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Iraqi Kurdistan's Barzani sends $40,000 to
Uludere victims' families in Turkey
7.1.2012
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Kurdish Regional Government President Massoud
Barzani. 2011 Photo: Getty
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January 7, 2012
ERBIL-Hewlêr,
Kurdistan region 'Iraq', — Justice and Development
Party Deputy Chairman Hüseyin Çelik announced on
Wednesday that the families of the Kurdish victims
will be paid compensation for the deadly attack by
Turkish airstrike.
Massoud Barzani, leader of northern Iraq’s
autonomous Kurdistan region, has sent $40,000 to the
relatives of the victims of the
deadly airstrike
that took place in Şırnak’s Uludere district in the
Kurdish region in southeastern Turkey [northern
Kurdistan] on the 28th December 2011.
35 civilian Kurds died in the course of Turkish
aerial strikes in in the Kurdish village of Roboski
near Iraqi Kurdistan border.
Serbest Lezgin Sındori, a Kurdistan Democratic Party
(KDP) official, accompanied the gift to Uludere on
Thursday, where he met the families of the victims
and offered Barzani’s condolences. Sındori also
delivered $40,000 to community leaders in Uludere
and the nearby villages of Ortasu,www.ekurd.net
Gülyazı and Yemişli, to be distributed to the
families of the victims. Sındori passed on the
message that Iraqi Kurds are sharing in the sorrow
of the people of Uludere.
Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Deputy
Chairman Hüseyin Çelik announced on Wednesday that
the families of the victims will be paid
compensation for the deadly attack.
Hasip Kaplan, BDP parliamentary
group president and deputy for Şırnak has said that
Ankara is
behind the massacre in the Kurdish village
of Roboski. On 28 December Turkish warplanes bombed
the are near the village
killing 35
civilian Kurds.
Çelik, who met with the Ankara representatives of
various press organizations on Wednesday, said that
“an apology would not bring the dead back,” in
response to questions over whether the government
has any plans to apologize. “Compensation could be
interpreted as an apology from the state, but the
government will also apologize if needed,” he
clarified.
The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP)
has submitted a proposal that requests that the
state pay TL 64,460 in compensation to the next of
kin of each victim killed in the airstrike.
CHP Ardahan deputy Ensar Öğüt submitted the proposal
on Wednesday, which seeks to amend the current law
that regulates the level of compensation to be paid
to victims of terrorism. The proposal seeks to
increase the amount from TL 22,000 to TL 64,460.
Meanwhile, Customs and Trade Minister Hayati Yazıcı
stated on Thursday that the government is
considering of opening a duty-free border gate near
Gülyazı, Uludere district, that will discourage
people in the region from crossing the borders
illegally.
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