Demirtaş: Let Us Go to Basement to Retrieve Wounded

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Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair, Selahattin Demirtaş has issued a statement as to wounded people stuck in a basement in Cizre district of Şırnak province.

Demirtaş said they as a delegation in which he himself is a part of and voluntary health workers want to enter the building to retrieve the wounded awaiting to be taken into hospital for 12 days.

Demirtaş in response to Ministry of Health’s comment that “It is not possible to access there” said, “I am ready to go there with our municipality’s medical team. There is no such thing as not being able to get there. May they not come up with any excuse but rather enable us to get there and take them into hospital”.

Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Co-Chair Kamuran Yüksek, HDP MPs Burcu Çelik Özkan and Ali Atalan,  Mardin Metropolitan Municipality Co-Mayors Ahmet Türk and Februniye Akyol Akay, and Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality Co-Mayor Gülten Kışanak participated in the press statement held at Mardin Metropolitan Municipality.

“We will not leave until it becomes clearer”

Demirtaş said they are doing everything in their power as HDP for the war and conflict to come to an end.

“We cannot hear from people in Cizre whom we don’t know whether they are alive, wounded, hungry or thirsty.

“We have focused all our concentration on this issue. However, we couldn’t get any definite result till now.

“Maybe Kurdish question cannot be solved from night to day but it is possible to stop this humanitarian plight right now.

“Our mayors, MPs will not leave here until situation in the basement of horror becomes clearer”.

“The people in there were not a party to this conflict, they were awaiting aid”

Demirtaş emphasized the need of meeting humanitarian expectation as soon as possible:

“The incidents might come to the point of no return. In order to not give rise to any speculation, me and the medical team want to go to the building.

“We hope the people in there are alive. Cizre is entirely under blockade. If we go there, the ones we retrieve whether alive or dead will be taken to hospital.

“The people in there were not a party to this conflict, they were awaiting aid. The government should consider this positive attempt of ours in a positive way”. (AS/TK)