The delegation to meet the prisoners who will be released by HPG (People's Defense Forces) today has arrived at the guerilla-controlled Media Defense Areas where the eight prisoned Turkish officials will be handed over today.

The delegation consists of Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) deputies Hüsamettin Zenderlioğlu and Adil Kurt, Human Rights Association (IHD) President Öztürk Türkdoğan, IHD Diyarbakır Branch Chair Raci Bilici and Mazlum-Der Chairman Ahmet Faruk Ünsal and  Mazlum-Der Diyarbakır Branch Chair  Selahattin Bostan.

The delegation will take the prisoners back to Turkey today. Their families are waiting for them in the province of Şırnak. BDP Istanbul deputy Sebahat Tuncel is also accompanying them as she was denied permission to leave Turkey with the delegation because of the ban on leaving the country she had received earlier.