Ortabağ massacre
The massacre of Ortabağ ( Ortabağ katliamı in Turkish ) occurred during an attack by the Kurdistan Workers' Party on January 22, 1987 on the Kurdish village of Ortabağ in the Uludere district in southeastern Turkey near the Turkish-Iraqi border. There are different information on the date of the event.
background
In the 1980s the PKK led the armed struggle against Kurds, whom it viewed as collaborators and traitors. She raided Kurdish villages in which men who had been recruited as village guards lived with their families. Examples of such attacks are the Açıkyol , Kılıçkaya and Pınarcık massacres , all of which occurred in 1987.
Course of events
After the account of a then 10-year-old survivor who lost father and mother and several siblings, the PKK fighters prepared the family's stove with explosives, which exploded when the stove was set on fire after the family returned from a wedding. Eight villagers were killed in the attack, including four women and two children. Deviating representations report that the fighters climbed onto the roof and threw hand grenades through the chimney of the house in which a wedding was being prepared.
Commitment
In the special edition No. 12 of the party newspaper Serxwebûn , the PKK confessed to the attack on page 7. The message said:
"In an attack on village guards in the village of Ortabağ in the district of Uludere, who were at a meeting, eight village guards were killed and ten seriously injured on January 22, 1987."
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.haberler.com/pkk-nin-26-yil-once-uludere-de-oldurdugu-8-koylu-4279275-haberi
- ↑ Nevin Yazıcı, PKK'nin Hakkâri Projesi 1984-2013, Ankara 2016, page 91
literature
- Mehmet Ali Birand , APO and PKK. Istanbul 1992