The Peoples’ Democratic Congress (HDK), Free Women’s Movement (TJA), Democratic Regions Party (DBP), Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), United Forces of Struggle (BMG) and the Aegean Association for Solidarity with the Families of Prisoners and Convicts (EGE-TUHAYDER) organized a demonstration at the Konak Square in the western province of İzmir on Sunday in protest at war and the isolation regime imposed on Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan.

According to the Association of Lawyers for Freedom, 42 citizens were detained. One of the detained people, HDP Bodrum District Co-Chair Mehmet Zahir Yaşar (55), suffered a heart attack during the police attack. He underwent an angiography at Atatürk Training and Research Hospital in Yeşilyurt. Doctors said that they could not give information about Yaşar's health conditions.