CHP blames AKP gov't for fallen soldiers in Nusaybin

The leader of the main opposition party has blamed Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu for every fallen soldier and police officer in the Nusaybin district in the southeastern province of Mardin, as he argued the governor of the city had not allowed security institutions to take necessary measures against terrorists despite intelligence provided about intense preparations for urban warfare in the district.

"I openly say it: Mr. Davuto?lu, you are the one who is responsible for every martyr in Nusaybin. Who might instruct the governor to not give this permission to security bodies? Davuto?lu," Kemal K?l?çdaro?lu, leader of the Republican People's Party (CHP), told his parliamentary group on April 5. 

Ongoing clashes in Nusaybin have caused heavy casualties for the army and the police department, as the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has turned the city into a massive war zone full of explosives and booby traps. 

It has been argued Mardin Mayor Ömer Faruk Koçak rejected demands to launch preemptive operations in Nusaybin in late 2015 upon intelligence militants were mobilizing in the region. 

"These terrorists have transferred all the experiences they had in Sur to Nusaybin," K?l?çdaro?lu stressed, recalling that the small Sur district in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r had been a previous venue for the PKK's urban warfare, which resulted in a high number of casualties. "Who is responsible of this? Who is in power? The CHP? How can a government avoid responsibility? The real [individuals] responsible of these casualties are these gentlemen in Ankara," he said.

Although these tragic incidents have occurred in the southeast, there is an ongoing plot to try to link the CHP with terrorism, K?l?çdaro?lu said, arguing...