Speaking at the BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) parliamentary group meeting, BDP co-chair Gültan Kışanak called attention to the situation of ill prisoners in Turkey and urged the government to make urgent legal arrangements in order to prevent further deaths in jails. Kışanak called for the transfer of the authority from Forensic Medicine Institutions to general hospitals to decide on ill prisoners.

Commenting on the death fast Nusaybin mayor Ayşe Gökkan has staged against the walls of shame for seven days now, Kışanak underlined that Kurds demanded the construction of not walls but bridges on Turkey's border to Rojava. BDP co-chair stressed that the building of the Nusaybin wall cannot be justified with so-called security reasons, and noted that Turkey currently faced no threats from the Kurdish region in Syria.  

Kışanak remarked that the Turkish government was yet not ready to make a strategical peace with Kurds, and noted that peace and stability in the Middle East could only be ensured by enabling every single person to live with their rights and laws. “This cannot be achieved by laying mines and building walls on the border. The Turkish government should recognize the autonomy in Rojava Kurdistan in order to avoid security problems”, she said and added that Kurds will not allow the construction of walls of shame.

Referring to the death of İdris Ak who has recently been killed in Urfa's Ceylanpınar district by a mortar shell fired from Ras al-Ayn, Kışanak criticized the government for remaining silent in the face of the attacks of the gang groups targeting the people in Ceylanpınar, and commented that this attitude of the government manifested its support to these groups.

Also reminding of the Batman attack which left one person, Özcan Temel, dead and six others wounded, and was allegedly carried out by a group of Free Cause Party (Hür Dava Partisi or HÜDA-PAR) members, Kışanak said Batman governor and police directorate and the AKP government would be responsible for the incident unless they shed light on the killing which -she added- was a critical and unordinary one.