Nine people from the delegation monitoring guerrillas' withdrawal in 2013 sent to prison

Nine people who were part of the delegation that monitored the withdrawal process of the HPG guerrillas in 2013 were sentenced to 6 to 7 years in prison.

A decision was made in the case in which 9 people who were part of the delegation that followed the withdrawal of HPG guerrillas to South Kurdistan in 2013. They were tried without detention on the charge of "being a member of a terrorist organisation". Nine people who were arrested in Van on 3 June 2022 and released on 20 September of the same year have now been given prison sentences ranging from 6 years 3 months to 7 years 3 months.

Only the lawyers of the people on trial attended the verdict hearing held at the Van 2nd High Criminal Court. The statements of the commission members that "the PKK fulfilled its duties in the solution process, but the government did not release those detained in the KCK case, did not lower the election threshold, and did not improve the conditions of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan" were also evaluated as aimed at "creating a perception" in the public opinion.

The court panel sentenced Abdulkerim Durmaz, Harun Okay and Atilla Kumli to 7 years and 6 months each for "being a member of a terrorist organization"; and also sentenced Behice Abi, Evin Keskin, Ömer Işık, Salih İpek, Yakup Aslan and Yılmaz Berki to 6 years and 3 months in prison on the same charges.