ANKARA- Stating that the state aims to disrupt the demographic structure in the earthquake region, DAD Co-Chair Mustafa Karabudak said: "The state wants to evacuate the region."

 

After the earthquakes in Pazarcık and Elbistan which are the epicenter, the people living in 10 cities that were destroyed began to migrate. According to the data of the Confederation of Public Workers' Unions (KESK); The population, which was 150 thousand in Elbistan, the epicenter of the earthquake, fell below 50 thousand due to the earthquake losses and the migration that started after the earthquake.

 

Democratic Alevi Associations (DAD) Ankara Branch Co-Chair Mustafa Karabudak stated that Alevis and Kurds are being ignored and that the state aims to change the demographic structure of the region with this policy.

 

'CONVERTING DISASTER TO MASSACRE'

 

Drawing attention to the fact that many people are still under the rubble, although a week has passed after the earthquake, Karabudak said: "The state acts from a religious and identity perspective. We can call it a social genocide. There are tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people here. If the state has not left for a week, if there is still no work, this is a situation of turning a natural disaster into a massacre. It is to disrupt the demographic structure there, to drive the people to the metropolises, to open a space for itself."

 

'STATE TRIES TO ASSIMILATE KURDS AND ALEVIS'

 

Emphasizing that the government turned the earthquake, which was a natural disaster, into a deliberate massacre, Karabudak said: "The migrations after the earthquake were also forced migrations. We will fight against this. Maybe we can't talk about it then. People have barely saved their lives and are in a state of psychological destruction, but it is necessary to convey them in the process. The state's intention is to evacuate the region and to squeeze people into metropolises. In a metropolis, it is easier to degenerate people, to separate them from their beliefs and identity, and to create a different human typology. The aim of the state is to create societies that are close to their own ideas. The state tries to assimilate Alevis and Kurds. At the moment, there will be a migration caused by the earthquake, but we do not know how this region will be used. We will see in the process whether he will create a buffer area according to his own order, create militarist forces and place them there.”

 

'PEOPLE SHOULD RETURN TO THEIR LAND'

 

Underlining that people's needs for shelter, food and communication should be provided periodically, Karabudak said: “We will heal the wounds of our souls who come here. We will do the best we can. We have been mobilizing for a week. But to our souls who came, Earthquake victims need to return to your lands. They are their home. Their roots are there. We came to the metropolises, we got assimilated, we got lost."

 

MA / Yusra Batihan