UN: We Have Formed Monitoring Team for Southeast

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United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner Zeid Raad Al Hussein speaking at the opening of the 33rd Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council has said they keep receiving right violation complaints about Turkey.

According to what the Human Rights Association (İHD) reported from the meeting, Hussein said "Our concerns of the situation in the Southeast are continuing.

"The government must authorize my team for an effective inspection of the situation in the Southeast.

"We have formed a monitoring team in Geneva about the situation in the Southeast. We will inform you".

Al Hussein also said that they have data suggesting Turkey has been violating international law and human rights. "There are civilian killings, extrajudicial killings and displacements in great numbers among these complaints".

What had happened?

United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner Zeid Raad Al Hussein in his statement on May 10 had urged Turkey to allow independent investigators to investigate into human right violations committed by security forces.

The UN also had called for the reports suggesting over 100 people, who were stuck in the basement surrounded by the security forces in Şırnak's Cizre district, were burned to death to be investigated.

In a statement issued on the official UN website on May 13, it was stated that Turkey's Ministry of Foreign Affairs had invited them via a letter to Turkey for inspection and investigation. (AS/TK)