Secrets and techniques of a catastrophe: “Tears of Roboski Uludere”

28 December 2011… Between 21.30 – 22.30 hours…

Turkey – Iraq border… One of many final crossing factors of the border…

Uludere district of Şırnak Gulyaz (Bujeh) and Ortasu (Roboski) 38 villagers, 18 of whom are youngsters, are returning to Turkey from Iraq, on foot, with their mules.

There are merchandise loaded on seventy mules:

“Like diesel, tea, sugar, tobacco.

contraband merchandise.”

Their livelihood is from smuggling.

The best way again is the best way everybody is aware of and makes use of, even our troopers.

Roboski Villagers, who convey smuggled merchandise from Iraq to Turkey for sure durations, additionally use this route regularly. Native individuals principally make their residing from smuggling. He buys it cheaply in Iraq, and sells it in Turkey for 3 or 5 cents. It is not a win-win, however sufficient to stay on.

There isn’t any official within the area who doesn’t know this, as everybody is aware of.

A lot in order that it’s even identified who left and when. However everybody turns a blind eye.

That route, which is crossed on the border and used fairly often, is a quiet space the place there’s not a lot battle.

Already within the neighborhood, when our soldier will perform an operation, he informs the villagers.

It is raining bombs

On that ominous December night time, at 9:36 p.m….

Whereas the villagers coming back from the fugitive are attempting to achieve their villages by the street they all the time use…

“In a flash, they noticed 4 flashing flares above their heads. They could not make sense of it. As a result of it was one thing they all the time did.

After the deafening sound of airplanes, the insufferable noise and brilliance of the bombs that exploded one after the opposite of their hearts had turned the Qur’anis area, positioned on the Iraqi facet of the border, into hell.

The second bomb at 21.43, the third at 22.04, and the fourth bomb at 22.34 fell on the youngsters.

Out of 38 villagers, 17 of them had been youngsters and 34 villagers misplaced their lives.”

To the historical past of our tragedies “Roboski Catastrophe” One of many dire occasions.

Levent Gök’s ebook

This catastrophe that occurred in 2011 makes a huge impact within the nation, it’s not forgotten for years. As a result of:

“The bombs falling on the villagers are being dropped from planes belonging to the Turkish Air Power.”

In fact, the catastrophe is mirrored within the Grand Nationwide Meeting of Turkey.

One of the vital energetic deputies within the parliament concerning the Roboski bloodbath is from the CHP. Levent Gok.

After the catastrophe, he goes to Uludere, meets with the survivors and their households, and poses inquiries to the Minister of Nationwide Protection and the Minister of Inside within the Meeting. Though he doesn’t obtain passable solutions, he doesn’t hand over on the occasion.

Levent Gök is lastly writing a ebook:

“Tears of Roboski Uludere.”

The ebook is a documentary that can go down in historical past.

He’s investigating the catastrophe from each side, the Prime Minister of the time Tayyip Erdogan’s Numerous statements on the topic, statements of the Chief of Basic Employees, the investigation course of, the report of the Parliamentary Human Rights Investigation Fee, are all within the ebook.

“The ebook is a whole documentary for him.”

“Our F-16 planes hit”

Two days after the catastrophe, Erdogan stated:

“That area is beneath the management of the separatist terrorist group KCK.

(…) Those that misplaced their lives is also militants. It’s the PKK terrorist group that offers smuggled items to these individuals.

(…) The flight made on this area relies on the data given by our intelligence businesses about ten days in the past.

On account of this flight, proper after the unmanned aerial autos, an F-16 aircraft took off and our F-16 planes hit this space.” (Levent Gök, agk, p.40 – 41).

Levent Gök’s willpower is:

“The air operation was carried out with the suspicion of a terrorist. Nothing occurs on objective, it’s at most an operation accident brought on by a scarcity of intelligence.

A tragic intelligence error was made, a fast and uncalculated army resolution was taken throughout the framework of the identical tragedy, and 34 of our residents had been killed.” (Levent Gök, agk, p. 35 – 37).

Based on the Basic Employees

After the catastrophe, the Basic Employees additionally makes a press release:

“The world the place the group was detected is a spot regularly utilized by terrorists, and upon detection of a motion in the direction of our border at night time, it was thought of to be beneath fireplace by air drive planes, and the goal was put beneath fireplace between 21.37 and 22.34.

The place the place the incident occurred is the Sinat – Haftanin area, the place the primary camps of the separatist terrorist group are positioned.

Judicial and administrative investigation is ongoing concerning the incident. (Levent Gök, agk, p.35).

No want to research

Judicial and administrative evaluation!..

The ebook explains minute by minute how the bombing resolution was made. What’s the MIT doing at the moment, what data is being collected by the related models of the state, all of them are within the ebook.

And actually…

The Basic Employees Army Prosecutor’s Workplace is investigating the catastrophe through which 34 individuals misplaced their lives.

Resolution:

“There isn’t any room for prosecution…” (Levent Gök, agkk, p.129).

One other catastrophe file is closed when it comes to judicial and administrative points.

No…

“Levent Gök’s documentary ebook doesn’t shut!..”

All of the disasters, explosions, bombings, prepare accidents, mine murders, every kind of violence we have now skilled within the final twenty years carry many secrets and techniques.

Amongst them are the main “Tears of Roboski Uludere” opens the veil of secrecy.

It’s a should learn ebook when it comes to explaining the anatomy of a catastrophe.

Who’s Yalçın Doğan?

Yalçın Doğan graduated from the German Excessive Faculty in 1965 and from the School of Economics of Istanbul College in 1969.

He began journalism in 1973 as an financial system reporter at Cumhuriyet. In 1981, he was appointed because the Ankara Consultant of the Republic.

In 1989, he began as a columnist at Milliyet, the place he first turned the Editorial Coordinator and in 1999 the Editor-in-Chief. He continued his column in Hürriyet Newspaper in 2003 and resulted in 2015. Since then, he continues to put in writing a column at T24.

Along with varied awards from the Turkish Language Affiliation, Sedat Simavi, Journalists Affiliation of Turkey, he was among the many journalists who gained the most effective columnist of the yr in 2014 and the ‘Unbreakable Pens’ award of Halk TV.

He wrote the books Turkey within the Clamp of the IMF, Politics in Dar Sokakta, Fenerbahçe Republic, The Savrulanlar, every of which comprises unique analysis, and the books Sussam Susulmaz Yazmasam Olmaz, through which he compiled his memoirs. He additionally has a translation from German revealed beneath the title Evaluation of Fascism within the Communist Worldwide. Speaks German and English.

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