Over 5,000 Turkish police and army have descended on the remote, embattled town of Cizre in recent days, cutting off roads and doing a door-to-door operation against the community’s defiant street youth. Cizre is the first, the State threatens to ”send 5000 troops to each of 20 Kurdish cities”. Over 40 Kurdish deputies are on the March to Save Cizre, which began as a convoy but was blocked by police. As a response to the Turkish crackdown dozens of Kurdish towns have declared autonomy, following the anti authoritarian and anarchist feminist program of the long imprisoned leader Abdullah Öcalan. Turkey is a NATO country controlled and supplied by the US, which agreed to ignore the anti-Kurd war in exchange for use of the Incirlik airbase.

Kurdish politicians attacked by police on their way to Cizre