The Social Freedom Party (TÖP) made a statement in Istanbul expressing concern over the government crackdown and detentions against the party. TÖP spokeswoman Juliana Gözen revealed that her party’s administrators and members were frequently subjected to physical surveillance by the police, adding that the police attempted to hire party members as spies.

Remarking that TÖP is criminalized by the state, Gözen stated that her party regarded the "arrest warrant" against Perihan Koca, an executive member of the party, as a "conspiracy". Gözen pointed out that this conspiracy was put into action to prevent their activities. “It is a crime to frame political parties by preventing their activities. The government is thus committing a crime.”

Gözen insisted that they would continue to disturb the government with their work. She said that the government targeted revolutionaries after the earthquake. Citing the police intervention against the voluntary relief efforts in the Sevgi Park, Hatay, Gözen remarked: “Our comrades, who organized popular solidarity from village to village, were detained by the gendarmerie 3 days ago. The state, which was not in the region to help the people in the aftermath of the earthquake, is currently preventing the solidarity work organized by the revolutionaries. But the crackdown will fail.”