People of Batman took to the streets after the usurpation of the municipality through a trustee appointed by the Ministry of Interior early this morning.

Citizens gathered at many points across the city and chanted slogans such as ‘Thief AKP’, ‘The day will come and AKP will answer to the people’ and ‘We will win by resisting’. The centre of the protests was in front of the blockaded municipality.

The police attacked the protesters, who included the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Co-Chair Keskin Bayındır and the Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) MPs with water cannons and rubber bullets. Some people resisting the police attack were beaten and taken into custody.

While some of the protesters marched to the DEM Party Provincial Organisation building, others started to protest at different points.