People have being protesting for 38 days the seizure by the AKP of the municipalities of Amed, Mardin and Van and the appointment of trustees to replace the democratically elected HDP mayors.

HDP deputies, municipality co-mayor Selcuk Mizrakli, TJA activists, members of Peace Mothers, young people as well as hundreds of citizens joined the Democracy Vigil in Lise street.

The street where the Vigil is taking place has been blocked by police barriers and armored police vehicles. After a sit-in HDP Amed co-chair Hülya Alökmen read a statement. 

The HDP executive first of all remembered and condemned once again the massacre in which 11 prisoners were killed on 24 September 1996 in Diyarbakır E Type Prison.

Alökmen said the resistance had been continuing uninterruptedly for 37 days and added that the actions would continue until the trustees leave. 

HDP deputy Tülay Hatimoğulları said: "When fascism was at its worst in this country, the people did not step back. They didn't, they aren't, they won't."

Hatimogullari, "The co-presidency is our purple line. No one did gave us this gift. Women built the co-presidency by paying a price. We do not accept attacks against the co-presidency and we will resist them."