PKK FILES
How the PKK terror has
destroyed its civilian targets
PROLOGUE
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This booklet provides a detailed account of some of the terrorist attacks
perpetrated in Turkey by the PKK (Kurdish acronym for the "Kurdistan Workers
Party"), one of the most brutal terror organizations in the world, both in
terms of the number of the victims of its terror acts and of the way these acts
have been committed by its terrorists.
As a result of the indiscriminate terrorist attacks of the PKK, over 30,000
Turkish citizens have lost their lives since 1984. Among these were thousands
of innocent civilians, in many cases including women, children, the elderly and
even infants. Death took many of them at night. Terror robbed them of their
lives. Some died only months after they were born. They had never seen their
murderers before. They did not know for what they were punished or why their
death would matter.
Indeed, a predominant majority of PKK's attacks, some of which are presented in
the following pages, have been against civilian targets, including government
officials, teachers and villagers.
PKK terrorists have killed teachers and set fire to schools for they know that
their subversive and perverted ideology could only be harboured among the
uneducated.
The terrorists have massacred villagers, because they aim to subjugate the
local population in southeastern part of Turkey into supporting PKK's evil
deeds. This terrorist organization has operated through intimidation, coercion
and indiscriminate violence.
They have burned down work vehicles, destroyed health centers, set forests on
fire, and targeted all sources of economic and social development as they know
well that their survival depends upon hampering the development of the region.
It is ironic and revealing that an overwhelming majority of the PKK's civilian
victims, counted by thousands, have been Turkish citizens of Kurdish origin on
whose behalf the PKK purports to act.
The purpose of this study is to expose to the public the PKK in its true colors
at the expense of refreshing the agony and grief of those who have lost their
loved ones in PKK's massacres. The "stories" of these incidents have been
edited by using newspaper excerpts only.
CONTENTS:
DATE PLACE AND RESULT
23/06/1987 MARDİN/ Ömerli - Massacre of 30 civilians in the Pınarcık village
by the PKK terrorists
23 JUNE 1987, SATURDAY
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A group of PKK terrorists raided Ömerli/Pınarcık village of Mardin on the night
of 20 June 1987, killing a total of 30 civilians, it was reported in the
Turkish press.
3 groups of PKK terrorists attacked the village from two directions. The PKK
groups consisted of about 40 terrorists who, using a megaphone, called on the
village guards to surrender and ordered the villagers to gather in the village
square. The resulting clash between the village guards and the terrorists
lasted until the guards ran out of ammunition. The terrorists then
indiscriminately opened fire on the villagers, massacring 30 people, including
6 women and 17 children. The headman of the village and 7 other villagers were
wounded.
10/07/1987 MARDİN/ Massacre of 25 people in the villages of Peçenek and Yuvalı
10 JULY 1987, FRIDAY
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PKK terrorists massacred 25 people, 11 of them children, in two villages of
southeast Turkey on 8 July 1987. It was reported that separate groups of 20-25
terrorists hit the villages of Peçenek, near İdil town, and Yuvalı, near Midyat
town, both in Mardin province.
During the PKK assault, 4 of the 30 houses of the village were destroyed. 4
villagers were missing. They were believed to have remained under the wreckage
of the demolished houses.
All of the 9 dead villagers killed by the terrorists in Yuvalı belonged to the
same family and were aged between 3 and 70.
In a related incident, 3 people died and several others were injured when a
minibus carrying villagers to the funeral of the victims of the massacre hit a
landmine placed by the terrorists. Emel Aktuğ, a journalist who witnessed the
explosion reported: "Suddenly the minibus in front of our car was engulfed in a
cloud of dust. We then heard a very loud explosion. The car was smashed to
pieces. Its engine flew 15 meters into a field. One man, identified as
35-year-old Halil Dinç, was killed on the spot. About 15 villagers were
injured. The driver of the car lost both legs and an arm. He was rushed to the
Mardin Hospital in serious condition. We later learned that he died in the
hospital."
Security officials told that the terrorists had left the landmines behind while
leaving the village.
Prime Minister Turgut Özal visited Peçenek on Thursday to convey his
condolences to the villagers. The son of a village guard who was killed by the
terrorists in Peçenek asked the Prime Minister to supply him with a gun and
described the massacre as follows: "They assembled us all in the village square
and started shooting at us. I threw myself to the ground and crawled away. They
killed many children and women. We had no guns to fight back."
