NEWS CENTER- Photographs of Garzan Cemetery, where 267 graves belonging to Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) members destroyed by order of Bitlis Prosecutor's Office, have been published. The wheel tracks of the diggers still stand in the cemetery where hundreds of tombstones have turned into pile of rubble.

 

267 funerals belonging to the PKK members in the Garzan Cemetery, located in the Yukarı Ölek (Oleka Jor) village in Tatvan district of Bitlis, had been taken out from the cemetery and sent to the İstanbul Forensic Medicine Institution during the operation held after the declaration of Curfew. The Mesopotamian Agency (MA) has published the photographs of a cemetery that had been razed. It is seen in photographs that hundreds of tombstones razed have almost turned into rubble.

 

 The tombstones were razed

 

 In the cemetery where hundreds of the corpses were buried in various dates, the library building, the mosque and the walls of the grave were destroyed. The funerals have been taken out about one week ago and the traces of the wheels of diggers are still there. 

 

No information was given to the families

 

There has not been an explanation why the corpses sent to their families as a result of DNA matches made by the Forensic Medicine Institution and for what reason the corpses have been sent back to the Forensic Medicine Institution (ATK).

 

While no information was given to the families about the missed corpses, the Prosecutor of Bitlis brought the "decision of restriction" on the concerning to the subject.