It has taken an early election decision with that AKP received lower vote than expected in the general elections that is hold in June 7, 2015 and that the coalition options frustrated. In July, the bloody process that is started in the name of struggling with ISIS after 34 students have killed with a bomb attacks, has become a systematic aggression against Kurdish people and the democratic institutions. The government is uttering on all occasions that it is insistent on the war in spite of the call for peace of many intellectuals, democratic mass organizations and profession bodies. Also there is not any development that satisfies the public about illuminating the Suruç Massacre yet. But however, over 150 regions in which intensely Kurdish people live in Turkey are announced as special security regions and the government has started curfew for days in many districts. In the regions that are announced as special security regions, there are really serious violations about access to public services and human rights in general.
We are experiencing a process in which the democratic rights, union rights and freedoms are abolished completely within a created war, violence and clash environment. One of the last examples of these is suspension of 13 KESK members who protest Suruç Massacre in the city of Ağrı.
13 friends of us including 8 SES executives and KESK members are prosecuted by order of the Governor of Ağrı and are suspended immediately because of that they organized a press statement that protests Suruç massacre which caused deaths of 34 young people in July, 20. Our friends are facing with the danger and threat of removal of public office.
The Health Minister did not make any remark about the threats, killings, aggressions and custodies that are carried out against the health institutions, health laborers and health care receivers because of the armed conflict which intensifies primarily in Cizre, Silopi, Dersim, Van, Bitlis, Tatvan and recently in Lice, Beytüşşebap and Silvan; also did not accept our demand for meeting and did not make any attempt on this issue even though we reminded him of his duty about protecting the health institutions and health laborers from these kind of incidents.
A member of us, Nurse Eyüp Ergen who is working in Emergency Service of Cizre Public Hospital is shot by the snipers of special operation police in his car after he go out from the hospital in which he is working. Because of that the police did not allow the ambulance to enter the scene and that he is waited for over one hour as wounded, our member is dead in September 25, 2015. Once again, one of our members, Şehmus Dursun who is working in Beytüşşebap is dead as a result of police fire to the ambulance in the control point in September, 25, 2015. Also many health laborers both our member and not are wounded and are exposed to threats and offences.
In this process, public hospitals are virtually occupied by the special operation forces, emergency services are became police headquarters by emptying the emergency services. Cizre Public Hospital is emptied; is assigned to the police and the intensive care unit has to be converted into an emergency service. Especially when the wounded security forces and suspects are brought in and in their treatment process, the garden and the environment of the hospital are blockading by the security forces and this blockade is reflecting to indoor of hospital. The special operation police is applying cruel and arbitrary treatment to the patients and wounded people who came to the hospital.
There are also very serious declines in patient application numbers to hospitals and most of childbirths could not be done because of the extrajudicial executions. There are serious obstacles for the access to health institutions of the people who are wounded and who have chronic diseases. There are dramatic decreases in the criterions like the numbers of daily appeals to hospital emergency units, the numbers of daily appeals to polyclinics and the number of inpatients as to previous months. Home care services are interrupted to a large extent. The attention for health services that is including by “The Rules about Armed Conflicts and Other Violence Incidents” of World Doctor’s Association is ignoring by the civilian authorities and security officers. These extrajudicial implementations are creating insecurity and also are turning the health laborers and health institutions into targets. This insecure environment is demotivating the will to work. Therefore, many health laborers want to go aside from the place they live with permissions, appointments or resignations. Health laborers said that they are mentally depressed because of the ongoing clashes, threats and repressions and they do not want to work in these circumstances. The mental effects of the trauma that is created by clash environment are manifesting themselves as anxiety, depression, and acute stress reactions. It is a matter of that the clash environment creates mental traumas of which the consequences can be long standing over the whole society, initially over the children.
The special security region applications are became a security problem in itself for the civilians. It is de facto impossible to conduct a prosecution about the violations that is experienced in these regions. Consequently, international solidarity and cooperation have a great importance for abolition of these problems and violence. Our trade union made some judicial attempts about our killed members but there is a necessity for international support for that this kind of serious violations will not be repeated. We have strong suspicions about that these violations will continue during and after the general elections in the date of November, 1, 2015.