Alwaght- 31 people had been trapped in a basement of a building in the Kurdish town of Cizre for over a week, with 6 already dead because of their injuries.
Ambulances and aid workers have been denied access to the area.
Turkey-based Cihan news agency quoted Faysal Sariyildiz, Sirnak deputy of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) as saying that 31 people had been trapped in a basement of a building in the Kurdish town of Cizre.
“The wounded are confined in a tight space along with those who have died,” Sariyildiz told the agency.
English news editor for the turky-based Dicle News Agency, also told RT that seven of the wounded have died and 15 others are suffering from injuries, “some in critical condition.”
“No news has been received from the basement since yesterday afternoon. Dozens of people including women and children remain trapped,” he said. “The wounded are waiting to die without any available means,” he said, adding that there is lack of water or other "basic means to survive.”
HDP’s Sariyildiz managed to contact with the people in basement and received the names and photos of the trapped Kurds.
Dicle News Agency has posted photos allegedly showing the injured and the dead in the basement.
Turkish government has imposed curfews and cut off passage to medics to the area. Cizre has been under curfew for the past six weeks.
The Turkish Authorities has denied giving access to physicians and volunteers to the area on the pretext that they lacked an official document.
“We were denied entry despite explaining to them that the prevention was in violation of the Geneva Conventions, of which Turkey is a signatory, and that vehicles and volunteer personnel carrying the symbol of the Red Cross need to be allowed in to conflict zones,” Dr. Vahhac Alp said, as quoted by the Hurriyet Daily.
“This is a desperate situation: injured individuals, some of whom are apparently bleeding heavily, are at grave risk of dying if they do not urgently receive medical care,” said Andrew Gardner, Amnesty International’s researcher on Turkey, on Thursday.
On Friday, the Turkey Constitutional Court ordered to halt ambulance crews to reach the injured. In order to justify its decision, Today’s Zaman cited the court as saying there is "ambiguity over whether the people in Cizre are injured or not, whether they are in critical condition, why they were injured, whether they are armed or not and where they actually are".
Since December, Turkey government has been increasing pressure on Kurdish areas located near borders with Syria and Iraq. Erdogan has vowed to continue the military campaign until the area is cleansed of PKK militants.
