Students of Munzur University in Dersim denounced blackmail, threats and recruitment attempts by the Turkish secret service and police authorities. On Monday, a joint press conference was held by students and the office of the Human Rights Association (IHD) in Dersim.

Gürbüz Solmaz, co-chair of the IHD Dersim office, spoke of how the state has increased the pressure in Dersim, especially recently, noting the recruitment of informers has taken on a new dimension: "Unfortunately, the state has made this the prevailing policy in Dersim. We demand that this humiliating and degrading practice be abandoned."

On behalf of the students of Munzur University, Murat Aydın read out a statement and said, "Patriotic students who are promoting the democratic struggle are being pressured, threatened, bullied, harassed and attempts are being made to keep them off campus by recruiting informers. We hereby bring to public attention the policy of threats and coercion in the recruitment of informers against our friends. In recent times, there has been repeated harassment of students at Munzur University and they are being asked to come to meetings with the authorities. When students refuse, threats and pressure are used to try to put them in fear. The Palace Regime knows it is finished and hopes to oppose our struggle through brute force. It thinks it can intimidate us with its spying and assimilation policies and attacks. These efforts are in vain, we will continue to resist the whole policy of oppression and intimidation with the strength we draw from our history."