HDP’s peace action at Ankara railroad station has been disbanded by the police. The action on the International Day of Peace was intended to commemorate the victims of the ISIS massacre at the same place.
The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) is organising human chains for peace in many places in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan. These actions for the International Day of Peace become the target of police attacks. In capital Ankara, the railroad station has been closed by the police. A commemoration of the victims of the massacre on October 10, 2015, in which 103 peace activists were murdered by ISIS, was thus prevented.
Only individual members of parliament were allowed to leave carnations at the site of the massacre. Subsequently, there was a police attack on the crowd of people present. At least one person was mistreated and arrested.
The AKP government is associated with the attack in Ankara five years ago. The ISIS was massively supported by the Turkish government even then, and evidence suggests that the perpetrators were allowed onto the premises under police surveillance.
