The Vice Co-Chair of the Democratic Regions Party (DBP), Zekiye İlbasan, was subjected to violence and taken into custody during the police crackdown on a demonstration staged in Amed (Diyarbakır) on 9 October in protest at the international conspiracy against Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan, which began with his forced departure from Syria on 9 October 1998.

The Kurdish politician was referred to court today and remanded in custody for “resisting the police”. She was then taken to the Women’s Closed Prison in the city.

In a statement on X, DBP defined the arrest of İlbasan as an attempt of political annihilation directed against the determination of their action.