Diyarbakır Kurdish women speak out against Turkish rapist commander.

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Diyarbakır Kurdish women speak out against Turkish rapist commander. (Jinha).

AMED - Musa Çitil, a Turkish military commander noted for his use of sexual torture in the Kurdish region, has been acquitted, promoted and assigned to the main Kurdish city of Diyarbakır. Women's groups in the city have denounced the decision.

The Women's Assembly in the downtown Yenişehir district of Diyarbakır has denounced the promotion and assignment of rapist commander Musa Çitil to their city. In 1993 and 1994, Musa Çitil was the district commander of the military police in the Dêrik area of Mardin province. In multiple legal cases, lawyers have accused Musa Çitil of the killing of 13 villagers and the use of rape under arrest during this period.

The charges against Musa have all been dropped or ended in acquittal. In one case, one of the rape survivors, having exhausted all domestic legal options, applied to the European Court of Human Rights about the case. The court found that there had been an inadequate investigation into Musa and ordered Turkey to pay a fine. Now, Musa Çitil has been promoted to the rank of major general and assigned to the regional command of the military police, headquartered in the city of Diyarbakır.

Gülistan Koyuncu, assistant to the district co-mayor, read a statement on behalf of the local Women's Assembly, detailing the multiple cases against Musa at the gathering outside the city's municipal services building.

"We know that what is fundamentally responsible for the 1400% increase in the number of femicides [in Turkey] over recent years is the very mindset that acquits and promotes harassers and rapists," said Gülistan. 

"In a period when we have called for the right to life in a state of peace at every opportunity, when we have declared our intolerance for rape and the murder of women, we are quite conscious of why people are here who see themselves as having the right to every kind of crime in our land. This is why we will assert and continue our struggle against killers and rapists at every turn."

Women greeted the speech with applause and ululations. Hmmm.....'Neo Ottoman Rulers using Neo Ottoman ways to terrorize the population, Keep 'Islamist' Turkey out of Europe and NATO.

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Turkey - HDP deputies: Civilians murdered and detainees tortured in Kurdish town Silopi.

2 women paramedics attacked by police in Kurdish town of #Silopi http://t.co/Gp6MkMoBb5 pic.twitter.com/GVVHlpdF6t

— JINHA Women's News (@JinhaWomensNews) August 8, 2015

Turkey - HDP deputies: Civilians murdered and detainees tortured in Silopi. (ANF).

HDP deputies Meral Danış Beştaş, Feleknas Uca, Edip Berk, DTK Health Council members Dr. Ramazan Bülbül, Dr. İbrahim Halil Mert and SES Amed Branch Co-chair Selma Atabey have returned to Amed following inspections in Silopi district of Şırnak where police executed and terrorized people yesterday.

'THOSE MURDERED ARE CIVILIANS'

Speaking at a press beriefing at DTK office in Amed, HDP deputy Meral Danış Beştaş said hundreds of masked policemen opened random fire around and snipers were positioned on high buildings in Silopi.

Beştaş pointed out that the three people murdered by police were all civilians, one of them a health worker and one other a firefighter.

HDP deputy stated that it was wounded policemen that were rushed to hospital first, upon which police forces blockaded the hospital and denied access to wounded civilians.

Beştaş said police also threatened to kill the doctors in the hospital and detained the civilians who carried the injured people to the hospital. She added that the detainees were tortured while under custody, and this was documented by lawyers.

'POLICE AIM A MASS KILLING'

''It is completely by chance that hundreds of people didn't die in that environment in Silopi. Police aim a mass killing of civilians'', Beştaş added. Hmmmm.....'Neo Ottomans' are again attempting Genocide and the world is again silent.

If these pics really are from #silopi, this wasn't an operation but an attempted massacre. https://t.co/RdvfXNqdVb

— Capulcu Tonella (@diehimbeertonis) August 7, 2015

Bunlar da silopi de bir başka caddesin de çekilen bir fotoğraf. #silopidekatliamvar pic.twitter.com/qCDpi2iSOb

— Welat News (@welat_news) August 7, 2015

Turkish police raided homes of Kurds in #Silopî, opened fire on protesters. 2 dead, many injured. Homes set on fire. pic.twitter.com/FJjdTSoOV7

— Xende Biradostî (@Wekhevixwaz) August 7, 2015

Military comdr in charge of systematic rape in the past back in command in Turkey 's Kurdish region.

Military commander in charge of systematic rape in the past back in command in Turkey 's Kurdish region. (WomenNews).


JINHA -AMED - Musa Çitil is a Turkish army officer recently promoted to major general despite the rape and killings he ordered while assigned to the Kurdish region in the 1990s. Now, Musa has been assigned again: to the Kurdish city of Diyarbakır.

Musa Çitil became notorious in the Kurdish region of Turkey for the killings, disappearances and rapes that occurred under his command in the 1990s. 

Despite the widespread complaints about the then-regional military police commander, Musa has been acquitted of charges of torture, killing and rape, in cases denounced by the European Court of Human Rights. Now, after a promotion from brigadier general to major general, Musa has been reassigned once more to the Kurdish region.

Musa has faced 13 sentences of aggravated life in prison related to the killings of 13 villagers in the Derik region of Mardin province in 1993 to 1994.

Musa "behaved indifferently, made no distinction between terrorists and civilians and saw citizens as potential terrorists," according to the chief prosecutor's case against him. The prosecutor also demonstrated that even when Musa had no reason to suspect individuals of crimes, he killed them arbitrarily.

Courts cited "security reasons" for moving the case from the Kurdish region (where the crimes took place) to the Turkish province of Çorum. There, the case ended in an eventual acquittal, after Musa said that he "didn't remember most of it." Courts never saw fit to detain Musa.

Musa's sexual crimes against women in the region under his command also went unpunished. A woman named Şükran Esen came forward to say that in the 1993 and 1994, she was repeatedly arrested on the express orders of Musa Çitil. Şükran was then repeatedly subjected to sexual torture under arrest. Şükran, unable to speak for years about the incidents, testified about her crimes to Eren Keskin (a lawyer known for her work with victims of state-ordered sexual torture).

In 2003, Mardin prosecutors opened a case against Musa and 405 of his soldiers on charges of rape and maltreatment. Despite the forensic medical reports brought as evidence, the court dismissed the case. The European Court of Human Rights has fined Turkey, ruling that there was inadequate investigation in the case.

Now, Musa has been assigned as a commander in the largely Kurdish province of Diyarbakır.

Hmmm......NAZI treatment of a minority group doesn't fit in EU , NATO or the world!

Related:

Human Rights Association (İHD) Mardin (a province in Southeast Anatolia) Branch Chairperson, Lawyer Erdal Kuzu told bianet:

“Defendant Musa Çitil has been protected by the state from the beginning and the Supreme Military Council’s decision is in accordance with it. Crimes committed against Kurds are legitimate according to the state and the promotion of Çitil confirmed it.”

Put on trial between years 1993 and 1994, Çitil defended himself and said “he kept on the right side of the law”.

According to the report of İHD Mardin Branch, there were 52 enforced disappearances between 1993 and 1996 in Mardin province.