JamaliahYusofYacob - Walaupun
Ankara mendakwa tindakan keras tentera yang berterusan hanya mensasarkan
pengganas, orang awam sering menjadi mangsa kepada serangan - dan bukan hanya
di wilayah penduduk-Kurdis Turki, tetapi juga di seluruh sempadan di Syria di
mana orang mengalami serangan rentas sempadan setiap hari.
Pihak
berkuasa Turki telah mengharamkan wartawan dan pertubuhan hak asasi manusia
daripada membuat liputan operasi ketenteraan terhadap Parti (PKK) di daerah
Nusaybin di wilayah Turki tenggara Mardin.
Satu-satunya
cara untuk mendapatkan gambaran tindakan ketenteraan yang berterusan adalah
untuk melihat operasi yang dikenali sebagai anti-pengganas dari keselamatan
relatif sebuah bandar Syria Qamishli, yang terletak hanya 200 meter dari
kedudukan tentera Turki ini.
Tetapi
wartawan di wilayah Syria berada di bawah ancaman berterusan peluru sesat yang
datang dari sebelah Turki. RT telah mendapat rakaman eksklusif menunjukkan
operasi ketenteraan Turki terhadap Kurdis dari wartawan tempatan.
Sekurang-kurangnya
2 orang termasuk seorang kanak-kanak telah terbunuh dalam Qamishli, menurut
seorang wartawan RT di atas darat, sebagai hasil daripada tembakan meriam
rentas sempadan, yang terus pada kadar biasa sejak awal bulan Mac, apabila
Ankara melancarkan serangan ke atas Nusaybin . Selama lebih sebulan sekarang,
meriam berat telah digunakan terhadap orang awam kedua-dua bandar-bandar.
Secara
purata lebih daripada 10 peluru melanda Qamishli setiap hari, penduduk tempatan
di sebelah Syria sempadan memberitahu krew RT. Sembarangan meriam kebakaran
memusnahkan banyak rumah-rumah, masjid dan infrastruktur awam lain.
Saudagar
tempatan, Muhammad Hasso, memberitahu RT pengalaman menyakitkan apabila mortar
meletup di hadapan pendiriannya dan perhentian bas di mana 3 orang sedang
berbual-bual.
"3
orang duduk di sini, dan tiba-tiba kami mendengar wisel mortar, diikuti dengan
letupan," kata Hasso. "Segala-galanya telah dimusnahkan oleh letupan.
Orang awam terjejas. peluru datang dari Turki. Ia adalah satu mortar tank."
Ankara’s
anti-Kurd crackdown spills over border
onto Syrian civilians (EXCLUSIVE VIDEO)
. . .
While
Ankara claims its ongoing military crackdown only targets terrorists, civilians
often fall victim to the offensive – and not just in Turkey’s Kurdish-populated
provinces, but also across the border in Syria where people suffer from
cross-border shelling daily.
Turkish
authorities have banned journalists and human rights organizations from
covering its military operations against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in
the Nusaybin district in the southeastern Turkish province of Mardin.
The
only way to get a glimpse of the ongoing military action is to observe the
so-called anti-terrorist operation from the relative safety of a Syrian town of
Qamishli, which lies only 200 meters away from the Turkish army’s positions.
But
journalists on Syrian territory are under the constant threat of stray shells
coming from the Turkish side. RT has obtained an exclusive footage showing the
Turkish military operation against Kurds from a local stringer.
At
least two people including a child have been killed in Qamishli, according to
an RT stringer on the ground, as a result of the cross-border artillery fire,
which has continued at regular pace since early March, when Ankara launched the
assault on Nusaybin. For over a month now, heavy artillery has been used
against the civilian population of both cities.
On
average more than 10 shells hit Qamishli daily, locals on the Syrian side of
the border told an RT crew. Indiscriminate artillery fire destroyed many
houses, mosques and other civilian infrastructure.
A local
merchant, Muhammad Hasso, told RT of his painful experience when a shell
exploded right in front of his stand and a bus stop where three people were
conversing.
