Posted on 03/27/2017 11:53:23 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
Trees destroyed in Turkey's Kurdish province Sirnak, 27 March 2017, (Photo: Evrensel)
Thousands of fruit trees have been destroyed for the “security of the villagers” by local village guards allegedly acting with orders from the local Gendarme Commander in Sirnak province, Turkey’s southeastern Kurdish region, reported the daily Evrensel on Monday.
The trees were cut within the last month in the Besta region of Uludere district, located near the border with Iraq.
The trees are being cut daily in the early hours of the morning by village guards (state paramilitary force) accompanied by soldiers who stand back and do not participate in the destruction of the trees, according to the report.
Officers from the local gendarme demanded that the villagers cut the trees about a month ago and the village guards started to do the cutting after the villagers refused, said Sadun Sezer, the Democratic Regions’ Party (DBP) Balveren district co-chair.
Elders from various villages located in the region went to the gendarme and had a meeting with officers so that they stop the destruction but the gendarme replied that “the trees must be destroyed for their own security,” explained Sezer.
Thousands of walnut, apple, pear and plum trees have already been destroyed but villagers are planning to mobilise to stop further destruction in the area, according to the report.
Thousands of trees and forested areas have been burned down by security forces in previous years to accomodate military operations and limit the mobility of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters.
That's the only thing I miss...about SoCal.
Agree, growing fruit (commercial orchards) is hard work. And most of us do it as a labor of love.
Cant imagine the emotional anguish these farmers are going through.
It’s one thing to lose a crop to frost, hail or insects. It’s another to lose a whole orchard like me to fire blight but to have to watch as someone come in and intentionally destroy your life in front of you would scar me forever.
One of the longest lasting of war crimes is the destruction of orchards.
bo’s man, islamist Erdogan thuggocracy. Another #obamaLegacy.
bo’s loves islamists, bo loves thugs. Add them up: it’s bo Nirvana.
Deut 20:19-20
Seems their ways are a violation of the Word in every way.
It does make your heart sick.
Thanks, very interesting. And I had not remembered reading that scripture.
It is relevant.
Those who do such things should themselves experience hunger.
Did you know that Turkey stopped a truckload of wheat flour and turned it away from the border into Syria? It was a gift from a US relief effort (NGO). I called my congressman, and he hit some buttons. I later saw a load of flour being offloaded near Raqqa. Not sure it was same shipment, but would say it’s likely. The flour was destined for a commercial bakery given by a Swiss company to the Rojava region. It was a large commercial bakery.
Imagine such human cruelty to displaced persons.
We have always had some fruit trees since I was a child. 5 years ago I planted 27 bare root trees to expand mine. It was during the drought, I lost almost 1/2 of them. But have added more since then. They are not yet very productive. The old ones still bear a lot of fruit. 2 old pear trees, many old peacans some huge, a 50 year old Hachiya Japanese persimmon (I dried 200 this year, tiny portion) and some old plum bushes.
I have young apricot, peach, apple, plum, almond, cherry and fig. Multiple varieties on the peach, apple and pear trees.
potatoes....like the Irish....
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