Turkey Uses Chemical Weapons Against the Kurds!

Thank you to Rasti for translating this important story taken from Ozgur Gundem, the much suppressed Kurdish daily newspaper in Turkey.

Exposing the 'Dirty War' of the Turkish Army, Ozgur Gundem fights for its right to publish having been closed down routinely by the Turkish authorities during its latest and all other incarnations.

It is because of stories like the one below, published by Ozgur Gundem, and because it is the paper of the Kurdish people, that the paper has suffered such savage repression. Including the jailing of many of it journalists, killings of many of its journalists, the torture of many of its journalists and the bombing of the papers buildings, during its heroic existence since 1993.

Ozgur Gundem, (and all of its name changes because of legal cases taken out against it) continues to expose the truth about Turkey's 'Dirty War' with the latest report of Chemical Weapons being used against the Kurds. These reports surface regularly with eye witness's, strange deaths of herds of animals and even people taking samples of grass to laboratories and proving that chemicals were present.




Hevallo once interviewed a man in Kadifekale, the Kurdish part of Izmir, Turkey, whose son had been killed by chemical weapons. The man had his son's body tested and it was found to have poisonous gasses all over it. He showed me a signed report from the doctor. (which I still have a picture of)

Again, last year a group of Kurdish guerillas were reported in the Kurdish press, again, to of been killed by chemical weapons..........yet no-one in the international community or media seems the slightest bit interested that Turkey, a EU applicant is using chemical weapons against the Kurds!


Here's the latest report of the continued use of Chemical weapons by Turkey:

From yesterday's Özgür Gündem:

Suspicion of chemical weapons in TSK bombardment

In the Levce village of Qendil, hundreds of goats died in the area where Turkish aircraft bombed.


As a result of the bombardment, 186 baby goats died and, according to the investigation, poisonous material has been found in the goats' milk. Mam Hasan, who makes his living through animal husbandry in Levce village, said that he made his goats graze in the area where Turkish aircraft bombed on 16 December.

After a while, he said, all the baby goats died, one after the other.We made an analysis, medication did not cure.Hasan Mecid said the ongoing events after the bombardment, as follows: "When Turkish aircraft bombed this region, nothing happened to my animals.However, when I grazed my animals in the region that had been bombed, almost 200 of my animals died. Some other animals also died in the village. But after my animals died altogether, we went to Dîyana, Hewlêr, and Silêmanî veterinarians, bought medication, and made the laboratory analysis.None of the medication given had cured them. The animals continued to be sick and die."

Poison found in goats' milk.


For a more detailed laboratory analysis, we took samples of goat meat and milk. As a result, poison was found in the milk. However, Hasan Mecid said the doctors did not mention anything about the reason for the poison. Mecid continued: "Nothing like this has happened before in our village. There is only one reason, and that is the Turkish aircraft bombed the region where the goats were grazed, and those weapons spread poison.

The expert veterinarians also asked where I grazed my animals, and I said the region where the airplanes bombed. They, too, mentioned that it might be the reason for the poison in the milk."We cannot give goats milk to the children." Hasan Mecid's daughter, Şuno Mecid, said that the newborn goats became ill very soon after they started nursing, and later they died while they were convulsing.

Because the baby goats died, they do not use goat milk and they do not give it to their children. Şuno Mecid said: "Now we milk the goats and we pour out the milk. Since the baby goats died, we are worried that this milk will harm people, too. We are also concerned about the occurence of any disease in children."Earlier the KRG environment minister Dara Muhammed Emin had also mentioned that they have evidence that the Turkish state was using weapons that violate laws of war.

This incident that occured in Levce village reminds us one more time of the suspicion of Turkey's use of chemical weapons. For that reason, the villagers called international institutions for a delegation of independent experts to investigate the matter.The Levce villagers said that if their claim is corroborated, they will sue Turkey.