20/08/1987 SİİRT/ PKK attack on the village of Kılıçkaya
20 AUGUST 1987, THURSDAY
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It was reported in the Turkish press today that the PKK terrorists massacred 24
villagers including 14 women and children in Kılıçkaya village in Siirt
province on 18 August 1987. The terrorists attacked Kılıçkaya shortly before
midnight with automatic weapons, rockets and hand grenades.
Most of the dead, from three-month-old infants to 75-year-old elderly, came
from three families. Some of these people were killed by gunfire and grenade
and rocket blasts, while others burned to death when the attackers set wrecked
houses alight before leaving the village. Two village guards were also killed
in the massacre.
The names of those who lost their lives in this massacre are as follows:
Şakir Sever Ferhat Beştaş
Behiye Sever Hacı Beştaş
Ali Sever Zeynep Beştaş
Şükrü Narin Naciye Beştaş
Ömer Baykara Hazine Beştaş
Nurcan Baykara Sabriye Beştaş
Halil Baykara Kadri Beştaş
Sabri Narin Şehriban Beştaş
Bahar Narin Hamide Beştaş
Halise Narin Habip Demir
Hediye Narin Muhret Demir
Süleyman Dündar Kemal Demir
12/10/1987 SİİRT/ Killing of 13 people in the hamlet of Çobandere
12 OCTOBER 1987, MONDAY
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PKK terrorists killed 13 people and wounded 9 in a raid on a hamlet in
southeastern Turkey on the night of 11 October 1987, reported the Turkish
press.
About 100 terrorists sprayed bullets at random and set fire to houses in the
attack on Çobandere in Siirt province about 10 kilometers from the Iraqi
border. 6 women and 2 babies were among the dead.
A survivor, 19-year-old Ali Sallı, told the journalists that the PKK militants
shouted "come and join us" before starting shooting from all angles and that he
feigned death after suffering minor hand injuries.
Three of the terrorists were reported killed. Ali Sallı said that he had heard
one terrorist ordering others to take away the dead militants. Military
authorities said that the terrorists always tried to take their dead with them
to avoid identification.
The following are the names of the civilians killed in the massacre:
Leyla Varol
Latif Varol
Ayşe Varol
Mehmet Kartal
Leyli Kartal
Abdurrahman Şallı
Hatun Şanlı
Hazer Şanlı
Agit Şanlı
Azime Şanlı
Murtaza Şanlı
A 15-day-old (nameless) baby
A one-month-old (nameless) baby
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09/05/1988 SIRNAK/ 11 people killed in the PKK attack on the village of
Dereler
9 MAY 1988, MONDAY
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The Turkish press reported today that the village of Dereler in Şırnak was
raided for the tenth time within the past year by a group of PKK militants who
executed 11 citizens. 4 of the executed villagers were women. Dereler village,
which had a number of village guards among its inhabitants, had been
blacklisted by the PKK. During previous attacks on the village the PKK was
responsible for killing 10 civilians, 4 security officials, abducting 12
villagers and destroying a great number of work machines of the Village
Services Administration.
The last PKK terrorist attack on Dereler took place in the evening of 7 May
1988. The PKK militants gathered the entire village population and forced them
to listen to PKK propaganda before reading out the names of 11 citizens and
separating them from the crowd. These seven men and four women were lined up
against the wall of a house. One of the PKK terrorists who was apparently the
head of the group said, "We have condemned you to death for betraying our
people and our cause. The sentence will be immediately carried out." A firing
squad from among the PKK terrorists opened automatic gunfire on the selected 11
villagers, killing them all before the eyes of the rest of the inhabitants. The
PKK murderers then left the village, forcing four villagers to go with them.
One of the executed villagers, Osman Babat, was a previous PKK sympathizer. He
had been sentenced to one year in prison for assisting the PKK and had been
released three months before the raid on the village. The names of the 11
citizens who were murdered in this massacre are as follows:
Salih İnci
Ali İnci
Mustafa İnci
Gevri İnci
Esmer Kabul
Meryem Kabul
Halime Kaplan
Zübeyde Babat
Salih Babat
Osman Babat
Güllü Onat
10/05/1988 MARDİN/Nusaybin - Massacre of 15 people in the hamlet of Bahminin
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