"We have been watching with concern the escalation of violence in south-eastern Turkey caused by the ongoing military operation of the Turkish authorities in the Kurdish-populated provinces of the country," the ministry said in a commentary. "Human rights organisations have reported numerous casualties among the civilian population, including women and children."
A curfew is still in effect in some localities, the ministry said, the passage for all types of transport is closed. "Politicians, journalists and representatives of humanitarian organizations are not admitted to the area of ··the operation," the Foreign Ministry said. "Shortages of food and other essentials is observed in some areas, the situation is close to a humanitarian catastrophe. According to some data, the total number of internally displaced persons has exceeded 100,000 people".
Moscow calls on the Turkish government "to take the necessary steps to ensure the cessation of violence as soon as possible and resume the peace settlement process that had been interrupted in July 2015." "The solution to the Kurdish problem lies in the political sphere," said the Russian Foreign Ministry. "The use of force in the settlement of internal conflicts leads only to new casualties and aggravation of the situation with unpredictable consequences."
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30/12/15
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Russia’s human rights preaching on PKK operations nothing but ‘dark humor’: Ankara...
ReplyDeleteThe Turkish Foreign Ministry has criticized a statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry calling on Ankara to resolve the Kurdish issue by political means rather than by force, describing the statement as “an example of dark humor.”
“For a country whose record on democracy, the rule of law, and human rights is very well known by everyone, which has caused indignation with its acts in neighboring countries such as Ukraine and Georgia by violating international law, which has provided political and military support to crimes against humanity by the bloody-handed dictator in Syria, and which actively launched campaigns leading to the death of hundreds of civilians, giving a human rights lecture to others is only an example of dark humor,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç said on Dec. 31.
The statement came in the form of an official answer to a reporter’s question about the Russian Foreign Ministry’s statement.
A Dec. 30 statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry called on the Turkish government “to take the necessary steps to ensure the cessation of violence as soon as possible and resume the peace settlement process that was interrupted in July 2015,” Russian news agency TASS reported.
“We are watching with concern the escalation of violence in southeastern Turkey caused by the ongoing military operation of the Turkish authorities in the Kurdish-populated provinces of the country. Human rights organizations have reported numerous casualties among the civilian population, including women and children,” TASS quoted the statement as saying.....hurriyetdailynews.com