How has the PKK become dominant in the region?
Pro-PKK groups spread fear in the region with attacks on civilians in the Oct. 6-7 incidents by abusing the state's goodwill during the reconciliation process
They barged into Köy-Der, an Islamic nongovernmental organization in Diyarbakır and shot Turen Yavaş dead. Köy-Der is affiliated with the Free Cause Party (Hüda-Par), which the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) declared to be an infidel party. They also wounded three association members - Hasan Gökgöz, Riyad Güneş and Hüseyin Dakak - with guns in front of the association building on their way back after they distributed sacrificial meat to the poor for Qurban Bayram at the time of the incident. They pushed the three association members to the wall and killed them at the building where they took shelter for protection. To top it off, they threw one of them down from the third floor of the building, burned the body of one of them and butchered the other.
These were the first murders that were committed on Oct. 7, 2014. On the same day, PKK militants set fire to a good many schools, ambulances, libraries, Red Crescent and Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency's (AFAD) vehicles that were distributing aid to the poor, public and private properties and looted stores. A total of 18 lives were claimed, thousands of people lost their livelihoods, homes and cars and the state suffered a loss of millions of lira by the end of the day.
On the following day, PKK terrorists intercepted Mohammad Latif and his brother-in-law Ibrahim Eldurevic on a road, forced them to get out of their car and took photos of them. Then they shot them in their heads and burned their bodies. Latif was a 43-year-old construction worker in Mardin's Kızıltepe district and his unforgivable crime was that he was a Syrian-national and bearded Arab man. Elduravic was a Saudi national, bearded Arab man who went to see Latif during Qurban Bayram.
Ibrahim , who identified the bodies that the police found on the roadside, said: "My entire world seemed to have come crashing around my ears when I saw that one of those bodies was Fehad who was the husband of my sister and the other was Abdullah, a relative of mine with whom I entered Turkey through Akçakale two years ago. We fled the war in Syria, but they are killing us here." This was the way he reported just two of a total of 32 murders that were committed on the second day.
Workplaces were burned and looted during the Oct.7-8 incidents. Also, ambulances, Red Crescent and AFAD's vehicles, public properties including libraries, Quran schools, reading halls, madrasas, in other words the activity areas of nongovernmental organizations that are attraction centers, particularly for religious Kurds, were set on fire, in addition to the headquarters of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), Hüda-Par and the Felicity Party (SP).
The Oct-7-8 incidents became a branded proof showing that the PKK holds greater domination than the state in the region. From that day until the PKK re-initiated the war, the state did not act in a very interventionist manner for the sake of the reconciliation process. There were dozens of villages where no invalid votes were cast and all the ballots were unexceptionally cast for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in the June 7 elections. Furthermore, some people were arrested after they shared photos on social media showing that they themselves cast all ballot papers for the HDP in Şanlıurfa. This is a summary of the reason for the PKK's dominance and the increase in votes for the HDP.
These were the first murders that were committed on Oct. 7, 2014. On the same day, PKK militants set fire to a good many schools, ambulances, libraries, Red Crescent and Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency's (AFAD) vehicles that were distributing aid to the poor, public and private properties and looted stores. A total of 18 lives were claimed, thousands of people lost their livelihoods, homes and cars and the state suffered a loss of millions of lira by the end of the day.
On the following day, PKK terrorists intercepted Mohammad Latif and his brother-in-law Ibrahim Eldurevic on a road, forced them to get out of their car and took photos of them. Then they shot them in their heads and burned their bodies. Latif was a 43-year-old construction worker in Mardin's Kızıltepe district and his unforgivable crime was that he was a Syrian-national and bearded Arab man. Elduravic was a Saudi national, bearded Arab man who went to see Latif during Qurban Bayram.
Ibrahim , who identified the bodies that the police found on the roadside, said: "My entire world seemed to have come crashing around my ears when I saw that one of those bodies was Fehad who was the husband of my sister and the other was Abdullah, a relative of mine with whom I entered Turkey through Akçakale two years ago. We fled the war in Syria, but they are killing us here." This was the way he reported just two of a total of 32 murders that were committed on the second day.
Workplaces were burned and looted during the Oct.7-8 incidents. Also, ambulances, Red Crescent and AFAD's vehicles, public properties including libraries, Quran schools, reading halls, madrasas, in other words the activity areas of nongovernmental organizations that are attraction centers, particularly for religious Kurds, were set on fire, in addition to the headquarters of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), Hüda-Par and the Felicity Party (SP).
The Oct-7-8 incidents became a branded proof showing that the PKK holds greater domination than the state in the region. From that day until the PKK re-initiated the war, the state did not act in a very interventionist manner for the sake of the reconciliation process. There were dozens of villages where no invalid votes were cast and all the ballots were unexceptionally cast for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in the June 7 elections. Furthermore, some people were arrested after they shared photos on social media showing that they themselves cast all ballot papers for the HDP in Şanlıurfa. This is a summary of the reason for the PKK's dominance and the increase in votes for the HDP.
Last Update: October 09, 2015 21:45