In Malazgirt district of Muş province, police stormed and searched several apartments early in the morning. Five people were arrested during the operation. They are accused of involvement in the Kobanê protests in October 2014. The persons detained are Ali Gören, Nazif Özkan, Kerem Daşkıran, Şerafettin Balcı and one person not known by name.

Kobanê protests in October 2014

On the evening of October 6, 2014, after 21 days of resistance by the People's and Women's Defense Units YPG/YPJ as well as the mostly Kurdish population, the jihadist militia ISIS succeeded in penetrating the center of the northern Syrian city of Kobanê. In view of the critical situation in Kobanê, the HDP had called on the people of Northern Kurdistan and Turkey to protest indefinitely against the AKP government, as it did not end its support for the ISIS. In the course of the process, there were street clashes between Turkish security forces and the protesters in many cities: Soldiers, policemen, village guards as well as members and supporters of the radical Islamist Turkish-Kurdish Hezbollah fought against the people who took part in the protests. The number of people killed, most of whom were participants in the uprising, fluctuated between 46 and 53.