Mayors of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) have gathered in the main Kurdish city Diyarbakır where they later issued a press statement in solidarity with Ayşe Gökkan, mayor of Mardin's Nusaybin district, on death fast against the building of the wall between the district and the Qamishlo city in west Kurdistan.

Making a statement on behalf of mayors, Diyarbakır mayor Osman Baydemir said peace was a must and pointed out that local administrations, mayors and elected representatives are meant to be the leading actors in the process of building peace.

Referring to recent developments in Rojava, and the walls Turkey is building on the border, Baydemir underlined that they sided with an equal and fraternal living in Syria and west Kurdistan. Baydemir commented the building of the walls as one of the greatest shames in the 21st century and stressed that the Kurdish people will never agree to have these walls separating them from each other.

Remarking that Nusayin mayor Gökkan staged an honorable protest against the wall of shame, Baydemir called on Kurdish people to go to the Nusaybin border area on 7 November to display a democratic stance for peace, equality and freedom and to strongly voice their democratic demand for peace.

Baydemir, noting that Kurds demanded the building of a democratic Syria with a liberated Rojava, added that the Kurdish people's demand to attain a political status in their own territory in the Middle East was a right of theirs.