Some 70 people from the Peoples' Democratic Congress (HDK), Democratic Society Congress (DTK), Tevgere Jinên Azad (TJA), Democratic Regions Party (DBP), Peoples' Democratic Party and MED Federation of Detainees and Convict Families Legal and Solidarity Associations (MED TUHAD-FED) were taken into custody during the Gemlik March in Kadıköy against the isolation imposed upon Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan. The arrested people were battered and taken to the Istanbul Security Directorate on Vatan Street. Many were kept in police vehicles and were not given water or food for about 7 hours. It was also learned that many people in the police vehicle were subjected to violence.

Lawyers organised sit-in

The lawyers who went to meet with their clients were not allowed to see them. Many lawyers from the Lawyers' Association for Freedom (ÖHD), waited at the police station to meet with their clients. The police wanted to let the lawyers in in groups of seven. However, the lawyers reacted and said that this was an arbitrary practice. Therefore, they organized a sit-in in front of the police station.

Names of people taken into custody

In the morning, the statements of those detained were taken without a presence of a lawyer. 25 people are still in custody and are expected to be brought to the courthouse within the next day to give their statements at the prosecutor's office.

The names of those in custody are as follows:

HDP Istanbul Provincial Organization co-chair Ferhat Encu, Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) co-chair Özlem Gümüştaş, Revolutionary Party Deputy chair Burcugül Çubuk, Eylem Çelik, Onal Yusufoğlu, Rıdvan Karataş, Adem Gözöngü, Elif Bulut, Erhan Bayrak, Yaşar Gül, Mürüvet Küçük, Çiğdem Kılıçgün Uçar, Koray Turkan, Sedat Şenoğlu, Nevzat Yeziz, Pınar Türk, Ezgi Gürbüz, Hatice Deniz Aktaş, Ali İpekli, Halis Bingöl, Reşat Ayata, Mehmet Masyon, Ali Emre Ecer, Roni Gören, İsmail Temel.