DEM Party Batman MP Mehmet Rüştü Tiryaki drew attention to Bahçeli's reiterated remarks on Abdullah Öcalan and said that if there is to be peace, the policy of trustees and isolation should be abandoned.
Speaking at the protest action against the usurpation of the municipality in Mardin, Co-mayor Ahmet Türk said, “They can never, ever silence the Kurdish people by appointing trustees and throwing them into dungeons.”
The 4 November (2016) political coup, which resulted in the arrest of HDP Co-Chairs and MPs, continued with the trustees appointed to 3 Kurdish municipalities on its 8th anniversary.
Internal Security Forces, YPJ and SDF reaffirm their determination to ensure the success of the operation and strengthen the fight against ISIS to protect the region from attempts to undermine security and stability.
Gülistan Sönük, the co-mayor of Batman who was replaced by a government-appointed trustee, said: "Our resistance will continue until the trustee decision, which disregards the will of our people, is revoked."
