HDP Iğdır MP Habip Eksik, whose leg was broken in three places by police during the march in Gever promoted on the occasion of the 24th anniversary of the International Conspiracy, underlined that the attack was carried out in a planned and organized manner and said: “This bullying violence and unscrupulousness is not new. My life is not more valuable than the lives of our people's children," he said.

Eksik spoke to ANF from the hospital where he is recovering.

Eksik said that they were subjected to torture and attack because they wanted to use their constitutional rights: “The authorities in Turkey do not even recognize the constitution. Especially in Kurdish cities, for 4-5 years, a ban on illegal demonstrations and meetings has been imposed on the basis of one law, and renewed every 15 days. We gathered together with our people in front of the Zagros Business Center in Gever and informed the authorities that we wanted to exercise our right to demonstrate when we were faced with obstruction. Unfortunately, they did not let us exercise our most natural, most democratic, most human right. On the contrary, they attacked with hostility, as if they wanted to slaughter and maim. They also detained the journalists who took the footage of the violence, and detained our assistants.”

Organised and planned attack

Eksik drew attention to the fact that the police attacked the crowd, leaving him alone with Hakkari Deputy Sait Dede, after they moved away from them. Eksik said: “15-20 law enforcement officers brutally, inhumanly and hostilely attacked our Hakkari parliamentarian. They attacked in every way you can think of. When I saw this situation, I took out my phone in the blockade and entered the password to film what was going on. I was going to get a full record, but they attacked me as well, knowing that I was a deputy. They were saying 'take this too'. When it comes to HDP deputies, law enforcement officers do not recognize any law in Turkey anyway. We are not asking for any special privileges anyway. Turkey has certain laws and we expect the police to abide by the laws they have set. After attacking our deputy, Sait Dede, all the law enforcement officers, police chiefs and superiors there attacked me as well. The attack was deliberate, organized and planned. It was calculated in advance. Everything had been planned, even how to remove our assistants. At the end, they kicked my leg and broke it in three places. I felt it breaking and fell to the ground. They stomped on my leg after I fell to the ground.”

This bullying is not new

Indicating that democracy is suspended when it comes to the Kurdish people and the revolutionaries in Turkey, Eksik said: “This bullying, violence and unscrupulousness is not new. We don’t need to go very far. We all know Osman Şiban. In this country, law enforcement officers under this ministry threw two citizens out of a helicopter. Deniz Poyraz was murdered in our Izmir Provincial Building. The Dedeoğlu Family massacre happened not so long ago. In the 90s I was a child. In the 90s there was violence, bullying and unsolved murders. Nothing has changed.”

I won’t let go

Stating that he would follow this brutal attack within the legal framework, Eksik said: "I am a politician who believes and struggles for Turkey's peace and democracy, who believes that the Kurdish question should be resolved in a democratic environment and that the Middle East territory and in particular the peoples of Turkey should live together in peace. I struggle to achieve this. I will fight for those who did this to get the punishment they deserve before the law, so that it does not happen again. My lawyers will take the necessary steps."

We will continue to fight

Thanking everyone who worried about him while he was in the hospital, Eksik added: “We are a very big family and we will succeed with struggle. I would like to thank all our people for their solidarity. We have no other way but to succeed. We will continue to fight for this. I am no different from those who gave their lives, lost their lives and were murdered. My life is not more valuable than the lives of our people.”