Thousands from across north Kurdistan will gather in Mardin's Nusaybin district today and march to the border to protest against the wall of shame Turkey is building between the district and the Qamishlo city in west Kurdistan.

The march to the border has been organized by the BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) and the HDP (Peoples' Democratic Party) in solidarity with the mayor of Nusaybin, Ayşe Gökkan, who has staged death fast against the wall in a mined land at the border for nine days now.

People in Nusaybin have already started to gather outside the Mitanni Cultural Center while thousands from neighboring cities, Şırnak, Batman, Diyarbakır, Urfa, have taken their way to the district for the mass protest against the wall of shame.

The governor of Mardin has in the meantime denied permission for the march to the border yesterday evening, because of which a convoy of five buses heading from Urfa to Nusaybin have been stopped by police forces and denied permission to move towards Nusaybin.

Police teams are subjecting the people on their way to Nusaybin to arbitrary hindrances on the grounds that the march is not permitted.

Shops remain closed in Hakkari and its Yüksekova district today in protest against the walls Turkey is building on its border to Rojava.