Turkish police tortured members of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) during the latest political genocide operations in Cizre, Şırnak. The doors of the party office were broken, and national clothes were confiscated during the police raids.
On April 11, the doors and windows of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) headquarters and houses were broken during the latest political genocide operations carried out by Turkish special operations police in the morning hours in Cizre district of Şırnak. Books, computers and cupboards were damaged during the searches carried out in the HDP office.
HDP District Co-Chair Mesut Nart, HDP district administrator and the mother of Yasemin Çıkmaz, who was murdered in the basements of Cizre, Esmer Çıkmaz, Osman Küçük, Maruf Eliş, Şerif Elçeoğlu, Burhan Dalmış, Ahmet Benzer, Zeliha Yardak and Ali Oğur were detained in the house raids carried out in Cudi, Dağkapı, Nur neighbourhoods, Dirsekli village and Dirsekli Residences.
While the detainees are kept in the Provincial Security Directorate, a 24-hour lawyer ban has been imposed on them.
During the police raid on the house of one of the detainees, Ahmet Parlak, national clothes and flags were confiscated by the police.
During the police raid on the house of one of the detainees, Burhan Dalmış, his mother, Behiye Dalmış, was subjected to violence. It is reported that policemen tortured Dalmış by kicking her in the back.
