HDP Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş issued a message from the Edirne Prison on the second anniversary of the Ankara massacre which claimed the lives of 102 people.

Demirtaş’s message is as follows:

“It has been two years since ISIS attacked the tens of thousands of people gathered in Ankara for the Peace and Democracy Rally on October 10, 2015.

In the time since the most ruthless and inhumane attack in the history of the Republic of Turkey, our pain has not subsided. We carry the memory of the beautiful people who came from all over the country and lost their lives in the massacre.

The analyses we made about the perpetrators of the massacre and those who protect and coddle them have been proven to be true. Those behind the massacre still haven’t been brought to justice.

A monument should have been erected where the massacre happened, but even the commemorations are not permitted. Our people are prevented from mourning.

But all these, these days and these pains will pass. The guilty will answer to justice. A monument will be erected at the site of the massacre, like it should have been, and we will remember our losses hundreds of thousands together. The strongest value that keeps us going is hope. Let’s not lose our hope.

I commemorate our fellow country people who lost their lives once more, and share the suffering and mourning of the families whose pain is still fresh.”