Turkey Confirms 2,665 Kurdish V

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Subject: Re: Turkey Confirms 2,665 Kurdish Villages Destroyed

 09 Sep 1995 23:14:07 -0800

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Official Turkish Sources Confirm 2,665 Kurdish Villages 
Destroyed

   Quoting "official statistics of the Super-Prefecture of the State of 
Emergency Region", the Turkish daily Milliyet of July 25, 1995 wrote under  
the byline of Derya Sazak that already by the end of 1994, 2,665 Kurdish 
villages and hamlets had been recorded as completely evacuated or partly 
destroyed. At the end of 1993, the score of villages destroyed had been 874. 
Thus, in a single year, in the face of the international community's deafening 
silence, a so-called "democratic" country, which is a member of the Council of 
Europe and NATO, has destroyed nearly 1,800 villages and murdered or 
imprisoned all those, whether MPs, journalists, or campaigners for human 
rights, who might bear witness to this tragedy. And all this with complete 
impunity.

Source: International Committee for the Liberation of the Kurdish 
Parliamentarians Imprisoned in Turkey, August 1, 1995

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