Air raid on Sapaca
The air attack on Sapaca in Turkey was carried out by Turkish Air Force fighter jets on March 26, 1994.
background
In 2013, in connection with research into the conviction of Turkey by the ECHR for the air strikes on Koçağılı and Kuşkonar , it became public knowledge that further attacks of this type had taken place. The hamlet of Sapaca ( Kurdish : Şiris) was located northwest of Uludere in the Turkish province of Şırnak and administratively belonged to Köy Yeşilyuva. The place was cleared on May 22, 1990 by the Turkish security forces. In a parliamentary question from Kamer Genç from the year it is said that 60 families (approx. 600 people) lived there at that time. The village population came to Uludere in 1990 and returned to their homeland on May 5, 1991 after the next winter.
Course of the air strike
According to a villager's report in the daily Radikal , four fighter planes attacked Sapaca on the night of March 26, 1994. Three people were killed in the process. They were Meryem Şen (55), Salih Şen (65) and a newborn baby. In addition, more than 30 people were injured. Another report puts the number of injuries at 17. The residents were then prevented by the military from transporting their wounded with mules to Uludere. The military also exerted pressure that the villagers should blame the Kurdistan Workers' Party . According to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), the medical treatment of the injured were denied in the state hospital of Şırnak. HRW based its investigation on testimony from a resident from neighboring Akduman. According to this, 50 houses were destroyed and the army used cluster bombs. The dead were buried in Akduman. Seventy-year-old Leyla Şen, who was also wounded in the attack, was questioned. Another villager reported that a few hours before the attack, members of the army put pressure on the male residents to join the village guards , which the men rejected. The survivors fled to northern Iraq.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Text of the request
- ^ Asian Bulletin, Volume 19, Issues 7-12, page 71
- ↑ Radikal daily newspaper, December 22, 2013
- ↑ James Ron (Human Rights Watch): Weapons Transfers and Violations of the Laws of War in Turkey. New York 1995, pp. 72f.