Thirty-five suspects were detained at the Diyarbakır Public Prosecutor’s Office on Friday to be interrogated about their alleged links to the illegal organization.In the Şemdinli district of the southeastern province of Hakkari, police broke up a group that gathered in front of the Yavuz Sultan Selim Secondary School, where they staged an illegal demonstration to protest the arrest of DTP members last week. Police used pepper spray and water cannons to disperse the crowd. After a similar demonstration in the Yüksekova district of Hakkari, 10 protestors were taken into custody, and one police officer, Metin Karalik, and two other protestors were injured and brought to the Yüzüncü Yıl University Hospital. The police used tear gas against a group who staged an illegal demonstration in protest of the arrests in Diyarbakır’s Bağlar district and closed Ezginler Street. The group, made up mainly of children, attacked police with Molotov cocktails. After police intervened, the group dispersed into side streets.
In İstanbul’s Gazi neighborhood, nearly 70 people gathered to stage a protest, chanting slogans in support of the outlawed PKK. Later the group threw Molotov cocktails at police officers who intervened to end the demonstration. In İstanbul’s Başakşehir district, three people were detained by police after a group illegally closed a road in the district to protest the arrest of DTP members.
Four parked cars were set on fire by unidentified assailants in the Güngören and Bahçelievler districts of İstanbul. The fires were extinguished by firefighters before they spread to other vehicles. Three cars in Güngören and one minibus in Bahçelievler’s Kızılelma neighborhood were burned. Four people were detained by police due to their alleged involvement in the incidents.
Another group of protestors gathered in the southeastern city of Şanlıurfa’s Viranşehir district in an illegal demonstration protesting the arrest of DTP members last week. Protestors chanted PKK slogans and threw stones and Molotov cocktails at police, and police responded by using tear gas on the protesters.
