In the Batman province, a public press conference about the murder of HDP member Deniz Poyraz was violently dispersed by the police who had already surrounded the participants of the meeting earlier. After the attack, several people were taken into custody. Among them were Mehmet Demir and Songül Korkmaz, the deposed HDP co-mayors of the city. Demir was pushed to the ground before being handcuffed.

Deniz Poyraz had been shot dead by a Turkish fascist in an attack on the HDP headquarters in Izmir on Thursday. Yesterday, the 38-year-old Kurdish woman was laid to rest. The assassination fills the Kurdish and democratic public with anger, grief and outrage. The HDP assumes that it was an "organized attack" in which state agencies were involved.

It is still unclear exactly how many people were arrested after the attack on the rally in Batman. In addition to Demir and Korkmaz, the co-chairwoman of the HDP provincial association, Fatma Ablay, and the spokeswoman of the Kurdish women's movement TJA, Gülistan Sönük, are among those in custody. The police were extremely brutal in their treatment of the protesters. Numerous people were dragged across the ground and dragged into police vans. The police also used physical force against the two HDP deputies Mehmet Rüştü Tiryaki ve Necdet Ipekyüz. Three plainclothes officers attempted to arrest the latter, despite loud references to his parliamentary immunity.