News Center- Some press outlets reported that some children and young people were subjected to sexual abuse and forced into sexual intercourse by law enforcement officers in the Yüksekova district of Hakkari province. The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Women’s Council issued a press statement about the allegations.

“The cases of violence, harassment, rape and sexual abuse have been increasing as a result of the AKP-MHP male coalition’s policies against women and children. Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention and demanding concrete evidence for crimes against women and children clearly show these policies,” the women’s council wrote in the statement.

“It is a part of special war policies”

“We will never stop struggling for children and women. We have heard and seen such news many times before. We know very well that forcing people into sexual intercourse is a part of the special war policies carried out by the state in Kurdish cities. We know that from the release of specialized sergeant Musa Orhan, who drove İpek Er to suicide after raped her in Batman; we know that from the missing Gülistan Doku in Dersim. The law enforcement officers, who are almost rewarded with impunity policies, take this courage from the ruling party and its male judiciary. But the ruling party should know very well that these special war policies failed for years and they will fail.”