Kidnapping children

Well, indeed, thank God there has been no bloodshed. However, the issue is growing; the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has mentioned a “come back.”

It was known that those taking to the mountains (an idiom used for joining the PKK) and those being kidnapped to be taken to the mountains have not stopped. With the protests of 11 families whose children were kidnapped and called on the PKK to release their children, the PKK’s kidnappings climbed to the agenda of Turkey.

Can you imagine, “kidnapping?”

Children between the ages of 14 and 23, most of them taken from their schools and kidnapped by the PKK to take to the mountains!

A mother was crying for her only son to be released, who she said was born through the “test tube baby method.” Another mother was screaming, “My son is diabetic; if he doesn’t take his pills he will die.” They are 11 of the mothers whose hearts are burning with the grief of losing their children, who are able to stage an open protest…

Humanistic insensitivity

According to the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Provincial Office’s statement, these mothers are “two or three insolents provoked by the fascist Turkish police.”

The co-chair of the People’s Democracy Party (HDP) Sebahat Tuncel is able to say on the issue of the abduction of children, “This is not our issue.” Couldn’t she at least utter a few pale-faced words as “We do not approve of child kidnapping?”

Finally, Selahattin Demirtaş, co-chair of BDP, did not criticize the incidents, but said they would take initiatives for the release of the children.

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