Sit in to protest repression
Sit in to protest repression
Thousands of people who departed from Diyarbakýr for the march to Gemlik leaded by the Confederation of Solidarity with Prisoner's Families (TUHAD-FED) started a sit-in act on Diyarbakýr way where they were prevented by police from leaving the city.
Demonstrators, stopped at a control point yet within Diyarbakýr boundaries, started a sit-in act and closed the road to traffic to protest the manner of the police.
While Security Directorate authorities talked to BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) Co-Chair Gültan Kýþanak and Diyarbakýr MP Emine Ayna for the opening of the road, deputies remarked that they also protested the situation since the people’s democratic rights are prevented.
In the meantime, the mass responded to action force police who wanted to intervene in the mass with sticks. The sit-in act and tension continue.
On the other hand, the political parties, civil society organizations and the business communities in Diyarbakýr, including HAK-PAR, KADEP, TDÞK, ÖSP, made a common statement to call attention to recent detentions and arrests.
The statement called on the government to immediately release Kurdish politicians and to abandon the wrong approaches being implemented.
Reading the press statement on behalf of participators, HAK-PAR Vice President Sait Aydoðmuþ underlined that the “KCK/TM" operations involves the BDP and civil society organizations, noting that mass detentions and arrests remind of the military coup period. Aydoðmuþ stated that they regard the rush of arrest and detention of Kurdish politicians as dangerous in terms of advancement of the process on a democratic ground and emphasized that the timing of operations, in a process when BDP MPs have just returned to the Parliament and the unity and efforts of the Kurdish movement are increasing, is thought-provoking and worrisome.
Aydoðmuþ continued as follows; “The democratic political process is not only the basic key to the solution of the Kurdish problem but also an important base for the ending of the violence environment. We, the Kurdish political parties, political groups and non-governmental organizations believe that a peace environment to be ensured by ending this approach towards Kurdish civil politics staff can provide great contributions to a democratic solution of the Kurdish problem and call on the government to act with the same sense of responsibility.”
Demonstrators, stopped at a control point yet within Diyarbakýr boundaries, started a sit-in act and closed the road to traffic to protest the manner of the police.
While Security Directorate authorities talked to BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) Co-Chair Gültan Kýþanak and Diyarbakýr MP Emine Ayna for the opening of the road, deputies remarked that they also protested the situation since the people’s democratic rights are prevented.
In the meantime, the mass responded to action force police who wanted to intervene in the mass with sticks. The sit-in act and tension continue.
On the other hand, the political parties, civil society organizations and the business communities in Diyarbakýr, including HAK-PAR, KADEP, TDÞK, ÖSP, made a common statement to call attention to recent detentions and arrests.
The statement called on the government to immediately release Kurdish politicians and to abandon the wrong approaches being implemented.
Reading the press statement on behalf of participators, HAK-PAR Vice President Sait Aydoðmuþ underlined that the “KCK/TM" operations involves the BDP and civil society organizations, noting that mass detentions and arrests remind of the military coup period. Aydoðmuþ stated that they regard the rush of arrest and detention of Kurdish politicians as dangerous in terms of advancement of the process on a democratic ground and emphasized that the timing of operations, in a process when BDP MPs have just returned to the Parliament and the unity and efforts of the Kurdish movement are increasing, is thought-provoking and worrisome.
Aydoðmuþ continued as follows; “The democratic political process is not only the basic key to the solution of the Kurdish problem but also an important base for the ending of the violence environment. We, the Kurdish political parties, political groups and non-governmental organizations believe that a peace environment to be ensured by ending this approach towards Kurdish civil politics staff can provide great contributions to a democratic solution of the Kurdish problem and call on the government to act with the same sense of responsibility.”
