Pınarcık massacre

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The Pınarcık (tr. Pınarcık Katliamı ) massacre took place on June 20, 1987. The act was committed by fighters of the PKK . 30 people were killed in the massacre, including 6 women and 16 children. The scene of the event was the village of Pınarcık in the Ömerli district in the Mardin province . The village was then inhabited by village guards , a Kurdish militia set up and paid for by the Turkish state against the Kurdistan Workers' Party . The PKK newspaper Serxwebûn published a commitment to the act that same month. The action in Pinarcik was a blow to Turkish colonialism. Aliza Marcus describes the act as the most brutal massacre by the PKK since the formation of the village guard militia. The PKK wanted to show that Kurdish collaborators were viewed as enemies and were killed in order to induce the militia officers to leave the village protection system. Andrew Mango wrote that four of those killed had belonged to the village guards, and classified the act as a " wholesale slaughter of tribal enemies" .

A few days after the massacre, PKK fighters warned villagers of treason if they did not want the massacre to be repeated. The Turkish public was outraged. The Kurdish rural population, on the other hand, sometimes had no knowledge of the events due to the poor connection or considered the reports to be lies because the state often lies. There were also Kurds who thought the dead civilians were unfortunate but inevitable. In the same province, the rebels let the inhabitants of three other villages compete that did not belong to the village protection system.

On the anniversary of the massacre, June 20, 2016, the daily newspapers Sabah and Milliyet published reports with a survivor who had lost his wife and children in the attack. He said that the PKK attacked from three sides that evening and entered the village when the village guards ran out of ammunition. The attackers set the houses on fire and killed women, children and cattle indiscriminately.

In 2011 Ayhan Çarkın, convicted of the Susurluk scandal , reported that it was not the PKK but JİTEM , the extrajudicial secret service of the Jandarma , who had committed the crime.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Serxwebûn June 1987, p. 3 Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.serxwebun.org
  2. ^ Aliza Marcus: Blood and Bellief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence New York, London 2009, p. 115
  3. ^ Andrew Mango: Turkey and the War on Terror: For Forty Years We Fought Alone. London, New York 2005, p. 38
  4. ↑ Aliza Marcus: Blood and Bellief: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight for Independence New York, London 2009, p. 116
  5. ↑ Pınarcık katliamı unutulmuyor . In: Sabah . ( com.tr [accessed October 5, 2018]).
  6. ↑ milliyet.com.tr Türkiye'nin lider haber sitesi: PKK'NIN PINARCIK KATLİAMI UNUTULMUYOR. Retrieved October 5, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Ayhan Çarkın'dan olay yaratacak açıklamalar . In: Sabah . ( com.tr [accessed October 5, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Hürriyet Daily News of March 24, 2011 ( Memento of November 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 37 ° 23 '  N , 40 ° 12'  E