Police raided polling station, detained HDP members in Erciş

Police conducted a raid and detained many people in a polling station in Erciş district of Van.

In Yeşilova neighborhood in Erciş district of Van, where HDP has a high rate of voters, AKP members came to the Selvihan Elementary School where people cast their votes, and threatened the people, resulting in a dispute.

Following the ensuing dispute, riot police carried out a raid in the school and tried to disperse the people with anti-riot TOMA vehicles. HDP’s polling clerks in the school were forcibly taken out of the school and two HDP polling clerks were taken into custody.