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Lice massacre, the Glossary

The Lice massacre took place from 20 to 23 October 1993 in the Kurdish town of Lice, Turkey in the Diyarbakır Province of Southeastern Anatolia Region.^[1]

Abdulhamit Gül

Abdulhamit Gül (Abdülhamit Gül; born 12 March 1977) is a Turkish politician and former Minister of Justice.

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Abdullah Öcalan (born 4 April 1949), also known as Apo (short for Abdullah in Turkish; Kurdish for "uncle"), is a political prisoner and founding member of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

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August 1992 Şırnak Clashes

August 1992 Şırnak Clashes were a series of clashes that broke out in the city of Şırnak between Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Turkish security forces from 18 to 21 August 1992, after PKK members had built barricades and attacked the District Gendarmerie Command's building with rockets and mortars.

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Cumhuriyet

Cumhuriyet (English: "Republic") is the oldest up-market Turkish daily newspaper.

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Diyarbakır

Diyarbakır (local pronunciation: Dikranagerd), formerly Diyarbekir, is the largest Kurdish-majority city in Turkey.

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Diyarbakır Province

Diyarbakır Province (Diyarbakır ili, Zazaki: Suke Diyarbekır Parêzgeha Amedê) is a province and metropolitan municipality in southeastern Turkey.

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European Commission of Human Rights

The European Commission of Human Rights was a special body of the Council of Europe.

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European Convention on Human Rights

The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR; formally the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) is an international convention to protect human rights and political freedoms in Europe.

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European Court of Human Rights

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), also known as the Strasbourg Court, is an international court of the Council of Europe which interprets the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

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Gendarmerie General Command

The Gendarmerie General Command (Jandarma Genel Komutanlığı) is the national gendarmerie force of the Republic of Turkey.

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Gendarmerie Intelligence Organization

Jandarma İstihbarat ve Terörle Mücadele or Jandarma İstihbarat Teşkilatı (abbr. JİTEM or JİT; English: "Gendarmerie Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism" or "Gendarmerie Intelligence Organization") is the intelligence department of the Turkish Gendarmerie.

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Human Rights Foundation of Turkey

The Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT; Türkiye İnsan Hakları Vakfı, TİHV) is headquartered in Ankara.

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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.

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Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia.

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Kulp, Turkey

Kulp (Pasûr, translit, central district: translit, transl) is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey.

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Kurdish–Turkish conflict

Kurdish nationalist uprisings have periodically occurred in Turkey, beginning with the Turkish War of Independence and the consequent transition from the Ottoman Empire to the modern Turkish state and continuing to the present day with the current PKK–Turkey conflict.

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Kurdistan Workers' Party

The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement which historically operated throughout Kurdistan but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq.

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Lice, Turkey

Lice (pronounced), (Licê, ليجه) is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey.

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Massacre

A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless.

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Ministry of Justice (Turkey)

The Ministry of Justice (Adalet Bakanlığı) is the government department responsible for administering the justice system in Turkey; currently administered by Yılmaz Tunç upon the President's appointment.

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People's Democracy Party

People's Democracy Party (Halkın Demokrasi Partisi, HADEP) was a Kurdish political party in Turkey.

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Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkey)

The Peoples' Democratic Party (Turkish: Halkların Demokratik Partisi, acronymized as HDP; Kurdish: Partiya Demokratîk a Gelan), or Democratic Party of the Peoples, is a pro-Kurdish political party in Turkey.

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Property damage

Property damage (sometimes called damage to property), is damage or destruction of real or tangible personal property, caused by negligence, willful destruction, or an act of nature.

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Remziye Tosun

Remziye Tosun is a Kurdish politician from Turkey who has been a deputy of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in the Turkish parliament since the parliamentary elections in June 2018.

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Shooting

Shooting is the act or process of discharging a projectile from a ranged weapon (such as a gun, bow, crossbow, slingshot, or blowpipe).

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Southeastern Anatolia Region

The Southeastern Anatolia Region (Güneydoğu Anadolu Bölgesi) is a geographical region of Turkey.

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Statute of limitations

A statute of limitations, known in civil law systems as a prescriptive period, is a law passed by a legislative body to set the maximum time after an event within which legal proceedings may be initiated.

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Tansu Çiller

Tansu Çiller (born 24 May 1946) is a Turkish academic, economist, and politician who served as the 22nd Prime Minister of Turkey from 1993 to 1996.

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Transformer

In electrical engineering, a transformer is a passive component that transfers electrical energy from one electrical circuit to another circuit, or multiple circuits.

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Turkish Armed Forces

The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF; Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri, TSK) are the military forces of the Republic of Turkey.

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Turkish Land Forces

The Turkish Land Forces (Türk Kara Kuvvetleri), or Turkish Army (Turkish), is the main branch of the Turkish Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations.

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Village guard system

Village guards (Korucular lit. "Rangers"), officially known as Türkiye Güvenlik Köy Korucuları ("Security Village Guards of Turkey"), are Gendarmerie General Command-aligned border guards involved in the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. Lice massacre and Village guard system are Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lice_massacre

Lice massacre, the Glossary

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See also

1990s fires in Asia

1993 mass shootings in Asia

1993 murders in Turkey

20th-century mass murder in Turkey

Arson in 1993

Arson in Turkey

Attacks on buildings and structures in 1993

Attacks on buildings and structures in Turkey

Building and structure fires in Asia

History of Diyarbakır Province

Kurdish–Turkish conflict (1978–present)

March 1993 crimes

Mass shootings in Turkey

Massacres committed by Turkey

Massacres in 1993

Massacres in Turkish Kurdistan

Massacres of Kurds

October 1993 events in Turkey

Persecution of Kurds in Turkey

References