The uprising of the Kurds - 25/12/2015 - Turkey / Nusaybin - The uprising of the Kurds: Diyarbakir and Nosaybin Kurds
The uprising of the Kurds - 25/12/2015 - Turkey / Nusaybin - The uprising of the Kurds: Diyarbakir and Nosaybin Kurds make up roughly one third out of Turkey's eighty million citizens. Though an almost absolute majority in the south-eastern provinces, they have hardly any rights and are faced with systemic discrimination that is coming to its tragic phase as testified in these images. Kurds have first tried political cooperation, the June elections for the first time brought a Kurdish party to the state parliament. This success and the possibility of a joint Turkish/Kurdish opposition as the Kurdish cause of political emancipation has rallied other minority and progressive votes inside the mainstream Turkish society frightenned the rulling AKP party, that before the repeated november elections - for they were unable to build a coalition- one sidedly ended the long ceasefire with the outlawed Workers party of Kurdistan (The PKK). Yet the Kurds were patient even during Ankara's unprovoked offensive, yet they succeeded in dividing the country among ethnic lines. After highly controversial elections that gave power to the AKP party, the Kurds were once again alone, if they could not strive for cooperation and a fairer Turkey, they should strive for autonomy. If the legal political activity of HDP party proved unsuccesfull, the initiative is once more on the PKK guerillas, if Turkey bombed the rural areas and mountain bases, the PKK resorted to a new tactic, trough their youth branches, they declared autonomy in certain urban centers, the heart of Kurdish community. Hope was that Turkey will be more lenient selective in attacking heavily populated areas as opposed to ruthlessly devastating the countryside far from any witnesses. This was not the case. Turkey responded with brutal force when attacking the guerillas seeking autonomy in their own community, aid workers are prohibited to access the wounded civilians caught in the crossfire, with dozens of dead each day.
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Location: Kurdistan, Turkey
Photo credit: © Alexandre Afonso / Le Pictorium / Alamy / Afripics
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