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The Roboski airstrike, also known as the Uludere massacre, Sirnak massacre,〔"Sirnak Massacre, December 29, 2011. Kurdish American Society, 2011-12-29. ''In an attack on Wednesday December 29, 2011, in the Kurdish area between Turkey and Iraq, Turkish airplanes killed 35 Kurdish armed smugglers near Uludere in Sirnak province. Once again, with the pretext of “fighting the PKK terrorists,” Kurdish smugglers have lost their lives. http://www.usakurds.org/index.php?sid=16&location=main〕 or Roboski massacre, took place on December 28, 2011, at 9:37 pm local time near the Turkish–Iraqi border. Two Turkish F16 jets fired at a group of villagers, acting on information that PKK militants were crossing the border. According to Turkish government sources, 34 cigarette- and drug-smuggling civilians were killed in the incident.〔〔()〕 ==Incident== A group of 40 Kurdish villagers of Turkish nationality, mostly teenagers, from the Ortasu (in Kurdish: Robozik) and Gülyazı villages in Uludere district of Şırnak Province were moving in the night of December 28, 2011 from Iraqi territory towards Turkish border. The people were on a tour for allegedly smuggling cigarettes, diesel oil and the like into Turkey, packed on mules. Turkish Armed Forces had received certain information about activities at the region supplied by United States intelligence services that was based on a U.S. drone ten days before the incident. The footage of the unmanned aerial vehicles flying over the terrain was "mistakenly" evaluated as a group of militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Pentagon officials were quoted as saying that American drones initially spotted the group, but after alerting the Turks and offering to conduct more detailed surveillance they were denied and “Turkish officers instead directed the Americans who were remotely piloting the drone to fly it somewhere else.”〔"The Kurds and Turkey: Massacre at Uludere: The political aftershocks of a killing of Kurds still reverberate", The Economist, dated 9 June 2012.〕 The security forces were criticized in the media for their failure and losses. The ordered two F-16 Fighting Falcons of the Turkish Air Force took off and bombed the area.〔 The next morning, relatives searched for the missing people, and found the bodies of the victims. 34 people belonging to the group were killed during and shortly after the airstrike.〔 Two civilians escaped to Iraq. Only one survivor, Servet Encü, returned to his village. 28 of the dead were from the Encü family.〔 The bodies, some of them burnt beyond recognition or dismembered, were transported to their hometown on mules due to rough terrain.〔 Servet Encü stated that generations of people in his village and neighboring settlements have been in the smuggling business because they are financially in need. He added that Iraqi traders bring diesel oil or tea by their vehicles to close to the border, and they buy the goods and bring them home on trails that takes about two and half hours. He said that the smuggling action was well known by the security forces at the border.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roboski airstrike」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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