Η Ύπατη Αρμοστεία του ΟΗΕ για τους Πρόσφυγες (Υ.Α) ανησυχεί για την όλο και πιο ασταθή κατάσταση στα σύνορα μεταξύ της Ελλάδας και της πρώην Γιουγκοσλαβικής Δημοκρατίας της Μακεδονίας (πΓΔΜ), όπου έγινε χρήση βίας νωρίτερα σήμερα για να αποτραπεί η διέλευση των ανθρώπων.

Η Υ.Α. είναι ιδιαίτερα ανήσυχη για τους χιλιάδες ευάλωτους πρόσφυγες και μετανάστες, ιδίως τις γυναίκες και τα παιδιά, που βρίσκονται συγκεντρωμένοι στην ελληνική πλευρά των συνόρων εν μέσω συνθηκών που επιδεινώνονται.

Ο Ύπατος Αρμοστής του ΟΗΕ για τους Πρόσφυγες António Guterres μίλησε σήμερα με τον Υπουργό Εξωτερικών της πΓΔΜ Nikola Poposki σχετικά με την κατάσταση και έλαβε διαβεβαιώσεις ότι τα σύνορα δεν θα είναι κλειστά στο μέλλον.

Tear gas, stun grenades, and rubber bullets were used against about 3000 refugees from Syria at the border between Greece and FYROM

The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has announced a democratic autonomous region in Dersim province, and established checkpoints on the main road in the province Tuesday.

The above video released by the PKK purports to show the group’s fighters controlling the road and searching vehicles.

“We as guerrillas, under the right of self-defense for ourselves and our nation, declare democratic autonomy in Dersim,” said a fighter in the video.

In July, violence erupted once again between the PKK and the Turkish military, and both sides have announced different death tolls.

The PKK claimed Tuesday that in Hakkari its fighters killed 32 Turkish security forces and lost five of their own. The Turkish government announced only one Turkish soldier was killed and several others wounded.

Tuesday, the Diyarbakir governor’s office announced a curfew starting from 1 am in response to the violence.

In related news, according to Turkish media Tuesday, people in a demonstration in the mainly Kurdish Dogubeyazit district declared self-management.

“We declare our self-management,” said Muhsin Kula, who claimed to be part of the new government. “Our villages and cities have been turned into ruins. The latest Varto case is proof that humanity is dead.”

Varto is a town in eastern Turkey where on or around August 10 a female PKK fighter named Ekin Van was allegedly raped and killed before her naked body was dragged through the streets by Turkish security forces. The incident has outraged Kurds throughout the region.

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