...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...froze to death on Sunday in Van province on the
The Human Rights Association (IHD) said that they were informed about the deaths of 13 "refugees" at 22:00 Thursday in the area of Caldiran Saricimen.
Various local media outlets reported that three of the dead hailed from Kobane in northeast Syria.
Unconfirmed reports have speculated that the other victims were of Afghan origin.
| Syrian Kurds and Afghans — noted. |
"Unfortunately, tens of people die on our borders. Hopes are disappearing," Murat Melet, head of Van’s IHD branch told local media, calling on people to "take responsibility" to reach the victims.
Heavy snowfall has prevented relevant
| Global warming has not cancelled winter, it appears. Future colonists, please make note. |
The pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) described the incident as "the shame of humanity," calling on Ankara and Tehran to "find a solution" to such deaths.
| Stay home in winter — that’s the solution. |
| The human traffickers and recruiters, you mean, to whom our dead men and many others have paid millions for the opportunity to die in the cold far from home? |
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an Union (EU).