State Of Emergency In Adana

[kurd-l at burn.ucsd.edu]

From: kcc at magi.com (Kurdistan Committee of Canada)

State Of Emergency In Adana

     For several days now, the city of Adana has been under a
state of emergency.
     On Friday, August 11, a 600 strong demonstration in
solidarity with the hungerstrikers was attacked when people were
marching to the local council. Over 150 people were arrested.
9-year-old Scide Ozdemir was beaten up by police and forced to
watch as they tortured her mother.
     On August 13, Gulcan Kornaz was dragged by her hair by the
police from the hungerstrike bureau downstairs and taken to a
place some 20km outside the city where she was raped by the
policemen who also threatened to kill her. But instead they left
her there. When she returned some time later to Adana, she was
again arrested.
     Today, 50 hungerstrikers in the HADEP office are surrounded
by police. Water and electricity have been cut off and the
building has been sealed off by the police. There are several
children inside the building.
     The situation is becoming worse by the hour. These attacks
by the police are probably connected with the expected August 15
anniversary marking the beginning of the armed struggle in 1984.
     In the outskirts of Adana, two Kurdish women tried to burn
themselves to death. They are receiving medical treatment in
hospital.
     On August 16, 3 members of a German human rights delegation
and 1 translator from Switzerland who were in the country to
monitor the hungerstrike by 10,000 prisoners of war were arrested
by security forces in Diyarbakir. They were arrested in the
hungerstrike bureau. Those arrested were: Eva Erle from
Magdeburg; Jeanie Weigel from Braunschweig; Thomas Kappeller from
Wiesbaden; and Anina Jenryeiko-Marki from Zurich.

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