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Construction in Newala Qesaba: 'How can you accept villas built on your children's graves?'

Construction in Newala Qesaba: 'How can you accept villas built on your children's graves?'

The controversial construction of luxurious housing where mass graves are located in Siirt causes a commotion among people with family members buried on the site.

11 January 2023

Newala Qesaba: Villas being built on buried pain

Newala Qesaba: Villas being built on buried pain

Newala Qesaba is known as a place where many Armenians killed in 1915 were buried in mass graves. Besides, many Kurds killed in armed conflicts or unidentified murders are also believed to be buried in this area.

Bars associations, rights organizations protest construction in Newala Qesaba

Bars associations, rights organizations protest construction in Newala Qesaba

Representatives from the bar associations of Diyarbakır, Van, Bingöl and Siirt and from the İHD and TİHV protested the construction near Newala Qesaba, a site of mass graves in eastern Turkey. Police officers tried to block their passage.

'Building a shopping mall on a mass grave means sweeping the massacre under the carpet'

NEWALA QESABA

'Building a shopping mall on a mass grave means sweeping the massacre under the carpet'

HDP deputy Garo Paylan has talked about the construction project in Newala Qesaba: "We expect respect for our deceased. Everybody should show sensitivity because this is a matter of human rights."

15 April 2022 Ruken Tuncel

Newala Qesaba: Construction near mass graves in Kurdish province 'should be stopped'

FORENSIC SCIENTIST ÜMİT BİÇER

Newala Qesaba: Construction near mass graves in Kurdish province 'should be stopped'

The construction works should be halted and the process should be carried out with respect to the disease, says Ümit Biçer, a professor of forensic medicine.

13 April 2022 Ferid Demirel

Villas being built in Newala Qesaba, a site of mass graves in eastern Turkey

Villas being built in Newala Qesaba, a site of mass graves in eastern Turkey

Works are underway to construct 8-storey buildings and luxury villas on Newala Qesaba, where hundreds of Kurds and Armenians were buried in mass graves.