Democratic Regions Party (DBP) District co-chair Remziye Bayhan was taken into custody by special operations police after a raid on her house in the morning.

Remziye Bayhan was taken to Mardin Provincial Police Department.

Bayhan had previously been taken into custody following the incident in the area in which YJA-Star member Kader Acar lost her life on 25 July.

It was learned that the Turkish police informed Remziye Bayhan's family that the reason for her detention was related to the same incident.

Background

Remziye Bayhan, who is co-chair of the district branch of the Democratic Regions Party (DBP), and her predecessor Bedia Adıgüzel were taken into custody on 25 July, after a raid on an apartment on Sakarya Caddesi in central Nusaybin and taken to the police headquarters in the provincial capital Mardin (Mêrdîn). Terrorism was cited as the reason for the arrests. What they are specifically accused of, however, is not known. The Turkish authorities refused to give any information.

In the course of the attack on the apartment, which the Interior Ministry and the pro-government press called a "security operation", a fighter from the Kurdish women's guerrilla YJA Star, later named as Kader Acar, died. There is still no reliable information on the circumstances of her death. The Ministry of the Interior spoke of "neutralizing a terrorist", while residents of the neighbourhood assume she killed herself in order to avoid possible capture. The PKK has not yet commented on what happened.