7 people who were detained in Amed’s Hani district on September 8 and who included Co-mayor Abdurrahman Zorlu were transferred to the Diyarbakır Courthouse yesterday following their statement procedure in the Diyarbakır Security Directorate. Zorlu and 6 others with him were referred to the court with a demand for their arrest after their statements were taken in the prosecutor’s office.

Hani Co-mayor Zorlu and a civilian named İsmail Yalımkaya were arrested with allegations of “membership to a terrorist organisation”.

Zorlu and Yalımkaya were transferred to the Diyarbakır Type D Closed Prison.