A court in the southern province of Antalya issued a ban on the distribution and sale of the book titled 'Walls to Destroy' written by the former Co-Chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), Figen Yüksekdağ. The court claimed that the politician conducted propaganda for a “terrorist” organization in her book. Copies of the book will also be confiscated and destroyed.

The court defined the lines in a chapter of the book, titled "My Cloudy Head", in which Yüksekdağ depicted the self-government resistance in Kurdistan as a crime. The lines said: “Humanity is in pain on the edge of nothingness, while the basements are burning, set on fire by darkness, and the babies in deserted houses are being shot in the head.”

The Antalya 6th Criminal Court of Peace claimed that members of the “terrorist organization”, meaning the PKK, were praised with the line "babies in deserted houses."

Figen Yüksekdağ is the co-founder of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (Ezilenlerin Sosyalist Partisi, ESP) and was its chair until September 2014. After resigning from office, she joined the HDP. In the same year, the ESP joined the HDP, which acts as an umbrella party for several small parties. At the second HDP congress, Figen Yüksekdağ was elected HDP's co-chair on 22 June 2014.

Together with the other co-chair, Selahattin Demirtaş, and numerous other HDP deputies, she was arrested on 4 November 2016 at the instigation of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Since then, she has been held in custody in the Kandıra Maximum Security Prison.