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Turkey-Kurdistan: 527 Kurdish human
shields joined the ranks of HPG
28.11.2005
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Nov 27 (DozaMe) - 527
Kurdish human shield from the activist group 'Peace
and Freedom Brigades' declared on Sunday that all
their calls to the Turkish state have been
unanswered and the activists have now decided to
join the ranks of the Kurdish HPG guerrillas.
The decision was taken collectively by the activists
on Saturday. Serdar Mete, talking on behalf of the
activists declared on Sunday that all 527 activists
will now be joining the HPG.
"We tried to struggle in every democratic way in
Turkey. But we were met with repression every single
time. As a result of that, we decided to come to the
Medya Defense Zones. Here, we were met with an open
and democratic attitude and we could continue our
struggle. All our requests were evaluated by the
Kurdistan Democratic Confederation and we got
positive feedback. But the Turkish state, on the
other side, never answered us. To the contrary, day
by day they increased their military operations,
their repression of the Kurdish people and the
isolation of the Kurdish national leader Abdullah
Ocalan. Because of this, our struggle has reached a
different level. As Kurdish youth, we once again saw
that the Kurdish liberation movement is conducting a
justified and legitimate struggle for their people.
Therefore, we will continue our struggle as HPG
guerrillas until our requests will be answered by
the Turkish state." Mete said.
Mete also called to all Kurdish youth to join the
ranks of the HPG and together struggle for freedom.
The chairman of the Kurdistan Democratic
Confederation's (KDC) executive council, Murat
Karayilan, held a speech, praising the bravery and
the initiative of the young Kurdish activists of the
'Peace and Freedom Brigades'.
"PKK has during 27 years of struggle brought a
people from its death bed to this stage. If youth
from a society that was about to die has created
something like the Peace and Freedom Brigades, that
is a proof of how much change PKK has created in
Kurdistan. On behalf of the KDC, I congratulate our
friends from the Peace and Freedom Brigades for
their very valuable, holy and historic step,"
Karayilan said.
The human shields have been in the Medya Defense
Zones (MDZ) since August 10 this year. A majority of
the human shields have been struggling since the
beginning of the Turkish military operations in
2004, touring war zones in northern Kurdistan (southeastern
Turkey) and calling to both sides to declare a cease
fire and start a dialog. Every camp they set up in
the war zones were raided by Turkish soldiers and
they were taken to military bases and many of them
were subjected to torture for 'sympathizing with
terrorists'.
The Medya Defense Zones are areas declared as
'liberated' by the HPG. The size of the MDZ is
approximately the size of Holland according to
estimates made in 2003.
The number of recruits joining the ranks of HPG in
2005 is now over 1,700.
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