Aggravated life imprisonment has been asked for two people who were arrested on the grounds of joining last month's demonstrations in solidarity with Kobanê in Zeytinburnu district of Istanbul.

Details are coming out of the bill of indictment prepared against dozens of people who were arrested in Istanbul as result of an expansive operation in the wake of protest demonstrations in solidarity with the Kobanê resistance on 6-8 October.

The bill of indictment, prepared by Bakırköy chief public prosecutor, has asked for aggravated life imprisonment and up to 225 years in prison for Nihat Tunç and Yusuf Özdemir for allegedly “destroying the integrity of the state”.

Describing the PYD as a wing of the PKK and KCK, the bill of indictment alleged that the PKK had suffered heavy losses after ISIS started to attack Kobanê, and that "instructions given by Cemil Bayık were followed by the YDG-H, the youth organisation of PKK and KCK, members of which staged illegal demonstrations with molotov cocktails and fireworks in Istanbul on 4 October, committing attacks on a number of workplaces, public institutions and also using arms against police units, leaving an officer injured".

Asserting that 62 people aggrieved by these protest demonstrations had filed a complaint as their goods were harmed and a bank was damaged, the bill of indictment asked for aggravated life imprisonment for Tunç and Özdemir on charges of “destroying the integrity of the state”, and up to 225 years prison sentence for “deliberately endangering the general safety”, “membership to an armed terrorist organisation”, “damaging goods” of each of 62 complainants, “refusing to disperse despite a warning” and “spreading propaganda for a terrorist organisation”.