A court hearing was held in Van’s Erciş district regarding the 37 people that had been detained on November 17. Judges decided to release 6 detainees on probation, and charged the remaining 31 people with “abetting and aiding an organization.”

The legal bases for the arrests are secret witness testimonies, and many of the detainees were subject to torture.

Below are the names of the people sent to jail:

Abdulmecit Beder, Halil Yıldız, Kenan Ultar, Ayten Yardımcı, İbrahim Tokay, Faruk Erçetin, ÖzkanToğal, Mahmut Bilici, Yahya Polat, Mustafa Akyüz, İsmail İşleyen, Feyat Çelik, Dilan Yalçın, Engin Yalçın, Yüksel Sarı, Muhacır Koç, Necmettin Bulut, İbrahim Çiftçi, Gökhan As, Sait Hezer, Engin Yumuşak, Aziz Yılmaz, Salih Ergün, Nurettin Deniz, Erdal Kaya, Ekrem Tokmak, Ahmet Deniz, Nurettin Dinç, Nihat Basooğlu, Miyeser İstay, Gültekin İnci, M. Zeki Beder.