The statue of Kurdish politician and former parliamentarian Orhan Doğan and the clock tower, erected in Cizre district center by Democratic Regions' Party (DBP) in 2011, has been demolished today with construction equipment upon an instruction of the Cizre Municipality trustee Ahmet Adanur.

Blocking the street where the statue is located, police forces removed the statue after the demolition. It is reported that MOBESE (city surveillance cameras) will be set up in the place of the statue.

Orhan Doğan, born in Cizre in 1955, was a lawyer and a founding member of the Human Rights Association and People's Labour Party (HEP). He won a seat in the Parliament as an MP for Şırnak in 1991 and acted as a deputy till March 2, 1994's coup when he was forcibly taken out of the parliament and put in jail where he spent 10 years. After his release, he applied for candidacy as an independent deputy for 2007's general elections but his application was rejected by the Supreme Election Committee. He died as result of a heart attack in Ağrı's Doğubayazıt district in 2007, and he was laid to rest in Cizre in a ceremony joined by tens of thousands.