MARDİN - In Nusaybin, where the construction of TOKİ buildings is going on, the people have been asked for “excavation money” under “Expropriation effect” although no expropriation order has been issued.

 

On March 14, 2016, a curfew was declared in Nusaybin district of Mardin province. After the clashes, four neighborhoods were closed off with a wire fence and all damaged and non-damaged buildings in the neighborhoods were pulled down and TOKİ buildings have been built on them. Even though no expropriation order has been issued in the district, the people have been reportedly asked for “excavation” money under “Expropriation effect”.

 

Modern TOKİ buildings on dead bodies

 

The demolition of six neighborhoods was started after the curfew was partially lifted in the district.  The Ministry of Environment and Urbanization began to lay the foundation of the buildings calling, “Modern Buildings”. The ministry put the people under debt with TOKİ buildings. The contact office opened in the district by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization reportedly cut off the people money for the excavation of their houses the state pulled down.

 

‘I will never sign’

 

Kumri Bişkin talked about the issue and she said, “My house was a three-storey house. I didn’t leave my home until the last day of the resistance but I had to leave during the last curfew. First there were bullet marks on my home. After the curfew, I went in to see my house; the demolition had been already started. Then, I wanted to see my house again but I couldn’t find where my house was. They began to send me SMS to say how much money we had. But I didn’t accept to take an apartment for my house and I didn’t sign the document.”

 

‘The state took the money for electricity and water that were cut off’

 

Expressing that she will never accept two-roomed apartment, Kumri said she would never sign the document for TOKİ buildings built on dead bodies even though she had to live in the streets. Kumri also said, “I will resist against this to the end. They do everything and now they want to put us under debt. There wasn’t electricity and water during the curfew but the state was asking for money for electricity and water. They pulled down our houses and now they ask for money for diggers. This is not justice.”