The Peace and
Democracy Party (BDP) and DTK (Democratic Society Congress) delegation
encountered a road control by Kurdish guerrillas in Bağlar village of
Şemdinli on Saturday.

Speaking to ANF after the delegation
finished its survey in the region, BDP co-chair Gülten Kışanak said that
they didn’t come across any security forces in the region they
examined.

“We came across guerrilla forces on the way back from
the villages we visited but there were no security forces in the region
except for a military point on the way out of Şemdinli province. A large
number of cultivated areas and yards were completely burnt out in the
villages where people say they are deliberatively targeted by the
bombardment of security forces”, said Kışanak.

BDP Mersin MP
Ertuğrul Kürkçü also called attention to the lack of presence of Turkish
security forces in the region and said on the basis of the information
they provided from a village headman that seven out of ten villages in
the area have been evacuated because of the clashes.

Especially
children have been greatly affected by the bombardment but people don’t
want to leave their villages, Kürkçü underlined and added that; “The
people we talked to told us that a colonel warned them to leave the
region for safety and that none of the authorities has taken a step to
ensure their security.”

Kürkçü also gave information about their
encountering guerrillas at a road control point; “The group of
guerrillas we came across made propaganda for their purpose and said
they fight for the freedom and democratization of all peoples in Turkey
and the Middle East.”