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KurdistanObserver.com
At the EU
Gate, People Living in Garbage Dumps!
Nov 3, 2005
ISPARTA
(DİHA) - An intensive struggle is going on to let people have a house of
their own with mortgage system but 15 families, about total of 100 People live
in Isparta garbage dump. After a series of dramas like torture in nursery
school, it cannot be ignored that 50 children are critically ill.
The government promises to do everything for EU
membership, Economic and Social Council is gathered with employers and employees
and the Prime Minister Erdoğan looks for an agreement on 'social security
reform' and on the other hand people live in garbage dumps. They say that they
were under oppression of state-supported village guards in various villages of
Batman and Diyarbakır and they had to leave back houses and fields. Those
Kurdish families live in sheds in Isparta's garbage dumps. They find plastic,
metal and iron from the garbage and sell them. They also had to wear and eat
what they find in it. They have no social security and are face to face with
many illnesses.
'They only come to take military attendance'
They have been living there for years but
authorities only come for military attendance of the men and before elections.
They say that they are under second grade treatment from the government and they
want to return to their homeland if conditions turn to better. They spend all
their time in the dump and cannot meet their social needs. They cannot go to the
city centre if not necessary because they are seen as strange.
There are Fifty Children in the Garbage
There are 50 children in the garbage aged
between 0-15, most of which are ill and do not even have IDs. 'We will live in
the dump of the EU in the future, nothing will change' they say. They want to go
to school.
They do not hope anything from the state but
from non-governmental organisations. |