“Three people sat here, and all of a sudden we
heard the whistle of a shell, followed by an explosion,” Hasso said. “Everything was destroyed by the explosion.
Civilians are affected. The projectile came from Turkey. It was a tank shell.”
Baca
lebih lanjut: Syria 'sangat menderita, mortar semburan kutu' dalam tindakan
keras trans-sempadan Turki pada Kurd (READ MORE: Syrians ‘suffer greatly, flee stray shells’ in
Turkey’s trans-border crackdown on Kurds)
Seorang
wanita tempatan berusia 36 tahun, Fatima Fattouche, turut cedera teruk oleh
serangan.
"Saya
keluar dari teksi dan pergi ke perhentian bas, dan kemudian saya mendengar
letupan. Saya menyentuh diri saya dan menyedari bahawa saya mendapat banyak
serpihan pada badanku. Kemudian saya bangun di hospital, "katanya kepada
RT.
Pada
bulan November 2015, Nusaybin, sebuah bandar 80,000, kebanyakannya Kurdis,
telah diletakkan di bawah perintah berkurung oleh kerajaan Turki dengan operasi
ketenteraan terhadap pejuang PKK berterusan di daerah ini.
A
36-year-old local woman, Fatima Fattouche, was also severely injured by the
shelling.
“I got out of a taxi and went to the bus stop,
and then I heard the explosion. I touched myself and realized that I got a lot
of shrapnel in me. Then I woke up in the hospital,” she told RT.
In
November 2015, Nusaybin, a town of 80,000, mostly Kurds, was placed under
curfew by the Turkish government with military operations against the PKK
fighters continuing in the district.
Baca
lebih lanjut: Tentera Turki tembak wartawan penggambaran Op anti-Kurd dari Syria – laporan (Read more: Turkish army fires at journalists filming anti-Kurd op from
Syria – report)
Di
sempadan, Arab dan Kristian, yang membentuk minoriti signifikan dalam Qamishli,
bersama majoriti Kurdis, terpaksa melarikan diri kawasan-kawasan perumahan yang
geografi yang paling dekat dengan sempadan Turki sebagai operasi ketenteraan
yang berterusan menimbulkan ancaman langsung kepada kehidupan mereka.
Kempen
ketenteraan terhadap pejuang PKK di Turki bermula pada pertengahan 2015,
selepas Ankara berakhir perjanjian gencatan senjata 2 tahun dan dihidupkan
semula konflik lama yang telah meragut lebih 40,000 nyawa.
Melanggar
undang-undang antarabangsa, Ankara juga telah mensasarkan Kurdish Demokratik
Unity Party Syria (PYD), yang mendakwa ia dikaitkan dengan PKK, serta Rakyat
Protection Unit (YPG) yang memperjuangkan Negara Islam (IS, yang sebelum ini
ISIS/ISIL) di Syria.
Sejak
itu, operasi itu telah dikutuk oleh pemimpin Eropah dan pertubuhan hak asasi
manusia. Hampir 20,000 orang telah menandatangani petisyen yang dilancarkan
oleh RT bulan lepas, yang menggesa PBB untuk menyiasat dakwaan pembunuhan
beramai-dakwaan orang awam Kurdis.
Over
the border, Arabs and Christians, which make up a significant minority in
Qamishli, alongside a Kurdish majority, were forced to flee neighborhoods that
are geographically closest to the Turkish border as ongoing military operations
pose a direct threat to their livelihood.
The
military campaign against PKK fighters in Turkey began in mid-2015, after
Ankara ended a two-year ceasefire agreement and revived an old conflict that
has claimed more than 40,000 lives.
In
breach of international laws, Ankara has also been targeting the Syrian Kurdish
Democratic Unity Party (PYD), which it claims is linked to the PKK, as well as
the People’s Protection Units (YPG) which fight Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL)
in Syria.
Since
then, the operation has been condemned by European leaders and human rights
organizations. Almost 20,000 people have signed a petition, launched by RT last
month, that urges the UN to investigate claims of alleged mass killing of
Kurdish civilians.
