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May 28, 2012
 
 
 
 
 
 

PM links human remains discovered in Diyarbakır to PKK, Ergenekon

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan addresses AK Party deputies during a parliamentary meeting. (Photo: AP)
8 February 2012 / TODAYSZAMAN.COM,
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said he thinks the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and alleged terrorist organization Ergenekon are behind the human remains unearthed during ongoing excavations in the İçkale district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır.

“When the issue of remains being discovered underground in Diyarbakır is investigated, one side will point to Ergenekon and the other side to the PKK,” Erdoğan said during a meeting in which he addressed the governors of 81 provinces on Wednesday.

Some 30 human skulls and numerous bone fragments were discovered during the course of excavations carried out in the vicinity of a former prison and the former headquarters of JİTEM, a clandestine intelligence organization within the gendarmerie, within the past month. The intensive excavations in the area over the past two weeks have raised hopes that light will be shed on unsolved murders that took place during the dark period of the 1990s in the Southeast.

Hundreds of people are said to have been tortured at JİTEM headquarters. Although İçkale was known as one of JİTEM's execution sites, no excavations in search of human remains were allowed before the discovery in the area as it had been designated an historic site.

 
 
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Private Sherman, for your racist burning and killing if civilians in Savannah, and hatred until today, you are also deprived of US citiznship. Justice by the people, for the people as I said in 1864.
Abraham Lincoln
geo, if you spent five minutes in Turkiye, you would see I speak the truth.
GeneralSherman
Abe, you were killed by a hillbilly whose homes I burned for you. Some gratitude would be appreciated.
GeneralSherman
@ Senol you got something wrong here. Nobody would dream to ridicule the Turkish Nation, and it is indeed the individuals that are ridiculed and deserve it, mostly belonging to the AKP! And this is a worldwide opinion! And if you call the hate speech General balanced, then something is not in the c...
geo
General Sherman, you are hereby demoted to private for utter lies, slander and racist comments.
Abraham Lincoln
I like GeneralSherman, at least he demonstrates that he does his homework as well as being right, as for his opinions, I see them balanced, contrary to the others who approach the Turkish topic from only one angle which his how can I humiliate or fight or ridicule the Turkish nation, which is imposs...
Senol
G sherman u remind me with an old movie i seen long time ago which called Ali G.hhhhhhhhhhhhhhh go to hospital 4 some check up son.
kurdish falcon
Some of you pkk terrorists here need a reality check. The PKK has lost and will always lose. They have lost more than 30,000 terrorists. I don't need to stress what a disastrous casualty rate that is for a terrorist group.
GeneralSherman
sacmali yabanci, the pkk is the invention of foreign imperialists.
GeneralSherman
ijad, johan is a dutch loser that I have humiliated several times. He defends the dutch role in the murder of Muslim Bosniaks at srebrenica.
GeneralSherman
David Palch, the only oppressors are the United States and their kurdish terrorists.
GeneralSherman
dario, a bunch of smugglers who were probably helping the pkk anyway got smoked. Big deal. The kurds helped the US murdered hundreds of thousands of iraqis. This is just evening the score.
GeneralSherman
Erdogan said: "Turks cannot commit genocide".. When Erdogan will go one day to Deir elzawr, Hasakeh, Meskeneh, and sees millions of bones under the shallow grounds he will claim the victims were "killed by Armenians" Ain't that right Erdogan?
Mani
David Palch, u nailed it. well done.
british kurd
Its obvious to anyone that the PKK was, like hezbollah and most other groups who've been murdering, a creation of a corrupt state intent on clinging to power by means nefarious. Now RTE also uses the PKK to justify his failed policies. What poverty of the mind!
Tehlikeli yabancitbginbox
@DutchTurk, you're the one that needs to stop fooling yourself. You're one of the biggest goofs here, not Johan, who happens to be one of the most informed in reality. Eat our lies
ijad
@Dario, Uludere conclusion: wrong province, wrong time, wrong job, wrong border, not an accurate UAV (24/7 active in the region), superb pilots, wrong supply(oil makes matters worse), JUST THE RISK OF THE JOB.
DutchTurk
@Ferhat B, your the second biggest goof i have ever read a comment of, after Johan. Dude accusing PKK?? PKK took responsibilities in multiple attacks on civilians even this year. Ankara bombing, Siirt 6 girls in a car, suicide bomber in Bingol. We all know what kind of dirt PKK is made of, so stop f...
DutchTurk
PKK must be finished. We will pay any price to do that.
ero
Another Turkish speciality: equating the oppressor (the state) with the oppressed (the Kurds). Over to you General Sharman
David Palch
I take it you PKK lovers, below, that an organisation like the PKK who also indiscremently kill women and children, don't kill their own for walking out on them, for resisting their influence, for not submitting to their will, all those bones are probably are Kurds, who were killed together, both Er...
Senol
For the so-called "Turk-Islam sentezci"s, the state is a holy institution. Recently some of the countless brutal crimes of their state were exposed and they want to counterbalance it by accusing the PKK.
Ferhat B
Erdogan think he is still living in Otoman times where there was no internet and people used to learn everything from Imams..:) Kurds are aware who are the killers and they also remember under which government, army killed 35 civilians 2 weeks ago!
dario
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh who are u kidding Erdogan. those are turkish jenderma victimes. kurds have seen so many of these kind of murders on the hands of turks. so where u get pkk involvment from. dont say that again because people will laugh at u.
Sadeq
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