Kılıçkaya massacre
The Kılıçkaya massacre happened on August 20, 1987 in the hamlet of Milan, part of the Köy Kılıçkaya in the Turkish province of Siirt .
A unit of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attacked the hamlet. Village guards lived in the hamlet with their families. It was a Kurdish militia that the Turkish state set up, armed and paid for to fight the PKK. According to the historian and journalist Ayşe Hür in the daily newspaper Radikal , the PKK fighters killed 24 people, half of them children. According to Milliyet , the founding and leading member of the PKK, Sakine Cansız , stated shortly afterwards that the PKK is not fighting against women and children, but that a people's war is being waged. Such losses are the result of the struggle. Her party comrade Mahmut Tanrıkulu (alias Felat) made a similar statement. The village guards cannot be separated from their families. If the party takes action, women and children can die. Bullets didn't ask for directions. In the special edition No. 13 of August 1988 of the PKK newspaper Serxwebûn , the PKK confessed to the action. 25 gang members and relatives were killed and 34 people were seriously injured.
After the incident, the survivors left the hamlet. Some returned and tried to resume their lives. When the nearby barracks were abandoned in 1993, they too left the village, only to return in 2000.
Footnotes
- ^ Milliyet, September 6, 1987
- ↑ Radical of November 11, 2015
- ↑ Serxwebun No. 13, August 1988, p. 31
- ↑ Report with the survivors from March 25, 2013