Detainment of Diyarbakır co-mayors Ms. Gültan Kışanak & Mr. Fırat Anlı last night, and raiding their houses as well as municipality of Diyarbakir are deeply arbitrary and unlawful.
Erdoğan-AKP rule continues to breach people’s will with sense of vengeance. This hostile approach towards political will of Kurdish people aims at dissolving democratic politics and democratic opposition. Detainment of Gültan Kışanak and Fırat Anlı is the phase of madness pertaining to the war declared against democratic politics.
These unlawful and arbitrary detentions are against human rights, democratic maxims of law as well as international democratic conventions and accords undersigned by Turkey.
The tyranny, oppression and unlawfulness created by Erdoğan-AKP government can never be approved. Erdoğan-AKP rule is responsible for this historic mistake and the climate of chaos created.
These arbitrary and unlawful detentions should immediately be ended. Co-mayors of Diyarbakir detained with ungrounded and fabricated charges should immediately be released.
We call upon all NGOs, political parties, forces of peace and democracy, international organisations and parliaments: Do not stay silent against this unlawfulness and express your reactions. Do not concede this extraordinary period of unlawfulness and its practices in Turkey.
Peoples' Democratic Party
Central Executive Board
October 26, 2016