For several days, parents have been sitting in front of the headquarters of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Amed (Diyarbakir) and claiming that their children have been forcibly taken to the mountains to join the Kurdish guerilla forces.

The staged protest started with the story of a young man who was reported by his family to the police as missing. His mother went from the police to the HDP building, slamming the windows, and demanding her son, who was alleged to have been taken by HDP members to the guerrilla. A short time later, the person concerned himself spoke up and told the Mezopotamya news agency that he had left his parents' home to escape a forced marriage with a relative.

Despite this publicized manipulation by the police, other families are continuing their sit-in outside the HDP headquarters. The HDP has stated from the beginning that this protest has been staged by the state. As it turns out, parents who report their missing children or who are known to be under HPG arrest are summoned by the Turkish security forces and asked to participate in the protest outside the HDP building.

Thus, a case from the city of Batman became known. Parents reported their son at the police last week as missing because he had not come home for two weeks. Yesterday, the parents were summoned to the anti-terror police. There, they were told that their son "went to the mountains with 99% certainty." The police said that if he has not yet crossed the border, the police will find him, while on the contrary case the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) will get him in southern Kurdistan.

The parents were shown videos showing young people crossing the border and asked to identify their son. The parents, who did not see their son in the vide, were asked by the police to join the sit-in outside the HDP headquarters in Amed. The members of the HDP Youth Council knew where the son was staying, the anti-terrorist police claimed.

Protesting parents are provided with food by the police

While the sit-in in front of the HDP headquarters is prepared in the co-mediated media of Turkey, the families referred by the security forces to the HDP are being provided with food by the police.

Meanwhile, it became known that a political prisoner in Bolu Prison, named Mecrun Akkoyunlu, attempted suicide when he saw his mother joining the protest on the media. By participating in the protest, the mother apparently wanted to get another son, allegedly a guerrilla in the mountains, to come back to her. The imprisoned son survived his suicide attempt because he was noticed in time by inmates and intervened, and he went through a stomach irrigation in the hospital. He was then put in solitary confinement in consideration of a possible repetition of a suicide attempt. Akkoyunlu sent a message to his mother and said that he would repeat his attempted suicide if she did not stop joining the protest.