JINHA

RIHA - Women political representatives have joined negotiations to secure the right for the bodies of YPG/YPJ fighters, kept waiting at the border for a week, to pass into Turkey.

For the last week, the Turkish government has refused to allow the bodies of YPG/YPJ fighters who lost their lives fighting Daesh in Kobanê to be returned to their families. The families have been maintaining a vigil and action, demanding the right to bury their children in their native soil in Northern Kurdistan (Turkey).

Three women representatives of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) traveled to the village of Mehser, where the families are maintaining their vigil. Sibel Yiğitalp (Diyarbakır province), Ayşe Acar Başaran (Batman province) and Dilek Öcalan (Urfa province) then met with the district governor to demand that the bodies be allowed across the border.

Sibel, speaking with the press after the meeting, expressed that though the bodies have been kept waiting in 50° C heat, the families have maintained their struggle.

"We don't find such barbarous treatment either humane or moral," said Sibel. "This government can't stand even our dead bodies, but neither we nor the families will be leaving until we have taken them."

According to the delegation of women, the district governor denied that he could do anything about the detention of the bodies, as the decision to hold them at the border was a "central" one.

(be/gc/cm)