As Mardin Co-mayor Ahmet Türk was brought to the Istanbul Forensic Medicine Institute, HDP MPs Pervin Buldan and Sırrı Süreyya Önder and Ağrı Co-mayor Sırrı Sakık also arrived. The deputies met with the authorities, afterwards Önder spoke on their behalf and said: “Our demand is not compassion or mercy. Our demand is justice.”

“AN INSULT TO THE PEOPLE”

Önder wished justice be served and this “nonsense reach an end as soon as possible”, not just for Türk but for “everybody, particularly all co-mayors, MPs and co-chairs who believe in democratic politics and have acted accordingly”. Önder continued: “Mr. Türk is a Kurdish wise man who devoted his life to democratic politics and peace. This treatment of him is an insult to a people, an insult to the hope of a people for coexistence and peace.”

Önder spoke of Türk’s health as: “His health, especially his kidneys and his heart, are troubled due to his age. They said the report would come out in 4 or 5 days the latest.”

CHP MP Sezgin Tanrıkulu also came to the Forensic Medicine Institute and talked to the HDP MPs on Ahmet Türk’s condition.