The usurpers hung the banner ‘One state, one flag, one nation, one homeland’ at the entrance of Batman Municipality, placed police officers on every floor of the municipality, and hired the wives of police officers and soldiers.
Batman Governor Ekrem Canalp, who was appointed a trustee to replace the deposed co-mayors Gülistan Sönük and Yeşil Işık, had a poster reading ‘One state, one flag, one nation, one homeland’ hung at the entrance of the municipality.
The usurper Canalp, who surrounded the municipality with police barriers, assigned a large number of police officers from Batman Provincial Security Directorate to ‘take security measures’ inside the municipality.
In the municipality building, which is besieged by the police and monitored by helicopter at night, the usurper Canalp had the X-Ray device, which had been removed by co-mayors Gülistan Sönük and Işık elected from the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), reinstalled. The usurper also reintroduced the practice of body search and X-Ray scanning of people entering the municipality.
According to the General Services Workers Union of Turkey (GENEL-İŞ), 300 workers have been relocated. It is reported that the usurpers employed the wives of many soldiers and police officers for the municipality.
