Doctors have visited and treated Ayşe Gökkan, mayor of Mardin's Nusaybin district, who is on death fast against the building of the wall between the district and the Qamishlo city in west Kurdistan. Doctors said Gökkan's blood pressure has gone down and she is not in good state of health. Gökkan still continues her protest which began as sit-in on 30 October and turned into death fast one day later-in a mined field at the border.

On Friday, hundreds of people gathered in the border area in solidarity with the mayor. Turkish police, having already surrounded the area as of early morning hours, to prevent Gökkan from contacting demonstrators, brutalised the people with tear gas and pressure water in the afternoon. Demonstrators once again gathered in the area and displayed their support to Gökhan in the evening.

Turkish security officials also used pressure water against dozens of children who have gathered at the border, on the Qamishlo side in west Kurdistan, and threw stones to a military riot control vehicle intervening the mass in Nusaybin.

BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) Mardin deputy co-chair Reşat Yılmaz condemned the police intervention in demonstrators, and said that they have started vigil which -he said- would also be joined by BDP co-chair Gültan Kışanak today.