Reactions to the political police operations based in Amed continue. 33 bar associations protested the over 150 arrests. Many of the people taken into custody are lawyers. In a joint written statement titled "We follow the investigation against our colleagues", the 33 bar associations said: "On Tuesday morning, more than a hundred people, including 25 lawyers from Diyarbakır, Şanlıurfa, Mardin, Batman and Şırnak Bar Associations, were taken into custody within the scope of an investigation carried out by Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor's Office."

Ban on visits by lawyers

The statement underlined that the raids on the houses of the lawyers taken into custody were carried out without “the Bar Association representative and the public prosecutor who must be present in the searches pursuant to Article 58 of the Law on Advocacy Law No. 1136.” The statement added that “a ban on visits by lawyers was imposed for 24 hours and a restraining order on the investigation file has also been imposed. Lawyers are people who work in the judiciary and can always apply to the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office if they are called. The collective detention of our colleagues prior to the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections by not applying the summons procedure is unacceptable.”

Call for a fair hearing

The statement called for the protection of the rights of all those taken into custody within the framework of the right to a fair trial. “We call for the removal of the ban and the restriction decision. We state that we will closely follow the judicial process involving our colleagues.”

The bar associations that made the statement are as follows: "Adana Bar Association, Adıyaman Bar Association, Ağrı Bar Association, Ankara Bar Association, Ardahan Bar Association, Artvin Bar Association, Aydın Bar Association, Balıkesir Bar Association, Batman Bar Association, Bingöl Bar Association, Bitlis Bar Association, Bolu Bar Association, Burdur Bar Association, Mardin Bar Association, Bursa Bar Association". , Kastamonu Bar, Muş Bar, Diyarbakır Bar, Siirt Bar, Eskişehir Bar, Sinop Bar, Urfa Bar, Hakkari Bar, Hatay Bar, Iğdır Bar, Isparta Bar, Tekirdağ Bar, Tunceli Bar, Van Bar, İzmir Bar, Kars Bar, Yalova Bar Association, Şırnak Bar Association”