"What is now happening in Turkish Kurdistan is a bloodshed and crime against humanity… Human rights organization must raise the alarm about it," Senam Mohamed told reporters at the opening of the Western Kurdistan mission in Moscow.
Tensions in Turkey escalated in July 2015, after 33 Kurdish activists were killed in a suicide blast in the city of Suruc and two Turkish policemen were later murdered by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which led to Ankara's military campaign against the group.
The Kurds are Turkey's largest ethnic minority and comprise some 25 percent of the country's population. Some of the Kurdish groups are striving to create their own independent state. The PKK was founded in the late 1970s to promote the self-determination for the Kurdish community.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in his New Year’s address that Turkish security forces killed 3,100 PKK militants in 2015.
