mon 21 feb 2015, 16:58

Situation in South-east Turkey, is dramatic’

ISTANBUL –

On the streets are corpses, whole neighborhoods are razed and residents are waiting in shelters until the violence subsides. As described Kurdish eyewitnesses, the situation in the Turkish place Silopi, where the army is engaged in an offensive against the extremist movement PKK.

Photo: AP

“We have calls for help received from people who have already had a week in their basement”, says Ferhat Encü, a member of parliament for the pro-Kurdish party HDP. According to Encü, who is currently in Silopi stay, there are many buildings destroyed and the city is surrounded by tanks. Dead bodies remain on the street, because it is by the holding of the fights can be dangerous to them, he sketches.

The fight between the PKK and the Turkish armed forces flared last summer, after a truce of more than two years. Turkish troops killed last week, according to sources within the army at least 110 PKK militants. From the area in South-eastern Turkey, where the battle rages is little information from independent journalists and other observers.