Ormancık, Savur
Ormancık is a Kurdish village in Savur, Mardin Province, Turkey.
Ormancık | |
|---|---|
  Ormancık | |
| Coordinates: 37°35′59″N 41°5′26″E | |
| Country |  Turkey |
| Province | Mardin |
| District | Savur |
| Population | |
| • Total | 74 |
It has a Hot-summer Mediterranean climate.[1]
On 21 January 1994 it was reportedly attacked with grenades[2] by the PKK. Nineteen people, composed of nine women, six children and four village guards - were killed in what Human Rights Watch described as a "massacre."[3] There is speculation that the event was a chemical attack.[4][2]
References
- "Ormancık, Mardin, Turkey". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 2022-04-24.
- https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/npr/cam71.pdf James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
- "Human Rights Watch: Ocalan Trial Monitor". www.hrw.org. Retrieved 2022-04-24.
- "Worst terrorist strikes--worldwide". www.johnstonsarchive.net. Retrieved 2022-04-24.
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