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PKK's spring offensive: An act of desperation
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A SEPERATISM RIKSKRIMINALEN Våldsroteln/2
guerillas marched into the hamlet of Uckardesler and called 12 people out of their houses. The militants had the names of their victims beforehand and, after gathering them in the form of a group, sprayed them with bullets. A shephard who heard gunfire and came to the hamlet was also killed in the attack. Last week's attack of the Kurdistan Workers Party (Partiya
In all, the three attacks cost Karkaren Kurdistan) on a hamlet of Nusaybin, in which 11 peo- the lives of 27 people, including ple from the same family died, was the second such massacre children, and the PKK man. which took place in the PKK Spring Offensive-1988 campaign.
aged to escape... According to witnesses, PKK militants raided the Bahninin
Originally, the Kurdistan hamlet of Taskoy village at night and sprayed the only three Workers Party had planned to houses there with bullets. 11 members of the Celik family died in give priority to attacks on milithe attack and the fire which followed, including women and a tary facilities this Summer. three-month-old infant.
But, its "Spring Congress" Those who survived the at- Babat, released from prison scheduled to be held within tack, Ilhan Celik (11) and about a month ago after being Turkish territory, unfolded as Shazime Celik (7), said later charged with supporting the a total failure with Turkish that the militants had ap- separatist organization, was troops killing 20 of those who peared on their doorsteps at branded by the PKK as a had infiltrated from the border night and had started to shoot "traitor" and police collabora. in a wide-scale military operaaſter asking from the window tor.
tion. whether there were any sol. Two hours after this triple However weakened it may be, diers inside.
murder near Tarakli, more the PKK has shown with the reThe massacre was clearly than 25 well-armed separatist cent massacres that it is deterintended to wipe out the Celik family, probably collaborators of the state, and give the mes.
TÜRKİYE
0 sage that the PKK was still acVan Gold
VAN tive in the region.
BITLIS Only days before, the outDicle lawed organization's guerilla
Kulp SIIAT
YOksekova
Pervari front, ERNK, raided two hamEruh
HAKKARI
DIYARBAKIR lets in Sirnak and killed 16
Gerçus
Şemdinli people.
Midyat
Strnak Silopi
Çukurca: Again in this attack, the first
MARDINS
Clare. Uludere target was a former PKK supÖmerli
Habur Zaho Ontabağ porter, Osman Babat, and his
Nusaybin two relatives. The three were
IRAK caught on the way back to their
SURİYE village and strangled.
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BRIEFING/May 16-23, 1988