Attending the "Kurdistani Conference in Turkey", Peace and Democracy Party Co-Chairman Selahattin Demirtas answered questions from journalists. Drawing attention to the detention operation against the BDP in Þýrnak, Demirtaþ remarked that these operations against Kurds have never been stopped since 2009. Demirtaþ said;

"They are carrying out raids against the BDP under the name of KCK case. BDP is the people, it consists of the Kurdish people. Turkey is the only example of this situation where a government declares its people as terrorist and conducts operations against them. Will you arrest all of the Kurdish people? You don't have enough prisons for that." Demirtaþ added that the Kurdish people will continue to struggle and appear at streets young and old alike."