Village guard system
Recruitment process: journalist probably not notable
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"village guards often operated outside the control of the [[Gendarmerie (Turkey)|gendarmerie]], and that many villagers faced pressure to enter the system".The journalist "We posed the people with a choice, either they acted as village guards, or they would be resettled in other provinces. In the evening, we staged what appeared to be a skirmish with the guerrillas, we shot at windows and also directed heavy weapons against the village. As the people depended on their harvest and animals, we destroyed their fields and slaughtered the animals. If this did not help, we surrounded the village and sent in the counter-guerrillas." |
"village guards often operated outside the control of the [[Gendarmerie (Turkey)|gendarmerie]], and that many villagers faced pressure to enter the system".The journalist Gottfried Stein relates former lieutenant in the Turkish Army Yener Soylu as describing the process of persuading some villagers to join the village guards:Stein, Gottfried. (1994) ''Endkampf um Kurdistan? Die PKK, die Türkei und Deutschland'' (The final battle for Kurdistan? The PKK, Turkey and Germany). (Bonn) {{ISBN|3-87959-510-0}}{{Page needed|date=September 2010}} "We posed the people with a choice, either they acted as village guards, or they would be resettled in other provinces. In the evening, we staged what appeared to be a skirmish with the guerrillas, we shot at windows and also directed heavy weapons against the village. As the people depended on their harvest and animals, we destroyed their fields and slaughtered the animals. If this did not help, we surrounded the village and sent in the counter-guerrillas." |
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