The Peoples’ United Revolutionary Movement (HBDH) Halil Aksakal Militia reported that they sabotaged a factory in Tuzla in response to the usurpation of Hakkari Municipality which was won by the DEM Party in the 31 March local elections but was handed over to a government-appointed trustee after the imprisonment of the democratically elected co-mayor, Mehmet Sıddık Akış, on June 3.

"On June 18, at around 10:00 in the morning, a sabotage action was carried out by HBDH Halil Aksakal Militia against a factory producing automotive spare parts in Tuzla Leather Organised Industrial Zone. The factory was damaged by millions of liras," said the statement released by the HBDH Militia on Wednesday.

The statement continued: "The fascist-barbaric AKP-MHP regime is trying to prolong the life of its rotten power by persecuting the people on the one hand and usurping their will on the other. Since the day the trustee was appointed (to Hakkari Municipality), the Kurdish people and their friends, putting up resistance, not recognising the trustee appointed by the fascist regime and holding vigils and protests in front of the people's municipalities, especially in Hakkari, insist on democratic free life on the basis of a united struggle against the rising wave of fascism."

The statement added: "As HBDH Militia, we will continue to take the side of the people and respond by taking actions wherever we are until the attacks against the Kurdish people and the democratic gains of the united struggle come to an end."