ÇEWLÎG, NORTHERN KURDISTAN
The Çewlîg governorship announced that 35 districts within certain coordinates of the central district, Solhan, Karlıova, Genç, Yayladere, Yedisu, Kiğı and Adaklı were declared as “Temporary Private Security Zone.
It has been stated that entrances to the “Private Security Zones” have been prohibited from 01 January 2020 to 31 December 2020. The fate of the people living in the area is unknown.
The occupying Turkish state has over the past month declared 29 districts of Dersim as private security zones till 01 July, 15 districts in Şırnak till 15 January, 48 districts in Dilok till 15 January and 5 districts in Hakkari until 11 January.
Private Security Zones are military oppression regimes launched by the occupying Turkish state in attempts to create a state of fear in Kurdish regions. First relaunched after the 7 June elections in 2015, the operations were launched by the fascist Turkish state during the ‘Solution Process‘ which was supposed to bring an answer to the long-standing Kurdish question.
With a Kurdish population of over 30 million in Turkey-occupied Northern Kurdistan, society had soon come to a realisation that the Erdogan regime had used the vulnerability of the historic Kurdistan peoples’ to push the PKK to retreat. After the retreat of the PKK from northern Kurdistan in May 2013, the process had quickly come to a halt and tensions were on the rise.
The PKK declared that it would to not intervene in a possible democratic solution for the peoples. Short after, the Kurdish became target boards of the Turkish state. And when the pro-Kurdish HDP gained mass votes in the 2015 elections, Erdogan confided in his beloved remote controls to bombard the PKK in Iraq and introduced “Temporary Private Security Zones” all over Northern Kurdistan. The solution process was over, but instead, a new era would begin when the Kurds declared autonomy in countless cities resulting in a fierce war between the peoples (along with the several PKK cadres who had returned) and the state.
The aftermath of the “Private Security Zones” was a detriment. The sights experienced by those who had stepped out of their homes for the first time in months were the corpses of Kurdish children found hung on trees or preserved in fridges in basements.
