Turkish Kurdistan

Turkish Kurdistan Material from Turkish Kurdistan, fighting between the Turkish military and PKK guerillas, interviews with human rights abuse sufferers, tanks in occupied Kurdish villages
00.00.00 Aftermath PKK attack on Turkish town near Iraqi border
00.32 Turkish tanks near Iraq border - Cizre Town 1992
00.58 Aftermath Turkish attack on border village
01'27 Sign 'How happy I am to be Turk' carved into hillside
01'37 Kurd being harassed by Turkish policeman
01'52 Turkish tanks patrol Cizre
02'10 Empty Abandoned Kurdish border villages
02'43 I/v man 'The army wasted many villages. They tortured us and they forced them to leave the villages. Now Hale is deserted, completely empty. There is no on left in this village. No-one can come to this place - because of the army'
03'03 Army look out post in Kurdish mountains
04'12 Government photos alleging to show children shot by PKK guerrillas, in villages that defied it.
04'32 Old Men return to their village (Tippekoi?) after 2 years of exile.
04'46 4 xii. 1994 bomb attack on Kurdish community
05'28 Village on fire in distance
05'35 Turkish tanks guard abandoned village. (Dilecik )
07'27 Stills taken by Govt soldier of decapitated Kurds, sold for $2 per set.
PKK training camp, Damascus
10'13 Villagers from destroyed village live in tents
10'51 Turkish soldiers dispel Newroz (Kurdish New Year) celebration, largest in calendar.
11'14 Turkish troops fire on our well identified journalists.
11'51 Turkish Tanks in (Cizre)
12'20 Truck Driver: 'for the Kurds here Saddam is not the problem. Turkey is the problem. Harassment, torture. Everything they do is torture for us. Always the same, by God. I mean Turkey occupies our land. We Kurds are under occupation. They shoot us'.
12'45 Man talks of human rights abuses perpetrated by Turks against Kurds.
13'21 Small donkey trails through Turk-Iraqi border.
14'04 PKK troops march, PKK camp in mountains
14'41 Turkish military footage
15'04 Frontline footage of PKK offensive
15'37 Kurds bury dead.
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