Investigation Against HDP Diyarbakır Provincial and District Executives

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Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation against the Diyarbakır provincial and district executives of Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).

The investigation has been launched in relation with the families staging a sit-in protest in front of HDP building to find their missing children.

In a statement released about the investigation, the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has referred to the "news in the national and local media that the families staging a sit-in protest to save their children from the PKK [Kurdistan Workers Party] terrorist organization are threatened by the supporters of terrorist organization to end their protests and that it was the HDP who cajoled the children and brought them to the terrorist organization".

'Families harassed and threatened'

Within this context, Prosecutor's Office has stated the following:

"As is known, the sit-in protests of families whose children have been abducted by the PKK terrorist organization in front of the HDP Diyarbakır Provincial Office has started with Hacire Akar and continued growing with the participation of 16 other families.

"In this process, just as there are the ones who expressed strong support for the families, there have also started certain harassments and threats from the sponsors and supporters of the organization.

"In relation to that, an instruction has been notified to the Security units to take precautions for the protection of all families staging a sit-in protest and an administrative investigation has been launched against the yet unidentified persons who threatened the families and the HDP provincial and district executives who allegedly enabled their children to join the PKK terrorist organization". (RT/SD)