The studies for the establishment of the Foundation, largely completed. Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, Truth and Memory Center of the human rights organizations, among them, are supporting this project.
IHD Diyarbakir Branch Raci seer, noting that recently established the foundation said: “Trying to HRA very limited possibilities. Either a material we still have difficulty in terms of human resources. For a while, we just work on the applications made to us. Mass graves work, a work that requires more material and human resources. Therefore, there is a necessity that can receive scientific support work done by setting up a separate foundation. “
Seer, of the work to be done to reveal the mass graves, the 1915 Armenian Genocide, which occurred after 1925 Kurds and Kurdish rebellions to do is divided into periods expressed as happened in the war.
HRA has identified 348 mass graves
IHD Diyarbakir Branch, according to the mass graves report update, opened in Turkey and has opened including 348 bodies in a mass grave of 4 thousand 201 people. According to the report, that the density of the mass graves provinces, Diyarbakir, Siirt, Bitlis, Hakkari and Bingol. Prepared ‘Mass Grave Map’, which is predominantly Kurdish war involves periods of. The report made so far in the campaign, despite appeals and criminal complaint noted that the state take any concrete steps.
DNA banks are created
HRA, in its report, relating to the loss to the prosecutor urged to take action. The HRA also military and civilian officials to reveal documents in hand, asked that document and the opening of the tomb after a work to be done by determining the identity of the missing information and the DNA bank to be established. The report, “Turkey is now in mass graves in the region must face the fact. This tomb should take action as soon as the authorities of the opening “was given in the statements.
Facts and Research Commission in the HRA report where the call establishment, has drawn attention to the international standards: “The opening of the search for missing and grave, Minnesota Autopsy Protocol and must be conducted in accordance with international standards on how to open the tomb. The tomb of the destruction of finds from lost business machines opened in a sloppy manner, or should prevent the loss. “
48 mass graves in Siirt
Siirt, one of the densely inhabited center of the Armenians before 1915. 7 thousand 500 people in Siirt, 32 thousand Armenians lived in 1914 4. Three churches and two educational institutions of Siirt, not only Armenians, Assyrians was also an important settlements. If the massacre of the Armenians, continues to maintain its freshness in memory. Batches where they massacred the Armenians, know almost everyone in the city.
Hrant Dink Foundation Publications published ‘Sound of Silence’ from the book, Eruhl an Armenian, he says the following about 1915: “My father used to say, ‘I will say to you infidel, they do not enjoy their say but the sound in the other. You kill, eat the beatings, raise your voice, come home to. Removing a lot of the breaks in the sound. ‘ This consciousness, my father gave me. So I grew up eating a beaten. While seven or eight years, big men were beating me to the ground holding my ears, ‘is Gâvur, unbreakable bones are solid, they were. Us there is a gap (Tehtameterxanê) had. From there they took our people, was on top of the bones, they took me to the cliff. ‘Grandfather of bones there, we will take you there, “he had threatened. (…)”
Butchers Creek massacre common place
After 1915, the city began to rapidly Kurdicized. One of the important centers of the Kurdish political movement in Siirt, on the grounds that killed more than 300 people in 1989, known as the PKK militants were thrown into the creek newal town butcher. Newal town is known also as one of the places where the Armenian Genocide happened.
Human Rights Association (IHD) Siirt Branch, opened the mass grave in the town newal, I want the user to determine the identity of those killed. The HRA has prepared a report on the mass graves they discovered in Siirt. According to HRA report, where at least 822 people in Siirt 48 graves have been identified cases. Not result from any of the applications were made about the graves. Only in 1989 the prosecutor’s order in excavations in newal of the town, has been reached 8 person’s body. However, the excavations made by the prosecutor’s office launched an investigation and behind fate is unknown. Identification are not even made.
Bones in the abyss
HRA report contained the following information is given about the Kasaba’yl newal on: “Our country and our province in particular have stayed in the dark and to expose one of the places where the events took place that are waiting to Qeseba newal. Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their life, humanity had recalled the mass killing with great sorrow and shame of the family and the fact that mass graves were formed. Newal to qesebesi were brought to a place where hundreds of Armenians and Kurds buried collectively. “
HRA Siirt Branch Zana Yavuz, so far not received the results of any application made and saying that the bones of the Armenians massacred in some places in the city, Agosta found the following assessments: “Siirt Armenians and Assyrians were the city. After 1915 turned into a Kurdish city. Everyone knows the city. Tehtameterxanê and newal that the killings of Armenians also knew everyone in town. There are still bones in the rocky cliffs of Tehtameterxanê. “