A commemoration program will be held for 11 peasants, who were martyred with the land-mine that the PKK laid under the Yıllarca [Gogwerî] village's road in 1994 in the Karacadağ region of Diyarbakır, southern Turkey

The minibus carrying 50 people, including females, children and elderly people, who were going from Gogwêrin [Yıllarca] village to Diyarbakır for shopping of Eid of Ramadan, hit the mine laid by PKK elements on Çınar-Diyarbakır road on March 10, 1994, at the daytime of Layla al-Qadr. Some 11 people were martyred and 40 other people were injured. There were 2 aged 11 children among the martyrs.

The relatives who reported that the only crimes of the martyrs were to submit to Allah and fulfill the orders of Islam, saying, "The PKK continued its policy of suppression against those who did not submit to them in the 1990s. Residents of Karacadag's Gogweri village were constantly threatened because they did not submit to the PKK, and eventually they lost their lives in the mine explosion that was laid on the village road."

The "Karacadağ Mine Martyrs" are being commemorated every year on the anniversary of martyred 11 people upon their graves.  , are buried at the head of their graves with intensive attendance of their relatives and their loved ones. The names of martyrs who lost their lives at the explosion of the mine laid on the way to the village of Gogwerî are; İbrahim Dağtekin, Mele Hıdır Akyol, Bedri Soysal, Muhammed Halil Gölçer, Muhammed Emin Gölçer, Tacettin Parlak, Halil Demir, Kutbettin Ayhan, Muhammed Ayhan, Hacı Ramazan Yeşil and Ramazan Gölce.

ILKHA