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18 persons have been taken into custody upon attack of security forces in the protest against the container city planned to be constructed in order to inhabit 20,000 refugees in Sivricehöyük neighbourhood of Maraş district. Musician and member of People’s Democratic Party (HDP), Pınar Aydınlar has who was among those taken into custody has been released.
Aydınlar has informed about being taken into custody on the social media.
The Governorship of Kahramanmaraş had prohibited all kinds of meetings, marches, setting up tents and demonstrations concerning the container city.
The security forces have arrived in the Sivricehöyük neighbourhood which is 20 km away from the city center and have asked the residents of the neighbourhood to take down their tents and end their sit-in protest.
The crowd staging a sit-in act in the entrance of the neighbourhood did not disperse following which security forces have attacked the protestors with pressurized water from riot control vehicles (TOMA). 18 persons have been taken into custody.
Aydınlar who was among the 18 taken into custody has informed on social media that she had been taken from Terolar and brought to Dulkadiroğlu Gendarmerie Station together with another person.
Pınar Aydınlar had gone to the district in order to visit the grave of Mor Ali Kabayel who had been taken to hospital over being severely influenced by the gas bomb used by the soldiers in the protest against the refugee camp on April 3 planned to be constructed in Terolar area of Pazarcık district of Maraş province, and had lost his life in the hospital.
The residents of 16 Alevis and Sunni villages are opposing to the construction of the container city for Syrian refugees due to the social tensions it may cause.
The protests have been continuing since March 22, reaching their 47th day.
The villagers have expressed that the area where the camp is planned to be constructed, are their forage areas and they are against every kind of construction on this area. In addition, they are concerned that a tension of Alevi-Sunni may occur upon 20,000 Syrians being brought to the lowland. (EA/DG)
