DEHAP Members Attacked in Sirnak

DEHAP Members Attacked in Sirnak 

Resul Sadak, DEHAP chair for Sirnak, Mehmet Yumak, DEHAP deputy chair
for Sirnak, the lawyer Hüseyin Seyitoglu, DEHAP executive Melike Lap
and a group of DEHAP members were attacked by the village guards when
they wanted to visit major of Cizre district Kamil Atak at his house.

DEHAP members announced that after Atak rejected to see the visitors
the village guards who were in the house attacked the visitors with
stones and sticks. Sadak also stressed that police officers from Cizre
Security Directorate followed them on the way and stopped some 15
meters to the house of Kamil Atak. He stressed that even they saw the
attack, they just laughed. The lawyer Hüseyin Seyitoglu added that the
windows of Atak's house and car were broken by the attackers to accuse
the visitors.

Mehmet Yumak, DEHAP chair for Cizre Mehmet Dilsiz, DEHAP executive for
province Abdullah Sakin were wounded during the incident.

The police intervened a group of persons who gathered in front of the
hospital where the wounded DEHAP members were taken. The police
wounded the women Aynur Gasir, Delile Tongur and Gülistan Ölmez during
the intervention. (Özgür Gündem-TIHV, December 1, 2003)

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