According to a statement made by Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT Iraqi Kurdistan), Turkish soldiers detained and tortured 6 young people in the Sheladiz sub-district. According to the information, the soldiers, who detained the young people for 1 day, threatened them with death.

 

The statement by CPT Iraqi Kurdistan reads as follows: "Turkish soldiers detain six young men from the Sheladiz sub-district, allowing them to return home after a day of torture. Yesterday morning, July 1, six young men from the Sheladiz sub-district of the Amedi district headed toward the villages of Bisape and Kukere, near the Kurejaro Mountain behind Sheladiz, to gather wild herbs. While on their way to these villages, they fell into an ambush by Turkish soldiers and were detained. The Turkish soldiers beat the young men with rifle butts, kicked, and slapped them. After severe torture, they allowed them to return home today, telling them, ‘If you ever return to this area again, you will not see life with your own eyes; we will kill you.’

 

THE MULE WAS ALSO ABUSED

 

During the same incident, Turkish soldiers also abused the mule that the young men had brought along to help carry loads. They attacked it with rifle butts and stones, leaving the animal's entire body covered in blood. The Sheladiz sub-district is one of the areas most heavily affected by the Turkish military's operations in the Kurdistan Region. The livelihood of the majority of its residents depends on farming and gathering wild herbs. To date, 92 villages from this sub-district have been invaded by the Turkish army, preventing residents from returning to their villages.”