World Courant
KIRKUK, Iraq
Sixty-four years have handed since Kurdish members of the Iraqi Communist Occasion brutally murdered dozens of Turkmen in Kirkuk, northern Iraq.
The bloodbath occurred on the primary anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Iraq.
89-year-old Turkmen Suat Kemal Terzibaşı advised Anadolu Company, “Even after 64 years, my ache is as recent because the day the bloodbath occurred.”
Terzibaşı was 25 years outdated when he misplaced his father and brother-in-law within the bloodbath of 14 July 1959.
“We have been making ready to attend the first anniversary celebrations of the founding of the Republic of Iraq that day. My sister, brother-in-law and I have been about to go away. gunmen raided our home.”
“They shot everyone”
Noting that gunmen opened fireplace indiscriminately, Terzibaşı stated, “My father and brother-in-law have been each killed in entrance of my eyes.”
Terzibaşı advised Anadolu: “I had a really tough time in my life and I forgot most of it.” “Regardless of my age, I’ve not forgotten a second of the day of the bloodbath.”
He stated {that a} Turkmen officer arrived shortly after the gunmen had left the home. “The police drove the survivors to security.”
“Leaving the our bodies of our family members behind was essentially the most painful factor I’ve ever skilled. My household and I went to the capital, Baghdad, and returned to Kirkuk after the occasions subsided. The gunmen made a listing of Turkmen homes within the neighborhood. They continued their raids on the Turkmen homes they detected,” he stated.
*Written by: Ikram Kouachi
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